Apple Watch Series 12 Technical Specifications

Material and Finish

Aluminium case

Dark Bronze, Light Gold, Black, Space Grey

Titanium case

Radiant Gold, Natural

Ceramic case

Pearl White, Night Blue

Size and Weight
  • Height (aluminium, titanium): 46mm
  • Height (ceramic): 47mm
  • Width (aluminium, titanium): 40mm
  • Width (ceramic): 41mm
  • Depth (aluminium, titanium): 9.7mm
  • Depth (ceramic): 9.85mm
  • 416x496 pixels
  • 1,196mm² display area
  • Weight (aluminium, GPS): 39.5g
  • Weight (aluminium, GPS + Cellular): 38.6g
  • Weight (titanium): 44.9g
  • Weight (Pearl White ceramic): 51.3g
  • Weight (Night Blue ceramic): 52.9g
  • Fits 140–245mm wrists
  • Height (aluminium, titanium): 42mm
  • Height (ceramic): 43mm
  • Width: 37mm
  • Depth (aluminium, titanium): 9.7mm
  • Depth (ceramic): 9.85mm
  • 374x446 pixels
  • 970mm² display area
  • Weight (aluminium, GPS): 32.2g
  • Weight (aluminium, GPS + Cellular): 31.5g
  • Weight (titanium): 36.5g
  • Weight (Pearl White ceramic): 41.7g
  • Weight (Night Blue ceramic): 42.8g
  • Fits 130–200mm wrists
Hardware and Buttons
Controls
  • Digital Crown with haptic feedback
  • Side button
  • Single tap, double tap and wrist flick gestures
  • Siri powered by Apple Intelligence1
Chip
S11 chip
  • S11 chip with 64‑bit dual‑core processor
  • 4‑core Neural Engine
  • 64GB capacity
Apple Intelligence and Siri AI1

The next generation of Apple Intelligence is centred around you, integrated into your apps and built with privacy. Apple Intelligence powers Siri AI — an entirely new version of Siri that’s more personal, conversational and powerful, along with helpful features across apps.

Sensors
  • Health Sensing System: third‑generation electrical heart sensor, always‑on optical heart sensor, blood oxygen sensor2 and temperature sensor3
  • Compass
  • Always‑on altimeter
  • High‑g accelerometer
  • High dynamic range gyroscope
  • Ambient light sensor
  • Depth gauge to 6m
  • Water temperature sensor
Health and Wellness
  • Readiness app
  • Vitals app with heart rate, respiratory rate, wrist temperature, blood oxygen and heart rate variability (HRV)4
  • Blood Oxygen app2
  • ECG app5
  • Heart Rate app
  • High and low heart rate notifications
  • Recovery HRV
  • High‑frequency background heart rate tracking
  • Irregular rhythm notifications6
  • Advanced Cycle Tracking app with fertile window estimates, retrospective ovulation estimates and perimenopause and menopause support7
  • Medications app8
  • Mindfulness app with state of mind tracking
  • Noise app
  • Sleep app including sleep stages
  • Sleep score
  • Sleep apnoea notifications9
Display
  • Always‑On Retina display with wide‑angle OLEDs and LTPO3
  • 1Hz refresh
  • Active area (42mm): 374x446 pixels, 326 pixels per inch
  • Active area (46mm): 416x496 pixels, 326 pixels per inch
  • Ceramic Shield 2 (aluminium cases)
  • Sapphire front crystal (titanium and ceramic cases)
  • 2,000 nits peak brightness
  • 1 nit minimum brightness
Audio
  • Speaker
  • Microphone
  • Media playback
Power and Battery Life
  • All‑day battery life, up to 24 hours of normal use10
  • Up to 38 hours in Low Power Mode10
  • Up to 10 hours outdoor workout11
  • Built‑in rechargeable lithium‑ion battery
  • Fast‑charge capable12
  • Up to 80% charge in about 30 minutes12
  • 15 minutes for up to 12 hours of normal use13
  • 5 minutes for up to 10 hours of sleep tracking13

Learn more

Operating System

watchOS

watchOS is the world’s most advanced wearable operating system, with apps and features designed to keep you active, healthy, safe and connected.

