- Watchos 12, or as it is known to be known, Watchos 26, has been revealed at this year’s wwdc conference
- The new features include an AI training partner, an improved smart battery and the new visual liquid glass language
- Also get a notes application!
We did it! Watchos 26, previously and never again referred to as Watchos 12, has been revealed at the WWDC 2025 developer conference this year in Apple Park.
You can see all the live action while Tim Cook’s opening speech ends and develops the post-game, and you can see what is new with iOS 26 and Macos 26 Tahoe.
However, this is the time of Apple Watch to shine, and the presentation did not disappoint when it came to the best Apple watches. Without browning the lily and without further ado, here everything is announced so far for the current apples clock harvest.
1. Liquid glass
Liquid Glass is the new Apple Apple Hardware Operating System design. Essentially, Apple has changed the way in which all its operating systems are seen, from watches and telephones to tablets and computers, to ensure that they are unified in design and pleasant to navigate.
With the material that “is dynamically transformed” to ensure that their experience becomes more intuitive, the elements that were solid color rectangles in the previous design become transparent and change in a way as they advance through them.
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The liquid glass design is found throughout the Apple ecosystem. In Watchos 26, it guarantees that widgets expand and contract almost automatically to use the small screen space, and elements such as music reproduction widget share the transparent appearance of their older brothers, instead of being a solid white block. Apple also emphasizes that you can see more of your photos in force.
2. Redesigned training application
The training application has been redesigned with liquid glass in mind, and has an incorporated multimedia reproduction of Apple Music automatically recommended depending on its audition history. Four new customizable buttons allow you to load your most used functions.
3. Training Buddy
We wonder how Apple Intelligence was going to manifest on the clock significantly, and here we are. Described as a fitness experience “the first of its type” of Apple that accesses the physical conditioning history, health and training of the user, a bit like training ideas with the AI of Strava and Garmin Connect+. It is designed to “motivate it in a new and unique way” taking into account the training load, elevation, heart rate … anything in its fitness history.
It seems that it is not as useful, such as saying “so far this year, it has run 200 miles”, but things in the short term, such as telling us “, 18 minutes from closing your activity ring”, they will probably be used. You can also summarize your recent training, telling you how it has gone when it comes to rhythm and distance against your recent milestones.
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The function mimics the vocal tones of Apple Fitness+ coaches, so the voice is designed to be energetic and edifying, and can choose multiple voices. I hope the characteristic becomes more sophisticated and can detect, assign and adjust the heart rate areas as it improves their aptitude, but I do not believe that the training partner is so intuitive. Still.
4. Live translation
The presentation of the iPhone made a large part of Apple Intelligence’s live translation function, and Apple Watch comes into action with Apple’s intelligence translation for messages, translating a user in the preferred language of a user in the one used.
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Apple Intelligence also suggests relevant actions in Wrist, such as opening Cashappp when a friend asks for a contribution to a gift or dinner.
4. Wrist notes
Requested by many in the forums in the period prior to this year’s WWDC, the Notes application comes to Apple Watch in an almost blinking mention and will lose you.
5th Doll Flick
Together with the double touch gesture, Apple Watch can now use a simple doll movie to rule out a notification, silence a timer or alarm, or close the smart battery.
6. A better smart battery
Speaking of the smart battery, some changes are reaching the popular superposition of Widgets stacking. The smart battery obtains suggestions, which are processable indications that appear as a discreet notification at the bottom of the screen of its Apple Watch.
Take advantage of the track provides contextual information and actions. The example provided was that when he reaches his favorite Pilates study at his usual time, a track will seem to start a Pilates training. This is the type of small addition of Apple intelligence that really offers personal assistant capacity.
Smart Stack has also received an updated algorithm, reorder based on contextual data.
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