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Apple Watch Human Interface Guidelines

Glances

Viewed together, Glances are a browsable collection of timely and contextually relevant moments from the wearer’s favorite apps. Individually, a Glance is a quick view of your app’s most important content.

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Glances are:

  • Template-based. There are separate templates for the upper and lower portions of the Glance screen. Use Xcode to pick the templates you want and then design your content accordingly.

  • Not scrollable. All content must fit on a single screen.

  • Associated with a single action. Tapping anywhere on a Glance opens the app to the appropriate screen.

  • Optional. Not all apps need a Glance, and users select which Glances to display.

The area at the bottom of the Glance is reserved for the page indicator dots.

Configure the Glance based on the user’s current context. Stale or irrelevant information makes a Glance less useful. Use time and location to reflect what is relevant to the user right now.

Glances can deep link into their corresponding app. Glances use of Handoff to inform their app extension what the Glance was displaying when the user tapped it. The extension can then use this information to configure the WatchKit app interface accordingly.

Glances must provide useful content to the user. Do not provide a Glance simply to facilitate the launching of your app.