Apple has officially unveiled the Apple Watch Ultra 4 alongside the iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro series, Apple Watch Series 12 and AirPods 5 during its Surprise and Shine launch event.
Continue to be positioned as its most rugged wearable, the Watch Ultra 4 maintains its familiar 49mm titanium enclosure while introducing significant upgrades to health tracking accuracy, GPS endurance, processor performance, and overall battery longevity.
Apple Watch Ultra 4 Malaysia Pricing
In Malaysia, the Apple Watch Ultra 4 is priced at RM3,699, matching the launch pricing of its predecessor. If you want to have your unit with a Titanium Milanese Loop instead of the default Alpine Loop, Trail Loop, or Ocean Band, the price increases to RM4,199.
Design options for the Apple Watch Ultra 4 remain available in Natural Titanium and Black Titanium. Apple has refreshed its strap lineup with new colours for the Trail Loop and Alpine Loop, alongside translucent silicone Ocean Bands available in Translucent Gray, Translucent Kelp, and Translucent Black.
There is also the Apple Watch Hermes Ultra 4, which starts at RM7,049 with the Scub’H Diving or En Mer strap. If you prefer to have the watch with the Grand H Titane strap, which is made out of Grade 5 titanium and has a built-in extension mechanism designed for wetsuit compatibility, the price tag is RM14,999.
Pre-orders for Apple Watch Ultra 4 in Malaysia kick off tomorrow, 11 September, with official retail availability starting on Friday, 18 September 2026. It can be obtained through Apple Malaysia’s official website and official Apple retailers, including Shopee and Lazada.
Apple Watch Ultra 4: What’s new?
At the centre of the hardware upgrades is the new S11 silicon, which drives Apple’s overhauled Health Sensing System. Equipped with larger green LEDs on the optical sensor, the watch continuously monitors heart rate every five seconds.
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) sampling frequency has also been increased up to 24 times, split into Recovery HRV for short-term stress monitoring and Overall HRV for broader cardiovascular health trends. These health metrics power a new native Readiness feature.
Just like recovery metrics on many sports watches out there, Readiness analyses training load, sleep scores, and daily vitals to generate a daily score from 0 to 10, accompanied by actionable recommendations on whether users should push their workouts or focus on recovery.
Battery endurance sees a notable increase across all operating modes. For standard daily usage, the Apple Watch Ultra 4 now delivers up to 50 hours of battery life, which stretches up to 84 hours when Low Power Mode is activated. For outdoor endurance tracking, the Extended Workout mode tracks full GPS and heart rate data for up to 25 hours.
Meanwhile, the Max Extended Workout mode extends continuous outdoor tracking up to 45 hours while maintaining 1-second GPS recording intervals. Fast charging has also been improved, supplying up to 18 hours of usage from a 15-minute charge.
The pedometer system on the S11 chip features redesigned machine learning algorithms for improved distance and step precision, accompanied by an official Steps complication for watch faces.
For accessibility, the S11 chip uses Apple’s Secure Exclave hardware to handle on-device Sound Recognition, allowing the watch to alert deaf or hard-of-hearing users to sounds like doorbells, sirens, or alarms without transmitting audio off-device. On-wrist Shazam music recognition has also been built directly into the Smart Stack interface.
Shipping with watchOS 27, the Ultra 4 gains single-handed tap gestures to select Smart Stack widgets using a pinch gesture, dynamic app grid layouts, and support for perimenopause and menopause tracking within Cycle Tracking. Existing supported Apple Watch Ultra models can update to watchOS 27 starting Monday, 14 September.
