Apple Releases watchOS 10.5 With New Pride Watch Face

Monday May 13, 2024 10:03 am PDT by Juli Clover

Apple today released watchOS 10.5, the fifth update to the watchOS 10 operating system that came out in September. watchOS 10.5 is available two months after watchOS 10.4, a bug fix update.

2024 Apple Watch Pride Face Feature
‌‌watchOS 10‌‌‌.5 can be downloaded for free through the Apple Watch app on an iPhone running iOS 17 or later by opening it up and going to General & Software Update. To install the new software, the Apple Watch needs to have at least 50 percent battery and it needs to be placed on a charger.

While watchOS 10.5 is primarily a bug fix update, it does introduce a new Pride watch face to go along with the Pride band that Apple introduced earlier in May.

watchOS 10.5 includes new features, improvements and bug fixes, including a new Pride Radiance watch face to honor the LGBTQ+ community and culture.

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit this website: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201222

For additional details on the features that are included in watchOS 10, we have a dedicated roundup.

Related Roundups: watchOS 26, watchOS 27

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Top Rated Comments

Weaselboy

33 months ago

Moderator Note:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-unveils-2024-pride-edition-braided-solo-loop-band-and-watch-face.2425521/

If you would like to discuss the Pride watch face, please use the above linked thread in the Political News section.

No discussion of that topic will be allowed in this thread.

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

parameter

33 months ago

How about they just fix an actual issue - MAJOR battery drain ever since version 10. I have to force-reboot my watch even sometimes or it'll run out of battery pretty fast.

Watch OS 10.x has been a total mess.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

CarAnalogy

33 months ago

They finally fixed raised to wake. It's worked every time I tried it. Here's hoping this update doesn’t break it again.

I swear I'm waiting until 18.1/11.1 this time.

Edit: it works. Everything is nice and stable. Just in time for iOS 18.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)