{"id":21790,"date":"2025-04-15T10:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21790\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T10:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:56:08","slug":"top-leaker-confirms-two-major-changes-coming-to-watchos-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/21790\/","title":{"rendered":"Top leaker confirms two major changes coming to watchOS 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, a sketchy leak suggested Apple was planning two major changes in watchOS 12: <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/tech\/sketchy-leak-says-watchos-12-will-get-ai-and-a-visionos-style-redesign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Intelligence features and a visionOS-like inspired design<\/a>. Additionally, the report suggested a few new changes for the Apple Watch Ultra 3, which seemed untrue. Now, in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2025-04-13\/apple-vision-pro-2-details-low-latency-headset-ar-glasses-ipados-19-details-m9flf1fd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Power On newsletter<\/a>, Bloomberg\u2019s Mark Gurman actually corroborated some parts of this report. The top insider believes watchOS 12 will focus on two major features: Apple Intelligence and Solarium, the internal name for the new design language coming to <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/tech\/ios-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iOS 19<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/guides\/ipados-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iPadOS 19<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/guides\/macos-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">macOS 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the major changes in watchOS 12 won\u2019t be crazy overhauls. In fact, Gurman writes: \u201cThe watch doesn\u2019t currently have Apple Intelligence, and that isn\u2019t exactly changing with the upcoming watchOS 12 software. But the company is branding a new set of features as \u2018powered by Apple Intelligence\u2019 (even though the device isn\u2019t actually running the AI models directly).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that, Apple will only tweak how it promotes <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/guides\/apple-ai-rumors-features-research-and-supported-devices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple Intelligence<\/a> features with the Apple Watch. After all, <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/guides\/watchos-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watchOS 11<\/a> already has AI-powered features, such as Notification Summary and Genmoji support. It\u2019s unclear which other functions the company could be planning to bring to the Apple Watch indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>Gurman also says that the Apple Watch is \u201cdesignated to get some of the new interface elements here and there, but without a major overhaul.\u201d That makes sense since the Apple Watch already has a visionOS-like design. These tweaks will likely be minimal, reflecting changes in icons and so on.<\/p>\n<p>\tTech. Entertainment. Science. Your inbox.\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"signup-form-info\">Sign up for the most interesting tech &amp; entertainment news out there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"signup-form-tos\">By signing up, I agree to the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.com\/terms-of-use\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Use<\/a> and have reviewed the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pmc.com\/privacy-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Notice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That said, Gurman\u2019s report corroborates what The Verifier said last week. Still, after a light watchOS 11 update, watchOS 12 isn\u2019t expected to reinvent <a href=\"https:\/\/bgr.com\/guides\/watchos-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watchOS as version 10 did<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll keep reporting on the latest watchOS 12 features and leaks as we learn more about them. Below, you can learn more about iOS 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few days ago, a sketchy leak suggested Apple was planning two major changes in watchOS 12: Apple&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3160],"tags":[1662,4690,1685,53,16,15,14041],"class_list":{"0":"post-21790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apple-watch","10":"tag-gadgets","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-watchos"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114341622081167573","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21790","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=21790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}