{"id":543622,"date":"2026-06-19T14:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/543622\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T14:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T14:26:10","slug":"apple-explains-why-watchos-27-drops-support-for-so-many-models","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/543622\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Explains Why watchOS 27 Drops Support for So Many Models"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple today detailed why five Apple Watch models will miss out on watchOS 27<\/a> and the new Siri<\/a> AI features that come with it.<\/p>\n

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The Apple Watch Series 6, 7, 8, SE 2, and the original Apple Watch Ultra will not receive watchOS 27<\/a>, and will only get basic security updates going forward. With the update, Apple is effectively dropping three years’ worth of device support in a single software update, which is unprecedented for the product line.<\/p>\n

Speaking to TechRadar<\/a>, Cait Dooley, Apple Watch and Health product marketing manager, said performance requirements were behind the cutoff:<\/p>\n

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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>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dooley added that older watches paired with an iPhone running the latest software will keep working and will continue to receive security updates.<\/p>\n

David Clark, senior director of watchOS software engineering, said one of the goals of \u200cwatchOS 27\u200c was to “expand the intelligence story on Apple Watch and make it a true co-partner to Apple Intelligence<\/a>.” He described the watch as often “the most convenient way to interact with \u200cSiri\u200c,” since it’s on the wrist all day and useful for quick questions when hands are full:<\/p>\n

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We really wanted to make sure the Siri experience is a singular and consistent experience, whether I decide to ask Siri on my wrist a question, or whether I have my phone in my hand and I decide to interact with Siri there. We really wanted to feel like it’s one Siri, that has access to your data and is able to personalize it in a consistent way.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Clark used the example of asking \u200cSiri\u200c on Apple Watch for a recipe’s ingredients while grocery shopping with both hands full, then later pulling up the same list on the iPhone in an easier-to-read format. He called that handoff a “superpower.”<\/p>\n

\u200cwatchOS 27\u200c is currently available in beta to developers, with a public beta expected next month ahead of official release in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple today detailed why five Apple Watch models will miss out on watchOS 27 and the new Siri…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[258],"tags":[18,282,19,17,82,43136],"class_list":["post-543622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-eire","tag-gadgets","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-watchos"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116777241859588656","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}