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Apple's watchOS 8 updates often come with new watch faces, but this year, Apple only announced a single watch face for Portrait Mode photos. There may be another in the works, however, as an unreleased "World Timer" watch face was spotted in a UIKit developer session.

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There were no details provided on this watch face, and it was accidentally pictured in a slide with multiple other iPhone screenshots.

The analog watch face has a world map with a 24-hour clock that has the names of major cities around it, allowing users to determine the current time in different worldwide time zones.


Design wise, the World Timer watch face is similar to some high-end watches that offer multiple time zone functionality, and it's also somewhat similar to the GMT watch face that lets you track two time zones.

The World Timer watch face is not in watchOS 8 at the current time, so unless it was scrapped, it's something that Apple could be planning to add in a later beta update.

Article Link: Unreleased 'World Timer' Watch Face Featured in WWDC Session
 
Probably saving it for a mid cycle software update, pretty sure they've done that with other watch faces before.
 
That would be good revenue for Apple. Properly regulating it could prove to be a tedious chore. I could see it happening in a few years.
Something like protecting against copyright infringement could be one of the bigger issues, but as long as there’s a sufficiently rigorous enrolment process, developer account suspension on breaking the rules, and the standard fee associated with opening a developer account, I don’t think there would be much of an issue.

If they ran it like they run the app store I see it working well, and could definitely open a whole new stream of revenue for both Apple Watch developers as well as Apple
 
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Something like protecting against copyright infringement could be one of the bigger issues, but as long as there’s a sufficiently rigorous enrolment process, developer account suspension on breaking the rules, and the standard fee associated with opening a developer account, I don’t think there would be much of an issue.

If they ran it like they run the app store I see it working well, and could definitely open a whole new stream of revenue for both Apple Watch developers as well as Apple
For all we know, Apple has been at work for a good while already ironing out the fine details. :D
 
Where are all the Flat Design Thumpers... All this detail, all this artfulness. How dare Apple!
 
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