Customizing the Apple Watch is part of the user experience the company with the bitten apple to its users. Although since its launch this has only been done by offering bands in different materials and colors, Apple has been thinking about this for a while. How to make a face of Apple Watch that changes color depending on what you are using?

For now, Apple has taken this approach in a patent. Registered with this name “Electronic Devices with Color Sampling Sensors”.

Apple Watch will be highly customizable

According to the document, Apple users some control over the color of their watch faces. In this way, it will be possible to adjust the colors to change from white to red, as in the hour and minute hands. However You cannot change all elements, and you can only change colors within certain limits.

Inside elements with which the sphere can be combined these:

Colour [de la esfera del reloj] it can be matched to the color of a watchband (for example, a watchband or other watchband), an article of clothing (for example, a shirt or other article of clothing), or any external object. other suitable external object.

For this effect to occur, the user could theoretically point the watch at their suit, dress, matching couture shoe or car before putting on the watch. Apple’s patent says that this color detection sensor will be integrated into the front display of a watch or any future device.

Until now, The tests showed encouraging results. As stated in the patent:

During color sampling operations, the screen may emit light towards the external object in front of the screen while the light sensor collects color measurements. The screen can emit a series of red, green and blue light, and the light sensor can detect the reflected red light, the reflected green light and the amount of reflected blue light to determine the reflection of the external object… Then the device can determine the color of the external object based on the measured reflection.

While in practice the sensors may perform slightly differently depending on the type of elements to be paired and other considerations, what is certain is that this patent confirms that. Apple has an interest in meeting one of the criteria for a good tech product, the heuristic rule of giving users control.

For now, we’re waiting for the Apple Watch Series 9 this year, but meanwhile, rumors about the device’s 10th anniversary Apple Watch X are already gaining traction.