Your Update at a Glance

OUR TOP 10 WATCHOS 26 FEATURES

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Wrist Flick: To dismiss a notification on Apple Watch Series 9 or later, just turn your wrist away from you and back. Go into Settings, Gestures, and toggle on Wrist Flick to set it up.

Workout Buddy: Your Apple Watch can now give you stats and encouragements for your workouts! Navigate to a compatible workout, tap the Notifications icon, tap Workout Buddy, and toggle Use Workout Buddy on.

Blood Pressure Monitoring: Let your Apple Watch keep an eye out for hypertension. Toggle this setting on in the Health app on your iPhone, and if after 60 days your Apple Watch detects a pattern of hypertension, it will alert you.

Live Translation: Your Apple Watch can now translate conversations in Messages in real time. If your Apple Watch detects an incoming text in a supported language, it will offer to turn on Live Translation. Download the language and chat away!

Auto Adjust Volume: This feature allows your Apple Watch to adjust the volume of your connected earphones based on surrounding sounds and environments. Go to Settings, tap Sounds & Haptics, and toggle on Automatically Adjust volume.

Notes Comes to the Watch: Enjoy your Notes app on your wrist! Just open your App View, tap Notes, and you'll be able to read existing notes and create new ones. Bonus: you can use Siri to start a new note!

Smart Suggestions: Smart Suggestions now let you take actions your watch anticipates you'll want to do, like use your Apple Watch as a camera remote when you have the front-facing camera open on your iPhone.

Improved Smart Replies: If you scroll down to the bottom of a message thread, you may see some new reply options. A handy timesaver when you don't want to mess with your Apple Watch keyboard.