Apple announces watchOS 27, now with Siri AI

Apple conscionable announced watchOS 27, the adjacent type of its Apple Watch operating system, introducing support for Siri AI, a redesigned “dynamic” app grid, and improvements to wellness and fittingness tracking. The watchOS 27 update will beryllium disposable “this fall,” according to Apple, though support is notably constricted — the caller OS will only beryllium disposable for Apple Watch Series 10 models aliases newer, including the Ultra 2, Ultra 3, and SE 3.

The biggest update coming to supported Apple Watch models is Siri AI — the adjacent procreation of Apple’s virtual assistant, powered by Apple Intelligence. This comes pinch a new, dedicated Siri app that “brings together each your conversations successful 1 place,” according to Apple, allowing users to commencement a speech pinch the chatbot straight connected their Apple Watch, aliases inquire questions connected their iPhone and past prime up wherever they near disconnected from their wrist. Siri tin besides execute actions successful apps, including playing songs, sending emails, aliases mounting caller Activity ringing goals without the personification “having to look astir for them,” Apple says.

Siri AI won’t beryllium disposable until the beta launches sometime later this year. Using it pinch watchOS 27 will require Watch users to brace it pinch an Apple Intelligence-enabled device, though Apple says Siri AI isn’t coming to iOS and iPadOS devices in the EU conscionable yet.

There’s besides a caller move app grid that automatically highlights Siri-suggested apps. The Siri Apple watch app is displayed astatine the halfway of this caller grid and will beryllium surrounded by your astir celebrated and precocious utilized apps, making them easier to entree without hunting astir successful the app menu.

New insights are coming to Workout Buddy — the AI-powered individual trainer characteristic introduced successful watchOS 26— that supply a amended look astatine your pace, distance, and workout duration, and amended tally search for some outdoor runs and treadmill sessions. Menstrual wellness support has besides been expanded to notify you erstwhile logged rhythm patterns are suggestive of perimenopause. And aft initially launching successful English, Workout Buddy will now besides beryllium disposable successful Spanish.

Apple has made immoderate wide strategy improvements successful watchOS 27 too, including suggestions for much widgets successful your Smart Stack, faster euphony playback, artillery optimizations, a much streamlined acquisition successful the Find My app for locating your devices, and a refined Liquid Glass acquisition that should make matter easier to read. There’s besides a caller motion that allows you to prime a widget successful the Smart Stack by tapping your scale digit and your thumb together.

This is the follow-up to past year’s watchOS 26 update, successful which Apple changed the numbering strategy of its various operating systems to lucifer the upcoming twelvemonth (switching from the watchOS 11 naming normal it utilized successful 2024). Last year’s update, which rolled retired successful September, besides introduced Apple’s Liquid Glass creation language to the Apple Watch, alongside different features, including a wrist-flicking motion power for dismissing notifications, Apple Intelligence-powered fittingness features, and support for Apple’s Notes app.

This year’s updates besides travel aft Apple fittingness main Jay Blahnik, the creator down the three-ring fittingness search characteristic connected Apple Watches, stepped down successful April pursuing allegations that he sexually harassed an worker and fostered a “toxic activity environment.” Health and Apple Watch trading main Stan Ng besides retired successful April aft 31 years pinch the company. Incoming Apple CEO John Ternus was put successful complaint of Apple Watch hardware successful precocious 2022.