Better understand your daily health status using your overnight vitals.1
See how workouts may impact your body over time. And discover new features that make Apple Watch undeniably yours. That’s watchOS 11.
Move, Exercise, and Stand rings show your daily activity, and the goal is to close them every day. But if you need to take a break, you can now put your rings on pause for a day, week, month, or more and keep your award streak going.
Now you can adjust your Activity ring goals for every day of the week. So you get the motivation you need on the days you need it.
Add, move, or remove metrics in the Summary tab of the Fitness app on iPhone — to include what matters to you most. And check out new metrics for running, cycling, swimming, and more.
Your overnight health data in one convenient place.
Vitals establishes a typical range for each of your health metrics collected as you sleep. So you’ll always know at a glance how your metrics are stacking up.
If multiple metrics are ever outside your typical range, you’ll receive a notification along with context for factors that may be involved — like medications, elevation, alcohol, or even illness. All to help you know when it’s a good idea to pay closer attention to your body.
Training load helps you see how the intensity of your workouts may impact your body over time. So you can make informed decisions about how and when to adjust your workouts — especially when you’re training for a big event. You can also see your overnight vitals for additional insights. Review your training load in the Activity app.
After completing most cardio-focused workouts in the Workout app, you’ll be able to review a new effort metric in the summary indicating how hard you exercised. Your pace, elevation, heart rate, and personal data like age, height, and weight are factored into each rating.
Training load compares the intensity and duration of your workouts over the last seven days to what you’ve done over the previous 28 days. It then classifies your current training load on a scale from well below to well above — to help you understand the relative strain on your body and decide if it’s sustainable.
Powered by machine learning, the redesigned Photos face can search thousands of photos in your library, intelligently analyze them, and select the best compositions, framing, and image quality for your watch. To give the people, places, or things you love the star treatment.
Select specific people, pets, nature, or cities, and watchOS 11 will find the best shots and serve them up.
Now you can customize the time size and layout, choose your favorite font, and get creative with bold colors, tricolor, or something unique to you. There’s script support for additional languages, too.
When you add a pregnancy in the Health app on iPhone or iPad, Cycle Tracking will now display your gestational age and track your pregnancy across all your health charts.3
Your health data stays on your device and is encrypted when your Apple Watch is locked with a passcode. And it’s never shared without your permission.
Live Activities are now supported on Apple Watch and appear in the Smart Stack. So you can stay on top of the latest sports scores or your upcoming flight.
Brand-new widgets include severe weather alerts, Training Load, Photos, Distance, and Shazam. And you can directly access three items you used most recently in an app — like your three most recent Workout types or songs you’ve played.
Check In lets you automatically notify a friend or loved one when you’ve arrived at a destination.4 Start a Check In from Messages by entering your destination or arrival time.
Going for a run after dark? Now you can start your workout and a Check In at the same time from the Workout app on your watch.
See distance and route maps for more workouts. Including row, row, rowing your boat.
Your Apple Watch can now automatically guide you through timed intervals of work and recovery in the pool — with haptics to let you know when it’s time to move to the next interval.
Now you can see an Up Next workout view for any Custom Workout you create, allowing you to see what’s remaining in your current interval and what’s coming next.
Use the Tides app to see if surf’s up.
With support for 20 languages, see a translation simply by typing or dictating a phrase. You can play the translation out loud and slow it down if need be. And you can use the Translate app on your watch without your iPhone simply by downloading a language.
Add the Translate app to your Smart Stack for easy access.5 Or when you’re traveling to a location where a different language is spoken, your watch will intelligently add the widget for you. Talk about smart.
Scroll through any app hands-free with the double tap gesture. Including the Weather app.
Now developers can tap into double tap.
Now you can unlock your door as you approach, without having to hold your watch to the lock.6
See more information on tickets in your Wallet, like directions to the parking lot, show times, and more. Events will also appear as Live Activities in your Smart Stack.
See curated hikes for all 63 U.S. national parks. And save them to your watch to use offline.
watchOS 11 requires iPhone Xs or later or iPhone SE (2nd generation or later) with iOS 18 and one of the following Apple Watch models:
Not all features are available on all devices.