Workouts and Activity
Running
  • Custom workouts
  • Customisable Workout Views
  • Training Load
  • Heart Rate Zones (customisable)
  • Post-workout heart rate
  • VO2 max
  • Race Route
  • Pacer
  • Cadence, Stride Length, Ground Contact Time, Vertical Oscillation and Running Power
  • Multisport workout
  • Heart Rate Zone, pace and target alerts
Hiking
  • Compass with bearing, incline, elevation and coordinates
  • Custom waypoints
  • Automatically generated waypoints to mobile connectivity
  • Backtrack GPS data
  • Offline maps with custom route creation14
  • Topographic maps for thousands of national and regional parks (US only)
  • Hundreds of curated hikes across all 63 US national parks
Cycling
  • Average speed, elevation gained and distance
  • Connection to cycling accessories via Bluetooth
  • Functional Threshold Power
  • Power Zones
  • Cadence
  • Live Activity on iPhone
Swimming
  • Pool swim or open water swim
  • Custom workouts for pool swims
  • Splits and auto sets
  • SWOLF score
  • Automatic stroke detection
  • Kickboard detection
  • Average pace, total distance and laps
More Workouts
Safety
  • Emergency SOS15
  • International emergency calling16
  • Fall Detection15
  • Crash Detection15
  • Last Emergency Call Availability Waypoint
  • Torch
  • Backtrack
  • Noise monitoring
  • Check In
Durability
  • Water resistance 50m (swimproof) under ISO standard 22810:201017
  • Dust resistance IP6X18
Connectivity
  • All models
  • Support for 2.4GHz and 5GHz Wi‑Fi networks
  • Wi‑Fi 4 (802.11n)
  • Bluetooth 5.3

  • Precision L1 GPS (GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS and BeiDou)
  • Second‑generation Ultra Wideband chip19

  • Apple Pay20
  • GymKit
  • Models A3582 and A3587
  • Supports RedCap for LTE21

  • FDD‑LTE (Bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 28, 66, 71)
  • TDD‑LTE (Bands 38, 39, 40, 41)

Accessibility

Built‑in accessibility features supporting vision, mobility, hearing and cognitive disabilities.

Features include:
  • VoiceOver
  • Zoom
  • On/Off Labels
  • Reduce Transparency
  • Increase Contrast
  • Colour Filters
  • Text Size
  • Bold Text
  • Reduce Motion
  • Hourly Chimes
  • AssistiveTouch
  • Button Click Speed
  • Touch Accommodations
  • Auto‑Answer Calls
  • Type to Siri
  • Audio Volume Balance
  • Auto Transcription
  • Live Speech
  • Accessibility Shortcut
  • Mono Audio
  • Taptic Time
  • Personal Voice
  • Live Listen
  • Sound Recognition
Environmental Requirements
Operating temperature:

0° to 35° C

Non-operating storage temperature:

–20° to 45° C

Relative humidity:

5% to 90% non-condensing

Operating altitude:

0m to 3,000m

Apple Watch and the Environment

See the Apple Watch Series 12 Product Environmental Report (PDF)

Progress towards Apple 2030

Apple 2030 is our goal to be carbon neutral across our value chain. We design our products to be less carbon intensive by prioritising the use of recycled and renewable content and low‑carbon materials while focusing on the energy efficiency of our software and hardware.

Materials

Apple Watch Series 12 with aluminium and titanium cases are made with 40% recycled content,22 including:

  • 100% recycled aluminium in the aluminium case
  • 100% recycled cobalt in the battery
  • 100% recycled copper wire and recycled tungsten in the Taptic Engine
  • 100% recycled gold plating and tin solder in all Apple‑designed printed circuit boards
  • 95% recycled lithium in the battery
  • 100% recycled titanium in the titanium case

Packaging

100% fibre‑based packaging23

Energy

  • 100% of manufacturing electricity for Apple Watch Series 12 with aluminium and titanium cases is sourced from renewable electricity24
  • 100% of expected customer energy use matched with renewable electricity for Apple Watch Series 12 with aluminium and titanium cases24,25

Waste

No established final assembly sites generate waste sent to landfill as part of Apple’s Zero Waste Programme26

Smarter chemistry27

All of the materials used in Apple products, accessories and packaging are covered by the requirements of our Regulated Substances Specification, which was one of the first in industry to restrict the use of key substances of concern. See the latest Environmental Progress Report to understand Apple’s recent efforts in phasing out these chemistries.

Compatibility
  • iPhone 11 or later, including iPhone SE (2nd generation or later), with iOS 27 or later
In the Box
  • Apple Watch Series 12
  • Strap
  • Apple Watch Magnetic Fast Charger to USB‑C Cable (1m)
Apple Watch Series 12, aluminium case, dark bronze colour, front exterior, edge-to-edge display, olive Sport Band, Apple Watch Magnetic Fast Charger to USB-C Cable