watchOS 9

Extremely insightful.
Exceptionally personal.

watchOS 9 gives you even more to go on. A Workout app
packed with more features than ever. A new Medications app, along with greater insights into your sleep and heart health. And more watch faces with more personalisation to keep everything that’s close to your heart close at hand.

Workout

New Workout Views. Take it all in. Go all out.

The display now lets you see more while working out. Just turn the Digital Crown for new views of metrics like Activity Rings, Heart Rate Zones, Power and Elevation.

Heart Rate Zones.

Quickly get a sense of your intensity level. Training zones are automatically calculated and personalised using your health data, or you can create them manually.

Customise your workouts.

Tailor work and recovery intervals to suit your training style. Receive alerts for pace, heart rate, cadence and power. You shape it. It shapes you.

Distance and time are on your side.

Instant feedback to know if you’re on pace to meet your goal. And dynamic pacing to help you get there.

Race Route. Repeat it and beat it.

If it’s an Outdoor Run or Cycle workout you do often, you can choose to race against your last or best result and receive in-the-moment updates to help you get there.

Know on the go with Running Form Metrics.

Add Stride Length, Ground Contact Time and Vertical Oscillation to your Workout Views to help understand how efficiently you run.

Introducing Running Power.

An instantaneous measure of your effort, Running Power helps you stay at a level you can sustain.

Multisport. Singularly awesome for triathletes.

Automatically transition between swim, bike and run

Swimming enhancements, what a kick.

Kickboard is now automatically detected as a new stroke type for Pool Swim workouts. Track your SWOLF score for each set, a metric commonly used by swimmers to track efficiency.

Enhanced workout summary.

Scrub through your run.
Progress is in the details.

Compass

The compass reimagined

Redesigned to give you a more accurate way to navigate, with hybrid, analog and new orienteering views. Turn the Digital Crown to switch between them.

Mark the spot, retrace your steps

Mark your location with Compass Waypoints by dropping a waypoint on any place you’ve passed. And with Backtrack, you can return to where you came from by creating a path showing where you’ve been.

Reminders for medications.

Makes taking your meds and vitamins like clockwork

Log your meds right from your wrist.

The Medications app1 helps you discreetly and conveniently keep track of your medications, vitamins and supplements. And lets you log them from reminders.

Sleep

Sleep stages, a better bedtime story.

See how much time you spent in REM, Core or Deep sleep, as well as when you might have woken up.

Track your sleep over time.

Sleep comparison charts in the updated Health app on iPhone let you see metrics like heart rate and respiratory rate.2 And how things may change throughout the night.

Watch Faces

New faces to help you face the day.

Introducing Metropolitan, which lets you customise the font of the numerals on the dial. Playtime, a collaboration with artist Joi Fulton. And Astronomy, remastered to take advantage of the expansive display, showing cloud coverage around the world.

A Lunar face that’s out of this world.

Lunar celebrates calendar timekeeping using phases of the moon. Choose from three different calendars: Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic.

It’s more into whatever you’re into.

Even more watch faces support rich complications. Just look how connected you are.

Portraits face enhancements.

The Portraits face now lets you put pictures of your dog or cat on it. And you can use the editing mode to add a tint to the background layers of a photo.

Background colours from aqua to zinc.

Now you can customise your watch face with a wide range of colours and gradients to match your mood. Available on Modular Compact, Modular and X‑Large faces.

Quick Actions.

Double-pinch
to start a
workout or
take a photo

Operate your watch in a whole new way.

Apple Watch Mirroring is designed to make the watch experience more accessible for people with physical and motor disabilities.3 Stream your Apple Watch to your iPhone and fully control it using assistive features on iPhone like Switch Control and Voice Control.

Productivity

Notifications minus distractions.

When you’re actively using your watch, notifications arrive as
unobtrusive banners. When your wrist is down, they’re received as full‑screen notifications.

A little love for your favourite apps in the Dock.

Apps running in the background are prioritised over the rest of the apps in the Dock, making it easy to quickly return to them.

Quite a day for the Calendar app.

Create new events directly from your Apple Watch and easily navigate to specific days or weeks.

A keyboard that really speaks your language.4

watchOS 9
compatibility.

Find your Apple Watch model

watchOS 9 requires iPhone 8 or later with iOS 16 or
later and one of the following Apple Watch models:

  • Apple Watch Series 4
  • Apple Watch Series 5
  • Apple Watch SE
  • Apple Watch Series 6
  • Apple Watch Series 7
  • Apple Watch Series 8
  • Apple Watch Ultra

Not all features are available on all devices, regions or languages.

See more of yourself in Health.

Learn more about the updated Health app

Developers will love watchOS too.

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