watchOS 6
More insightful.
More delightful.
Activity trends. Cycle tracking. Hearing health innovations. The App Store on your wrist. With watchOS 6, you get the insights you need to stay healthy and fit. And more updates and surprises to make you fall in love with Apple Watch all over again.
Coming later this year
New ways to stay connected.
Watch Faces
Style with substance.
From pretty to practical. Whether you’re seeking more functionality at your fingertips or just want to give your wrist a flash of fashion, there are all-new faces to suit your moods and serve your interests.
See more at a glance. Go deeper with a tap. New complications give you instant access to more of the apps and features you want, where you want them. See current decibel levels, mobile signal strength or chance of rain. Tap to record a voice memo or dive back into your audiobook.
“10:09 am”
Tick. Tock. Tap. Talk. Now you have new ways to mark time. The Taptic Engine inside your watch can silently tap out the hour on your wrist. You can set a chime to ring in the new hour. And when you hold two fingers on your watch face, it will tell you the time out loud.
Enhanced Siri
There’s even more to talk about.
“What song is this?” Heard a new track that caught your ear? Just raise your wrist and ask what it is. With mobile connectivity, Siri and Shazam help you discover the latest tunes even when you don’t have your phone.
Question everything. Ask Siri to search a topic and then scroll through the web pages for the top results on your watch face. Now you have all the answers closer at hand.
App Store
Now open on a wrist near you.
You can’t beat the location. Shop tens of thousands of apps and download directly to your wrist. From fitness to finance, maps to music, it’s never been easier to find new apps.
Discover new apps while barely lifting a finger. Browse curated collections. Search using Scribble or Dictation, or even enlist the help of Siri. Tap on an app and scroll to read about it, browse screenshots and check reviews.
The latest chapter in Apple Watch. With the new Audiobooks app, Apple Books titles in your Reading Now list automatically sync to your watch. In the middle of a book you can’t put down? Just tap the cover and hit play to pick up where you left off, no matter what device you were using last.
Multiply your powers. Calculator, Voice Memos and a redesigned Reminders. Now you can access your favourite Apple apps even more easily.
New ways to stay motivated.
Activity Trends
Track your progress over time.
The latest trend in fitness. Yours. Your Activity rings are a great snapshot of your Move, Exercise and Stand metrics throughout the day. But your watch captures so much more, from walking pace to flights climbed to VO2 max. The new Trends feature shows whether any metric is heading up or down over time, so you can keep it going or turn it around.
Keep pace over the long run. Daily metrics from your watch are stored in the Activity app on your iPhone. Trends compares your latest 90-day averages to longer-term performance over the past 365 days. If you’re losing ground, you’ll receive tailored coaching suggestions to get you back on track.
New ways to keep an eye on your health.
Cycle Tracking
Stay in sync and in the know.
Knowledge is healthy. Gaining insight into your menstrual cycle can help provide a clearer picture of your overall health. In addition to simply ensuring that you’re prepared, you’ll have more information to help you track irregularities and symptoms, and enrich discussions with your doctor.
Tracking is as simple as tapping. Use the Cycle Tracking app to log daily information about your menstrual cycle. You can add flow information, record symptoms such as headaches or cramps, and easily see cycle length and variation. It all comes together in a simple, graphical chart in the redesigned Health app on your iPhone.
Where are you in your cycle? Using information you’ve logged, the Cycle Tracking app on Apple Watch can alert you when it predicts that your next period or fertile window is about to start.* You can even track results from an ovulation prediction kit and readings from a basal body thermometer.
Hearing Health
Now Apple Watch covers your ears.
When it goes to 11, take five. Noise can rise to levels that may damage your hearing without you even realising it. The new Noise app senses when the roar of the crowd or the rumble of machinery reaches a level that may pose a risk. So you can step out or plug up to give your ears a needed break.
If it’s too loud, you can feel it. Your watch monitors your environment’s ambient noise and tracks the duration of your exposure. When Apple Watch detects that the decibel level has risen to a point where hearing could be affected, it can notify you with a tap on the wrist.