watchOS 7

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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, 2020
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! class="ios-lab" | Final release
| class="ios-val" | 7.6.2 (September 2021)
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! class="ios-lab" | Preceded by
| class="ios-val" | [[watchOS 6]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Succeeded by
| class="ios-val" | [[watchOS 8]]
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watchOS 7 is the seventh release of [[watchOS]], shipped September 16, 2020. Sleep tracking finally arrived first-party — schedules, wind-down, and morning summaries — alongside the pandemic's signature feature: automatic handwashing detection, twenty-second countdown included. Family Setup let a parent's iPhone manage cellular watches for kids and older relatives without phones of their own, and watch faces became shareable, curated, and richer with multiple complications per app.

= Features =

Sleep tracking; handwashing detection; Family Setup (cellular models); face sharing and the Chronograph Pro/GMT faces; dance and cooldown workout types; hearing-health headphone notifications; and on-watch translation dictation. The Force Touch hardware gesture retired platform-wide.

= Legacy =

Sleep and Family Setup pushed the watch into all-day-and-night, all-ages service — the always-worn health device Apple's marketing had promised — while handwashing detection became the era's museum piece: the OS feature that timestamped 2020.

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