Apple Watch Ultra 3 Coming Soon: What to Expect

We person little than 2 weeks to spell until Apple's September 9 "Awe Dropping" event, and it's yet clip for the Apple Watch Ultra to get a refresh. Apple introduced a caller colour past year, but determination was nary caller model, truthful it's owed for an update.


There are immoderate utile caller features successful the works, which we've outlined below.

Design and Display

There aren't rumors of a redesign for the Apple Watch Ultra and it's inactive comparatively new, but it does look similar it's going to get an updated display.

Code successful the iOS 26 beta hinted astatine a 422 x 514 pixel show for the Ultra 3, up from 410 x 502 successful the Ultra 2. Since there's nary rumors of a larger case, the bigger show could beryllium owed to a simplification successful bezel size.

The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is expected to person the biggest Apple Watch show to date.

Last year, Apple improved the Apple Watch Series 10 with an LTPO3 OLED display, and that exertion volition apt grow to the Apple Watch Ultra 3. When viewed astatine an angle, the Series 10 show is up to 40 percent brighter, and minimum brightness goes down to 1 nit for an betterment to the always-on display.

On the Series 10, the 1 nit brightness enables a 2nd manus that updates adjacent erstwhile the wrist is down erstwhile utilized with compatible ticker faces.

Processor

The Apple Watch Ultra 3 is expected to see an updated S11 chip, but the S11 is going to connection the aforesaid show arsenic the S9 and the S10 arsenic it has the aforesaid underlying processor technology. Since the existent Apple Watch Ultra uses the S9, determination whitethorn not beryllium overmuch successful the mode of show improvements.

While the spot is fundamentally the same, the S11 could beryllium smaller overall, allowing for much interior abstraction to beryllium dedicated to the artillery and different components.

Satellite Connectivity

The Apple Watch Ultra 3 volition beryllium Apple's archetypal ticker with outer connectivity, enabling an Emergency SOS diagnostic that tin beryllium utilized erstwhile there's nary cellular oregon Wi-Fi connectivity available.

Given that the Apple Watch Ultra is targeted toward adventurers, it could beryllium a peculiarly charismatic diagnostic for those who similar to travel to distant areas.

If the Apple Watch Ultra 3 outer connectivity mirrors what's disposable connected the iPhone, wearers could besides beryllium capable to nonstop texts via outer adjacent successful non-emergency situations.

Blood Pressure Monitoring

Apple has been moving connected humor unit monitoring technology, and it could beryllium acceptable to debut successful 2025 Apple Watch models. It's inactive not yet wide if it's coming this year, but if it does, it volition beryllium much constricted than modular humor unit monitoring devices.

The diagnostic won't supply circumstantial systolic and diastolic readings, and it volition alternatively way humor unit trends and fto the wearer cognize if hypertension is detected. Apple Watch users could past stock that accusation with a healthcare nonrecreational for further investigation.

Hypertension often goes unnoticed until it cases superior damage, truthful by detecting aboriginal informing signs, the Apple Watch could beryllium utilized preventatively.

Cellular Connectivity

Apple is readying to usage 5G RedCap chips from MediaTek for the Apple Watch Ultra 3, enabling 5G connectivity for the archetypal time. Current Apple Watch models are constricted to LTE.

5G RedCap is simply a mentation of 5G that's designed specifically for wearable devices that don't request the velocity and bandwidth of modular 5G networks, but it could bring improvements implicit LTE speeds.

Charging

The Apple Watch Series 10 uses a metallic rear casing with a larger charging coil and an integrated antenna alternatively of a ceramic rear casing, and these changes whitethorn travel to the Ultra 3.

The updated charging coil could let the Apple Watch Ultra to complaint overmuch faster than before. The Series 10, for example, charges to 80 percent successful a fractional hour, 15 minutes faster than the Series 9.

Launch Date

Apple volition present the Apple Watch Ultra 3 connected September 9 astatine 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time. From there, pre-orders could instrumentality spot connected Friday, September 12, and a motorboat could travel connected Friday, September 19.
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