Release history

How this history is collected

Dates are the release dates Apple publishes, in UTC. Versions without a published date are still listed.

Time between updates compares each release with the previous dated release of the same major version, so iOS 18.7.10 is compared with 18.7.9, not with iOS 26.

Coverage starts with what Apple’s feeds listed when OS Releases began collecting, and grows from there. It isn’t a complete record of every release Apple has made, and it doesn’t predict future updates.

Every update Apple has released, grouped by major version.

Latest update
watchOS 27.0.1Sep 23, 2026 (24 days ago)
Updates in the past year
15across all supported versions
Typical wait for the next update
43 daysmedian within a major version

watchOS versions

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watchOS 27Current2 updates, Sep 14, 2026 to Sep 23, 2026
  1. 27.2 beta 48 days after 27.2 beta 3Beta
  2. 27.2 beta 314 days after 27.2 beta 2Beta
  3. 27.0.19 days after 27.0
  4. 27.2 beta 25 days after 27.2 betaBeta
  5. 27.2 beta7 days after 27.0 release candidateBeta
  6. 27.0—93 security fixes
  7. 27.0 release candidate9 days after 27.0 beta 8Beta
  8. 27.0 beta 87 days after 27.0 beta 7Beta
  9. 27.0 beta 777 days after 27.0 betaBeta
  10. 27.0 beta—Beta
watchOS 26Older branch10 updates, Sep 15, 2025 to Jul 27, 2026
  1. 26.677 days after 26.5106 security fixes
  2. 26.6 beta—Beta
  3. 26.548 days after 26.446 security fixes
  4. 26.441 days after 26.325 security fixes
  5. 26.316 days after 26.2.119 security fixes
  6. 26.2.145 days after 26.2
  7. 26.239 days after 26.126 security fixes
  8. 26.135 days after 26.0.235 security fixes
  9. 26.0.211 days after 26.0.1
  10. 26.0.13 days after 26.0
  11. 26.0—24 security fixes
watchOS 11Older branch11 updates, Sep 16, 2024 to Jul 27, 2026
  1. 11.6.2347 days after 11.6.1
  2. 11.6.116 days after 11.6
  3. 11.678 days after 11.523 security fixes
  4. 11.541 days after 11.426 security fixes
  5. 11.450 days after 11.3.151 security fixes
  6. 11.3.114 days after 11.31 security fix
  7. 11.347 days after 11.220 security fixes
  8. 11.244 days after 11.132 security fixes
  9. 11.125 days after 11.0.123 security fixes
  10. 11.0.117 days after 11.0
  11. 11.0—16 security fixes
watchOS 10Older branch7 updates, Jan 22, 2024 to Jul 27, 2026
  1. 10.6.2707 days after 10.6.1
  2. 10.6.121 days after 10.6
  3. 10.677 days after 10.532 security fixes
  4. 10.567 days after 10.427 security fixes
  5. 10.428 days after 10.3.126 security fixes
  6. 10.3.117 days after 10.3
  7. 10.3—14 security fixes
watchOS 9Older branch1 update, Jul 27, 2026
  1. 9.6.4—
watchOS 8Older branch1 update, Jul 27, 2026
  1. 8.8.2—
watchOS 6Older branch1 update, Jul 27, 2026
  1. 6.3.1—
watchOS 5Older branch1 update, Jul 27, 2026
  1. 5.3.10—