Latest iOS beta hints at notifications on non-Apple watches

Apple could soon amended the interoperability betwixt iPhones and third-party smartwatches. The latest iOS 26.1 beta hints astatine a caller “notification forwarding” diagnostic that could aboveground iPhone notifications connected a non-Apple instrumentality oregon accessory, as spotted by Macworld.

Code seen by Macworld suggests that users would lone beryllium capable to guardant notifications to 1 instrumentality astatine a time, portion a caller “AccessoryExtension” model could amended the pairing process with third-party accessories arsenic well. It’s inactive excessively aboriginal to archer however these features volition work, but they look related to an bid from the European Commission that volition unit Apple to make iPhones enactment amended with non-Apple accessories.

To comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Apple is required to springiness developers and instrumentality manufacturers access to definite features that volition marque it easier to pair, transportation data, and show notifications betwixt the iPhone and third-party devices, specified arsenic smartwatches, headphones, and speakers. Apple has until the extremity of this twelvemonth to unfastened up astir of these features, but it’s not wide if they’ll beryllium disposable with the expected motorboat of iOS 26.1 adjacent month, oregon if they’ll travel to users extracurricular the EU.