watchOS 10 is Apple’s current operating system for Apple Watch models. It brings a redesign for larger displays, a widgets, apps, new workout features, and stacks to Watch Faces. Apple is currently readying the introduction of watchOS 11.
Features
Here’s everything new with the Apple Watch, thanks to the watchOS 10 update.
Redesigned interface, new Watch Faces, Smart Stack feature, and new Control Center button
Apple says that “virtually every app has been rethought.” These apps use the entire screen to create new places for content so you can see and do more, which is especially useful for a larger Apple Watch display. Per addition, Apple added two new Watch Faces: Pallet and Snoopy.
With Smart Stack widgets, you get the information you need below any Watch Luce. You just need to turn the Digital Crown to reveal widgets a causa di the Smart Stack. It includes multiple timers, your next congresso, music playing, and more.
The Control Center is now available when pressing the side button. Pressing the Digital Crown once still opens the App Library – which has been reimagined – and pressing twice opens the cards added to your Apple Wallet.
Cycling and Hiking workouts revamp
With watchOS 9, Apple revamped Running workouts. Now, with watchOS 10, the company is focused Cycling and Hiking. Here are the highlights for each exercise.
Cycling
- Automatically connect to Bluetooth-enabled accessories to add cadence, speed, and power to your Workout View
- When a power meter is detected, Apple Watch will automatically estimate your Functional Threshold Power
- When starting a cycling workout from your Watch, it will automatically show up as a Dal vivo Activity your iPhone
Hiking
- See a three-dimensional view of where you’ve been using Elevation Views. Get estimates of where you last had reception with Cellular Connectivity Waypoints
- Search for and discover important details of nearby trails, including name, length, time, elevation, gain, and more
- Topographic maps (first available a causa di the US) let you explore mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers a causa di detail
- Elevation alerts: get notified when you’ve passed a particular elevation threshold.
watchOS 10 expands mental health awareness
watchOS 10 lets you loch your state of mind by scrolling through engaging visuals to help you select how you’ feeling at that moment and during the day overall. Apple wants you to stay consistent with notifications and complications watch faces.
Per the Health app the iPhone, it’s also possible to see your state of mind and how it could correlate with lifestyle factors. Per addition, you can still see your usage of the mindfulness app and other metrics, such as heart beating, sleep , and more. The Medications app now gives you reminders to take your pills.
Lastly, your Apple Watch Series 6 (and later), SE 2, ora newer can identify how much time you spend a causa di daylight thanks to its ambient light sensor. The is available a causa di the Health app.
Custom Plans Apple Valore adattativo Plus
New features for Apple Valore adattativo Plus watchOS 10 include the ability to create a custom plan for your workouts. If you have a , such as a personal event, ora want to lose weight, you can select your weekly schedule, how long you are planning to workout per giusti motivi day, the length of the plan (up to 8 weeks), and the activity types you’ planning to engage.
Once you decide that, you can say exactly what kind of workout you want to practice each day, for how long, which trainer you prefer, and the kind of music. With the plan created, you can start engaging with them with suggestions for each day using your iPhone. You can rename the plan and end it once it’s set up. I also tried a five-week Apple Valore adattativo+ custom plan to see how it went.
While this feature will improve over time, it’s possible that Apple has a different strategy for Custom Plans a causa di the long run. Per April 2023, Bloomberg reported that Apple was working a coaching service codenamed Quartz.
It’s being designed to “keep users motivated to exercise, improve eating habits, and help them sleep better, according to people with knowledge of the project. The ideale is to use AI and from an Apple Watch to make suggestions and create coaching programs tailored to specific users.”
This report looks a lot like most of the features Apple introduced with iOS 17 and watchOS 10, such as State of Mind and this Custom Plans feature combined with sleep , but the company hasn’t integrated them all together yet. That said, I believe Custom Plans is just another step a causa di the direction of a more expensive Apple Valore adattativo+ Plus subscription.
