{"id":39817,"date":"2023-06-20T16:14:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39817"},"modified":"2023-06-20T16:14:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T20:14:31","slug":"still-no-custom-apple-watch-faces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/20\/still-no-custom-apple-watch-faces\/","title":{"rendered":"Still No Custom Apple Watch Faces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/06\/19\/interview-watchos-10-third-party-apple-watch-faces\/\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2023\/06\/19\/watchos-10-still-lacks-third-party-watch-faces\/\">MacRumors<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/06\/19\/interview-watchos-10-third-party-apple-watch-faces\/\"><p>Asked about the possibility of third-party watch faces on Apple Watch, Lynch says that the watch face is the home screen of the watch and they want everything to work reliably and consistently. <\/p><p>As Apple controls all the faces the user can choose, Caldbeck adds that users &ldquo;don&rsquo;t have to worry about the watch face still working when there&rsquo;s a major watchOS update. We&rsquo;ll take care of that.&rdquo;<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If third-party faces were available, Apple argues it wouldn&rsquo;t be able to ensure that the watch faces keep working if they change something in the operating system, like this year&rsquo;s watchOS 10 redesign that includes a new swipe up gesture to reveal a tray of user-selectable widgets.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This explanation doesn&rsquo;t make a lot of sense to me.<\/p>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/10\/why-apple-doesnt-allow-custom-watch-faces\/\">Why Apple Doesn&rsquo;t Allow Custom Watch Faces<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Mayo (MacRumors): Asked about the possibility of third-party watch faces on Apple Watch, Lynch says that the watch face is the home screen of the watch and they want everything to work reliably and consistently. As Apple controls all the faces the user can choose, Caldbeck adds that users &ldquo;don&rsquo;t have to worry about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-06-20T20:14:34Z","apple_news_api_id":"8565ef90-b9d8-444a-a78f-d174caa805af","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-06-20T20:14:34Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AhWXvkLnYREqnj9F0yqgFrw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1212,2394],"class_list":["post-39817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-watchos","tag-watchos-10"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39818,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39817\/revisions\/39818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}