Over the past few weeks, we have seen that many leakers already believe that watchOS 10 will host widgets on the watchOS home screen. These widgets will have similar functionality to what we currently have in iOS and iPadOS. However, in addition to widgets watchOS 10 seems to be the most surprised operating system at WWDC23. These new ways of displaying information and interacting with the user will usher in a new stage for Apple Watch.
Widgets will be the key to the complete overhaul of watchOS 10
Hand in hand with Tim Cook and his entire team of engineers and other employees will launch the first betas for developers who will start testing and showing off all the news presented throughout WWDC. watchOS 10 will be released during the WWDC23 keynote on June 5 at Apple Park, along with iOS 10 and iPadOS 10, among others.
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This watchOS 10 concept revolutionizes the home screen with widgets
The new operating system for Apple Watch will undoubtedly have a complete overhaul changing the concept we have of the Apple device today. Many leaks have taken place in recent months indicating the arrival of widgets, folders and a deep modification of the interface. Now Mark Gurman in his weekly newsletter, Bloomberg Power On, is the one adding to those leaks. reinforce this idea of global overhaul.
Gurman assures that from Cupertino they design new ways to display widgets and information to interact with to make honeycomb applications that we have known since day one. This new widget system will allow the user to vertically scroll through weather information, upcoming events, quick shortcut actions and much more. Gurman recounts the operation with the stack of widgets we currently have on iOS, which allows to have several widgets in the same place on the screen.
Apple is also exploring new ways to interact with the Digital Crown. Currently, when we click once on the crown, we are taken to the honeycomb applications to open any app by tapping the icon. However, as Gurman says, this interface works great on the iPhone or iPad where the number of apps is high. But in the case of the Apple Watch it is more important to access more information with less difficulty.