Apple has introduced the next generation of Apple Watch SE, offering remarkable health, fitness, connectivity, and safety features, and the powerful capabilities of the S10 chip, at an incredible value. Apple Watch SE 3 delivers a more advanced set of health features than the previous generation — including sleep score, retrospective ovulation estimates, sleep apnea notifications, and wrist temperature sensing for richer Vitals app data — plus a robust set of fitness features to provide daily motivation. The S10 chip powers an Always-On display, the double tap and wrist flick gestures, on-device Siri, and fast charging. Apple Watch SE 3 also offers 5G cellular capabilities and a cover glass that is more durable than ever. watchOS 26 introduces a fresh look with Liquid Glass, Workout Buddy powered by Apple Intelligence, new watch faces, and more.

Apple Watch SE 3 can be pre-ordered, online and in C&C stores, and will be available from Friday, September 19, 2025.

Always-on display, fast charging, and 5G cellular

The display on Apple Watch is central to every interaction, from viewing a notification, to taking a quick glance at workout metrics. With the S10 chip, Apple Watch SE 3 now features an Always-On display, allowing users to conveniently view the time and glance at notifications without raising their wrist or tapping the display. The cover glass is 4x more resistant to cracks than the previous generation, featuring a custom, proprietary grade of Ion-X (ion-exchanged strengthened) glass, the toughest glass available in a smartwatch.

Even with the addition of the Always-On display, Apple Watch SE 3 offers all-day, 18-hour battery life, and also features fast charging for the first time. Apple Watch SE 3 now charges up to 2x faster than the previous generation; charging for 15 minutes can add up to eight hours of battery for daily use, and it can charge to about 80 percent in 45 minutes.

Meaningful health insights

Building on its powerful suite of core health features, Apple Watch SE 3 introduces sleep score, which helps users understand the quality of their sleep and how to make it more restorative.3 Fast charging makes it even easier for users to wear Apple Watch overnight to track their sleep, and sleep score adds to sleep insights including sleep duration, sleep stages, and other Vitals app data.Sleep quality is influenced by several factors, such as sleep duration, bedtime consistency, how often a person wakes up, and how much time is spent in each sleep stage. With sleep score, Apple Watch helps track each of these categories to offer users a transparent and easy-to-understand metric for their overall sleep quality. After each night, sleep score provides an overall score and classification in the Sleep app on Apple Watch, plus a clear breakdown of the most critical components so users know what to prioritize to improve their sleep.The scoring approach and prioritization algorithm of sleep score is informed by the latest guidance published by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, National Sleep Foundation, and World Sleep Society. Over 5 million nights of sleep data from the Apple Heart and Movement Study were used to develop and test the scoring algorithms.

Additionally, Apple Watch SE 3 offers:

• Wrist temperature sensing, which can provide insight into overall wellbeing and adds to the other key health metrics available in the Vitals app. Apple Watch uses two temperature sensors and an advanced algorithm to compensate for the temperature of a user’s environment.

• Retrospective ovulation estimates, which use wrist temperature data to estimate the likely day of ovulation after it has occurred and improve period predictions, which can be helpful for family planning.

• Sleep apnea notifications, which alert users if they show consistent signs of moderate to severe sleep apnea over a 30-day period. The algorithm analyzes accelerometer data to detect interruptions in regular respiratory patterns that are associated with sleep apnea.

Fitness tracking and motivation

Apple Watch offers daily fitness motivation, along with powerful insights into workouts, training, and more, across a variety of activities. The Activity app encourages users to close their three Activity rings — Move, Exercise, and Stand — by hitting personal, customizable daily goals. Users can also track a wide range of workouts with validated custom heart rate and calorie algorithms using the Workout app; stay motivated with Activity challenges and sharing; keep an eye on their progress with weekly summaries and trends; and monitor key fitness metrics like training load, cardio fitness, and cardio recovery.

S10 Chip brings on-device Siri, one-handed gestures, voice isolation, and media playback

In addition to an Always-On display, the power of the S10 chip allows for faster on-device Siri, now with the ability to access and log health data. For requests that do not require information from the internet, such as starting a workout or setting a timer, results are delivered more quickly and with more reliable responses. On-device processing is private and secure, and now Siri can be used to access data from the Health app for health- and fitness-related queries.

Apple Watch SE 3 allows users to play media, like music or podcasts, directly through its speaker. For Phone or FaceTime audio calls, the S10 chip also powers Voice Isolation to suppress background noise, so a user’s voice sounds crisp and clear on the other end of the line — even in noisy environments.

Apple Watch SE 3 can be pre-ordered, online and in C&C stores, and will be available from Friday, September 19, 2025.