Apple’s forthcoming smartwatch operating system, watchOS 11, is expected to run on Apple Watch Series 5 and later, according to iPhonesoft.fr.
It feels like just yesterday when Apple continued to sell 2017’s Apple Watch Series 3 despite it not receiving an already announced watchOS update. Fortunately, Apple hasn’t repeated that mistake again. Instead, we’re merely looking at the predecessor to that Apple Watch potentially missing support for the next major watchOS release.
[T]he problem with the Apple Watch Series 3 wasn’t that Apple kept providing software updates for it years after release. That’s great! It was just that Apple kept selling it … even when watchOS 9 was released in beta and confirmed not to support it.
The good news is Apple can’t repeat that misstep here because the Series 4 hardware has long been discontinued. Apple now positions the Apple Watch SE as
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