September 9, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Apple debuts Apple Watch Sequence 11, that includes groundbreaking well being insights
Apple Watch Sequence 11 gives hypertension notifications and sleep rating, together with as much as 24 hours of battery life and a show that’s 2x extra scratch-resistant
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at present launched Apple Watch Sequence 11, providing probably the most complete set of well being options but, longer battery life, an much more sturdy cowl glass, and 5G mobile capabilities, all in its thinnest and most comfy design. Apple Watch Sequence 11 is the final word well being and health companion, empowering customers with notifications for indicators of continual hypertension — also referred to as hypertension — plus new insights into sleep high quality with sleep rating, including to the sturdy suite of well being options included within the machine. That includes as much as 24 hours of battery life and Ion-X glass that’s 2x extra scratch-resistant, Apple Watch is extra handy than ever to put on all through the day and night time. watchOS 26 delivers extra customized methods to remain lively, wholesome, and linked with Exercise Buddy powered by Apple Intelligence, the wrist flick gesture, new watch faces, and extra.
Apple Watch Sequence 11 may be pre-ordered at present, with availability starting Friday, September 19. Apple Watch Sequence 11 is out there in aluminum in a brand new house grey, in addition to jet black, rose gold, and silver, and likewise in polished titanium in pure, gold, and slate.
“Apple Watch is the world’s hottest watch, utilizing superior sensing capabilities to empower tens of millions of individuals around the globe to raised perceive their well being just by carrying it, whereas additionally serving as a health coach, message middle, cellular pockets, and exquisite timepiece,” mentioned Stan Ng, Apple’s vice chairman of Apple Watch and Well being Product Advertising. “With highly effective new well being options — hypertension notifications and sleep rating — plus longer battery life, a extra scratch-resistant glass show, and 5G mobile, all in a skinny and comfy design customers love, Apple Watch Sequence 11 is an indispensable companion that helps customers’ well being, health, security, and connectivity all through the day and night time.”
Longer Battery Life, Extra Sturdy Ion-X Glass, and 5G Mobile
Apple Watch Sequence 11 now gives as much as 24 hours of battery life with its skinny and comfy design, so it’s extra handy than ever to put on Apple Watch to sleep after a full day of use.1 Apple Watch Sequence 11 additionally helps quick charging, with simply quarter-hour offering as much as eight hours of battery life.
The skinny, elegant design of Apple Watch can also be extremely sturdy, made to accompany customers all through the day, whether or not they’re on the gymnasium, operating, or swimming. The quilt glass of aluminum fashions of Apple Watch Sequence 11 gives 2x extra scratch resistance.2 Created from a novel Ion-X (ion-exchanged strengthened) glass — a customized, proprietary glass that’s already the hardest within the {industry} — the show is now handled with a breakthrough Apple-designed ceramic coating that bonds to the glass at an atomic degree via a bodily vapor deposition course of, considerably hardening the floor. The titanium fashions will proceed to have a sapphire entrance crystal, probably the most scratch-resistant and crack-resistant materials overlaying a show.
With a mobile plan, Apple Watch customers can take calls, ship messages, and even get assist from emergency providers when their iPhone isn’t with them.3 Apple Watch now gives 5G mobile capabilities, which give higher efficiency with larger throughput, so music, podcasts, and apps obtain quicker.4 To spice up reception in areas with weak protection, Apple Watch Sequence 11 additionally incorporates a redesigned mobile antenna to cowl extra bands, and concurrently engages the 2 system antennas when wanted, considerably rising the sign energy.
Hypertension Notifications
Constructing on its suite of superior well being options, Apple Watch Sequence 11 introduces groundbreaking hypertension notifications, which might alert customers if indicators of continual hypertension — or hypertension — are detected.5 Hypertension is the main modifiable danger issue for coronary heart assault, stroke, and kidney illness, and impacts roughly 1.3 billion adults globally. It’s regularly undiagnosed as a result of it typically has no signs, many individuals don’t see a health care provider repeatedly, and even throughout a scientific go to, it may be simply missed with a single measurement.
Hypertension notifications on Apple Watch use information from the optical coronary heart sensor to research how a person’s blood vessels reply to the beats of the center. The algorithm works passively within the background reviewing information over 30-day durations, and can notify customers if it detects constant indicators of hypertension. These notifications present customers with beneficial insights into their well being because it pertains to this widespread situation just by carrying their Apple Watch, to allow them to start making doubtlessly lifesaving behavioral adjustments, or begin therapy to scale back their danger of great, long-term well being occasions.
