Apple’s watchOS Provides a New Wrist Gesture...

If there’s one factor I like, it’s ignoring undesirable calls, and fortunate for me, Apple is giving us a brand new technique to do exactly that with a brand new characteristic in watchOS introduced right now at WWDC 2025.

There are a few key updates to watchOS 26, however one of the crucial sensible for me is a wrist gesture that allows you to flick your watch to eliminate notifications. The characteristic—whereas I clearly haven’t tried it but—sounds fairly easy. Apple says, “The wrist flick gesture can be utilized to dismiss notifications and incoming calls, silence timers and alarms, and return to the watch face. It makes use of the accelerometer and the gyroscope—together with a machine studying mannequin—to research a consumer’s wrist motion.”

My largest query is whether or not it could possibly be triggered accidentally and dismiss notifications that you just truly needed to see, but it surely additionally seems like there could also be sufficient sensors and failsafes right here to forestall that. On prime of the wrist gesture, Apple’s watchOS 26 has the same redesign to iOS and macOS and likewise a “Exercise Buddy, which gives personalised, spoken motivation.”

Per Apple: “…Exercise Buddy will give a personalised pep speak which will remind them of their operating mileage for the week to this point, or share how they’re doing towards their Exercise ring objectives…”

Relying in your threshold for taking recommendation from AI, that might both be very helpful or very annoying.

It is a growing story…