{"id":170192,"date":"2025-06-09T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170192\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T12:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T12:08:15","slug":"watchos-26-is-coming-at-wwdc-2025-and-these-8-apple-watches-could-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/170192\/","title":{"rendered":"watchOS 26 is coming at WWDC 2025 \u2014 and these 8 Apple Watches could get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re only hours away from the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/news\/live\/wwdc-2025\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/news\/live\/wwdc-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWDC 2025 keynote<\/a> taking place in which Apple is expected to unveil some of the most sweeping changes to its suite of operating systems \u2014 including watch OS.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/best-picks\/best-apple-watch\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/best-picks\/best-apple-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">best Apple Watches<\/a> will all be able to run the newest version of the software \u2014 rumored to be bringing an <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/wellness\/smartwatches\/apple-watch-tipped-for-major-control-center-upgrade-in-watchos-26-what-we-know\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/wellness\/smartwatches\/apple-watch-tipped-for-major-control-center-upgrade-in-watchos-26-what-we-know\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">updated Control Center experience<\/a> to the fore \u2014 but not every model will make the cut.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new leak (picked up by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/06\/watchos-26-support-these-apple-watch-models\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/06\/06\/watchos-26-support-these-apple-watch-models\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" rel=\"noopener\">MacRumors<\/a>), any Apple Watch older than the Apple Watch Series 6 won&#8217;t be eligible to update. To put it another way, here&#8217;s all the Apple Watches that could be in line for <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/wellness\/smartwatches\/watchos-26-all-the-rumored-upgrades-coming-to-apple-watch\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/wellness\/smartwatches\/watchos-26-all-the-rumored-upgrades-coming-to-apple-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watchOS 26<\/a> when it&#8217;s made publicly available:<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Apple Watch Series 6<\/li>\n<li>Apple Watch Series 7<\/li>\n<li>Apple Watch Series 8<\/li>\n<li>Apple Watch Series 9<\/li>\n<li>Apple Watch Series 10<\/li>\n<li>Apple Watch Ultra<\/li>\n<li>Apple Watch Ultra 2<\/li>\n<li>Apple Watch SE (2nd generation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Apple <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/wellness\/smartwatches\/watchos-11-launches-today-5-features-to-try-first-on-your-apple-watch\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/wellness\/smartwatches\/watchos-11-launches-today-5-features-to-try-first-on-your-apple-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">released watchOS 11 last year<\/a>, several Apple Watch models found their way onto the chopping block. The Series 4, Series 5 and original Apple Watch SE were unable to upgrade. This year&#8217;s list makes no additional changes to that with the oldest model on the list, the Series 6, celebrating its fifth birthday this year.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is expected to rename all its operating systems at today&#8217;s event, bringing the naming convention in line with the year of release similar to what Samsung does. So we&#8217;re expecting to see watchOS 26 revealed as opposed to watchOS 12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.26%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BREpJmvUTdFYCvXzMmsKpK.jpg\" alt=\"Apple Watch Series 9\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BREpJmvUTdFYCvXzMmsKpK.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/BREpJmvUTdFYCvXzMmsKpK.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Future)<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s likely to be plenty of new Apple Watch features revealed at this week&#8217;s event, including new training metrics and better health monitoring tools. You can read about <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/wellness\/smartwatches\/watchos-26-all-the-rumored-upgrades-coming-to-apple-watch\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/wellness\/smartwatches\/watchos-26-all-the-rumored-upgrades-coming-to-apple-watch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">all the rumoured upgrades coming to Apple Watch right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And head over to our <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/news\/live\/wwdc-2025\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/news\/live\/wwdc-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWDC 2025 live blog<\/a> for all the latest news from the show as it happens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips.<\/p>\n<p>More from Tom&#8217;s Guide<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s best Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch Series 10 and  Apple Watch Ultra 2 deals<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/image-6361382-13664766.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"hawk-tracking-pixel-image\" draggable=\"false\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We&#8217;re only hours away from the WWDC 2025 keynote taking place in which Apple is expected to unveil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3160],"tags":[1685,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-170192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114653331842986437","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}