Apple will launch watchOS 26 on September 15th

If you’ve been hoping for a faster mode to disregard calls and alarms connected your Apple Watch, you’ll soon beryllium capable to upgrade to watchOS 26 and instrumentality vantage of a caller wrist flick gesture. First announced astatine WWDC 2025, watchOS 26 has already been disposable to developers and those consenting to effort the nationalist betas, but starting connected September 15th it volition beryllium disposable to everyone — oregon astatine slightest those with an Apple Watch Series 6 oregon onward, the second-generation Apple Watch SE, oregon immoderate of the premium Apple Watch Ultra models.

One of the simplest but perchance astir utile upgrades arriving with watchOS 26 is the caller wrist flick gesture. It volition beryllium constricted to the Apple Watch Series 9 oregon later, but by flicking your Apple Watch distant and backmost again, you tin rapidly disregard incoming calls and notifications, soundlessness timers and alarms, oregon leap backmost to your watchface. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by audible notifications, watchOS 26 tin way ambient sound levels and automatically set their measurement truthful they’re not arsenic large successful quiescent situations.

A caller Apple Intelligence-powered Workout Buddy leverages your wellness information and caller carnal enactment to supply personalized insights, including letting you cognize however adjacent you are to a circumstantial extremity oregon if you’ve acceptable a idiosyncratic record. Other watchOS 26 upgrades powered by Apple Intelligence see automatic two-way translations successful Messages and contextual app suggestions successful the Smart Stack — similar starting a workout — based connected the clip oregon your location.

Apple is besides yet bringing its Notes app to the Apple Watch done watchOS app, letting you make caller notes, pin existing ones, oregon cheque disconnected entries connected a list. The Apple Watch volition besides look a spot antithetic aft the update acknowledgment to Apple’s caller Liquid Glass plan language, which volition bring a transparent aesthetic to galore UI elements similar widgets, notifications, Control Center, and adjacent watchfaces.