Are you looking for a smartwatch with a larger flat-edge design , an improved battery life and new health features? If so, you may want …
Are you looking for a smartwatch with a larger flat-edge design, an improved battery life and new health features? If so, you may want to wait for the Apple Watch 7. Although we previously thought the tech giant’s new smartwatch would debut at a rumored September Apple event alongside the iPhone 13 and AirPods 3, an August report from Nikkei Asia suggests the watch could be delayed due to manufacturing difficulties. The issues arose due to the watch’s complex design and addition of blood pressure monitoring, the report says. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, however, speculates that there is ” no chance ” the new health feature will be added to the upcoming Apple Watch. The new smartwatch will come with Apple’s WatchOS 8 software, announced at WWDC this past June. If rumors pan out, the new Watch could be a worthwhile upgrade from last year’s Apple Watch Series 6, which Apple unveiled at a virtual event in September 2020. Apple also released a more affordable midrange smartwatch last year, the Apple Watch SE, which could itself be getting a successor in 2022. Read more: Apple Watch SE vs Series 6 vs. Series 3: How to choose? Here’s everything we’ve heard so far about the Apple Watch 7, including rumors, leaks, speculation and dreams. We’ll update this story as we hear more. And if you’re thirsty for more Apple rumors, check out our iPhone 13 rumor roundup, our best guesses for the iPhone 13 release date, how the iPhone 13 might compare to the iPhone 12 and what the iPhone 13’s camera specs might be. Plus, is it worth it to buy an iPhone 12 right now? What about an iPhone 11 or an iPhone SE? Respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicted last year that a redesigned Apple Watch could appear in the second half of 2021, so we are fairly sure that a next-gen Apple Watch is coming; we just don’t know exactly when. We don’t have much else to report when it comes to the Apple Watch 7’s release date, but we expect the new wearable to be unveiled at a fall Apple event, likely alongside the rumored iPhone 13. We speculate that the iPhone 13 event will take place on Sept.8, but this is an educated guess and not based on rumors or leaks. You can read more about our Apple event date predictions, including our patented (not really) “Labor Day hypothesis,” in our iPhone 13 release date story. If both assumptions are correct, we’d expect to see the Apple Watch 7 on Sept.8 as well. Although we don’t have an official release date, rumors by French blog Consomac and later reported on by 9to5Mac suggest that Apple has already registered its new smartwatch with the Eurasian Economic Commission under A2473, A2474, A2475, A2476, A2477 and A2478. But the August report by Nikkei Asia suggests that Apple’s new smartwatch could be delayed due to manufacturing difficulties. Small-scale production of the Apple Watch 7 reportedly began last week, but confronted multiple difficulties fitting all the new components of the watch’s complex design together. This prevented it from being moved to full-scale manufacturing, according to the report.
