Faster app access and Dock
watchOS 3 focused on much faster access to favorite apps and introduced a Dock for recently used and preferred apps.
Major OS release · watchOS
watchOS 3
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Breathe
The Breathe app guided users through short breathing sessions.
Activity sharing
Activity data could be shared with friends and family for encouragement and competition.
Wheelchair activity support
Fitness tracking gained activity features designed specifically for wheelchair users.
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 products3 mapped products
Full device coverage6 device names
- Apple Watch (1st generation) (38mm)
- Apple Watch (1st generation) (42mm)
- Apple Watch Series 1 (38mm)
- Apple Watch Series 1 (42mm)
- Apple Watch Series 2 (38mm)
- Apple Watch Series 2 (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.
2016
- 3.0Initial major release
- 3.1Point update
- 3.1.1Point update
2017
- 3.1.3Point update
- 3.2Point update
- 3.2.2Point update
- 3.2.3Point update