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Apple Watch gets new Unity Lights watch face

The new Unity Lights watch face

To celebrate Black History Month, Apple is introducing the new Unity Lights Apple Watch face, inspired by Afrofuturism.

Almost a year ago to the day, Apple released the Unity watch face for Apple Watch. The new Unity Lights face is an iteration on that, still pulling in the vibrant red and green colors.

The new face comes in full-screen or round styles and has red and green light emitting from the edges of each watch hand. On the circle version, you have four rounded complications — one in each corner.

Various configurations of the Unity Lights watch face Various configurations of the Unity Lights watch face

There is a version with tick marks around each hour and a greyscale version too for those that don't prefer the color. A monogram is available as well.

Apple says the Unity Lights face, as well as its new Black Unity Braided Solo Loop, was inspired by a philosophy that "explores Black experience through a narrative of science, technology, and self-empowerment."

Both were designed by those in the Black creative community within Apple and symbologies a communal belief in the necessity for a more equitable world.

The new Unity Lights watch face is available with watchOS 8.3 on Apple Watch Series 4 or later. It coincides with a broader push from Apple to celebrate Black culture across its products and services.



10 Comments

mknelson 9 Years · 1148 comments

That face looks pretty cool at "happy o'clock". What does it look like with a sad face?

Mariner8 6 Years · 36 comments

mknelson said:
That face looks pretty cool at "happy o'clock". What does it look like with a sad face?

Turn your iPhone upside down (assuming that you’re looking at this on an iPhone). 

Mariner8 6 Years · 36 comments

Screenshot rotated 180 degrees ….

thrang 17 Years · 1037 comments

will be nice if that add other color options in the future...

multimedia 23 Years · 1031 comments

Doesn’t appear on my Series 6 WATCH. Looks like it should in the WATCH App on my iPhone. But no such luck on my WATCH. Does it require WatchOS 8.4?