watchOS 10
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watchOS 10
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| Developer | Apple |
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| Initial release | September 18, 2023 |
| Final release | 10.6.x (2024) |
| Preceded by | watchOS 9 |
| Succeeded by | watchOS 11 |
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watchOS 10 is the tenth release of watchOS, shipped September 18, 2023 — the platform's biggest visual rethink since launch. Apps went full-screen and glanceable, widgets returned via the Smart Stack (turn the Crown from any face to scroll a relevance-sorted pile), and the hardware buttons remapped: side button to Control Center, Crown to the Stack — a navigation reshuffle that drew a re-learning grumble and then settled.
Cycling workouts paired with iPhone as a live full-screen bike computer with power-meter support and FTP zones; hiking gained topographic maps, waypoints, and cell-coverage tracking; and mental-state logging joined daylight-time tracking in the health ledger.
1 Features✎
The Smart Stack; full-screen app redesigns; remapped buttons; cycling power and Bluetooth sensor support; topo maps and waypoints; state-of-mind logging; the Snoopy, Palette, and Solar Analog faces; NameDrop from the wrist; and offline Maps mirroring.
2 Legacy✎
The Smart Stack became the platform's second surface — the widget layer every subsequent release feeds (live activities, suggestions) — and the full-screen design language carried into the Liquid Glass era. The Snoopy face, by informal consensus, became the most-worn software Apple shipped that year.