watchOS 26

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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 15, 2025
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! class="ios-lab" | Latest release
| class="ios-val" | 26.6 (current)
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! class="ios-lab" | Preceded by
| class="ios-val" | [[watchOS 11]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Succeeded by
| class="ios-val" | [[watchOS 27]] (in beta)
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watchOS 26 is the twelfth and current release of [[watchOS]], shipped September 15, 2025, under the year-aligned numbering shared across Apple's platforms. It wears the family's Liquid Glass design — translucent controls, refreshed faces — and adds Workout Buddy: an [[Apple Intelligence]] coach that speaks encouragement and milestone callouts during workouts, generated from the user's own fitness history (nearby AI-capable iPhone required).

The wrist-flick gesture dismisses notifications one-handed, the Smart Stack sharpens its hints, Notes finally reaches the wrist, and Messages gains live translation plus context-aware smart actions.

= Features =

Liquid Glass; Workout Buddy; the wrist-flick gesture; Notes on watch; Messages live translation, backgrounds, and polls; Smart Stack hints; hypertension-notification groundwork delivered with the Series 11 cycle; and automatic volume-adjusting Ambient Music.

= Legacy =

Still current — the release that put generative AI on the wrist and folded the watch into the ecosystem's unified design and numbering. Its successor, [[watchOS 27]], is in beta with the Siri AI generation.

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