Apple Watch Series 3 38mm screen size

Screen specs

Safe area insets

Safe areas haven't been measured for this device yet.

For iOS developers

• A 1 pt line is 2 pixels thick.
• A 44 pt tap target is 88 × 88 pixels.
• Assets: @2x.
• WKInterfaceDevice.current().screenBounds: 136 × 170 points (portrait).

Same layout size

Same points and scale (136 × 170 pt at @2x):

• Apple Watch Series 2 38mm

Compare

• Previous Apple Watch Series model: Apple Watch Series 2 38mm
• Next Apple Watch Series model: Apple Watch Series 4 40mm

Sources

• Apple Watch Series 3 - Tech Specs, Apple: diagonal, resolution, ppi, display_type, refresh_rate, features
• Xcode 27.1 (27A9275) Simulator: UIKit probe app (scripts/simulator/Measure.swift) and device-type capabilities.plist, measured 2026-10-27, Apple: logical_resolution, scale

Download and cite

• /api/devices/apple-watch-series-3-38mm.json: this device as JSON.
• /api/devices.json: every device.
• /api/devices.csv: every device as CSV.
• github.com/aryansbtloe/apple-device-screen-specs: the dataset, JSON Schema and validator.

Data: Apple device screen specs by bestlatestapps.com (https://bestlatestapps.com/tools/apple-device-screen-sizes/), licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Built from Apple's published tech specs and Human Interface Guidelines, Wikipedia for model identifiers, and our own Xcode Simulator measurements.

Cite as: Singh, A. (2026). Apple Device Screen Specs (v0.1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23819103

Also on: Zenodo and Kaggle

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