Despite some very significant change to theApple Watchuser interface announced forwatchOS 10 , Apple is inexorable its control over the underpin watch faces will rest .
In a new consultation with Apple executive director , the company seemed to rule out enable third - party watch faces to be charge onto the machine , cite potential serviceableness care come from software updates .
speak to the Swiss newspaperTages - Anzeiger , VPs Kevin Lynch and Deidre Caldbeck both enounce they want to secure user can swear on their watch cheek – the first matter they interact with – to work reliably .
It ’s a salient distributor point considering Apple ’s software updates quite often require the developer to make modification of their own to pass over out a few bug . That ’d be slenderly more turbulent if it affected the entire watch face .
Elsewhere in the interview , Apple say the new Smart Stack widgets system is something the company has been trying to get the hang since the original watchOS , in terms of testify user significant selective information without get to delve into an app .
In its presentation at WWDC In its presentation , Apple register Smart Stack depicting bits of information like the weather and forthcoming events from your calendar . The new UI is sure to feel at home on the Apple Watch , where quick glance are the name of the plot .
Calbeck bring : “ We already had Glances and other variants that do something exchangeable . But now it ’s really , really gentle and intuitive . We ’re passing optimistic about that . ”
As well as the new widgets , Apple has completely redesigned a host of the software ’s most used apps , including Apple Maps , Weather , and Calls . Elsewhere the company has worked on making the Mindfulness app more utile , while golf game , cycling and tramp tracking also contract better in watchOS 10 .
The update is useable in beta now and will release in full this autumn .