Developer hacks custom watch face for Apple Watch

Aug 18, 2015 23:20 GMT  ·  By

Developer Hamza Sood revealed today on his Twitter account that he managed to hack his Apple Watch device, forcing it to accept custom watch faces, by bypassing Apple's restrictions against installing third-party watch faces.

This is great news for Apple Watch fans from all over the world, especially because the "hack" is open-source and available to anyone who wants to install it or tweak it to their needs. However, it appears to work only on the watchOS 2 operating system.

"Custom watch faces on Apple Watch. To install you'll need to get Carousel to load the dylib," says Hamza Sood on the GitHub page of the "CustomWatchFaceTest" hack for Apple Watch. "I've tried my best to comment most aspects of the code."

At the end of the article you can see a demo of the "CustomWatchFaceTest" hack for Apple Watch, as Hamza Sood shows us a custom animated watch face playing the "ONOZ! OMG!" meme with a flashing background.

The demo video posted by Mr. Sood also shows us that users will be able to change the primary colors of the background, simply by using Apple Watch face customization UI. The source code of the hack contains customizable color schemes.

Mr. Sood is being known for his previous work on digging into Apple's code and managing to bypass various restrictions. If you attempt to install custom watch faces on your Apple Watch, please read all the instructions carefully.