New Apple Watch With Touch ID and More Uncovered in Leaked Code

A large hardware upgrade for the Apple Watch lineup is planned for adjacent year, findings successful interior Apple codification suggest.


According to lines of interior codification spotted by Macworld and subsequently confirmed by MacRumors, Apple has been experimenting with biometric authentication for 2026's Apple Watch lineup. The codification mentions enactment for "AppleMesa," which is Apple's codename for Touch ID, suggesting that prototype models presently connection the diagnostic successful immoderate way.

It is worthy noting that nary different Apple Watch models, including the upcoming 2025 lineup, see codification for ‌Touch ID‌. How precisely ‌Touch ID‌ would beryllium implemented connected the Apple Watch is unclear, but the institution could opt to spot it nether the show similar immoderate Android smartphones, oregon integrate it into the broadside button.

‌Touch ID‌ connected the Apple Watch could marque the instrumentality much secure, reducing reliance connected abbreviated numerical passwords. In fact, the information of processes specified arsenic Apple Pay could beryllium considerably enhanced with on-device biometric authentication.

Apple could inactive wantonness the ‌Touch ID‌ sensor connected the prototype models and portion references to it retired of its interior code, but the anticipation of the Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 touting the diagnostic should present beryllium taken seriously.

The codification besides reveals that the models "N237" (Apple Watch Series 12), "N238" (Apple Watch Series 12 with cellular connectivity), and "N240" (Apple Watch Ultra 4) volition incorporate an all-new CPU with the identifier "T8320." The S9 and S10 chips, arsenic good arsenic the upcoming S11, are each fundamentally the aforesaid spot with the identifier "T8310," indicating that a meaningful S-series spot upgrade is highly apt adjacent year.

Beyond ‌Touch ID‌ and a faster chip, the codification suggests that 2026's Apple Watch lineup volition beryllium a sizeable upgrade much broadly. The caller bid is identified arsenic "Watch8;" the Series 9, 10, and 11 are each identified arsenic "Watch7," pointing to a important departure from erstwhile models successful 2026. Seemingly corroborating this, DigiTimes past week reported that important plan changes are coming to the Apple Watch adjacent year.
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