“WatchOS 10 to feature the return of widgets, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman”

With watchOS 10, Apple intends to thoroughly review the interface of its connected watches. And according to Mark Gurman of Bloomberg, this will include the great return of widgets.

As you may know, Apple has already made an appointment with fans on June 5, 2023 for its new Wordwide Developers Conference. During this WWDC 2023, we expect in particular major announcements concerning watchOS 10, the new version of Apple’s operating system dedicated to its connected watches.

And according to Mark Gurman, a renowned Bloomberg journalist, watchOS 10 will represent the most important software update of the OS since 2015. This will notably involve the integration of major new features, without forget a total redesign of the interface.

And on this last point, Mark Gurman has just shared in his weekly newsletter Power On some additional details. Thus and according to his information, watchOS 10 will mark the great return of widgets.

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Remember, when the first Apple Watch launched in 2015, watchOS was built around four central pillars:

• the clock face
• the home screen that housed the app icons
• the interface for widgets called Glances
• and finally another part to access recent contacts

Over the years and the development of watchOS, the widgets and the area dedicated to recent contacts have been abandoned, Apple preferring instead to highlight notifications, multitasking features and apps.

But with watchOS 10, the Apple brand intends to bring widgets back to center stage, to make it a central element of the interface. In any case, that’s what Mark Gurman says. More precisely, this new system of widgets would be built as a combination of elements taken from the Glances interface and the style of the widgets introduced on iOS 14 on the iPhone.

Make widgets the central element of the interface

In fact, by clicking on the rotating crown, the user can scroll through the widgets in order to quickly access certain essential information (weather, battery life, connected objects, stock market prices, agenda and calendar, monitoring of sports activity, etc.). The idea being prevent the user from launching apps to view this information. But also to allow developers of square format iOS wigdgets to quickly offer them on watchOS.

According to Mark Gurman, these changes prove one thing: Apple finally recognizes the nonsense of offering an interface similar to that of the iPhone on a connected watch (a device where users want the least possible manipulation).