{"id":52148,"date":"2026-06-09T14:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T18:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=52148"},"modified":"2026-06-26T14:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T18:13:48","slug":"watchos-27-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/09\/watchos-27-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"watchOS 27 Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/08\/watchos-27-features-dynamic-app-grid-new-and-more\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/08\/watchos-27-features-dynamic-app-grid-new-and-more\/\">\n<p>Apple today unveiled watchOS 27, featuring a redesigned dynamic app grid, new gesture controls, and a raft of usability and battery improvements.<\/p>\n<p>The new dynamic app grid surfaces and rearranges five apps based on context and usage. Users can simply tap the bottom center icon to go to the rest of their apps.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Users can now create custom passes for any membership or card that uses a QR code or barcode, such as a library card, using their iPhone and access it directly from the Apple Watch&rsquo;s Wallet app or pin it to the Smart Stack.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/08\/watchos-27-drops-support-for-apple-watch-series-9-ultra-se-2\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/06\/08\/watchos-27-compatibility-list\/\">Marcus Mendes<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/08\/watchos-27-drops-support-for-apple-watch-series-9-ultra-se-2\/\">\n<p>Apple today confirmed that watchOS 27 will not support the Apple Watch Series 8, Apple Watch Ultra (first generation), or Apple Watch SE (second generation), effectively drawing a line at devices equipped with the S9 or S10 chip.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Apple had <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ivanpavlov\/116715972443759029\">initially announced<\/a> that Series 9 would be dropped, too.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/06\/08\/watchos-27-apple-watch-update-details\/\">Zac Hall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/06\/08\/watchos-27-apple-watch-update-details\/\">\n<p>Here are new features coming in watchOS 27 for Apple Watch<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/08\/watchos-27-workout-buddy-upgrades-better-sleep-tracking\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/08\/watchos-27-workout-buddy-upgrades-better-sleep-tracking\/\">\n<p>watchOS 27 contains a series of enhancements to fitness and sleep tracking, including new Workout Buddy insights, improved indoor run tracking, and more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/09\/watchos-27-gains-consolidated-and-redesigned-find-my-app\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/09\/watchos-27-gains-consolidated-and-redesigned-find-my-app\/\">\n<p>Apple yesterday announced a redesigned Find My app in watchOS 27 that brings all tracking functionality into a single, map-centric interface.<\/p>\n<p>Previously split across separate Find Devices, Find People, and Find Items apps, the new app now consolidates everything into one unified view.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>See also:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/watchos-release-notes\/watchos-27-release-notes\">watchOS 27 Beta Release Notes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/talk.macpowerusers.com\/t\/watchos-27-drops-support-for-apple-watch-series-9-ultra-1-se-2-and-older\/45784\/17\">Mac Powers Users Talk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/watchos-27-beta-thread.2483479\/\">MacRumors Forum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/08\/wwdc-2026-keynote\/\">WWDC 2026 Keynote<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/06\/ios-27-custom-wallet-passes\/\">iOS 27: Custom Wallet Passes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/watchos-26-announced\/\">watchOS 26 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"watchos-27-announced-update-2026-06-11\">Update (<a href=\"#watchos-27-announced-update-2026-06-11\">2026-06-11<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.to\/@meekgeek\/116718439249342861\">Meek Geek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mas.to\/@meekgeek\/116718439249342861\">\n<p>Seeing a lot of lamenting for the Series 7\/8 and Ultra 1 losing support for watchOS 27. But those models were EOL&rsquo;d in the subsequent year.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s worse for SE 2 owners who purchased theirs just <em>last year<\/em> before the SE 3 came out in September. Totally shafted. Oof.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/116721029609994192\">Greg Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/116721029609994192\">\n<p>In addition to watchOS 27 dropping support for a lot of pretty recent Apple Watches, the minimum target for builds moved up to watchOS 9. So, you can no longer support Series 3 watches that are stuck on watchOS 8.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"watchos-27-announced-update-2026-06-18\">Update (<a href=\"#watchos-27-announced-update-2026-06-18\">2026-06-18<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/116767256958201514\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/116767256958201514\">\n<p>We&rsquo;re nearly 12 years on from the introduction of Apple Watch, and you still can&rsquo;t make your own watch faces for it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"watchos-27-announced-update-2026-06-19\">Update (<a href=\"#watchos-27-announced-update-2026-06-19\">2026-06-19<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/19\/apple-explains-why-watchos-27-drops-support\/\">Hartley Charlton<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/06\/19\/apple-explains-why-watchos-27-drops-support\/\">\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/health-fitness\/smartwatches\/its-the-most-convenient-way-to-interact-with-siri-i-asked-apples-senior-watchos-team-how-to-use-the-new-siri-ai-assistant-on-an-apple-watch-and-why-its-not-coming-to-so-many-older-models\"><em>TechRadar<\/em><\/a>, Cait Dooley, Apple Watch and Health product marketing manager, said performance requirements were behind the cutoff:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With every software release across every single one of our platforms, we always want to ensure that you have the best experience, so we make power and performance a priority. The great new features in watchOS, including the capabilities of Siri AI and the new tap gesture, work best with the processing power that is in Apple Watch Series 9 and later, Ultra 2 and later, and SE 3.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>But, presumably, if you&rsquo;re in the EU and don&rsquo;t have access to Siri AI you still won&rsquo;t be able to run watchOS 27.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/19\/mandatory-apple-intelligence\/\">Mandatory Apple Intelligence<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/10\/no-siri-ai-in-eu\/\">No Siri AI in EU<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"watchos-27-announced-update-2026-06-26\">Update (<a href=\"#watchos-27-announced-update-2026-06-26\">2026-06-26<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@obrhoff\/116811799715046334\">Dennis Oberhoff<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@obrhoff\/116811799715046334\">\n<p>Especially the new AppleTV prices are ufff. With tvOS 2.7 deprecating the 2015 and 2017 AppleTV, it seems the platform will fragment pretty hard, since I don&rsquo;t see people upgrading.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/25\/apple-hardware-price-hikes\/\">Apple Hardware Price Hikes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hartley Charlton: Apple today unveiled watchOS 27, featuring a redesigned dynamic app grid, new gesture controls, and a raft of usability and battery improvements. The new dynamic app grid surfaces and rearranges five apps based on context and usage. Users can simply tap the bottom center icon to go to the rest of their apps. 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