Cycle Tracking
New Cycle Tracking app to log information about your menstrual cycle including flow level, symptoms, and spotting
Major OS release · watchOS
watchOS 6
Software history
Defining features
Feature summaries are anchored to the cited Apple first-party source.
Noise
View the decibel levels in your environment in real time with the new Noise app
Voice Memos
Record Voice Memos using Apple Watch
Audiobooks
Sync audiobooks from Apple Books on your iPhone to Apple Watch
App Store
Discover and install apps for Apple Watch with the new App Store
Activity
Track your Activity trends in the Activity app on iPhone
Workout
New current elevation metric for Outdoor Run, Outdoor Walk, Outdoor Cycle and Hiking workouts. Available on Apple Watch Series 2 and later
Siri
Identify the song playing around you with Shazam—get song and artist information and the ability to add to your Apple Music library
Watch Faces
Numerals Mono and Numerals Duo—Digital faces available in Arabic, Arabic Indic, Roman numerals and Devanagari
Other features and improvements:
New Calculator app with the ability to calculate tips and split the check
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 products5 mapped products
Full device coverage16 device names
- Apple Watch Series 1 (38mm)
- Apple Watch Series 1 (42mm)
- Apple Watch Series 2 (38mm)
- Apple Watch Series 2 (42mm)
- Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular, 38mm)
- Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular, 42mm)
- Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS, 38mm)
- Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS, 42mm)
- 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)
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.
2019
- 6.0Initial major release
- 6.0.1Point update
- 6.1Point update
- 6.1.1Point update
2020
- 6.1.2Point update
- 6.1.3Point update
- 6.2Point update
- 6.2.1Point update
- 6.2.5Point update
- 6.2.6Point update
- 6.2.8Point update
- 6.2.9Point update
- 6.3Point update
2026
- 6.3.1Point update