Apple Watch SE 3: What to Expect From Apple's Upcoming Budget Smartwatch

Along with the Apple Watch Series 11 and the Apple Watch Ultra 3, Apple plans to present a caller mentation of the Apple Watch SE. The ‌Apple Watch SE‌ hasn't been updated since 2022, truthful it is overdue for an update.

Size and Design

The ‌Apple Watch SE‌ could get new show sizes, according to show expert Ross Young. The instrumentality volition supposedly travel successful 1.6-inch and 1.8-inch show sizes.

Those sizes aren't excessively acold disconnected of the existent ‌Apple Watch SE‌ 2 show sizes, but it's clip for a show upgrade. The ‌Apple Watch SE‌ 2 is modeled aft the Apple Watch Series 6, and it comes successful the older 40mm and 44mm size options.

With the Series 7, Apple updated the Apple Watch sizing to 41mm and 45mm, and with the Series 10, show sizes changed to 42mm and 46mm. It's imaginable that the ‌Apple Watch SE‌ 3 volition get the Apple Watch Series 7 design, which features a thinner plan and slimmed down bezels.

Right now, the ‌Apple Watch SE‌ does not person always-on show technology, and it's different diagnostic that Apple could bring to the low-cost ticker present that it's been astir for immoderate time. There are nary rumors astir always-on show exertion for the SE 3, though.

Updated S11 Chip

The next-generation ‌Apple Watch SE‌ volition get the aforesaid S11 spot arsenic the Apple Watch Series 11 and the Apple Watch Ultra, according to accusation that Apple accidentally leaked.

The S11 is fundamentally the aforesaid arsenic the S9 and the S10, but it volition beryllium a large betterment implicit the S8 spot that's successful the existent ‌Apple Watch SE‌. Performance should beryllium overmuch quicker and the SE 3 should beryllium overmuch much responsive.

With the S11, the ‌Apple Watch SE‌ 3 could get features similar on-device Siri processing, enactment for treble pat gestures, and much storage.

Possible Health Features

The ‌Apple Watch SE‌ has historically had less wellness features than Apple's flagship Apple Watch models. It doesn't person the ECG app, and there's nary humor oxygen monitoring. If determination are caller wellness features successful the Series 11 and the Ultra 3, it's improbable the functionality volition marque it to the ‌Apple Watch SE‌ 3.

The ‌Apple Watch SE‌ does enactment halfway features similar bosom complaint tracking, slumber tracking, and respiratory complaint tracking, truthful Apple could adhd slumber apnea detection to the SE 3 due to the fact that it would person each of the hardware to enactment the feature. Sleep apnea detection is presently constricted to the Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2.

Apple could upgrade the optical bosom sensor to the third-generation mentation that was initially introduced successful the Apple Watch Series 7, due to the fact that the existent ‌Apple Watch SE‌ is inactive utilizing the second-generation sensor.

Other possibilities see improved artillery life, faster charging, and amended h2o resistance.

Plastic Casing Rumors

Back successful mid-2024, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman said that Apple was moving connected a caller ‌Apple Watch SE‌ with a colorful integrative casing. The instrumentality would person been reminiscent of the iPhone 5c, an ‌iPhone‌ that utilized a rigid integrative worldly alternatively of aluminum.

As of this year, Gurman says that Apple mightiness person scrapped the plan for a caller casing design. The plan squad supposedly did not similar the look of the device, and the materials squad was struggling to marque it cheaper than the existent aluminum casing.

For that reason, the ‌Apple Watch SE‌ 3 whitethorn proceed to usage an aluminum lawsuit alternatively of the much colorful integrative that's been mentioned successful rumors.

Price

There haven't been rumors of a terms summation for the ‌Apple Watch SE‌, and Apple volition apt privation to support the instrumentality affordable. The existent 40mm mentation is priced starting astatine $249, and the 44mm exemplary is priced starting astatine $279.

Apple has been selling the ‌Apple Watch SE‌ to parents who get the instrumentality for their children, and raising the terms could interaction Apple's efforts to marketplace the instrumentality to kids.

Launch Timing

We're expecting Apple to denote the ‌Apple Watch SE‌ 3 astatine its September ‌iPhone‌ event. Rumors suggest the lawsuit could instrumentality spot connected September 9, and if that's the case, pre-orders for the ticker could travel connected September 12, and a motorboat could travel connected September 19.
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