When it arrives this fall, Apple’s watchOS 9 will work on the Apple Watch Series 4 and later. The Series 3, which debuted nearly five years ago, is left out of the party.
Bad news, Apple Watch Series 3 owners: Your smartwatch will not be receiving the next major watchOS release. Announced Monday, Apple watchOS 9 will bring a number of new health and fitness features, plus four fresh watch faces, to Apple Watches this fall. The updates include expanded atrial fibrillation (AFib) detection capabilities, a new Medications app to help you manage your prescriptions, running-specific metrics, a Multisport workout type for triathletes, and more. Unfortunately, the update will not be available on the nearly five-year-old Apple Watch Series 3, which first hit the market in September 2017. Scroll all the way down to the Availability section of Apple’s watchOS 9 press release, and the news is right there: „watchOS 9 will be available this fall as a free software update for Apple Watch Series 4 or later paired with iPhone 8 or later and iPhone SE (second generation) or later, running iOS 16“, Apple writes.
