{"id":135506,"date":"2025-07-22T13:00:43","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=zt8rydnt"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:00:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T13:00:43","slug":"new-64-bit-requirement-for-watchos-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/new-64-bit-requirement-for-watchos-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"New 64-bit requirement for watchOS apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-64-bit-requirement-for-watchos-apps.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Beginning April&nbsp;2026, watchOS apps uploaded to App&nbsp;Store&nbsp;Connect must also include 64-bit support and be built with the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/watchos\/whats-new\/\">watchOS&nbsp;26<\/a>&nbsp;SDK. To enable 64-bit support in your project, we recommend using the default Xcode build setting of \u201cStandard architectures\u201d to build a single binary with 64-bit code.<\/p>\n<p>You can test ARM64 compatibility for your apps in the Xcode Simulator, and on Apple&nbsp;Watch Series&nbsp;9 or&nbsp;10, or Apple&nbsp;Watch Ultra&nbsp;2 running watchOS&nbsp;26&nbsp;beta.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/support\/xcode\/\">Learn more about the SDKs included <span class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright nowrap\">in Xcode<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning April&nbsp;2026, watchOS apps uploaded to App&nbsp;Store&nbsp;Connect must also include 64-bit support and be built with the watchOS&nbsp;26&nbsp;SDK. To enable 64-bit support in your project, we recommend using the default Xcode build setting of \u201cStandard architectures\u201d to build a single binary with 64-bit code. You can test ARM64 compatibility for your apps in the Xcode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}