Hamza Sood – the same hacker who managed to bring Flappy Bird to the Apple Watch as a native app – has just hacked Apple’s wearable to do something just as cool: run custom watch faces.
This evening, Sood took to Twitter to post a 23-second video showing a custom watch face running on his stainless steel Apple Watch.
After some haxx… Custom watch faces on Apple Watch!
Watch face source code is on GitHub:https://t.co/7ZvOz8nK34 pic.twitter.com/nQGJKlp6kt
— Hamza Sood (@hamzasood) August 18, 2015
This isn’t an app. Sood is choosing his custom watch face right from the Apple Watch faces interface. He has shared the code he used on Github.
Although watchOS 2.0 adds a number of new features to the device, the inability to develop custom Apple Watch faces has been a sore point for developers of the wearable. Sood’s code proves it’s possible, though … at least for jailbreakers.
Would you like to have custom watch faces on the Apple Watch?
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John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
One response to “Hacker gets custom Apple Watch faces running on device”
And this is exactly why Apple probably won’t ever allow fully custom watch faces. Custom faces will quickly make Apple Watches look ridiculous.