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New Pride Edition Band for Apple Watch Now Available at Apple Stores
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I remember walking through the gay part of Philadelphia in 2013. It was a beautiful area. Gay people sure have good taste, I thought. Then I started seeing the rainbow flags with the brown and black stripes added. I googled what it was about and just shook my head. This won’t end well, I thought. I’d say now it was one of the thousand paper cuts that led people to vote for the orange man—an outcome I could have done without.
politics and everything else aside, I do agree it looks pretty bad. The colours look to clash because of how they meet up.
Lately I have been using stock Apple backgrounds, especially on my MacBook Pro, love the combo of moving screen saver and fantastic images. Would love this on mobile as well if it did not drain the battery.
Lately I have been using stock Apple backgrounds, especially on my MacBook Pro, love the combo of moving screen saver and fantastic images. Would love this on mobile as well if it did not drain the battery.
I like it. Looks great with my natural titanium S10. Not as good as the 2020 pride band, but a close contender.
That doesn't reflect very well on you. "It was all going great until they started including brown and black."
I'm hearing it a lot this year: "You need to throw certain groups under the bus. Be the oppressor for political reasons."
I don’t think any of these people care how it all reflects on them, sadly.
To all the still sane, maybe it really had to get this bad to get us all up and defending virtue and understanding. Like how the cure for cancer is crippling chemo, but then it gets better.
Can we get actual good wallpapers like back in the days Apple used to release some really good ones, instead of random colors and boring stuff… honestly there are way many problems with the iOS software currently that they need to focus on instead of releasing this nonsense.
The new Pride Edition Sport Band for the Apple Watch is now available to purchase in person at Apple Store locations in the U.S. and select other countries.
Apple unveiled the band last week, as part of its 2025 Pride Collection, which also includes a new Pride Harmony watch face and a matching iPhone and iPad wallpaper. The watch face and wallpaper are available starting with watchOS 11.5, iOS 18.5, and iPadOS 18.5. All three software updates were released two days ago.
The band has been available on Apple.com since last week, and in-store availability commenced by today. Available in 40mm, 42mm, and 46mm sizes, the band features rainbow stripes that vary in shape and size, with no two bands looking exactly alike.
In the U.S., the band costs $49.
The matching Pride Harmony watch face features rainbow stripes that dynamically shift to form large hour numerals as users raise their wrist to check the time.
The matching iPhone and iPad wallpaper features colorful stripes that change position as users move, lock, or unlock their devices.
Apple says its Pride Collection celebrates the strength and beauty of LGBTQ+ communities around the world. In addition to the Pride Collection, Apple said it is proud to financially support organizations that serve LGBTQ+ communities.
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So you're saying they need an iPhone wallpaper for every minority? Because basically there's always a certain segment of the population that are jerks and don't like certain minorities. It's been that way since the dawn of mankind and it will be that way until the end of mankind.
Do you think you're better than other minorities then that you deserve an iPhone wallpaper and they don't? Get over yourself. And yes, people are sick of the whole pride thing and it's not because of "bad orange potato man".
Ok as much as the right is trying, it’s still a free country, no problem from me. Hopefully one day the right will stop always playing victim and realize not everyone or everything is about their feelings. They can dish it out but collapse into anger and snark when it comes at them.
When people are told to believe they are evil incarnate that attitude makes pathetic sense.
The compulsion to divide people into ever-smaller intersectional groups leads not to inclusion, but to a balkanized society. Brown and Black people were already included—obviously, as there’s no white on there either.
Perfect example of that style of rhetoric that reverses the truth and twists it to be the polar opposite. Like that bs saying “empathy is the root of all evil.”
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Probably Apple spent more money on designing products and wallpapers around 🌈 than on making Siri useful. That's why now kids who are younger than ‘her’ making fun about.
There are very few “minorities” in this world, but gays are definitely one of them.
Then again, I always found the concept of celebrating who one has sexual intercourse strange and gross. I have zero interest in knowing what people’s sexual preferences are.
That being said, this is the worst pride month wallpaper.
it isn’t anti-gay rhetoric to say we are over it. it is anti-social-engineering to say that. it is most inclusive to say “your group isn’t special, we are all the same: individuals”.
We've had wedding celebrations since forever, and they are about celebrating who one has sexual intercourse with.
Pride, on the other hand is about celebrating community.
No, it’s clearly anti-lgbtq rhetoric. Your justification for it is a diversion to not claim responsibility for saying such thing.
You clearly don’t understand that is your opinion, as my POV is my opinion. You offer no logic other than “you are wrong because I say so.” Thanks for validating my position.
Pretending not to see difference isn’t equality, it’s erasure. Saying ‘we’re all the same’ only works if the world has treated everyone the same, and it hasn’t.
LGBTQ+ people have been treated as less-than: legally, socially, economically, and often violently. Saying ‘we’re over it’ while those structures and consequences still exist is like telling someone with a fresh wound that they should act healed because you’re tired of seeing blood.
It’s not ‘anti-social-engineering’ to acknowledge that LGBTQ+ people need protection and representation. That’s just ethics in practice. The real social engineering is pretending history didn’t happen, pretending current discrimination isn’t real, and trying to make people feel ashamed for needing community support.
Calling that ‘inclusivity’ is gaslighting. Real inclusivity means creating space for people whose identities have been attacked, erased, or excluded; not demanding that they abandon those identities just to make you feel more comfortable.
Sure, we both have opinions, but not all opinions carry the same weight when it comes to lived realities. Saying ‘we’re all individuals’ is a philosophical stance. But saying LGBTQ+ people still face discrimination isn’t just a feeling, it’s backed by data, laws, history, and current events. One of these is an opinion. The other is a fact you’re refusing to engage with.
LGBTQ+ people have been treated as less-than: legally, socially, economically, and often violently. Saying ‘we’re over it’ while those structures and consequences still exist is like telling someone with a fresh wound that they should act healed because you’re tired of seeing blood.
It’s not ‘anti-social-engineering’ to acknowledge that LGBTQ+ people need protection and representation. That’s just ethics in practice. The real social engineering is pretending history didn’t happen, pretending current discrimination isn’t real, and trying to make people feel ashamed for needing community support.
Calling that ‘inclusivity’ is gaslighting. Real inclusivity means creating space for people whose identities have been attacked, erased, or excluded; not demanding that they abandon those identities just to make you feel more comfortable.
Sure, we both have opinions, but not all opinions carry the same weight when it comes to lived realities. Saying ‘we’re all individuals’ is a philosophical stance. But saying LGBTQ+ people still face discrimination isn’t just a feeling, it’s backed by data, laws, history, and current events. One of these is an opinion. The other is a fact you’re refusing to engage with.
They are not taking money and staff away from R&D or support in another division to make wallpapers.