Release appearance

watchOS 5.1.3 Public

Full article
Public release

Recorded context

About this appearance

watchOS 5.1.3 reached the public channel on 2019-01-22. This article records Apple's version-labeled feature or maintenance notes and the accompanying first-party security record.

Date
Jan 22, 2019
Availability
available
Revision
No

Release notes

What changed

Original editorial synthesis. Linked references appear with the claims they support and in the source ledger.

Public release

watchOS 5.1.3 was released on January 22, 2019. Apple's consumer history characterizes it as improvements and bug fixes, while the accompanying advisory documents concrete security repairs.[1][2]

What the evidence supports

Apple did not enumerate an individual consumer feature for this point release. The article therefore preserves that limited description and records only the security areas explicitly listed in Apple's advisory.[3][2]

Source ledger

References

Sources are linked to the claims they support. Publication and access dates are shown when available.

  1. About the security content of watchOS 5.1.3

    Apple Support · Apple · 2019-01-22T00:00:00.000Z · Released January 22, 2019

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  2. About watchOS 5 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-30 · watchOS 5.1.3

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  3. About the security content of watchOS 5.1.3

    Apple Support · Apple · 2019-01-22T00:00:00.000Z · watchOS 5.1.3 security content

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  4. About the security content of watchOS 5.1.3

    Apple Support · Apple · 2019-01-22T00:00:00.000Z · AppleKeyStore; Core Media; IOKit; Kernel; Natural Language Processing; SQLite; WebKit

Release changes

Changed in this release

Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.

security · fixed

watchOS 5.1.3 security repairs

documentedconfirmed

The release repaired vulnerabilities involving key storage, media and language processing, sandbox and kernel boundaries, SQLite, and WebKit.

  1. [1] About the security content of watchOS 5.1.3 · AppleKeyStore; Core Media; IOKit; Kernel; Natural Language Processing; SQLite; WebKit

bugFix · fixed

watchOS 5.1.3 maintenance update

documentedconfirmed

Apple described watchOS 5.1.3 as a maintenance release and did not publish a more granular consumer-facing fix list.

  1. [1] About watchOS 5 Updates · watchOS 5.1.3