The Apple Watch Series 8 (41mm, GPS, Silver Aluminum Case with White Sport Band S/M) is a full-featured smartwatch introduced in 2022, designed to work with iPhone 8 or later running iOS 16 or later. It features an Always-On Retina LTPO OLED display at 352 x 430 pixels with up to 1000 nits brightness, powered by the Apple S8 SiP with a 64-bit dual-core processor, W3 wireless chip, and U1 Ultra Wideband chip.

Health and safety features include a blood oxygen sensor with the Blood Oxygen app, an electrical heart sensor with ECG app, a third-generation optical heart sensor, high-g accelerometer with Fall Detection and Crash Detection (up to 256 g-forces), a high dynamic range gyroscope, and an ambient light sensor. The watch supports GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, QZSS, and BeiDou positioning, along with an always-on altimeter and compass. It is water resistant to 50 meters (ISO 22810:2010) and certified IP6X dust resistant.

Connectivity includes Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n (2.4GHz and 5GHz) and Bluetooth 5.3. The watch offers up to 18 hours of all-day battery life, or up to 36 hours in Low Power Mode, and charges via the included Apple Watch Magnetic Fast Charger to USB-C Cable (1m). Internal storage is 32GB. The aluminum case is made with 100% recycled aluminum, and the unit weighs 31.9g. Dimensions are 41mm x 35mm x 10.7mm. Apple Pay, GymKit, Emergency SOS, and a speaker and microphone are also included.