If there’s one thing I love, it’s ignoring unwanted calls, and lucky for me, Apple is giving us a new way to do just that with a new feature in watchOS announced today at WWDC 2025.

There are a couple of key updates to watchOS 26, but one of the most practical for me is a wrist gesture that lets you flick your watch to get rid of notifications. The feature—while I obviously haven’t tried it yet—sounds pretty simple. Apple says, “The wrist flick gesture can be used to dismiss notifications and incoming calls, silence timers and alarms, and return to the watch face. It uses the accelerometer and the gyroscope—along with a machine learning model—to analyze a user’s wrist movement.”

My biggest question is whether it could be triggered by accident and dismiss notifications that you actually wanted to see, but it also sounds like there may be enough sensors and failsafes here to prevent that. On top of the wrist gesture, Apple’s watchOS 26 has a similar redesign to iOS and macOS and also a “Workout Buddy, which provides personalized, spoken motivation.”

Per Apple: “…Workout Buddy will give a personalized pep talk that may remind them of their running mileage for the week so far, or share how they are doing against their Activity ring goals…” Depending on your threshold for taking advice from AI, that could either be very useful or very annoying. Speaking of exercise, Apple is also adding four new buttons to its Workout app so that users can easily access Workout Views, Custom Workout, Pacer, Race Route, and more.

Additionally, watchOS 26 will also bring new live translation features to the Apple Watch and a redesign that mimics the rest of Apple’s new software updates.