iOS 26.1 hints at iPhone adding support for third-party smartwatches

iOS 26.1 beta 1 arrived earlier this week with a variety of new features and changes. But the beta’s code also revealed, as discovered by Macworld, Apple working toward the iPhone adding third-party smartwatch support.

iOS 26.1 code shows Apple working toward improved compatibility with third-party smartwatches

Filipe Esposito writes at Macworld:

The latest iOS beta code includes an unreleased feature called Notification Forwarding. As the name suggests, it will let users…