Apple Watch Could Get visionOS-Like Redesign, Apple Intelligence Support

The an upcoming mentation of watchOS volition bring a visionOS-like redesign to the Apple Watch, overmuch similar the plan updates coming successful iOS 19 and macOS 16, claims Israeli tract The Verifier.


watchOS volition yet person "elements" of visionOS, including a look that is bolder, somewhat transparent, and with a floating aesthetic. Buttons, menus, icons, and different idiosyncratic interface elements volition reportedly beryllium refreshed, with Apple "working connected respective ideas" for the Home Screen. The Verifier does not cognize erstwhile these plan changes volition come, arsenic the features are allegedly inactive being developed.

The tract besides claims that Apple is moving connected Apple Intelligence features for the Apple TV and the Apple Watch Ultra. The Apple Watch Ultra volition allegedly get a new, exclusive spot that volition let it to tally ‌Apple Intelligence‌, though this is simply a questionable assertion due to the fact that Apple has been bringing ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features to arsenic galore devices arsenic possible, not restricting the functionality to its higher-end products.

Of each the devices announced since WWDC 2024, lone the astir caller low-cost iPad does not enactment ‌Apple Intelligence‌. Everything else, including the mid-budget iPhone 16e, features ‌Apple Intelligence‌. Allegedly, the Apple Watch Ultra volition get ‌Apple Intelligence‌ first, with the diagnostic acceptable to travel to different Apple Watch models "a twelvemonth later."

As of close now, the Apple Watch models lone person 1GB RAM, and ‌Apple Intelligence‌ requires 8GB RAM astatine a minimum, truthful that is different reddish emblem with The Verifier's claims. The tract says that ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features connected Apple Watch volition see notification summaries, the quality to make Genmoji, and a "new Siri" that understands idiosyncratic behaviour and garners accusation from "sports activity, AI aesculapian monitoring, slumber tracking, bosom complaint activity, and more."

It is worthy noting that The Verifier doesn't person the best way record erstwhile it comes to rumors. Last year, the tract said iOS 18 would get a visionOS redesign, which didn't happen. Other rumors that person not panned retired person included Touch ID for the Apple Watch, a kids mode for the ‌Apple TV‌, the motorboat day for a caller Apple Pencil, and respective incorrect predictions astir antithetic versions of iOS dropping enactment for older devices.
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