After one other 12 months of extraordinarily small Apple Watch upgrades, all eyes are on subsequent 12 months’s tenth anniversary for the primary main redesign. And a brand new rumor provides extra proof that one is coming.
In accordance with Kosutami on X (previously Twitter), the following era of the Apple Watch has “fully redesigned” band connectors. They are saying the studies that previous bands received’t work with the brand new mannequin are “100% correct.” Mark Gurman of Bloomberg beforehand reported that the 2024 Apple Watch could have a brand new magnetic band connector and a thinner design that may be incompatible with older bands.
Apple has supported bands going again to the unique Apple Watch—41mm watches work with 40mm and 38mm bands, and 45mm watches can use 42mm, 44mm, and 49mm bands—so altering them now can be comprehensible, although nonetheless an enormous deal. Apple will presumably promote lots of the current bands within the new format and in addition nonetheless promote older bands for no less than a 12 months or two.
Kosutami says Apple is altering the bands as a result of “the present connectors take lots of area,” which appears to point {that a} redesign is on the best way as properly. In his latest 2024 preview, Gurman claimed Apple is “planning no less than one mannequin with a brand new look” after beforehand detailing upcoming adjustments to the Collection X. So it definitely looks like 2024 will lastly carry a really new Apple Watch.
