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<span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">The ultimate device for a healthy life.</span>
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The Apple Watch is [[Apple]]'s smartwatch line, launched in April 2015 as the company's first new category after [[Steve Jobs]]. It found its identity not as the fashion object of its debut but as a health and fitness device — and became the best-selling watch in the world, outshipping the entire Swiss watch industry.

Every model runs [[watchOS]] on an [[Apple S1|S-series]] System in Package, paired to an [[iPhone]]. Its sensors — heart rate, ECG, blood oxygen, temperature, motion — have accumulated into something unprecedented for a consumer product: a regulated medical device on millions of wrists that has credibly saved lives through fall detection, crash detection, and cardiac alerts.

= History =

The original Watch (2015, [[Apple S1|S1]]) launched with fashion ambitions and eighteen apps' worth of confusion; the [[Apple S2|Series 2]] (2016) pivoted to fitness with GPS and swim-proofing. The [[Apple S3|Series 3]] (2017) added LTE and became the long-lived workhorse; the [[Apple S4|Series 4]] (2018) delivered the modern redesign plus ECG and fall detection — the health turn that defined everything since. Always-on displays ([[Apple S5|Series 5]]), blood oxygen ([[Apple S6|Series 6]]), the budget SE (2020), and the rugged Ultra (2022) filled out the family; the [[Apple S9|Series 9]] (2023) brought on-device Siri and Double Tap, and the [[Apple S10|Series 10]] (2024) went thinnest-ever with sleep apnea detection.

The 2025 lineup — Series 11, Ultra 3, and SE 3 — added hypertension notifications and satellite messaging on the Ultra, all running the carried-over [[Apple S10]] in a first chip-less year for the line. watchOS 26 brought the Liquid Glass design and Workout Buddy.

= Current lineup =

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| '''Apple Watch Ultra 3''' || [[Apple S10|S10]] (2025) || Rugged flagship: largest display, satellite, longest battery
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| '''Apple Watch Series 11''' || [[Apple S10|S10]] (2025) || The mainstream Watch
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| '''Apple Watch SE 3''' || [[Apple S10|S10]] (2025) || Entry model
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= Position =

The Watch is the [[iPhone]]'s most successful satellite: useless without one, indispensable beside one. Its health mission gives Apple its clearest public-good story — and its deepest regulatory entanglements, from ECG clearances to patent disputes over blood-oxygen sensing. The S-series silicon inside it also quietly powers the [[HomePod]] line.

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{| style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #333; text-align: center;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- | style="padding: 28px 20px 42px;" | <div style="font: bold 2em/1.2 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'SF Pro Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--wiki-color); margin-bottom: 0.8em;">Apple Watch</div> <span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">The ultimate device for a healthy life.</span> |- | style="padding: 0;" | ![[hw_watch.webp]] |- | style="background-color: #333; padding: 8px;" | [https://www.apple.com/watch/ <span style="color: #fff;">Official Apple Watch site — Apple</span>] |} {{Apple Navbox}} The Apple Watch is [[Apple]]'s smartwatch line, launched in April 2015 as the company's first new category after [[Steve Jobs]]. It found its identity not as the fashion object of its debut but as a health and fitness device — and became the best-selling watch in the world, outshipping the entire Swiss watch industry. Every model runs [[watchOS]] on an [[Apple S1|S-series]] System in Package, paired to an [[iPhone]]. Its sensors — heart rate, ECG, blood oxygen, temperature, motion — have accumulated into something unprecedented for a consumer product: a regulated medical device on millions of wrists that has credibly saved lives through fall detection, crash detection, and cardiac alerts. = History = The original Watch (2015, [[Apple S1|S1]]) launched with fashion ambitions and eighteen apps' worth of confusion; the [[Apple S2|Series 2]] (2016) pivoted to fitness with GPS and swim-proofing. The [[Apple S3|Series 3]] (2017) added LTE and became the long-lived workhorse; the [[Apple S4|Series 4]] (2018) delivered the modern redesign plus ECG and fall detection — the health turn that defined everything since. Always-on displays ([[Apple S5|Series 5]]), blood oxygen ([[Apple S6|Series 6]]), the budget SE (2020), and the rugged Ultra (2022) filled out the family; the [[Apple S9|Series 9]] (2023) brought on-device Siri and Double Tap, and the [[Apple S10|Series 10]] (2024) went thinnest-ever with sleep apnea detection. The 2025 lineup — Series 11, Ultra 3, and SE 3 — added hypertension notifications and satellite messaging on the Ultra, all running the carried-over [[Apple S10]] in a first chip-less year for the line. watchOS 26 brought the Liquid Glass design and Workout Buddy. = Current lineup = {| style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- ! style="background-color: #555; color: #fff; padding: 6px;" | Model ! style="background-color: #555; color: #fff; padding: 6px;" | Chip ! style="background-color: #555; color: #fff; padding: 6px;" | Role |- | '''Apple Watch Ultra 3''' || [[Apple S10|S10]] (2025) || Rugged flagship: largest display, satellite, longest battery |- | '''Apple Watch Series 11''' || [[Apple S10|S10]] (2025) || The mainstream Watch |- | '''Apple Watch SE 3''' || [[Apple S10|S10]] (2025) || Entry model |} = Position = The Watch is the [[iPhone]]'s most successful satellite: useless without one, indispensable beside one. Its health mission gives Apple its clearest public-good story — and its deepest regulatory entanglements, from ECG clearances to patent disputes over blood-oxygen sensing. The S-series silicon inside it also quietly powers the [[HomePod]] line.