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watchOS 26 Adds Four New Apple Watch Faces
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I have a theory on why Apple doesn't allow it.
See the watch face is what is on your watch nearly all the time, for Apple Watch users who have and turn on the always on display, it's literally all the time. That means that the watch face is actually part of how the Apple Watch looks. And that's very important to Apple as we all know.
I think they don't trust many developers to make "non-ugly" ones.
I do wonder if we’re going to see circular watch faces next year.
These new faces seem more than fine but not a wow.
I imagine that so many people ha e the watch now - and these watches are great for half a decade - that a way to boost sales will be to come up with a brand new form factor (new for the watch that is).
These new faces seem more than fine but not a wow.
I imagine that so many people ha e the watch now - and these watches are great for half a decade - that a way to boost sales will be to come up with a brand new form factor (new for the watch that is).
I don’t have a problem with them not opening it up but I’m surprised they don’t create more.
Even this. New update. 4 new faces. Wait it’s actually 2 as I haven’t got a Hermes or an ultra.
I’m also suprised they haven’t created more branded ones like the Toy Story and snoopy ones. I figure film and show producers would happy make and probably even pay to have them on the watches as advertising.
Is storage an issue ? I notice they seem to take some faces off when they add new these days.
Even this. New update. 4 new faces. Wait it’s actually 2 as I haven’t got a Hermes or an ultra.
I’m also suprised they haven’t created more branded ones like the Toy Story and snoopy ones. I figure film and show producers would happy make and probably even pay to have them on the watches as advertising.
Is storage an issue ? I notice they seem to take some faces off when they add new these days.
What blows my mind is, we're eleven years into this platform and nobody has hacked the damn thing. I’d be happy to DIY.
This is the kind of stuff that makes me want to move away from Apple products. This should have been a feature from day one. A round watch option as well. SSDD with Apple. Safari on Mac, is another horrible failure, with almost zero extension support and any kind of customization either. They finally brought a weird form of profiles but I have long since given up on it.
When my Ultra 1 finally dies, I am getting a Garmin Fenix.
More importantly, the face gallery has a slight facelift. Hated the former near endless list design.
Ok, good! Always up for new watch faces. 👍🏼
I came here to see if these new Watch faces would be available on Ultra. Waypoint and Flow look pretty cool.
I came here to see if these new Watch faces would be available on Ultra. Waypoint and Flow look pretty cool.
Honestly so disgusted over 90% of the watch faces. It’s a DIGITAL watch and we need to stop pretending it’s not. We need more useful digital watch faces, or just offer a digital/analog variant for each one. The only face that is appealing to me is Modular: Complications and digital time.
But it’s so old and boring that I don’t even use it anymore. I’ve been using Flux which is fun but there are no complications so I’m missing out on lots of the appeal of a smart watch and at a glance stuff.
If you add an analog face and add digital time as a complication, the hands end up covering up the time complication, and frankly, other data as well at points throughout the day. It’s infuriating.
If we could turn off the watch hands altogether when using digital time, that would be a great compromise. Better yet, with this big push to liquid glass, make the hands liquid glass or something so you could see through them at least. That would at least offer up some more choices in watch faces in the meantime.
But it’s so old and boring that I don’t even use it anymore. I’ve been using Flux which is fun but there are no complications so I’m missing out on lots of the appeal of a smart watch and at a glance stuff.
If you add an analog face and add digital time as a complication, the hands end up covering up the time complication, and frankly, other data as well at points throughout the day. It’s infuriating.
If we could turn off the watch hands altogether when using digital time, that would be a great compromise. Better yet, with this big push to liquid glass, make the hands liquid glass or something so you could see through them at least. That would at least offer up some more choices in watch faces in the meantime.