9.0^[2]

13S344

September 21, 2015 (2015-09-21)

New Watch faces

• Time-lapse face: Hong Kong, London, Mack Lake, New York, Shanghai, Paris
• Photo & Photo album faces with support for Live Photos
• New Time Travel function where you can see both past and future events
• Nightstand Mode
• 9 new colors for customization
• New multicolor Modular face
• 3rd party apps Complications support

Siri

• Workout and Maps support
• FaceTime audio calling and email replying support
• HomeKit support
• Added support in following countries: Austria, Belgium, Norway

Activity and Workout

• Workouts done in 3rd-party apps will be included in Activity rings
• Sharing support from Activity app on iPhone
• Interactive achievements
• Weekly Summary
• Activity notifications can now be muted for a day
• Workouts can now be automatically saved

Apple Pay and Wallet

• Discover cards support
• Reward cards, store credit and debit cards support
• Passes can now be added from 3rd party apps

Friends

• You can now add more than 12 friends to your Watch
• Groups support
• Multicolor sketches support
• Animated emoji support

Maps

• New Transit view in selected cities
• List of directions can now be shown
• Station placards support with departure information

Music

• New Beats 1 Radio support
• New Quick Play button for Apple Music

Miscellaneous

• You can now reply to emails right from your Watch using dictation, emoji, or smart replies
• Support for FaceTime audio calls
• Support for Wi-Fi calling
• Activation Lock – No one can activate an Apple Watch without a proper Apple ID and password
• New system languages: English (India), Finnish, Indonesian, Norwegian, Polish
• Dictation support extended to include the following languages:
  • Dutch (Belgium)
  • English (Ireland, Philippines, South Africa)
  • French (Belgium)
  • German (Austria)
  • Spanish (Chile, Colombia)
• Smart replies support extended to include the following languages:
  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong, Taiwan)
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English (New Zealand, Singapore)
  • Japanese
  • Korean
  • Swedish
  • Thai

Developer

• Native SDK support
• 3rd-party apps can now access the accelerometer, heart rate sensor, microphone, Taptic Engine, and Digital Crown
• You can now play videos directly on your Watch
• You can now run apps without your iPhone with a Wi-Fi connection
• Complications for watch faces support
• Support for Workouts from 3rd party apps – Metrics will count toward the Activity rings as well as included in the Activity app on iPhone

9.1

13S428

October 21, 2015 (2015-10-21)

• New emoji characters
• Resolved: Software updates stalling
• Resolved: Battery performance deteriorating
• Resolved: iPhone calendar events not syncing to Apple Watch
• Resolved: Location information not updating
• Resolved: Instability with Live Photo on the Photos watch face
• Resolved: Heart sensor is on forever when Siri is used to help measure your heart rate

9.2

13S661

December 8, 2015 (2015-12-08)

• New system languages: Arabic, Czech, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Malay, Portuguese (Portugal), Vietnamese
• Right-to-left language support
• In Arabic, switch between Latin and Hindi numerals
• New Complication for Islamic and Hebrew calendars
• Siri support extended to include Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates)
• Dictation support extended to include the following languages:
  • Arabic (Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates)
  • English (Malaysia)
  • Czech
  • Greek
  • Hebrew
  • Hungarian
  • Portuguese (Portugal)
  • Vietnamese
• Resolved: Events not updating in the Calendar complication
• Resolved: Power Reserve mode not working correctly
• Resolved: 3rd-party apps not launching
• Resolved: 3rd-party app icons not displaying correctly
• Resolved: System instability when changing display language

9.3

13V144

March 21, 2016 (2016-03-21)

• You can now pair 2+ Apple Watches to a single iPhone
• New Nearby function in Maps
• New system languages: Catalan, Croatian, Slovak, Romanian, Ukrainian
• Dictation support extended to include the following languages:
  • Catalan
  • Croatian
  • Slovak
  • Romanian
  • Ukrainian
  • English (Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Indonesia)
• Siri support extended to include Malay, Finnish, and Hebrew
• Background heart rate measurements have their frequency increased when you're stationary

9.3.2

13V420

May 16, 2016 (2016-05-16)

• General performance and stability improvements.

9.3.3

13V604

July 18, 2016 (2016-07-18)

• General performance and stability improvements.