Vitals
View your overnight health metrics like heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, blood oxygen, and sleep duration in one convenient location
Major OS release · watchOS
watchOS 11
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Fitness
Track the impact that the intensity, based on effort ratings, and the duration of your workouts have on your body over time with training load
Translate
Dictate phrases and have them automatically translated and played out loud with support for 20 languages
Tides
Review tide data for over 115,000 beaches and 5,000 surf spots worldwide including high and low tides, rising and falling tides, tide height and direction in new Tides app
Smart Stack
View timely information in the Smart Stack with suggested widgets that will automatically appear, intelligently using signals like time and date, location, wake-up and bedtime, and more to determine priority
Watch Faces
Create a dynamic Photos watch face using image categories like People, Pets, Cities, or Nature to intelligently curate the best photos from your iPhone based on aesthetics, composition, and facial expressions
Sleep Apnea Notifications
Receive possible sleep apnea notification when breathing disturbance data shows consistent signs of moderate to severe sleep apnea over a 30 day period (Available on Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2)
Other features
Start a Check In from Messages, Workout controls, or the Smart Stack to automatically alert friend or family member when you reach your destination, after a pre-determined time, or when your workout ends
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 products8 mapped products
Full device coverage26 device names
- Apple Watch SE (2nd generation, GPS + Cellular, 40mm)
- Apple Watch SE (2nd generation, GPS + Cellular, 44mm)
- Apple Watch SE (2nd generation, GPS, 40mm)
- Apple Watch SE (2nd generation, GPS, 44mm)
- Apple Watch Series 10 (GPS + Cellular, 42mm)
- Apple Watch Series 10 (GPS + Cellular, 46mm)
- Apple Watch Series 10 (GPS, 42mm)
- Apple Watch Series 10 (GPS, 46mm)
- Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS + Cellular, 40mm)
- Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS + Cellular, 44mm)
- Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS, 40mm)
- Apple Watch Series 6 (GPS, 44mm)
- Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS + Cellular, 41mm)
- Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS + Cellular, 45mm)
- Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS, 41mm)
- Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS, 45mm)
- Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS + Cellular, 41mm)
- Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS + Cellular, 45mm)
- Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS, 41mm)
- Apple Watch Series 8 (GPS, 45mm)
- Apple Watch Series 9 (GPS + Cellular, 41mm)
- Apple Watch Series 9 (GPS + Cellular, 45mm)
- Apple Watch Series 9 (GPS, 41mm)
- Apple Watch Series 9 (GPS, 45mm)
- Apple Watch Ultra
- Apple Watch Ultra 2
Support dropped at this major
Device names in support data
- Apple Watch SE (1st generation, GPS + Cellular, 44mm)
- Apple Watch SE (1st generation, GPS, 40mm)
- Apple Watch SE (1st generation, GPS, 44mm)
- Apple Watch Series 4 (GPS + Cellular, 40mm)
- Apple Watch Series 4 (GPS + Cellular, 44mm)
- Apple Watch Series 4 (GPS, 40mm)
- Apple Watch Series 4 (GPS, 44mm)
- Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS + Cellular, 40mm)
- Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS + Cellular, 44mm)
- Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS, 40mm)
- Apple Watch Series 5 (GPS, 44mm)
Public releases
Public release history
Every canonical public release assigned to this major version, including the initial release and later point updates.
2024
- 11.0Initial major release
- 11.0.1Point update
- 11.1Point update
- 11.2Point update
2025
- 11.3Point update
- 11.3.1Point update
- 11.4Point update
- 11.5Point update
- 11.6Point update
- 11.6.1Point update
2026
- 11.6.2Point update