Apple is reportedly looking to bring back a bit of its old Glances feature

Apple might be ready to overhaul watchOS. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports the company is working on redesigning the Apple Watch user interface, making widgets a "central part" of how you will interact with the smartwatch. Gurman reports that Apple plans to bring back elements of the Glances system it introduced in the original watchOS while borrowing the "style" of widgets Apple introduced with iOS 14 last year.

Gurman describes that the new interface will be "reminiscent" of the Siri watch face introduced with watchOS 4 in 2017. But the functions will work as an overlay for whatever watch face you want to use. It works similarly to widget stacks on iOS, so you can scroll through widgets you've placed on top of one another.

Apple is also reportedly testing a tweak for the physical Apple Watch buttons. With this redesign, pressing down on the digital crown launches the operating system's new widgets view instead of taking you to the home screen like the dial currently does.

The change might be confusing or jarring to some, so the new interface might be optional at first. This move might be Apple's admission that the iPhone-like experience "doesn't always make sense on a watch." Gurman noted how the smartwatch is a "place where you want as much information as possible with the least amount of poking around."

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