Apple isn't the only company that pulled this move this year. With the release of Wear OS 5 in July, owners of Google Pixel watches or Samsung Galaxy watches saw some older faces disappear. Most of this was due to Google doubling down on the Watch Face Format introduced in 2023, which made certain faces incompatible.

Apple's watchOS 11 is now available for download, brining sleep apnea notifications to users for the first time. The publicly available version of watchOS 11 comes after several beta variants, with most of the new features focusing on health and fitness.