watchOS 7
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watchOS 7
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| Developer | Apple |
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| Initial release | September 16, 2020 |
| Final release | 7.6.2 (September 2021) |
| Preceded by | watchOS 6 |
| Succeeded by | 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.
1 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.
2 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.