Apple watchOS 10: Apple Pay And Revolutionary Features For Apple Watch Ultra

New features and limitations coming with watchOS 10 and a warning for owners of older iPhone models

Jakub Jirak
Mac O’Clock
Published in
5 min readJun 15, 2023

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Apple watchOS 10 Preview — image courtesy of the author (Based on the source)

In this article, we’ll look at how watchOS 10 will affect Apple Pay, followed by a cool new feature for Apple Watch Ultra. The article will end with one warning just because your Apple Watch supports the new system doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll be able to install it.

Apple Pay on watchOS 10

One of the big advantages of the Apple Watch is that it can be used with Apple Pay. Users who frequently and happily pay with their smart Apple Watch now have even more reason to look forward to the arrival of watchOS 10. This is because it will bring one much-needed and long-awaited improvement.

The watchOS 10 operating system brings a host of new features to Apple Watch users and a newly redesigned system interface. But beyond what Apple mentioned during the opening keynote of WWDC 2023, other new features are hiding across the system.

One interesting change is that users can now add cards to Apple Pay directly from the Apple Watch without using an iPhone. If you launch the native Wallet app on an Apple Watch running watchOS 10, you’ll see a…

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Jakub Jirak
Mac O’Clock

Principal Software Engineer & Content creator | Writing about Technology, Apple, and Innovations. | Proud editor of Mac O'Clock.