For the previous few months, the Apple Watch Series 7 was anticipated to debut alongside the iPhone 13 lineup subsequent Tuesday. However, current reviews about manufacturing points forged some doubts over that timeline. Now, it appears just like the smartwatch is again on monitor to ship later this month.

The information comes from a brand new investor report from good, ole dependable Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo (through MacRumors). In November, Kuo mentioned that the Series 7 was due for a major redesign, and in current weeks, leaked images of the Series 7 appeared to point out a barely bigger display screen and a flat-edge design harking back to the iPhone 12. Last week, Nikkei Asia and Bloomberg each wrote that the brand new design was inflicting issues with take a look at manufacturing, delaying the watches from getting into mass manufacturing as beforehand deliberate.

Kuo’s newest report provides just a little extra element. The Series 7 purportedly has a extra sturdy show panel that makes use of a brand new contact design that required a brand new manufacturing course of. It additionally wanted to make use of new suppliers, together with LG Display, Young Poong, and Jabil to assist with extra environment friendly and economical OLED manufacturing. Kuo says that points surrounding this panel module have since been resolved by making changes by means of a collection of design experiments. As a end result, Kuo says he expects mass manufacturing for the Series 7 to start in mid-September and for shipments to start in late September.

This makes it much more probably that we’ll truly hear an announcement concerning the Series 7 subsequent week, although it is probably not instantly accessible. This has been echoed by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who predicted last week that the watch can be introduced subsequent week however would ship late, or in smaller portions.

It’s not a Kuo report if we don’t hear just a little one thing about future Apple merchandise as properly. This time round, Kuo talked about he’s optimistic for subsequent 12 months’s Apple Watch, as it’ll embody new well being options—particularly, the flexibility to measure temperature. This dovetails with a current Wall Street Journal report that contends Apple is engaged on quite a lot of superior well being options, together with the flexibility to measure blood strain and physique temperature. The physique temperature sensor will reportedly assist give customers extra perception into fertility planning. There are additionally a ton of different features {that a} physique temperature sensor may very well be helpful for. Recovery trackers like Whoop and Oura Ring use them to judge the standard of sleep, whereas different researchers have been learning whether or not pores and skin temperature knowledge from wearables might doubtlessly assist detect infectious illnesses.