Like all of Apple’s well being options, hypertension notifications are grounded in rigorous scientific validation. The characteristic was developed with superior machine studying and coaching information from a number of research totaling over 100,000 contributors. Its efficiency was then validated in a scientific research of over 2,000 contributors. Whereas hypertension notifications is not going to detect all cases of hypertension, with the attain of Apple Watch, the characteristic is anticipated to inform over 1 million individuals with undiagnosed hypertension throughout the first yr.
“Hypertension is the main preventable explanation for coronary heart assault and stroke, but tens of millions stay undiagnosed,” mentioned Harlan Krumholz, MD, SM, heart specialist and scientist at Yale College and Yale New Haven Hospital. “Making correct detection simple and a part of each day life may also help individuals get care earlier and stop avoidable hurt.”
If customers obtain a hypertension notification, it is suggested that they log their blood strain for seven days utilizing a third-party blood strain cuff and share the outcomes with their supplier at their subsequent go to, which is in line with the most recent American Coronary heart Affiliation pointers for the analysis and administration of hypertension.
Clearance for hypertension notifications from the FDA and different regulators is anticipated quickly, and the characteristic will probably be obtainable in additional than 150 nations and areas — together with the U.S. and the EU — this month. Hypertension notifications will probably be obtainable on Apple Watch Sequence 9 and later, and Apple Watch Extremely 2 and later, with watchOS 26.
Sleep Rating
Sleep is prime to an individual’s well being and demanding to each day restoration. Apple Watch permits customers to trace sleep, and its highly effective sensors seize information throughout sleep like coronary heart price, wrist temperature, blood oxygen, and respiratory price, and even uncover attainable sleep apnea.6 Now, with watchOS 26, Apple Watch may also help customers perceive the standard of their sleep and learn how to make it extra restorative with a brand new sleep rating characteristic.7
Sleep high quality is influenced by a number of elements, equivalent to period, bedtime consistency, how typically an individual wakes up, and the way a lot time is spent in every sleep stage. With sleep rating, Apple Watch helps observe every of those classes to assign clear and easy-to-understand metrics for a person’s total sleep high quality. After every night time, sleep rating supplies an total rating and classification within the Sleep app on Apple Watch, plus a transparent breakdown of probably the most vital parts, so customers know what to prioritize to enhance their sleep. Customers may also select to simply entry their sleep rating in a watch face complication or within the Sensible Stack, they usually can observe their sleep scores over time within the Well being app on iPhone.
The scoring strategy and prioritization algorithm of sleep rating is knowledgeable by the most recent steering printed by the American Academy of Sleep Medication, Nationwide Sleep Basis, and World Sleep Society. Over 5 million nights of sleep information from the Apple Coronary heart and Motion Examine had been used to develop and check the scoring algorithms.
Hypertension notifications and sleep rating be a part of a strong set of well being options obtainable on Apple Watch, together with irregular rhythm notifications, excessive and low coronary heart price notifications, the ECG app, Blood Oxygen, sleep apnea notifications, and retrospective ovulation estimates.
Updates to the Exercise Expertise
With watchOS 26, Apple Watch Sequence 11 options Exercise Buddy, a first-of-its-kind health expertise powered by Apple Intelligence that analyzes a person’s exercise information and health historical past to ship customized, spoken motivation all through their session, based mostly on information like coronary heart price, tempo, distance, Exercise rings, private health milestones, and extra.8 Exercise Buddy will probably be obtainable beginning in English throughout a few of the hottest exercise varieties, and is out there on Apple Watch with Bluetooth headphones, with an Apple Intelligence-supported iPhone close by.
Moreover, the brand new structure of the Exercise app makes it simpler to customise exercises with Exercise Views, customized exercises, Pacer, Race Route, and extra. Apple Watch customers can now conveniently view and create exercises within the Health app on iPhone, together with customized exercises, after which simply entry them within the Exercise app on Apple Watch.
So as to add inspiration, customers can arrange music and podcasts proper within the Exercise app to robotically play once they begin a exercise. For comfort, Apple Music can now choose one of the best music for a person’s exercise based mostly on the exercise kind and their preferences, or customers can see recommendations for music or podcasts based mostly on what they’ve lately listened to throughout that specific exercise kind.9
That includes watchOS 26
Along with hypertension notifications, sleep rating, and Exercise Buddy, with watchOS 26, Apple Watch Sequence 11 gives a recent look, further intelligence, and extra customized methods to remain lively, wholesome, and linked, together with:
- A beautiful new software program design with Liquid Glass, enabling a vibrant and expressive expertise throughout the Images watch face, Sensible Stack widgets, Sensible Stack hints, notifications, Management Middle, and in-app controls and navigation.
