Best Apple Watch (2024): Which Model Should You Buy?

We connected the WIRED Gear squad agree: If you person an iPhone, the Apple Watch is the best wearable to spell with it. But which mentation should you buy? This question has precocious gotten much complicated. Last year, a tribunal ruling dictated that Apple could nary longer merchantability its 2 latest watches, the Series 9 and the Ultra Watch 2, with the humor oxygen sensor. The aesculapian exertion institution Masimo alleged that Apple had infringed connected its patent. (Apple aboriginal defeated a suit alleging that it had a monopoly connected heart complaint apps, but a larger antitrust lawsuit is ongoing.)

These suits are happening adjacent arsenic we hap connected the 10-year day of the Apple Watch. Rumors abound that this twelvemonth we volition spot a recently redesigned Apple Watch X. Does that marque past year’s Series 9 and Ultra Watch 2 inactive worthy it? Yes, particularly if you ain a first-gen SE, Series 4, oregon Series 5, since Apple is sunsetting them. I emotion the Apple Watch. It is the ticker I would deterioration if I weren't perpetually investigating different fitness trackers. I trial each caller 1 for 2 weeks and often for galore months aft that. (Now my children trial them arsenic well.)

But however tin you archer them apart, erstwhile each of these watches look beauteous akin and stock a rotating unchangeable of features? We interruption down which 1 is champion for you and whether older models are worthy the price. Wondering what the operating strategy for these watches volition look like? Check retired our guides to the Top New Features successful WatchOS and each astir the caller Apple Intelligence features successful iOS18. As always, don't hide to cheque retired our different buying guides, similar the Best iPads, Best Smartwatches, and Best iPhones.

Updated June 2024: We added much accusation connected Apple's lawsuits, caller accusation connected WatchOS 11 and iOS 18, and accusation connected the upcoming Apple Watch X.

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