Rumors of a beefier, athlete-focused Apple Watch have been making the rounds within the run-up to the launch of the iPhone 14 and different gadgets this week, and a contemporary set of design leaks have added extra gas to the fireplace. 

Tipsters Sonny Dickson and UnclePan have shared new photos (on Twitter (opens in new tab) and Weibo (opens in new tab), respectively) that supposedly element a sequence of third-party equipment for the nonetheless tentatively named Apple Watch Professional. Crucially, these silicone-looking instances function cutouts that, if correct, corroborate earlier rumors touting the addition of a completely new button and a bigger show on the hotly-anticipated wearable. 

The instances in query additionally function a big right-side protrusion that would seem to accommodate a bigger digital crown, one designed to be extra simply accessible to fast-moving outside customers (learn: hardcore athletes). Try the photographs for your self beneath. 

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In addition to boasting a brand new button and bigger digital crown, the Apple Watch Professional will reportedly function a noticeably bigger show, too, one that permits customers to view health and health-tracking knowledge on the identical time. 

That’s in keeping with Bloomberg’s chief Apple reporter, Mark Gurman, who claims that the Professional mannequin – which is predicted to be a beefed-up model of the Apple Watch 8 – will even arrive with redesigned watch faces and a brand new low-power mode.

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It’s value clarifying that Apple itself has made no official point out of an Apple Watch Professional simply but, however we’re assured of its existence, in a single guise or one other, given the quantity of promising leaks we’ve seen in latest weeks. It’s a product that appears a logical subsequent step for Apple, too, for the reason that firm has launched Professional variations into nearly all of its mainstream product teams (suppose iPhones, MacBooks and AirPods). 

We’re anticipating an official announcement for the machine on the model’s upcoming Apple Occasion, scheduled for September 7, at which we additionally anticipate the revealing of the Apple Watch SE 2 and Apple Watch Sequence 8. 

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