Third-party watch faces for the Apple Watch aren’t something everyone inside Apple loves, or so its executives say.
The Apple Watch spheres have changed with the passage of updates and in watchOS 10 we have new spheres for our watch. But from the first to the last version, Apple has refused to allow third-party developers to create watch faces for the Apple Watch.. And the company talked about it again.
the swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeigervia 9to5mac, published an interesting interview with the vice presidents of Apple, Kevin Lynch and Deidre Caldbeck. In the interview, the leaders talked about watchOS 10 and they explained why Apple didn’t want others to come up with faces for the Apple Watch.
watchOS 10 is coming with many new features
Here’s why your Apple Watch doesn’t have third-party watch faces
Since the first model, each user has been able to customize their Apple Watch as they wish. But always in the options offered by Applefor which you had to use one of the predetermined spheres.
Apple sees the watch face as the home screen of the Apple Watch, so they want everything to work properly. This way, “users don’t have to worry about the watch face still working when there is a major watchOS update. We will take care of it,” Caldbeck said.
In addition, the leaders also claim that Apple already gives users great flexibility to customize their Apple Watch faces.editing of shapes and colors, as well as the ability to enhance them with complications from third-party applications.
Despite the fact that it may seem that Apple does not listen to users, who in many cases request that third-party spheres can be installed, the two managers assure that some of the new features of watchOS 10 are directly based on user feedback. Either through the beta program or through the emails sent to them.
The operation of watchOS 10 widgets is very simple and intuitive
For example, they indicate that new watchOS 10 widgets have been added thanks to user feedback. They wanted quick access to information and the new widget system makes many of them easily accessible.
Another example they give is the reuse of the Digital Crown button, which now double-tapping it opens apps that are open. Something that is logical according to the officials and in which they had not fallen, “because if you press the crown once, you can access the applications”.
That Apple lets you share spheres and that’s why we have several sphere apps for the Apple Watch. But if we want to have fully customizable faces, it’s not that easy, even with apps like Clockology.