- A redesigned watch face gallery with two new watch faces: Movement, which makes use of Liquid Glass numerals that fantastically refract swirls of colour that additionally reply to the motion of a person’s wrist, and Exactograph, a contemporary reinterpretation of a standard regulator clock that separates the hours, minutes, and seconds for exact timekeeping. As well as, over 20 watch faces are up to date so customers can see a ticking seconds hand with out elevating their wrist.
- A brand new one-handed wrist flick gesture to simply dismiss notifications, cease a timer, or silence an alarm, becoming a member of the double faucet gesture to permit customers to do much more on Apple Watch when their different hand is occupied.
- Sensible Stack hints, proactive prompts that present actionable, instantly helpful recommendations based mostly on contextual information, sensor information, and information from a person’s routine.
- Stay Translation in Messages with Apple Intelligence, permitting incoming texts to be robotically translated right into a person’s most well-liked language, proper on their wrist, when Apple Watch is paired with an Apple Intelligence-supported iPhone.10 Moreover, for customers whose machine language is ready to English, Apple Watch will intelligently counsel related actions utilizing the context of a dialog within the Messages app, like beginning a Test In when a good friend asks a person to share once they arrive dwelling, or utilizing Apple Money11 when a person is requested to contribute to a gaggle reward.12
- The Notes app, which permits customers to create or entry notes proper on their wrist.
- Maintain Help and Name Screening, which come to the Cellphone app when iPhone is close by.13 When a person is ready for a stay agent, Maintain Help acknowledges as soon as a stay agent is out there and notifies the person to return to the decision. Name Screening helps customers handle incoming cellphone calls from unknown numbers extra effectively by gathering a reputation and motive for the decision earlier than their cellphone rings, to allow them to make an knowledgeable determination on whether or not to select up, decline the decision, or ask for extra info.
Lineup
- Apple Watch Sequence 11 is out there in 42mm and 46mm sizes in jet black, rose gold, silver, and new house grey aluminum circumstances. Apple Watch Sequence 11 can also be obtainable in polished titanium in pure, gold, and slate.
- Apple Watch Hermès is out there in 42mm and 46mm sizes in silver titanium.
Bands
This fall, the band lineup options a lovely new palette of colours, together with forest, neon yellow, anchor blue, purple fog, and extra.
As well as, the Nike Sport Band and Nike Sport Loop characteristic a brand new set of colours, and the Nike Sport Loop now has reflective yarn seamlessly woven into the material.14
The Apple Watch Hermès assortment consists of the brand new Faubourg Occasion knit band, together with an identical, whimsical animated watch face set in the home’s iconic Paris flagship constructing, obtainable for 42mm and 46mm sizes. Moreover, a brand new elegant slender Grand H metallic hyperlink band is designed for the 42mm case. The Apple Watch Hermès assortment options new colours throughout the vary of bands.
Apple Watch Sequence 11 and the Atmosphere
Apple 2030 is the corporate’s bold plan to be carbon impartial throughout its total footprint by the top of this decade by lowering product emissions from their three largest sources: supplies, electrical energy, and transportation. Apple Watch Sequence 11 is now made with 40 p.c recycled content material, which incorporates 100% recycled cobalt within the battery, and 100% recycled titanium or aluminum within the case, and titanium circumstances are made utilizing an revolutionary 3D printing course of that makes use of simply half the uncooked materials as earlier generations. It’s manufactured with 100% renewable electrical energy, like wind and photo voltaic, throughout the availability chain. Apple Watch Sequence 11 is designed to be sturdy and repairable, and likewise gives industry-leading software program assist, whereas assembly Apple’s excessive requirements for vitality effectivity and secure chemistry. The paper packaging is 100% fiber-based and may be simply recycled.
Apple 2030 goes past merchandise — at present, Apple is carbon impartial for its international company operations, and all Apple amenities run on 100% renewable electrical energy, together with the information facilities that energy Apple Intelligence. Collectively, these efforts have diminished Apple’s international greenhouse gasoline emissions by greater than 60 p.c since 2015.
Pricing and Availability
- Clients in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, the UAE, the UK, the U.S., and greater than 50 different nations and areas can pre-order Apple Watch Sequence 11 at present, with availability in shops starting Friday, September 19.
