The ‘Apple Watch X’ will reportedly get a major redesign, but it’s not coming this year

Apple is preparing for its first major redesign in a number of generations of the mainline Apple Watch, however we gained’t be seeing it this 12 months, in response to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his Energy On e-newsletter this morning. As an alternative, Apple is engaged on a thinner “Apple Watch X” with magnetic watch band attachment factors, a blood strain sensor, and a microLED display both in late 2024 and even 2025, Gurman says.

The previous mechanical attachments of all Apple Watches thus far have been nice for permitting clients to reuse their previous bands for years, however Gurman says they eat up area the corporate may use to shrink the wearable and beef up the battery and inside parts. See the Apple Watch Extremely, which Apple gave a much bigger battery at the expense of compactness.

Rumors have swirled round a brighter, extra colourful microLED display for the Apple Look ahead to months, however the display know-how is new and extremely costly. Apple has had its work lower out for it in terms of getting a shrunken-down, reasonably priced model of the tech into its smallest-screen system. Apple has additionally reportedly been planning a blood pressure sensor for the Apple Look ahead to years, and which will come simply in time for the 10-year anniversary of the wearable as nicely.

As for this 12 months, Gurman reiterates past claims that the Apple Watch Collection 9 will get a sooner processor for the primary time because the Collection 6 debut however will preserve the identical display sizes it used final 12 months, together with for the 49mm Apple Watch Extremely. If that’s true, it might be an much more minor replace for the “Collection” watches than last year’s.