It’s been some time since we obtained a brand new Apple Watch SE: after the primary model of Apple’s price range smartwatch got here out in 2020 and the second in 2022 with few modifications, the corporate has saved quiet about additional releases. However new reviews counsel we’re lastly going to see the Third-gen SE later in 2025, and that it’ll are available in two new sizes.
On Tuesday, Ross Younger, a remarkably dependable leaker and analyst who covers the display provide chain, tweeted that two Apple Watch SE shows have entered manufacturing. (The tweet is for subscribers solely.) The shows, he estimates, measure roughly 1.6 and 1.8 inches respectively.
It’s not simple to make a direct comparability between these numbers and those that apply to the present SE fashions, as a result of Apple provides the specs for its smartwatch in a unique format–as the peak of the casing, moderately than the diagonal measurement of the display we’d count on for all different merchandise. For display dimensions, now we have to make do with the assorted third-party measurements you’ll discover throughout the online, which fluctuate from website to website. However whatever the sources you employ, it appears to be like like the brand new SE fashions are in all probability transferring from a Sequence 6 physique to a Sequence 7. Which in all probability means a simultaneous change from 40mm and 44mm casings to 41 and 45mm.
Apart from pointing to a slight enhance in measurement, there have been long-time rumors of a brand new plastic chassis design, although extra current reviews shed some doubt on that prediction and left the way forward for the road in limbo. The report doesn’t point out some other options, although it appears probably that the SE will lastly get an always-on show, in addition to a more recent processor, and presumably a temperature or ECG sensor.
Following the discontinuation of the iPhone SE line earlier this yr, and its substitute with the more expensive iPhone 16e, it appeared doable that Apple would possibly pull again from the price range market and retire the SE line altogether. Nevertheless, this newest rumor will be taken as one thing near affirmation that Apple will preserve the low-end Apple Watch alive going, although it’s doable Apple will change the title to the Apple Watch 11e.
But it surely looks as if we will look forward to a brand new Apple Watch SE in September, alongside the Sequence 11 (and presumably the Extremely 3, though if that sticks with a biennial launch schedule, the Extremely and SE traces might in future get updates in alternate falls) and the iPhone 17. For all the newest information and rumors, try our information to the new Apple Watches for 2025.