- Apple Watch Sequence 11 begins at $399 (U.S.).
- New Apple Watch bands will probably be obtainable to order at present from apple.com/retailer and on the Apple Retailer app, with availability in shops starting Friday, September 19.
- watchOS 26 will probably be obtainable for Apple Watch Sequence 6 or later, Apple Watch SE (2nd era) or later, and all Apple Watch Extremely fashions on Monday, September 15, and requires iPhone 11 or later operating iOS 26. Not all options can be found on all units or in all areas. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
- New subscribers could get three months of Apple Health+ and Apple Music with the acquisition of Apple Watch Sequence 11, Apple Watch SE 3, or Apple Watch Extremely 3. Supply and repair availability varies by area. See apple.com/promo for particulars.
- Clearance for hypertension notifications from the FDA and different regulators is anticipated quickly, with availability in over 150 nations and areas — together with the U.S. and the EU — this month.
- Apple Intelligence is out there in beta. Some options will not be obtainable in all areas or languages. For characteristic and language availability and system necessities, see assist.apple.com/en-us/121115.
- AppleCare delivers distinctive service and assist, with versatile choices for Apple customers. Clients can select AppleCare+ to cowl their new Apple Watch, or within the U.S., AppleCare One to guard a number of merchandise in a single easy plan. Each plans embody protection for accidents like drops and spills, theft and loss safety on eligible merchandise, battery alternative service, and 24/7 assist from Apple consultants. For extra info, go to apple.com/applecare.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right now, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Battery life varies by use and configuration. See apple.com/watch/battery for extra info.
- Apple Watch Sequence 11 with Ion-X glass has a ceramic coating that gives 2x extra scratch resistance than Sequence 10 with Ion-X glass.
- Wi-fi service plan required for mobile service. Contact service supplier for extra particulars. Connection could fluctuate based mostly on community availability. Test apple.com/watch/mobile for taking part wi-fi carriers and eligibility. See assist.apple.com/HT207578 for added setup directions.
- 5G is out there in choose markets and thru choose carriers. Speeds fluctuate based mostly on web site situations and provider. For particulars on 5G assist, contact provider and see apple.com/watch/mobile.
- Hypertension notifications are presently beneath FDA assessment and anticipated to be cleared this month, with availability on Apple Watch Sequence 9 and later, and Apple Watch Extremely 2 and later. The characteristic will not be meant to be used by individuals beneath 22 years outdated, those that have been beforehand identified with hypertension, or throughout being pregnant.
- The Blood Oxygen app is for wellness functions solely and never for medical use. Measurements are calculated and seen on iPhone within the Well being app.
- Sleep rating is out there with watchOS 26 for Apple Watch Sequence 6 or later, Apple Watch SE (2nd era) or later, and all Apple Watch Extremely fashions, paired with iPhone 11 or later, operating iOS 26.
- Exercise Buddy requires an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone close by, and Bluetooth headphones with machine and Siri language set to English. Apple Intelligence is out there in beta. Some options will not be obtainable in all areas or languages. For characteristic and language availability and system necessities, see assist.apple.com/en-us/121115.
- An Apple Music subscription is required for computerized music choice.
- Stay Translation in Messages is out there in Chinese language (simplified), English (UK, U.S.), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain) on Apple Watch Sequence 9 and later, Apple Watch SE 3, and Apple Watch Extremely 2 and later when paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone.
- Apple Money providers are offered by Inexperienced Dot Financial institution, Member FDIC. Apple Funds Companies LLC, a subsidiary of Apple Inc., is a service supplier of Inexperienced Dot Financial institution for Apple Money accounts. Neither Apple Inc. nor Apple Funds Companies LLC is a financial institution. Study extra concerning the phrases and situations. Solely obtainable within the U.S. on eligible units.
- Updates to Sensible Replies will probably be obtainable on Apple Watch Sequence 9 or later, Apple Watch SE 3, and Apple Watch Extremely 2 or later.
- Maintain Help requires iPhone close by, and is out there in English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, U.S.), French (France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Mandarin Chinese language (China mainland), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Mexico, Spain, U.S.). Name Screening requires iPhone close by and is out there in Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong, Macao), English (Australia, Canada, India, Eire, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, UK, U.S.), French (Canada, France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Korean (South Korea), Mandarin Chinese language (China mainland, Macao, Taiwan), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, U.S.).
- The Nike Sport Loop options reflective yarn woven into the material, however will not be for use as PPE.
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