Apple Watch Series 12
Releases 18 September 2026
8 days until release
Product Information
Apple Watch Series 12 is Apple's mainstream watch for users who want all health features & fitness tracking capabilities, available in 42mm or 46mm with an option for cellular connection & a choice of an aluminium, titanium or ceramic case.
This watch model is also built with durability in mind with Ceramic Shield 2 on the front glass for better scratch resistance on aluminium cases, & a sapphire crystal front on titanium and ceramic cases.
New Features:
- Readiness App
- Ceramic case option
- Ceramic Shield 2
- S11 chip
- High-frequency background heart rate tracking
Highlighted Features:
- Siri AI
- Sleep score & sleep tracking
- Wide-angle display
- Hypertension Notifications
- Water Temperature Sensor
Design
Aluminium case available in Dark Bronze, Light Gold, Black & Splace Grey.
Titanium case available in Radiant Gold & Natural.
Ceramic case available in Pearl White & Night Blue
Display
42mm or 46mm LTPO3 wide-angle OLED display.
Battery
24 hour battery life, 38 hours in low power mode.
Chip
The chip that powers Apple Watch Series 12 is the latest S11 with a 4-core neural engine & 64GB of storage.
Sensors & Tracking
- Health Sensing System
- Always-on optical heart sensor
- Readiness app
- Recovery HRV
- High-frequency background heart rate tracking
- Hypertension notifications
- ECG app
- Blood Oxygen app
- Nightly wrist temperature tracking
- Cycle Tracking
- Improved period predictions
- Fertile window estimates
- Retrospective ovulation estimates
- Perimenopause and menopause support
- Sleep tracking
- Sleep apnoea notifications
- Sleep score
- Vitals app featuring heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, blood oxygen and HRV
- Mindfulness app with state of mind tracking
- Training load
- Noise monitoring
- Temperature sensor
- Blood Oxygen Sensor
- Compass
- Fall Detection
- Water Temperature Sensor
- High/low heart rate notifications
- Irregular rhythm notifications
- Crash Detection