Apple Looking Into Apple Watch Bands With Added Functionality

At the moment the bands offered for the Apple Watch are pretty much purely for aesthetic reasons, which makes sense given that Apple has positioned the Apple Watch as more of a fashion accessory than your average tech gadget. However what if in the future Apple Watch bands were more functional?

Apparently that is an idea that Apple is exploring, according to a recently discovered patent in which Apple has come up with various ideas for a more functional band for the Apple Watch. In Apple’s patent, it talks about how the bands on the Apple Watch could be used to display information, alert users to notifications/reminders, or even show the progress of something, like a stopwatch, percentage of a download, the number of steps you’ve taken, and so on.

These bands won’t be stuffed with displays, but rather it talks about using an indicator in which only a portion of the band will be lit up. Now this isn’t the first time that it has been suggested that Apple wants to make the bands more functional. A patent from last year suggested that Apple was considering moving the haptic motor into the band itself, resulting in a possibly thinner Apple Watch.

However these are just patents meaning that there’s no guarantee that they’ll ever be made a reality, but if you think that the Apple Watch could stand to be more functional, who knows what the Apple Watch Series 3 could bring to the table? Cellular connectivity, perhaps?

Tyler Lee
Categories: Apple, Gadgets
Tags: Apple Watch, Patent, Smartwatch, Wearable Tech