Loading history…
Apple Watch faces
This is r2 (the current revision), saved by jack. Full history
|
Apple Watch faces
| |
| Developer | Apple (exclusively — no third-party faces) |
|---|---|
| Platform | watchOS |
| Customization | Complications · colors · styles · Face Gallery in the Watch app |
[ Show / Hide ]
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Watch faces are the Apple Watch's home screen and its fashion statement — the dials, complications, and animations that make one Watch look like a diver's tool and another like a Snoopy cartoon. Apple designs every face itself; watchOS has never allowed third-party faces, making the catalog one of the platform's firmest walls.
1 The catalog✎
The library spans utilitarian faces dense with complications (Modular, the Series 4-era Infograph), typographic designs (California, Typograph), photographic and generative faces (Portraits, Kaleidoscope), and licensed characters — Mickey, Toy Story, and the beloved Snoopy of watchOS 10. Complications, inherited in name from horology, put third-party data on Apple's dials — the compromise position for a platform that won't share the canvas itself. watchOS 26 carried the family into the Liquid Glass era alongside the other platforms' redesigns.
2 Position✎
Faces are where the Watch's jewelry and computer identities meet, and the no-third-party rule is the product's longest-running debate: Apple argues battery, legibility, and taste; developers see the platform's most personal surface closed to them. Each September's new faces function as the Watch's fashion season.
Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0