Bloomberg‘s Apple expert Mark Gurman has provided a few more details on what we can expect from the Apple Watch this year.
In a wider feature outlining the device’s current status in the wider smartwatch market, Gurman said consumers will likely have to wait longer still for Project Mulberry, Apple’s ambitious and long-gestating AI health coach. As he notes, it was recently scaled back, and as a result, it likely won’t launch until “later” in the iOS 27 update cycle.
Instead, Gurman says he expects this year’s watchOS update to “focus largely on stability, performance and smaller refinements, rather than introducing major new capabilities.” That said, he confirmed that heart rate tracking improvements are still on the way.
One of the other points that Gurman raises in his piece is the fact that the Apple Health app can feel “cluttered, clinical and poor at producing actionable insights,” especially compared to competitors like Whoop and Oura. While he didn’t mention anything about what’s to come for the Health app, it should be noted that Apple is still set to launch a revamped version of it sometime in the future. Therefore, it’s still possible that this updated Health app could come in the interim before Mulberry finally debuts.