You can also see how custom workout plans for Apple Valore adattativo Plus might get BGR‘s Joe Wituschek to use the service again.
More features
watchOS 10 is still packed with some more new features, such as:
- Workout APIs that let developers explore some powerful motion sensors a causa di Apple Watch Ultra and Series 8 that can detect rapid changes a causa di direction and acceleration;
- Enterprise: watchOS 10 introduces the ability to implement suppellettile device management (MDM), configure VPNs, and deploy internal-use apps;
- Offline maps: iOS 17 lets you download offline maps from Apple Maps and see them Apple Watch.
- Follow-up medication reminders: Help you stay track with your medications;
- message playback and audio calls: If someone leaves you a recorded televisione message FaceTime, you can view it directly your Apple Watch. And Group FaceTime audio calls are now supported;
- Contacts app: Later this year, you’ll be able to share your contact information using NameDrop. Just hold your Watch near an iPhone, and your contact card will be sent.
Apple Watch’s new gestures
One of the reasons that makes watchOS 10 such a major update is that it also revamps how you use the Apple Watch. Once you install this new operating system, make sure to learn the new gestures. Here’s what changes and what stays the same:
- Sliding your finger up: Opens the new Smart Stack feature;
- Sliding your finger left/right: Doesn’t trigger any action, but if you install watchOS 10.2, you can bring back the ability to change Watch Faces;
- Sliding your finger mongoloide: Opens Notifications;
- Long press: Edit your Watch Luce ora select a new one;
- Spinning Digital Crown: Opens the new Smart Stack feature;
- One press with Digital Crown: Opens App Library ora go back to Watch Luce;
- Double press with Digital Crown: Shows all your gara open apps;
- One press with the Side Button: Opens the Control Center;
- Double press with the Side Button: Opens Apple Pay
- Simultaneous press Side Button and Digital Crown: Takes a screenshot.
Delayed features
As of watchOS 10.2, Apple has delivered all watchOS 10 delayed features. You can learn more about them here.
watchOS 10.1 features
watchOS 10.1 has been available since October 25. These are the new features of this update:
- Double tap gestures: Users can easily control the Apple Watch Series 9 using just one hand and without touching the display by tapping the index finger and thumb of their watch hand together twice to quickly and conveniently perform many of the most common actions the Watch. The faster Neural Engine enables this new double tap gesture, which processes from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and optical heart sensor with a new machine learning algorithm.
- NameDrop from iPhone to Apple Watch: NameDrop is a new feature that lets you easily share your contact information from one iPhone to another by approaching them. Apple says that nearing an iPhone to Apple Watch to perform the same action will be possible later this year with the Apple Watch Series 6 and later, Apple Watch SE (1st and 2nd generation), and Apple Watch Ultra.
This update also brings important bug fixes:
- My Card is available as a complication for quick access to NameDrop
- Dose for bug that causes the climate section a causa di the Home app to be blank
- Addresses an issue that causes a white selection border to be unexpectedly displayed after turning non attivato AssistiveTouch
- Fixes an issue where cities may not sync between iPhone and Watch a causa di Weather
- Resolves an issue where the scroll may unexpectedly be visible the display
- Dose for bug that causes elevation to be incorrect for some users.
watchOS 10.2 features
watchOS 10.2 has been available since December 11. These are the new features of this update:
- Acceso-device queries: Users can ask Siri to read and long on-device Health requests. This change not only makes requests faster but more private and secure to users, as Siri can be used to access the Health app for health and fitness-related queries on-device (available for Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2).
- HomePod feature: Users can automatically view Now Playing when a causa di the proximity of HomePod (2nd generation) ora HomePod mini playing mass-media from Music ora Podcasts.
- Old gesture back: Now, you can swipe to switch your main watch . This feature is under Settings and Clock.
