WWDC 2025: New Features We Could See in watchOS 26

[HazeAndHahmahneez]

I hope watchOS 26 brings me back from using a Garmin. WatchOS gathers the info but doesn’t interpret the data and make layperson summaries on your progress. The Garmin does stress tracking, body battery, and sleep tracking well. To do the same, you have to sub separate apps on the Apple Watch which kinda sucks. Hopefully this will change next week.

What do you mean you have to “sub separate apps”? Meaning subscribe to different apps for different health tracking metrics??..

Siri: It looks like you might be drowning. Do you need assistance?

User: *blublublub* YES— *gurgle*

Siri: Here’s what I found on the web.

“Welsh?! No, @risenphoenixkai, I’m speaking English. Can you hear me? Should I turn up the volume??…ok turning down the volume…anything else I can do for you? Hello? Are you there?…would you like me call emergency services?”

A few requests:

- Can we get an apple watch app for iPad? For device activation and management?

- Can we get the ability to bluetooth pair apple watch with a car for playing music/audio?

Thank you

No on the car connection.

Apple probably doesn’t want you looking at your wrist let alone touching on it…I really wish Apple could do an entire full CarPlay suite for Volvo and leave Google all the way out of new Volvo cars : (

+1 for Clockology. I've been using it for years and it's a fabulous app.
Just a tip, you can also import watch faces to it, like replicas of known brands, etc.

Hmm is it secure though??

Isn’t it possible they’re gleaning data from the watch? Your info and health metrics etc.? Especially considering the complications drawing from diff. Apps in Order to display the correct info??

I am very very interested in how the technology behind this works or is supposed to work, or if it’s just a patent without any of the groundwork.
How do you test this feature, what does it measure? It can’t only be movement and water pressure, but if it’s also heart rate and maybe something else, they need really elaborate real world simulations to test this and train the algorithm. How do you even cross check with real world data like behavior, body reactions and conditions?
And if it does come to a future Apple Watch, what does it do if it engages? Call emergency services? When? When you’re still drowning or when it’s confident you already did? I don’t know how good cell service is under the surface, but considering there was that one guy that called in over 1.5km off the coast, I guess it will work?
And yeah like you said, what about false positives?
Maybe they just filed the patent to gatekeep it for a couple more years until the see levels rose enough and they can market it accordingly…
Anyway, if it ever comes out it will definitely make a splash.
I’ll see myself out.

Drowning is an interesting scenario here..one of my past jobs had me washing dishes and with the watch 9 on and Bluetooth connected to my AirPod pro 2s the sounds would cut out or muffle when my watch went in the dish water…watch still works fine and I’ve obv since cleaned it but still….at least Bluetooth signals really don’t like water so maybe cell is the same??…

No personal experience or heard any experiences online about ppl with Bluetooth or cell connection loss when submerged in water..

Watch faces would be great, and battery optimization, that's pretty much it for my list these days.

I think it would help their sales if they allowed people to design/sell their own watch faces, it would be a lot of fun.

Battery optimization’s as good as itll get I think. No way a regular watch touches 3 days like an ultra…besides it’s not THAT bad. At least with each recent generation the charging times get better and better so it doesn’t take too long to get a mostly full battery ..

Maybe in around ten years regular watches will reach 3 days heavy use and ultra gets to a week or so..

 

[applefan8254]

Apple probably doesn’t want you looking at your wrist let alone touching on it…

with Bluetooth, people can use steering wheel buttons to control volume and skipping tracks, no need to look at the watch at all

 

[arkmannj]

Be great if the new watch OS would turn on the O2 sensor in the US

 

[maikerukun]

That’s an app not a Watch faces

Call it what you want, they're fully functioning faces with complications on them and it clearly works for the millions that use it.