Of course, Watchos 26 is bringing Apple liquid glass looks to his wrist, a ‘training friend’ to give him a vote of trust or a push to hit better during training and a lot of new features of messages. All that is great, but it is one of the most basic updates has more jazz, and I have already had the opportunity to try it.
If you are like me, when a flood of Slack alerts arrives, or really any notification that is not super urgent, I will feel the hum in my wrist and I will ignore or place the palm of my other hand on the Apple Watch to rule them out. Until now, that has worked well, but Apple’s last gesture is taking things to the next level.
The “doll movie” is precisely what it sounds: when a notification appears, you will simply move back to rule it out. You can also use it to go a step back anywhere inside the Apple Watch interface, or to close or silence incoming calls, whether cell phones or facetime.
Then, let’s say you are checking the weather application for the forecast, but you need to return, it only moves your wrist twice. Once he takes him back to the pitcher, and another takes him back to the face of his watch.
It will join the tastes of Double Tap when it arrives with Watchos 26, which will arrive this fall (probably in September or October). Although it is now available in beta developers, it will be sent with the public beta, which is expected this month, July 2025.
To be clear, the beta version of the developer is largely what the name implies: it is an early version of the software and the installation on its main device is not recommended, since you can expect errors, decelerations, accelerations and instability. It is simply not a final software, but rather an early look.
In my rapid demonstration in Apple Park in an informative session after the key note of the WWDC, I could quickly use the ‘doll film’, and I suspect that once I arrive on your wrist, it will become a daily habit. It is simply to combine something you would expect with a gesture, which facilitates navigating the Apple Watch without playing the screen or discarding one or two notifications.
You will need a relatively new Apple Watch to see ‘doll flick’ appear with the Watchos 26 update: it will work at Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series and Apple Watch Ultra 2. Curiously, there is no support for Apple Watch Se or the Ultra Original Apple Watch, since the feature requires the chip S9 or S10 inside. For some, that could be a reason to update a newer Apple Watch.
Other features
I am excited about the ‘Fleco de la Muñeca’, but in Apple’s eyes it probably is not one of the emblematic additions for Watchos 26. There are also ‘Buddy’, which I could see in action: this update only requires that Apple Watch is combined with an iPhone with Apple’s intelligence capacity.
In a demonstration, I saw that the coach with AI spoke in a style similar to some of the best Fitness+ coaches (shout at Jessica Skye), which were used to train the model. They are intervened in key moments during training: at the beginning to prepare the stage, in the middle in several milestones and in the end.
The characteristic is there to provide a push sometimes, but even more a dose of breath. The coach I heard was very valuable; She knew the day and time, pointing out that we were going to do a training from Monday night, and in the end she told me to make her all the way home. It is a good update that, for me, I think it will make me exercise.
There is also the liquid glass interface and intelligent suggestions: subtle icons that will appear at the bottom of the face of your clock or at the top of the interface, which suggests actions. So, if you are using the application of the camera on your iPhone, a notification on your wrist could remind you that you can control the shutter in that way.
Everything joins for a quite convincing software update for Apple’s main laptop, but I think you will find the doll movie standing out. And if you are anxious to have an Apple Watch capable of this function, thanks to the Amazon Prime Day 2025 on the horizon, there is a treatment that must have: the 10 Apple Watch 10 series has returned to the lowest price we have seen.
