In short, I think the only difference for any of this year’s Watches will be in the colors for the aluminum Apple Watch Series 9.This is where the big updates will happen. Gurman says, “I believe the new watchOS should be a fairly extensive upgrade—with notable changes to the user interface—unlike iOS 17.”
To mention the iPhone software first, it’s previously been said that iOS 17 will have some nice new features. But the big interface changes will be reserved for the wearable. This is big news as the interface has barely advanced in recent years, save for new Watch faces and gentle revisions to how we interact with it.
But now we have the prospect of a “fairly extensive upgrade”. Exactly what this will entail isn’t clear, but we can be sure that Apple will have relentlessly thought through what could be improved. Of course, there have been endless subtle upgrades over the years, such as the option to display apps in a list rather than a galaxy of tiny circles, for instance, so perhaps bigger changes along these lines are in store., and our first glimpses of the software for this year’s new models—and which will apply to many existing Apple Watches, too.