Your Apple Watch Is About to Get a Pretty Cool New Ability

Other upcoming features?

In addition to the Control Center changes, watchOS 26 will bring quite a few other features to your Apple Watch.

This includes a “Wrist Flick,” a quick movement of flicking your wrist, which dismisses things like app notifications and incoming calls, as well as silencing timers.

The other standout upcoming feature is called “Workout Buddy.”When doing an exercise in the Workout app, an AI-powered assistant will talk to you, feeding you real-time data and words of encouragement.

Apple will officially release watchOS 26 this fall, most likely in early September, when it announces the next-gen Apple Watch models. To learn more about all the upcoming features, check out Apple’s blog post.