Here’s the next Apple Watch face coming in watchOS 26.5 and how to customize it

Source: 9to5Mac

Apple Watch is gaining a new watch face with the watchOS 26.5 software update. The new option is an analog watch face with a wide range of personalization options—it can be as colorful or as monochromatic as you’d like.

Pride Luminance watch face lets you create your own design with custom color combinations

The new Pride Luminance watch face can take on several different styles and shapes with countless color combinations. It’s an analog watch face that always displays the ticking seconds hand on Apple Watch Series 10, Series 11, and Ultra 3.

Every Apple Watch running watchOS 26.5 can customize several aspects of the new Pride Luminance face. You can add one of the pre‑configured designs from the Face Gallery or get creative and configure your own.

Description

The Pride Luminance watch face celebrates the vibrancy, spirit, and individuality of the LGBTQ+ community. For the first time, you can choose background colors from various Pride flags to create a unique expression. A dynamic glass layer sits on top of the background and rotates in unison with the minute hand, producing a joyful motion and multifaceted self‑expression.

Customization options

• Color – Choose from 11 pre‑configured combinations or pick any of over 70 colors, selecting one to twelve colors at a time.
• Dial shape – Rectangle for a full‑screen background or circle to allow corner complications.
• Style – Two style options: one radiates out from the center, the other features six vertical lines.
• Corner complications – When using the circular dial, up to four corner complications are supported.

Apple provides 11 pre‑configured color combinations, but you can also create custom palettes.

The two style options include one that radiates out from the center and another that features six vertical lines. When paired with the circular dial option, the new watch face supports up to four corner complications.

Each watch face uses white hour and minute hands, while the seconds hand changes based on the chosen colors.

The new Pride Luminance face arrives as part of watchOS 26.5.

Apple also offers a highly customizable wallpaper version on iPhone and iPad in iOS 26.5. The new software updates are currently in beta and should arrive during the second week of May.

You can find the new Apple Watch Series 11 for as low as $299 on Amazon today.

Apple Watch Series 11 on Amazon (product link)