Installation:
- Go to the Apple Watch companion on your iPhone.
- Open Settings → General → Software Update.
- Click on Download and Install.
Note: Your Apple Watch has to been in range of your iPhone and its battery has to be charged at least 50%.
What's New:
watchOS 6.1.1 Release Notes
- watchOS 6.1.1 optimizes performance, provides security updates, and contains improvements and bug fixes, including:
- Resolves an issue where the Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse watch face does not speak time
- Addresses an issue where the calendar complication may not display events
- Fixes a bug that could result in a loss of display calibration data
Performance and Navigation
- Press the side button to access your favorite apps in the Dock
- Apps in the Dock launch instantly with already updated information
- Add up to 10 apps in the Dock, control music from Now Playing or launch your most recently used app
- Swipe edge-to-edge to quickly switch your watch face
- Swipe up from the bottom of your watch face to access important settings in Control Center
Watch faces
- New Minnie Mouse, Activity, and Numerals watch faces
- Complications now available on Photo, Photo Album, Timelapse, and Motion
- New complications including Workout, Music, and Messages
- New Face Gallery in the Apple Watch app on iPhone to add and customize watch faces
- Discover and add third party complications in the Face Gallery
Activity
- Ability to share and compare your Activity rings
- Rank alphabetically, or by progress towards Move goal, Exercise goal, steps or today’s workouts
- Automatic notifications when a friend completes their rings, finishes a workout, or earns an achievement
- Customized smart replies for encouragement or smack talk
- New Sharing tab in the Activity app on iPhone to view history
Workout
- Quick Start for most commonly used workouts
- Multiple metric view, customizable for each workout type
- New gestures for pause, resume, and marking segments
- Labels for “Other” workouts to keep track of Yoga, Pilates, Cross Training, and more
- Auto-pause for running workouts
- Siri support for pause, resume, and end workouts
- Route maps with speed indicators for outdoor workouts
Wheelchair use
- Activity rings optimized for wheelchair users
- Accounts for varying speeds, terrains, and pushing techniques
- Pushes contribute to all-day calorie goals
- Time to roll notification and roll ring
- New Outdoor Run Pace and Outdoor Walk Pace workouts
Breathe
- New Breathe app to take a moment in your day for short deep breathing sessions
- Calming visualization and haptic cues guide you while you inhale and exhale
- Adjust session length and breaths per minute
- Summary upon completion including heart rate
- Time to breathe reminders
- Weekly summary
Communication
Expressive Messaging
- Full-screen effects to celebrate special moments
- Tapback for quick replies to messages, links, and photos
- Handwritten messages animate like ink on paper
- Send recent built-in or third-party stickers
- View secret messages with invisible ink
Scribble
- Write words on the display and Apple Watch will convert the handwriting to text
- Use the Digital Crown to scroll through predicted options
- Available in English (US), Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese
- Reply options available in the Messages and Mail notification, including Digital Touch, emoji, and smart replies
- New emoji, including gender diverse options to existing characters, single parent family variations, rainbow flag, and redesigns of popular emoji
Emergency SOS
- Press and continue to hold the side button to call emergency services
- Automatically notify SOS contacts and share your location
- Display your Medical ID with information about medications, allergies, and medical conditions
- Adjusts the emergency number to your current location
Home
- New Home app to control HomeKit enabled accessories
- Enable scenes created on your iPhone to control groups of accessories with just a tap
- Control favorite accessories from your wrist, even remotely with Apple TV or iPad
- Support for IP cameras to see live video in rich notifications and accessory controls
Other improvements
- New Reminders app for managing scheduled reminders, grocery lists, and more
- New Find My Friends app for viewing location of friends and family
- Pay with Apple Pay within third party apps
- Delete events and switch calendars in Calendar app
- Support for FaceTime Audio calls directly from Apple Watch
- Search for Settings in Apple Watch app on iPhone
- Camera app controls for Flash, Live Photos, HDR, Zoom, Burst, and Front or Rear facing
- Siri support for Spanish (Chile), Chinese (Cantonese - China), English (Ireland), English (South Africa)
Other models:
- Apple Watch Series 2 38mm
- Apple Watch Series 2 42mm
- Apple Watch Series 1 38mm
- Apple Watch Series 1 42mm
- Apple Watch 38mm 4.3.1
- Apple Watch 42mm 4.3.1
Previous versions:
- Apple Watch 38mm OS Update 4.3.1
- Apple Watch 42mm OS Update 4.3.1
- Apple Watch 38mm Update 4.0
- Apple Watch 42mm Update 4.0
- Apple Watch 38 mm OS Update 3.2
- Apple Watch 42 mm OS Update 3.2
- Apple Watch 38mm OS Update 3.1.3
- Apple Watch 42mm OS Update 3.1.3
- Apple Watch 38mm OS Update 2.2.2 2016-08-11
- Apple Watch 42mm OS Update 2.2.2 2016-08-11
- Apple Watch 38mm OS Update 2.1 2016-02-01
- Apple Watch 42mm OS Update 2.1 2016-02-01
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