Apple’s new watch bands still don’t have the right description for compatibility.

Apple released new watch bands today, and their compatibility description is still wrong. Not all 42mm Apple Watches fit all 42mm watch bands.

What Apple’s description says:

You can match most bands with any Apple Watch Series 3 or later case of the same size.

38mm, 40mm, 41mm, and 42mm bands are compatible with 38mm, 40mm, 41mm, 42mm case sizes. 44mm, 45mm, 46mm, and 49mm bands are compatible with 44mm, 45mm, 46mm, and 49mm case sizes.

What it should say:

You can match most bands with any Apple Watch Series 3 or later case of the same size. 

38mm, 40mm, 41mm, and 42mm bands are compatible with 38mm, 40mm, 41mm, and Series 10 42mm case sizes. 

44mm, 45mm, 46mm, and 49mm bands are compatible with 44mm, 45mm, 46mm, and 49mm case sizes, and Series 3 or earlier models with a 42mm case size.

If you’re still wearing a Series 3 watch or earlier in the 42mm size and you want to buy one of the new watch bands that is worth more than your watch (you know who you are), you would have to buy the 46mm watch bands for a proper fit.

To understand why, I went in extreme detail a few months ago discussing this growing confusion of Apple Watch band compatibility.