Major Apple Watch Redesign Won't Arrive Until 2028, Claims Leaker

Next year's Apple Watch lineup volition not see immoderate large plan changes, with a redesign not expected earlier 2028, according to the leaker Instant Digital.


In a Weibo station successful Chinese (machine translated), the leaker said Apple's ticker 2026 lineup would not look importantly different, and suggested Apple would not uncover a caller plan until the twelvemonth aft the merchandise of its 20th day iPhone, expected successful precocious 2027.

The assertion puts a dampener connected expectations that Apple is readying a large Apple Watch redesign adjacent year.

In August, DigiTimes reported that astatine slightest 1 caller exemplary launching successful 2026 would person "significant" changes to its exterior plan that would beryllium related to caller sensors. This led to speculation that the changes could beryllium linked to Apple's improvement of noninvasive humor glucose monitoring technology, but the Apple Watch diagnostic is inactive believed to beryllium a few years away portion Apple works connected further miniaturization.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported agelong agone connected the anticipation of a redesigned Apple Watch with a thinner lawsuit and a magnetic set system. While the Apple Watch Series 10 debuted a thinner case, nary magnetic set has materialized, and determination were nary further plan changes successful the Series 11 released earlier this year.

Leaked Apple codification has suggested the institution is experimenting with biometric authentication successful the signifier of Touch ID for 2026's Apple Watch lineup, but it's imaginable that could beryllium an under-screen implementation which doesn't alteration the watch's outward appearance.

Instant Digital has a mixed but occasionally reliable way record. The relationship antecedently revealed close details specified arsenic the Yellow iPhone 14 and 14 Plus finishes and the Titanium Milanese Loop for the Apple Watch Ultra 2, though not each of its past claims person proven correct.
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