Apple Watch Reportedly Set to Gain iPhone Style Widgets
Apple Watch is reportedly set to gain iOS-like widgets when its watchOS 10 arrives later this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports(Opens in a new window).
According to Gurman, the widgets will be a central part of the watchOS 10 interface, and they will debut at WWDC in June, where Apple is set to also unveil iOS 17, macOS 14, the 15-inch MacBook Air, and its long-awaited headset.
As Gurman notes, the new widgets system will combine the old watchOS Glances system and the style of widgets that were introduced in iOS 14 on the iPhone.
The new interface design will bear resemblance to the Siri watch face, Gurman says, but it will diverge from it in letting users overlay widgets on any Apple Watch face. The new widgets will also allow users to stack multiple widgets on top.
The move to implement widgets come as Apple Watch apps have not taken off like Apple had hoped. According to a recent European Apple filing(Opens in a new window), the Apple Watch App Store has less than a million monthly users in Europe, in comparison to 101 million iPhone App Store monthly users.
In his Bloomberg Power On newsletter, Gurman also reports that Apple is “currently testing the idea of changing the function” of some Apple Watch buttons. For the next version of watchOS, Apple may make it so that pressing the Digital Crown launches widgets instead of the home screen, as is currently the case.
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