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Hands-on with Siri Modular, watchOS 27’s new Apple Watch face

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Why This Matters

Apple is shipping a single new watch face, Siri Modular, with watchOS 27, now available in the release candidate build. It carries forward Apple's pattern of reserving extra customization — bezel options and an exclusive font — for Ultra hardware, reinforcing the tiering between Series and Ultra models. For consumers, it's a modest but visible refresh to how the Apple Watch home screen looks and how complications are arranged.

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Worth a Look

Apple Watch Ultra 2 — If the extra Siri Modular options like bezel styles and the Ultra font caught your eye, they're exclusive to Ultra hardware. The Apple Watch Ultra 2's big, bright display makes those modular complications easy to read at a glance.

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watchOS 27 includes one new watch face: Siri Modular. The new face is available on both Apple Watch Series and Ultra models. However, the version on Ultra has a few more customization options. Check it out.

Both versions of Siri Modular use the same layout. There’s a top center line complication, the time (centered), a wide complication, and a row of three circular complications.

Apple Watch Ultra also supports bezel options, adding one more way to configure the new watch face.

First, three style options let you adjust the height of the clock. The first option features the tallest clock and three circular complications. The second style is a compact clock with the wide complication and three circular complications. The third style is a medium clock with a wide complication.

All three modes support displaying the top line complication. None of the modes support displaying the current seconds as part of the clock.

Both Series and Ultra also include font options for the clock. However, Ultra is only an option on Apple Watch Ultra hardware. Series models only offer Modern, Classic, and Rounded.

Meanwhile, the Ultra includes those bezel options I mentioned. These are like other Ultra-exclusive watch faces.

Lastly, there’s the option to set the watch face color, including lots of new options like Dark Bronze, Radiant Gold, and other new choices.

Siri Modular is part of the new watchOS 27 update, included in today’s release candidate software.