watchOS 27 is coming soon as the next major Apple Watch software update. I’ve been using watchOS 27 in beta this summer, and there are three new features I’ve been especially loving.
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Less is more when it comes to how I use the Apple Watch. The best experience, for me, requires few notifications and intentional focus on what I want out of the device. This approach applies to Apple Watch faces too. While there are no new watch faces in watchOS 27 yet, I’ve been loving a scaled-back version of a very information-dense option.
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watchOS 27 is the next major software update for Apple Watch, and among its variety of new features, it will add two new apps to your Watch.
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A new leak reveals that one of Apple Watch’s most popular watch faces—Modular—is set to gain a variety of new color customization options in watchOS 27. Here are the details.
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Apple Watch added hypertension notifications last year, an important and potentially life-saving new feature. And per a recent report, it sounds like watchOS 27 might make them even better.
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watchOS 27 launches this fall as the next major Apple Watch update, and it includes a handy new feature that can improve your Apple Watch battery life: ‘proactive battery extension notifications.’
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Apple has just released developer beta 4 for iPadOS 27, tvOS 27, watchOS 27, and several more forthcoming software updates.
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watchOS 27 packs some great new features. Here’s everything new coming to Apple Watch this fall so far.
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The watchOS 27 public beta is now available for Apple Watch. It gives users an early look at the software update coming to everyone this fall.
watchOS 27 includes one potentially transformative addition: Siri AI on your wrist. Apple also added a dynamic app grid, a one-handed tap gesture, and a more proactive Smart Stack. In addition, the update brings several health and fitness upgrades.
Here’s how to install the beta, which watches can run it, and what you should try first.
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Apple Watch is losing its Walkie-Talkie app in this fall’s watchOS 27 software update. Will you miss the Apple Watch push-to-talk functionality?
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watchOS 27 packs a variety of Health-related improvements for Apple Watch users that span three main areas, here’s what’s new.
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Apple’s upgraded Siri AI experience and the standalone Siri app have arrived on the Apple Watch with today’s watchOS 27 beta 3 release.
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Apple Watch users have two current Home Screen layout options, but in watchOS 27 they’re joined by a new default: the dynamic app grid. Here’s how it works.
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Yesterday Apple released beta 2 for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and more—but watchOS was absent. Now today, watchOS 27 developer beta 2 has arrived to complete the lineup.
Update 6/25: Two days later, watchOS 27 beta 2 is now also available for Apple Watch Ultra 3.
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Apple has just released a wave of beta 2 updates for its next major software versions, including tvOS 27, visionOS 27, and more.
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When Apple announced watchOS 27 last week, one thing people noticed right away was device compatibility. Apple is dropping support for multiple older Apple Watch models this year.
In an interview with TechRadar Cait Dooley, Apple Watch and Health Product Marketing Manager, offered more context on watchOS 27 compatibility.
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Apple Watch is becoming a better single-handed device in watchOS 27 thanks to a convenient new tap gesture. Here’s what it does.
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iOS 27 is compatible with all the same iPhones as last year’s iOS 26, but almost every other software platform drops multiple devices this year. Here’s the full list of 16 products no longer supported in macOS Golden Gate, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, and tvOS 27.
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While it’s not available in the very first beta, Siri AI is coming to the Apple Watch in watchOS 27. In my view, this is the biggest change for the device in a long time.
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With iOS 27, Apple is giving iPhone users a slider to customize how clear or frosted Liquid Glass appears. While the same slider comes to the Mac and iPad, Apple Watch just has one Liquid Glass setting for everyone. However, watchOS 27 does change the look of Liquid Glass on Apple Watch in subtle ways.
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Apple’s WWDC keynote revealed a lot of new features in iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, and more—most of which were displayed on a single slide for just a moment. Here are all of those listed features in a more accessible, organized format. There are even more changes coming in iOS 27, but this is everything Apple listed on that big keynote slide.
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While the Apple Watch is gaining a handful of helpful features with watchOS 27, it’s also losing one that some users might miss.
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Although watchOS 27 drops support for several older Apple Watch models, Apple has confirmed to 9to5Mac that one compatible model was mistakenly left out of its official list. Here are the details.
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Apple’s WWDC keynote brought reveals of the company’s major new software versions, including watchOS 27 for Apple Watch, which was released just now in developer beta.
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