watchOS 9 gives you even more to go on. A Workout app
packed with more features than ever. A new Medications app, along with greater insights into your sleep health. And more watch faces with more personalization to keep everything that’s close to your heart close at hand.
The display now lets you see more while working out. Just turn the Digital Crown for new views of metrics like Activity rings, Heart Rate Zones, Power and Elevation.
Quickly get a sense of your intensity level. Training zones are automatically calculated and personalized using your health data, or you can create them manually.
Tailor work and recovery intervals to suit your training style. Receive alerts for pace, heart rate, cadence and power. You shape it. It shapes you.
Instant feedback to know if you’re on pace to meet your goal. And dynamic pacing to help you get there.
If it’s an Outdoor Run or Cycle workout you do often, you can choose to race against your last or best result and receive in-the-moment updates to help you get there.
Coming later this year
Add Stride Length, Ground Contact Time and Vertical Oscillation to your Workout Views to help understand how efficiently you run.
An instantaneous measure of your effort, Running Power helps you stay at a level you can sustain.
Automatically transition between swim, bike and run
Kickboard is now automatically detected as a new stroke type for Pool Swim workouts. Track your SWOLF score for each set, a metric commonly used by swimmers to track efficiency.
Scrub through your run.
Progress is in the details.
Redesigned to give you a more accurate way to navigate, with hybrid, analogue and new orienteering views. Turn the Digital Crown to switch between them.
Mark your location with Compass Waypoints by dropping a waypoint on any place you’ve passed. And with Backtrack, you can return to where you came from by creating a path showing where you’ve been.
Makes taking your meds and vitamins like clockwork
The Medications app1 helps you discreetly and conveniently keep track of your medications, vitamins and supplements. And lets you log them from reminders.
See how much time you spent in REM, Core or Deep sleep, as well as when you might have woken up.
Sleep comparison charts in the updated Health app on iPhone let you see metrics like heart rate and respiratory rate.2 And how things may change throughout the night.
Introducing Metropolitan, which lets you customize the font of the numerals on the dial. Playtime, a collaboration with artist Joi Fulton. And Astronomy, remastered to take advantage of the expansive display, showing cloud coverage around the world.
Lunar celebrates calendar timekeeping using phases of the moon. Choose from three different calendars: Chinese, Hebrew and Islamic.
Even more watch faces support rich complications. Just look how connected you are.
The Portraits face now lets you put pictures of your dog or cat on it. And you can use the editing mode to add a tint to the background layers of a photo.
Now you can customize your watch face with a wide range of colours and gradients to match your mood. Available on Modular Compact, Modular and X‑Large faces.
If you’ve been diagnosed with atrial fibrillation, turn on AFib History to see an estimate of how frequently your heart is in this arrhythmia.3 It’s important because it may relate to your risk of serious complications.
In the Health app, you can identify lifestyle factors that may influence the amount of time you spend in AFib — like sleep, exercise and weight — and easily share that information with your doctor. You can also see the time of the day or week when your AFib is most frequent.
More fun
for them. More peace of mind for you.
Now you can use the Podcasts app to discover and follow new podcasts right on your wrist using Search and Listen Now. And the app is available to your kids using Family Setup.
Your children can be invited to the Home app as members and can control your HomePod speakers and smart home accessories, like thermostats and lights. More power to them.
Coming later this year
Add home keys, hotel keys, and more to Wallet, so kids can get in.4
Coming later this year
Double-pinch to start a workout or take a photo
Apple Watch Mirroring is designed to make the watch experience more accessible for people with physical and motor disabilities.5 Stream your Apple Watch to your iPhone and fully control it using assistive features on iPhone like Switch Control and Voice Control.
When you’re actively using your watch, notifications arrive as unobtrusive banners. When your wrist is down, they’re received as full‑screen notifications.
Apps running in the background are prioritized over the rest of the apps in the Dock, making it easy to quickly return to them.
Create new events directly from your Apple Watch and easily navigate to specific days or weeks.
In addition the personalized metrics from your Watch like heart rate, Burn Bar and calories, new trainer callouts, like intensity, are designed to motivate and inspire you to take it to the next level.
Trainers will also provide rowing, cycling and treadmill guidance to help you adjust your pace and get the most out of your workout.
Fitness+ subscribers who use AirPlay to see their workouts can now get real-time personal metrics from their Apple Watch on compatible displays.
watchOS 9 requires iPhone 8 or later with iOS 16 or
later and one of the following Apple Watch models:
Not all features are available on all devices, regions or languages.
