Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Series 11 feature advanced, power-efficient LTPO3 displays that enhance certain watch faces and apps. This technology enables a 1Hz display refresh rate, allowing the display to update each second rather than each minute when in Always-On mode. watchOS 26 fittingly enhances 26 watch faces to support the 1Hz refresh rate.
Enhanced faces and apps in watchOS 26
These are the watch faces and apps that support 1Hz, enabling a ticking seconds hand or a digital seconds indicator even when your wrist is down.
Activity Analog
Activity Digital
California
Color
Contour
Exactograph
Flux
GMT
Hermès Faubourg Party
Hermès Radial
Infograph
Meridian
Metropolitan
Modular Ultra
Nike Analog
Numerals Mono
Prime Harmony
Reflections
Simple
Solar Analog
Stripes
Typograph
Utility
Unity Rhythm
Wayfinder
Waypoint
Additionally, both the Stopwatch and Timer apps can always show real-time progress on Apple Watch models with a 1Hz display refresh rate in Always-On mode.
Some Apple Watch faces are only available on Hermès or Ultra models. Apple Watch Series 10 also supports 1Hz faces and apps. When Apple Watch Series 10 was first released, just three 1Hz faces existed: Flux, Reflections, and Activity Digital.
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