Amazfit is bringing a major update to its smartwatches this summer, giving iPhone users a highly requested feature before top rivals like Garmin.
According to the company’s new software roadmap, several Amazfit watches will soon get full support for Apple’s latest notification sharing system. This means iPhone users can finally reply to messages directly from their wrists—a luxury previously locked only to the Apple Watch.
Breaking Apple’s Walls
For years, Apple kept a tight grip on its ecosystem. While Android users could easily reply to texts from third-party watches, iPhone users could only read them.
However, thanks to recent tech updates in the European Union, Apple now allows outside smartwatch brands to access interactive notifications. Amazfit is moving quickly to take advantage of this change.
The update will roll out between June and August. It will land first on premium models like the Amazfit Cheetah 2 Ultra, the Balance 3, and the Balance Ultra.
Other popular models are expected to get the feature later down the line. Owners of the T-Rex 3, Balance 2, Active 2, and the budget-friendly Bip 6 should see the update arrive in a second wave of rollouts after the initial summer launch.
Zepp OS 6 is Coming Too
The notification trick is not the only thing on the horizon. In July, Amazfit plans to push out its new Zepp OS 6 operating system to several other popular models, including:
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T-Rex Ultra 2
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T-Rex 3 and 3 Pro
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Cheetah 2 Pro
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Active 3 Premium
What Else is Changing?
Aside from texting back and forth, the upcoming summer updates will bring a handful of other practical upgrades across the board:
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Better Workouts: A new feature called HybridCharge will help users track their daily training loads alongside their body’s recovery phases in one simple dashboard.
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Smarter Maps & Weather: The company is redesigning its weather application and improving how watches download offline maps.
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Apple Health: Syncing health data between the Zepp app and Apple Health will become much smoother.
While massive brands like Garmin are still figuring out how to implement these new iPhone capabilities, Amazfit is using this rollout to prove it can move faster than the biggest names in the fitness world.
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