Glanceable notifications and communication
The original Apple Watch software centered on timely notifications, messages, and lightweight interactions on the wrist.
Major OS release · watchOS
watchOS 1
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Siri and Apple Pay
Siri voice interaction and Apple Pay extended established iPhone services to the watch.
Activity and fitness tracking
Activity and Workout experiences made daily movement, exercise, and fitness tracking a core part of the platform.
Watch faces and personalization
Customizable watch faces established the watch-face-first interaction model.
watchOS
Device support
Archive-product links show the canonical products represented by this project. The full device-name list preserves the broader structured support evidence, including hardware refreshes that do not have their own archive node.
Supported archive products1 mapped products
Full device coverage2 device names
- Apple Watch (1st generation) (38mm)
- Apple Watch (1st generation) (42mm)
Support dropped at this major
No mapped archive product was fully dropped when this major version arrived.
Public releases
Public release history
Every canonical public release assigned to this major version, including the initial release and later point updates.
2015
- 1.0Initial major release
- 1.0.1Point update