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In addition to iOS 17 Public Beta being released today, Apple also released watchOS 10 Public Beta today. So now you can sign up and run the public beta on your Apple Watch. The website is still not live for signing up, but that should change in the coming minutes.
watchOS 10 is a pretty significant upgrade for the Apple Watch this year, and it has actually been running pretty smoothly throughout the first three developer betas. So there’s that.
When you are able to sign up for the Public Beta, the update is going to come in at a pretty hefty size. It should be around a gigabyte in size, and you will need to have your watch on the charger and above 50% charge. Since this is a big update, you really don’t want your watch to lose battery and die in the middle of the update.
What’s new in watchOS 10?
With watchOS 10, Apple actually debuted a pretty big redesign here. And it also changed the way some things work. So you’ll need to rework your muscle memory. For instance, a swipe up from the bottom now opens a list of widgets, instead of Quick Settings. A tap of the side button now opens the Quick Settings. Among a few other changes.
The widgets in watchOS 10 are actually really good. However, they are mostly limited to first-party widgets right now. So you have Activity, Clock, Heart Rate, Weather, and others from Apple. There’s no third-party apps with widgets just yet. That should change as we get closer to the launch in September.
Apple also introduced two new watch faces here in watchOS 10, that includes Palette and Snoopy. The Snoopy watchface has characters from the Peanuts cartoon and the they change with animations throughout the day. It’s a pretty cool looking watchface, to say the least.
But that’s watchOS 10, and now it’s available in Public Beta, which means we are getting closer to a stable release.