watchOS 9 brings great new ways to stay active, healthy, and connected with Apple Watch. Enjoy more ways to train and measure your workouts, a new app to track your medications, more powerful sleep tracking with Sleep Stages, and better insights and support for your heart health if you’ve been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation.
Apple Watch Series 4 or later paired with iPhone 8 or later with iOS 16 Public beta in July through the Apple Beta Software Program (beta.apple.com) Free software update in fall 2022
Workout
Make training a more powerful experience with more metrics and new ways to visualize them with Workout Views. Use custom workouts and heart rate zones to improve performance and reduce injury. And with a new Multisport workout, triathletes can automatically switch between swimming, biking, and running. There are also customizable alerts, the ability to race a previous route, and a redesigned Workout Summary.
Watch faces
Enjoy even more ways to express yourself with four new watch faces—Astronomy, Lunar, Play Time, and Metropolitan. More faces support rich complications, and there’s a new background color editor for Modular Compact, Modular, and X-Large. And you can add dogs and cats to the Portraits face.
Medications
Track your medications discreetly and conveniently with the Medications app. In the Health app on iPhone, manage your medications list, create schedules and reminders, and learn more about your medications, including if there are interactions that could cause issues.
Sleep Stages
Gather deeper insights into your sleep with Sleep Stages. Review detailed information, including how much time you spent in each stage and when you might have woken up.
AFib History
If you’ve been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, AFib History can estimate how frequently your heart is in AFib and track lifestyle factors that may affect your condition.
Redesigned apps
View and edit your important tasks and events in more detail with redesigned Reminders and Calendar apps, right from your wrist.
Other features
Experience a refreshed Siri UI, expanded keyboard languages for Apple Watch Series 7, new banner notifications, and quick access to apps you’re running—pinned at the top of the Dock. Apple Watch Mirroring uses AirPlay so you can stream your Apple Watch to your iPhone and use Switch Control, Voice Control, or any assistive features on iPhone. And developers can use CallKit, Share Sheet, and Photos Picker to build best-in-class communication features on their apps.
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