A tiny detail has been discovered via an inadvertent leak from Apple, which suggests the Apple Watch Series 11 chipset won’t see significant changes from the previous model.
The Apple Watch is a mature product that doesn’t have much room to grow in its current form factor. After a few years of external tweaks, there’s not much left for Apple to do beyond a major redesign.
Rumors suggest that Apple Watch Series 11 will be a smaller, iterative update with relatively few changes. According to information gained by MacRumors via leaked internal information from Apple, the S11 chipset won’t see big upgrades.
The leaked data indicates that the S11 used in Apple Watch Series 11 will use the same T8310 architecture used in the S9 and S10 processors. While that doesn’t mean Apple won’t introduce any new features or processing updates, it does mean upgrades will likely be small in scale.
In addition to the leak around the chipset, additional device codenames were found. These codenames are for Apple’s upcoming 2025 and 2026 Apple Watch models.
- N227: Apple Watch Series 11
- N228: Apple Watch Series 11 (Cellular)
- N230: Apple Watch Ultra 3
- N237: Apple Watch Series 12
- N238: Apple Watch Series 12 (Cellular)
- N240: Apple Watch Ultra 4
This information doesn’t provide much beyond proving the existence of the future products being developed. The Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Apple Watch Series 11 are both expected in September 2025.
Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Apple Watch Series 12 are 2026 products. Rumors have focused on the upcoming generation models, so there isn’t much to say about those beyond Apple’s moonshot goal of diabetes management.