watchos end of life dates — full support timeline
9 of 10 tracked watchos releases have already reached end of life. The dates below are published support dates, not estimates.
Version support timeline
| Release | Released | End of life | Latest | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 2025-09-15 | not announced | 26.6 | supported |
| 11 | 2024-09-16 | 2025-09-15 | 11.6.2 | ended |
| 10 | 2023-09-18 | 2024-09-16 | 10.6.2 | ended |
| 9 | 2022-09-12 | 2023-09-18 | 9.6.4 | ended |
| 8 | 2021-09-20 | 2022-09-12 | 8.8.2 | ended |
| 7 | 2020-09-16 | 2021-09-20 | 7.6.2 | ended |
| 6 | 2019-09-19 | 2020-09-16 | 6.3.1 | ended |
| 5 | 2018-09-17 | 2019-09-19 | 5.3.10 | ended |
| 4 | 2017-09-19 | 2018-09-17 | 4.3.2 | ended |
| 3 | 2016-09-13 | 2017-09-19 | 3.2.3 | ended |
Who is affected
Anyone running an unsupported watchos release. After end of life a version stops receiving security patches, which typically becomes an audit or compliance finding before it becomes an outage. Upgrading to a supported release is the migration path; the table above shows which releases still qualify.
Source
These dates are maintained by endoflife.date/watchos, an open community dataset that cites vendor announcements. Verify against the vendor before making a compliance decision.
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