Apple’s watchOS Provides a New Wrist Gesture to Ignore Annoying Notifications

If there’s one factor I really like, it’s ignoring undesirable calls, and fortunate for me, Apple is giving us a brand new technique to just do that with a brand new characteristic in watchOS introduced in the present day at WWDC 2025.

There are a few key updates to watchOS 26, however probably the most sensible for me is a wrist gesture that allows you to flick your watch to do away with notifications. The characteristic—whereas I clearly haven’t tried it but—sounds fairly easy. Apple says, “The wrist flick gesture can be utilized to dismiss notifications and incoming calls, silence timers and alarms, and return to the watch face. It makes use of the accelerometer and the gyroscope—together with a machine studying mannequin—to research a person’s wrist motion.”

My largest query is whether or not it may very well be triggered accidentally and dismiss notifications that you just really needed to see, nevertheless it additionally feels like there could also be sufficient sensors and failsafes right here to stop that. On prime of the wrist gesture, Apple’s watchOS 26 has the same redesign to iOS and macOS and in addition a “Exercise Buddy, which gives customized, spoken motivation.”

Per Apple: “…Exercise Buddy will give a customized pep speak that will remind them of their operating mileage for the week to date, or share how they’re doing towards their Exercise ring targets…”

Relying in your threshold for taking recommendation from AI, that would both be very helpful or very annoying.

This can be a creating story…