Apple this evening appears to have updated the way in which Apple Watch screenshots are presented in the App Store on iOS. Prior to this recent update, Apple Watch screenshots were shown as normal, rectangular screenshots, which looked unappealing and out of place. Now, Apple has added a black border to the screenshots and has given them rounded corners.
These changes make the apps look more realistic and similar to how they actually appear when running on Apple Watch. The refreshed screenshots are showing now on the iOS App Store, while the desktop version of the App Store still shows the original, borderless images.
Below are the new screenshots compared to the new, refined images. It’s certainly not a major change, but one that will definitely be welcomed by users.
I'm seeing nicer App Store screenshots for Apple Watch apps tonight pic.twitter.com/pUJJpH5p8x
— Federico Viticci (@viticci) June 18, 2015
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I guess it hasn’t hit everyone yet. I’m still seeing boxes but I did notice, however, that screenshots are more evenly distributed versus being butted up against one another, which was just über-ugly.
Yea, man. It’s good they did that. Because the screen blends with the bezel they use almost no padding. This lead to a lot of people saying that watch os was ugly. It’s because they kept looking at screenshots out of context.
“It’s certainly not a major change, but one that will definitely be welcomed by users.”
it IS a huge difference – you see it exactly like on the watch ;-)