{"id":241118,"date":"2025-09-20T09:31:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241118\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T09:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:31:14","slug":"apple-releases-watchos-26-0-1-but-very-few-users-will-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/241118\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases watchOS 26.0.1, but very few users will get it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/apple-watch-ultra-3-satellite.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple is rolling out a watchOS 26.0.1 build that appears to be specific to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apple-Cellular-Multisport-Smartwatch-Titanium\/dp\/B0FQFC1CJY\/?tag=marcmendes-20&amp;th=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Watch Ultra 3<\/a>. Here\u2019s what\u2019s new.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s new with watchOS 26.0.1?<\/p>\n<p>There is a system update available for the Apple Watch, but you will only see it if you\u2019re among the lucky users who already got their hands on the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apple-Cellular-Multisport-Smartwatch-Titanium\/dp\/B0FQFC1CJY\/?tag=marcmendes-20&amp;th=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Watch Ultra 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the release notes from Apple:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis update enables Messages and Find My via satellite in Mexico for Apple Watch Ultra 3 users.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"906\" height=\"937\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/watchos-26-0-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1020521\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>This update (build 23R8352) is currently exclusive to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apple-Cellular-Multisport-Smartwatch-Titanium\/dp\/B0FQFC1CJY\/?tag=marcmendes-20&amp;th=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Watch Ultra 3<\/a>. Owners of other watchOS 26\u2013compatible models will not see it yet, but Apple usually follows up major releases with a .0.1 update.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it shouldn\u2019t be long before all supported Apple Watches are updated as well, and back in step with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Apple-Cellular-Multisport-Smartwatch-Titanium\/dp\/B0FQFC1CJY\/?tag=marcmendes-20&amp;th=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Watch Ultra 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to check 9to5Mac\u2018s full <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/09\/16\/review-apple-watch-ultra-3-series-11\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">review of the new Apple Watch models<\/a>, as well as our roundup of what is new with <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/09\/15\/watchos-26-is-now-available-heres-whats-new-for-apple-watch\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watchOS 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> a previous version of this article stated that the update began rolling out on Friday, which was incorrect.<\/p>\n<p>Get the new Apple Watch models on Amazon<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756837811_734_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1756837812_347_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3VLdfqA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1019889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/09-04-iPhone-17-Series-Grip-Banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"205\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is rolling out a watchOS 26.0.1 build that appears to be specific to the Apple Watch Ultra&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":241119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[705,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-241118","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115235932626444889","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}