Apple Watch Ultra likely to launch with MicroLED display in 2025: everything you need to know

US-based tech giant Apple is said to be developing a next-generation display technology called microLED, which will come to the Apple Watch Ultra in 2025.

The current Apple Watch Ultra uses standard OLED technology, but microLED offers many of the benefits of OLED and some improvements. MicroLED displays have brighter, more vivid colors and look like content is “painted on top of the glass,” MacRumors reports.

Apple Watch’s microLED screen is expected to be 2.1 inches diagonal, but other features are not yet known. The Cupertino-based technology giant is already testing the microLED screens of the Apple Watch and other devices.

MicroLED is a new technology that uses microscopic LEDs for individual pixels. Compared to LED displays, microLED is much more energy efficient and has a longer potential life. Unlike OLED, the risk of screen burn-in is much lower.

However, MicroLED has not yet been mass-produced due to the associated costs and the difficulty of manufacturing displays. But several companies have focused on figuring out microLED.

According to MacRumors, MicroLED displays also offer contrast enhancements and faster response times thanks to individual pixel-level lights, plus better and brighter color. Like OLED displays, microLED displays can be flexible, so if Apple eventually moves to foldable devices, these products could use microLED light. The technology would also work on curved screens.

The report further added that the ‌Apple Watch Ultra‌ will be the first device to feature microLED, but the company plans to expand it to the iPhone, and it may also be introduced to the iPad and Mac in the future.

It may take some time for Apple to scale the technology to adopt larger microLED displays, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said there are clear plans to use microLED in the iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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