When Does ‘Foundation’ Season 3 Come Out on Apple TV+?

Since its launch in 2019, Apple TV+ has low key become the streaming destination for science fiction fans. Foundation is arguably the best and boldest of the streamer’s many genre hits, weaving together the cerebral lore of Isaac Asimov’s novels with gorgeous, propulsive storytelling. Foundation Season 3 premieres later this week, finally bringing book fans face to face with iconic characters like The Mule (Pilou Asbæk), Magnifico Giganticus (Tómas Lemarquis), and newlyweds Bayta (Synnøve Karlsen) and Toran Mallow (Cody Fern). So when does Foundation Season 3 come out?

Foundation is set in a distant future where the galaxy is ruled by a “genetic empire.” At any moment in time, three generations of Cleon clones — known as Brother Dawn (Cassian Bilton), Brother Day (Lee Pace), and Brother Dusk (Terrence Mann) — rule over the bulk of the galaxy with the help of the android Demerzel (Laura Birn). However, a brilliant mathematician named Hari Seldon (Jared Harris) attracted these all-powerful leaders’ scorn in Season 1 by creating “psychohistory,” a way to predict the cataclysmic future. Hari and his protege Gaal Dornick (Lou Llobell) ask to create the Foundation, a community devoted to Seldon’s teachings to save human knowledge during the impending dark ages.

Each season of Foundation jumps ahead a few centuries to watch how Gaal and her allies can deal with the latest “crisis” affecting humanity. In Foundation Season 3, that crisis is the Mule, a pirate with the ability to compel people to do his violent bidding. How will Gaal and her allies handle this?

Here’s everything you need to know to jump into Season 3 of Foundation on Apple TV+…

When Does Foundation Season 3 Come Out? Foundation Season 3 Release Date:

Foundation Season 3 officially premieres tomorrow, Friday, July 11, 2025.

However, if we’re applying our psychohistory here, we’d like to predict that the show might be streaming on Apple TV+ before then…

What Time Does Foundation Season 3 Episode 1 Come Out on Apple TV+?

Foundation Season 3 Episode 1 “A Song For the End of Everything” will officially be on Apple TV+ at 3 AM ET (or 12 AM PT) on Friday, July 11.

That said, our calculations suggest that Foundation Season 3 could premiere on Apple TV+ as early as 9 PM ET on Tuesday, June 17. Our equation is based on the precedent that Apple often releases their originals the night before they are scheduled to drop.

How Many Episodes Are In Foundation Season 3?

There are ten episodes in total in Foundation Season 3, with new episodes coming out weekly on Fridays from now until September 12.

Foundation Season 3 Episode Guide: When Do New Episodes Of Foundation Premiere?

Don’t want to miss a single new episode of Foundation? Here’s your guide to when each and every episode of Foundation Season 3 comes out on Apple TV+:

• Season 2 Episode 1 “A Song for the End of Everything”: Friday, July 11
• Season 2 Episode 2 “Shadows in the Math”: Friday, July 18
• Season 2 Episode 3 “When a Book Finds You”: Friday, July 25
• Season 2 Episode 4 “The Stress of Her Regard”: Friday, August 1
• Season 2 Episode 5 “Where Tyrants Spend Eternity”: Friday, August 8
• Season 2 Episode 6 “The Shape of Time”: Friday, August 15
• Season 2 Episode 7 “Foundation’s End”: Friday, August 22
• Season 2 Episode 8 “Skin in the Game”: Friday, August 29
• Season 2 Episode 9 “The Paths That Choose Us”: Friday, September 5
• Season 2 Episode 10: Friday, September 12

How to Watch Foundation:

Want to get hip to one of the best science fictions shows on television? Andor left you yearning for more high brow genre entertainment? Then it’s the perfect time to jump into Foundation. Because Foundation is an Apple TV+ original, the only place you can watch it is on Apple TV+.

Apple TV+ comes with a seven-day free trial for new subscribers and has just one ad-free streaming plan available for $9.99/month.

Can’t remember what happened in Foundation Season 2? It’s cool. A lot happened. The basic gist of what you need to remember is that Gaal and the flesh and bone Hari copy succeeded in launching the Second Foundation on Ignis. Salvor Hardin tragically died in the process, but in doing so, proved the future was mutable. Members of the Second Foundation have enhanced psychic abilities, making them “mentallics.”

Throughout Foundation Season 2, Gaal had nightmares of a future where she would be attacked by another powerful psychic called the “Mule.” In preparation for this future crisis, Gaal and Hari go into cryo sleep, waking up every so often to keep tabs on the Second Foundation.

Elsewhere, we learn the twisted backstory to how the original Cleon I discovered Demerzel and reprogrammed her to obey his genetic dynasty. However, we also learned that the genetic dynasty is actually quite flawed, with each subsequent generation straying further from the original Cleon. This means that Demerzel is actually in charge. Hari has also gifted her a copy of the Prime Radiant.

The present-day Brother Day leads a battle to totally destroy the Foundation homeworld of Terminus, but it’s revealed that the Vault is able to save many of the residents, including Brother Constant, who is pregnant with Hober Mallow’s baby. A new Foundation will be built.

Foundation Season 3 Cast Guide:

One of the most fun things about Foundation is that by the nature of its conceit — a genetic empire ruled by clones, a vault that secures the holographic essence of Hari Seldon, cryosleep — actors can return to play the same or different characters over the show’s centuries-long run. Foundation Season 3 features a mix of familiar faces and newcomers whom you might recognize from Game of Thrones, CODA, Miss Austen, and American Horror Story. Here’s who’s who in the Foundation Season 3 cast:

• Jared Harris as Hari Seldon
• Lee Pace as Brother Day
• Lou Llobell as Gaal Dornick
• Laura Birn as Demerzel
• Terrence Mann as Brother Dusk
• Cassian Bilton as Brother Dawn
• Alexander Siddig as Dr. Ebling Mis
• Troy Kotsur as Preem Palver
• Pilou Asbæk as The Mule
• Cherry Jones as Foundation Ambassador Quent
• Synnøve Karlsen as Bayta Mallow
• Cody Fern as Toran Mallow
• Brandon P. Bell as Han Pritcher
• Tómas Lemarquis as Magnifco Giganticus
• Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing as Song