About watchOS 27 Updates
watchOS 27 features the next generation of Apple Intelligence and Siri AI, as well as updates to Workout Buddy, a new tap gesture, a dynamic app grid to make it easier to access your most used apps, and improvements that make watchOS 27 more responsive and delightful to use. Siri AI is an entirely new version of Siri that is more intelligent, knowledgeable and capable. With improvements that span areas like fitness, design, performance and more, the experience on watchOS 27 has been refined and elevated, so it feels even better to use.
For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit: https://support.apple.com/100100
Usage limits may apply for some Apple Intelligence features. To learn more, please visit: https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-intelligence
Software updates, like this one, add new features and improvements that may affect performance and/or battery life. To learn more, please visit: https://support.apple.com/125039
watchOS 27
Siri AI
A more capable and conversational version of Siri is rolling out to users. It helps you find what you need and get more done, drawing on capabilities like personal context understanding, app actions, onscreen awareness and access to broad world knowledge
New voice experience offers more expressive and natural-sounding voices, and lets you customise expressivity and pace to make Siri more personal to you using powerful on-device models on paired iPhone Air and iPhone 17 Pro models and later
The dedicated Siri app provides an easy way to revisit an existing conversation or kick off a new one, and privately syncs conversations across your Apple products with iCloud
Apple Intelligence across apps
Workout Buddy delivers motivation with new insights and is now available without your iPhone nearby when you have a Wi-Fi or mobile data connection
Call Context in the Phone app understands when you’re speaking to certain businesses and proactively displays relevant information from across your apps, like a confirmation code or a reservation number
Cycle Tracking
Cycle deviation notifications that are suggestive of perimenopause can be received by those aged 40 and over
Watch Faces
The Siri Modular face features a rectangular complication that mirrors the top widget of the Smart Stack, which dynamically updates to show the most relevant widget, as well as a Siri complication to quickly invoke Siri
Smart Stack
The single-handed tap gesture enables you to tap your index finger and thumb together once to select a widget in the Smart Stack, even if your other hand is occupied
New suggestion widgets will be displayed when most relevant to you, including a Parked Car location, birthday reminders for a close contact, balance changes on a travel card, Noise app after a loud noise notification, and more
System Improvements
Dynamic app grid highlights your most popular and recently used apps
Find My app is now consolidated into one app to show people, devices and items with a map-centric interface
Media playback now starts faster
The Workout app makes distance calculations during treadmill workouts even more accurate from the first step of every walk or run
The Fitness app features more accurate route maps after workouts
Battery extension notifications may be proactively offered to disable certain features to increase battery life, including gestures, Start Workout reminders and the Raise to Speak method of invoking Siri
Shazam in the Smart Stack and Music Recognition app identifies songs offline without an internet connection and delivers results automatically when you’re back online
Liquid Glass refinements improve readability with more uniform refraction and improved contrast
For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit: https://support.apple.com/100100
Usage limits may apply for some Apple Intelligence features. To learn more, please visit: https://www.apple.com/uk/apple-intelligence/
Software updates, like this one, add new features and improvements that may affect performance and/or battery life. To learn more, please visit: https://support.apple.com/125039