Stay Closer to Your Heart Health
The most accurate heart rate sensing in a wearable, Series 12 now measures HRV as often as every five minutes for insights on stress and recovery, and takes background heart rate readings every five seconds.
A Full-Featured Health Tracker
Better understand your body with invaluable health insights. View your overnight health metrics with the Vitals app6 and get a daily sleep score, track your menstrual cycle and take readings of your blood oxygen.
Check Your Readiness For The Day
Know when to rest or put yourself to the test. The readiness experience can help you determine your capacity to take on the day by analysing your recent activity, vitals and sleep.
A Powerful Fitness Tracker
With advanced metrics and motivating features like Pacer, Heart Rate Zones and Workout Buddy powered by Apple Intelligence from your nearby iPhone — Series 12 helps you stay active, from running to hiking to strength training.
Keep Help Close At Hand
A smartwatch that puts your safety first. Series 12 can detect a hard fall or severe car crash, automatically help connect you with emergency services and notify your emergency contacts.
Enjoy All-Day Battery Life
With up to 24 hours of normal use so you can do all the things you love for longer. And it only takes 15 minutes to fast-charge for up to 12 hours of normal use.
Siri AI And Audio Intelligence
Using just your voice, engage in natural, back-and-forth conversations, brainstorm ideas and more with Siri AI. Audio Intelligence helps catch what you missed and summarise conversations with Live Rewind and Siri Recap. Siri AI is rolling out in English. Some Audio Intelligence features coming in beta late 2026. Usage limits may apply.
Built To Last
Apple Watch Series 12 aluminium cases now have Ceramic Shield 2 — which is tougher than any smartwatch glass. Titanium and ceramic cases have an incredibly durable crack-resistant sapphire crystal display.
Freedom Calls
With just your smartwatch, you can take and make calls, stream music and podcasts, and listen with your AirPods — even without your iPhone.
Stay Connected
Series 12 (GPS) works with your iPhone or Wi-Fi to keep you connected. Use your smartwatch to send a message, take a call, listen to music, use Siri and get notifications.
Key Features:
Advanced Heart Rate Tracking: The new optical heart rate sensor enables background heart rate readings every five seconds.
Frequent HRV Measurements: Measures heart rate variability as often as every five minutes to provide insights into stress and recovery.
Health Sensing System: Redesigned optical and electrical sensors with larger, more power-efficient green LEDs provide deeper health and fitness insights.
Readiness Score: Provides a daily score based on recent activity, vital signs, and sleep to help you understand your capacity for the day.
Sleep Tracking: Analyzes sleep duration, bedtime consistency, wake-ups, and time spent in each sleep stage to provide a sleep score and classification.
Advanced Fitness Tracking: Track workouts, steps, activity, and advanced fitness metrics, with Workout Buddy insights to help keep you motivated.
Cycle Tracking: Provides period and fertile-window predictions, retrospective ovulation estimates, and cycle pattern insights.
Blood Oxygen: Supports on-demand and background blood oxygen measurements.
ECG App: Generates a single-lead electrocardiogram to check for signs of atrial fibrillation (AFib).
Water and Dust Resistance: Rated WR50M and IP6X, suitable for swimming and use in dusty environments.
Ceramic Shield 2: Aluminum cases feature Ceramic Shield 2, designed to provide increased durability compared with Ion-X glass.
Battery Life: Up to 24 hours of normal use.
Fast Charging: 15 minutes of charging provides up to 12 additional hours of battery life.
5G Connectivity: Supports calling, messaging, and music streaming with 5G connectivity.
Emergency SOS: Press and hold the side button to call emergency services and share your location.
Fall Detection: Can automatically help connect you with emergency services after detecting a hard fall.
Crash Detection: Can automatically help call emergency services, share your location, and notify emergency contacts after a severe car crash.
Apple Pay: Make contactless payments directly from your Apple Watch.
Smart Stack Gesture: Use a single tap of your index finger and thumb to select Smart Stack widgets.
Apple Music: Get personalized playlists based on your workout and music preferences.