watchOS 11

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<div style="font: bold 2em/1.2 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'SF Pro Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--wiki-color);">watchOS 11</div>
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! class="ios-lab" | Developer
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Initial release
| class="ios-val" | September 16, 2024
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! class="ios-lab" | Final release
| class="ios-val" | 11.x (2025)
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! class="ios-lab" | Preceded by
| class="ios-val" | [[watchOS 10]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Succeeded by
| class="ios-val" | [[watchOS 26]]
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watchOS 11 is the eleventh release of [[watchOS]], shipped September 16, 2024. Training Load brought seven-versus-twenty-eight-day effort tracking with per-workout effort ratings, and the Vitals app baselined overnight metrics (heart rate, respiration, temperature, sleep duration) to flag outlier days — together the platform's most Garmin-shaped health-analytics step. The rings finally learned mercy: rest days, ring pausing, and per-day goal customization ended the streak tyranny after nine years of complaints.

= Features =

Training Load; Vitals; pause/rest days and customizable ring schedules; the Smart Stack's live activities and suggested widgets; Translate on watch; Check In from the wrist; the Photos face's machine-curated styling; ticket enhancements in Wallet; and pregnancy adjustments in Cycle Tracking.

= Legacy =

Training Load and Vitals moved the watch from recording to coaching — the analytic turn [[watchOS 26]]'s AI Workout Buddy then personified — and pausable rings fixed the platform's most human bug: software that punished being sick. It closed the sequential numbering before the jump to 26.

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