{"id":51354,"date":"2026-03-25T13:17:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=51354"},"modified":"2026-03-25T13:17:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:17:47","slug":"watchos-26-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/25\/watchos-26-4\/","title":{"rendered":"watchOS 26.4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/03\/24\/apple-releases-watchos-26-4\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/123002\">release notes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/126798\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/watchos-release-notes\/watchos-26_4-release-notes\">developer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/03\/24\/apple-releases-watchos-26-4\/\">\n<p>The update makes it quicker to start a workout in the Workout app by tapping on a Workout type icon, plus it has eight new emoji characters that include orca, trombone, treasure chest, fight cloud, hairy creature, landslide, ballet dancer, and distorted face.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/06\/apple-watch-fitness-regressions\/\">Apple Watch Fitness Regressions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/12\/watchos-26-3\/\">watchOS 26.3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): The update makes it quicker to start a workout in the Workout app by tapping on a Workout type icon, plus it has eight new emoji characters that include orca, trombone, treasure chest, fight cloud, hairy creature, landslide, ballet dancer, and distorted face. Previously: Apple Watch Fitness Regressions watchOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2026-03-25T17:17:51Z","apple_news_api_id":"65a82d5b-5725-426a-8533-5d28e9a824b9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2026-03-25T17:17:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZagtW1clQmqFM10o6agkuQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1212,2599,2306,2220],"class_list":["post-51354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-watchos","tag-watchos-26","tag-watchos-release","tag-workout"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51355,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51354\/revisions\/51355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}