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Apple Watch Hacked to Run Custom Watch Faces [Video]

Apple Watch Hacked to Run Custom Watch Faces [Video]

Posted August 18, 2015 at 11:57pm by
Developer Hamza Sood has managed to hack the Apple Watch to enable custom watch faces.

Sood announced the accomplishment on Twitter:


After some haxx... Custom watch faces on Apple Watch!

Sood also posted an Xcode project called "CustomWatchFaceTest" to GitHub to help other developers create custom watch faces for themselves. To install you'll need to get Carousel to load the dylib.

Check out his video demo below or hit the link for the GitHub project.

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Marius
Marius - August 19, 2015 at 3:52pm
Say goodbye to your battery
paulMOGG
paulMOGG - August 19, 2015 at 12:52am
And a virtual screw driver and lets see what else he can come up with !
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