Apple is revamping the user interface of the Apple Watch, with a focus on widgets, in what is being touted as the most significant software overhaul to watchOS in recent times.
Users will be able to set up the interactive, iOS-like widgets from their phones, adding basic apps such as weather, calendar, maps, and stocks to the Apple Watch.
Watch users will be able to scroll through the widgets instead of clicking on them to launch apps.
- Apple previously experimented with a widgets-like feature, called Glances, when the Apple Watch came out in 2015.
- According to Gurman, Apple plans to combine the old Glances with widget styles from iOS 14.
- He claims the new interface will be "reminiscent" of the Siri watch face that came out with watchOS 4 in 2017.
The new widgets will release as part of the watchOS 10 update, the next-gen version of the Apple Watch's operating system.
- Apple is expected to unveil watchOS 10 alongside iOS 17 and macOS 14 at WWDC in June.