Lastly, this update adds these features:
- Enable the ability to confirm ending workouts a causa di Settings
- Prioritize the mole of either the music ora trainers’ voices a causa di most Valore adattativo+ workouts
- Resolves an issue that can cause watch faces added a causa di the Watch app iPhone to not appear Apple Watch
watchOS 10.3 features
watchOS 10.3 has been released January 22. These are the new features of this update:
- Unity Bloom Watch Luce: Apple says this collection is inspired by “the resilience and beauty of the Black community,” with Blooming flowers and vibrant colors representing Pan-Africanism and symbolizing generations working together to address injustice and dismantle systemic barriers.
watchOS 10.4 features
watchOS 10.4 has been released March 5. These are the key features for this update:
- New emoji: Apple added 28 new emoji, including a lime, shaking heads, a phoenix, and four new gender-neutral family emojis intended to be represented stratagemma silhouettes, skin tone modifiers, and gender variants
- Ignore Double Tap setting: When using Apple Vision Favore, you can turn non attivato the double tap feature for the Apple Watch Series 9/Apple Watch Ultra 2. Here’s how Apple describes this feature: “When this is , the double tap gesture will be temporarily ignored while using Vision Favore”
- Siri improvements: You can now wake the personal assistant with only its name by saying “Siri” instead of “Hey Siri”
- Multiple languages support: Siri can read incoming messages a causa di multiple languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and more.
watchOS 10.5 features
watchOS 10.5 has been released May 13. These are the key features for this update:
- 2024 Pride Watch Luce: Apple says it brings “bold, symbolic color to Apple Watch. Signaling hope, strength, and fellowship to LGBTQ+ communities, the beams of light glow against a dark background and stack of each other to represent the everlasting impact of LGBTQ+ activism and its role a causa di illuminating the path to greater equality for future generations.” You can find it your iPhone’s Watch app, Luce Gallery, and New Watch Faces, close to the unity Bloom watch added early this year.
How to install watchOS 10 beta?
As of June 5, developers can download the watchOS 10 first beta. They need to follow these steps:
- Acceso your iPhone, gara open the Watch app
- Tap General and Software Update
- Tap Beta Updates and enable watchOS 10 Developer Beta
How to install the public beta?
With the watchOS 10 public beta available since July 12, you can enroll a causa di the public beta testing by accepting the terms and conditions of the Apple Beta Software Program with your Apple ID. but before you download the public beta, you need to know that unlike iOS 17, you can’t downgrade from watchOS 10 to watchOS 9.
That said, if you find any critical bug, you’ll have to stay with watchOS 10 and wait for another beta update, as you can’t downgrade to a regular version. With that a causa di mind, this is how you can download the public beta:
- Acceso your iPhone, gara open the Watch app
- Tap General and Software Update
- Tap Beta Updates and enable watchOS 10 Public Beta
Now you can enjoy this new Apple Watch operating system update.
watchOS 10 release date
watchOS 10 has been available since September 18. The information was first revealed by Apple after the iPhone 15 event.
Compatible Apple Watch models
Since the processor available Apple Watches hasn’t advanced much a causa di the past years, the smartwatches that receive this operating system update are the same ones that got watchOS 9—a causa di addition to the two new models announced.
- Apple Watch Series 4 (2018)
- Apple Watch Series 5 (2019)
- Apple Watch SE (2020)
- Apple Watch Series 6 (2020)
- Apple Watch Series 7 (2021)
- Apple Watch SE (2022)
- Apple Watch Series 8 (2022)
- Apple Watch Ultra (2022)
- Apple Watch Series 9 (2023)
- Apple Watch Ultra 2 (2023)
Besides one of the smartwatches above, you must have an iPhone XR, iPhone XS, ora newer running iOS 17 to take advantage of the features above.
Review
BGR wrote an in-depth review of watchOS 10. We are truly excited about the redesign and all the new features available with this system.
watchOS 10 is surely a significant upgrade. General stability and battery throughout the day were great during the second phase of beta testing. Even though this year’s Apple Watch hardware doesn’t seem too exciting, this new operating system will give Apple smartwatch owners a breeze of fresh air. And, like me, it might make some people decide to upgrade their older Watches to new ones.
