Not content with its plan to make Apple Watch bands whose color can be changed, Apple wants those bands to change what the Watch displays — and to prove that they are “authorized.”
In February 2023, Apple was granted a patent for an Apple Watch band that users could alter at will. Specifically, it could change color, and the principle was that a user could make the band match whatever they were wearing.
Rather than going through the now apparently burdensome business of changing Watch straps by hand, or even changing Watches, a simple control could alter the band’s appearance.
