If you need an upgraded Apple Watch expertise you may not have to purchase a brand new Apple Watch to get it, because it feels like the subsequent main working system replace – prone to be dubbed watchOS 10 – will embody substantial modifications for current fashions just like the Apple Watch 8.

That’s in keeping with Mark Gurman, in his Energy On e-newsletter for Bloomberg (opens in new tab) (by way of 9to5Mac (opens in new tab)). Particularly, Gurman says “I imagine the brand new watchOS needs to be a reasonably intensive improve – with notable modifications to the person interface – in contrast to iOS 17.”

Gurman doesn’t get extra particular than that, however we’d not have to attend lengthy to search out out extra about this “intensive improve”, as watchOS 10 will virtually actually be introduced at Apple’s WWDC 2023 convention on June 5.

We’ll most likely additionally see the primary developer beta launch there, adopted not too lengthy after by public betas, although the completed software program most likely received’t be out there till round September, when it is anticipated to be launched alongside the Apple Watch 9.

Huge software program updates and small {hardware} ones

Nonetheless, the Apple Watch 9 itself may not show that tempting, with Gurman including that “it’s essential for watchOS to have an enormous 12 months on condition that the Apple Watch {hardware} updates will likely be something however main.”

This declare echoes the few Apple Watch 9 rumors we’ve heard to this point, which counsel will probably be quite a bit just like the Apple Watch 8. Different leaks counsel we’d not see an Apple Watch Extremely 2 or the Apple Watch SE three till 2024, in order that might be an enormous 12 months for Apple Watch {hardware}, with the Apple Watch 10 (or Apple Watch X because it is likely to be known as) additionally rumored to be getting massive upgrades.

However this 12 months? It appears Apple’s focus will very a lot be on software program updates fairly than {hardware} ones. So if you have already got an Apple Watch Eight or an older mannequin, you may discover that you just get most of this 12 months’s upgrades by downloading them to your present Watch, fairly than having to splash out on a brand new system.

In fact, we’d take Gurman’s claims with a pinch of salt, however he has a fairly good monitor report, so there’s a powerful likelihood he’s proper. By which case, our information to one of the best Apple Watches may not see a lot change this 12 months, however the wearable you have already got may quickly really feel new and thrilling once more.