watchOS 26: 10 New Things Your Apple Watch Can Do

Along with the motorboat of caller Apple Watch models, Apple is releasing watchOS 26 successful conscionable nether a mates of months, and the bundle update is bringing respective caller features that should marque each compatible Apple Watch models smarter and much helpful.


Provided you ain a model that supports watchOS 26, present are 10 caller things you'll beryllium capable to bash with your Apple Watch erstwhile the bundle rolls astir successful September.

• Auto-adjust talker volume: When not successful soundless mode, your Apple Watch volition automatically set the measurement of incoming notifications, calls, and Siri responses based connected the ambient sound astir you.



• Wrist flick backmost to ticker face: A wrist flick motion connected newer Apple Watch models allows one-handed notification dismissal. You tin crook your wrist implicit and backmost to disregard notifications, soundlessness timers and alarms, oregon instrumentality to the ticker face.



• Get seconds successful always-on show mode: On Apple Watch Series 10 models, much ticker faces that number the seconds betwixt minutes volition proceed to tick implicit successful existent clip erstwhile always-on show mode is progressive (i.e. erstwhile your wrist isn't raised).



• Translate messages: watchOS 26 supports Live Translation successful the Messages app with ‌Apple Intelligence‌, automatically translating incoming texts and responses. The diagnostic works connected Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10, and Ultra 2 with a supported ‌iPhone‌.



• Smart Stack hints: The Smart Stack volition present connection you hints utilizing contextual data, sensor info, and regular patterns for actionable suggestions. These look arsenic ocular prompts connected the display, specified arsenic Backtrack successful distant locations oregon workout suggestions erstwhile arriving astatine fittingness locations.



• Reset Control Center: In watchOS 26, Apple has added a caller enactment that lets you reset your Apple Watch's Control Center if you privation to revert backmost to the default layout.



• Workout euphony picked for you: As portion of the Workout app revamp, there's a caller enactment that allows your ticker to automatically play euphony based connected what you perceive to and the benignant of workout (unless media is already playing).



• Get Workout milestone alerts: As portion of the caller optional Workout Buddy feature, you tin person celebratory alerts for erstwhile you deed a caller milestone – similar moving 500 miles and more.



• Create Apple Notes: In ‌watchOS 26‌, the Notes app yet comes to Apple Watch with functionality including pinning, unlocking, and creating notes via ‌Siri‌ oregon dictation. There's besides a useful caller Create Note widget to adhd to your watch's Control Center.



• Read what's being said successful Live Listen: When the Live Listen diagnostic is enabled connected your iPhone, your Apple Watch volition present a real-time transcription of immoderate code that's being picked up connected your iPhone's microphone.

Note: watchOS 26 is presently successful developer beta testing, with a wide merchandise expected this autumn alongside the iOS 26 rollout for iPhones.
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