Apple announces watchOS 26

Apple conscionable announced watchOS 26, the latest mentation of its Apple Watch operating system, astatine its 2025 WWDC. It’s been updated with Liquid Glass, Apple’s caller transparent plan language, on with a caller wrist flick motion to disregard notifications. 

watchOS 26 is the follow-up to past year’s watchOS 11 release, but Apple has jumped its numbering up to lucifer the upcoming twelvemonth successful a bid to standardize its operating strategy names, truthful that the watchOS numbering present matches iOS, macOS, and Apple’s different bundle platforms. As successful erstwhile years, developer entree starts today, with a nationalist beta to travel adjacent month. The afloat merchandise is coming this autumn alongside the caller Apple Watches.

Liquid Glass, the caller plan connection Apple introduced crossed its bundle this year, applies passim the OS. The caller transparent aesthetic volition use to widgets, notifications, the Control Center, in-app controls, and more. It’s coming to the Photos ticker face, too, which volition present show transparent numerals that won’t artifact your presumption of the photos.

watchOS 11’s large additions past twelvemonth included fittingness features similar Training Load and the quality to intermission your Activity Rings for days off, on with the introduction of Live Activities and contextual widgets specified arsenic Translate erstwhile you’re traveling, oregon Shazam if you’re retired and euphony is playing.

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