The 2023 Pride Apple Watch band and face just leaked and they're awesome

By Oliver Haslam
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The Pride Apple Watch is back.

Apple Watch pride band and face
(Image credit: @aaronp613 / iMore)

Each and every year Apple releases a free Apple Watch face designed to celebrate Pride month. There's also a special Apple Watch band to go with it, although you'll obviously have to pay for that one. And now the 2023 versions of both have leaked ahead of time.

Apple hasn't yet announced either the band or the watch face but they have both been spotted by Twitter user aaronp613 who has a history of finding things in iOS code. This latest discovery comes after Apple released the third iOS 16.5 beta to the public.

Pride month runs through the month of June so it's possible that we will see the watch face and band announced then. But whenever it does arrive we can safely say that 2023 will bring us the best Pride-themed Apple Watch band to date.

An early Pride 2023

No details have been shared about the band or watch face beyond the images that you can see at the top of this post, but that's enough for us to know that we're all in on that band. It reminds us of the Apple Pay Later card in the iPhone's wallet app with both sporting what looks like colorful sprinkles.

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As for that watch face, that too has the sprinkles but this time placed around the outside where you'd normally see the numerals. It also appears like the hands will change color based on what shade of sprinkle it is touching at any given moment, but that's hard to confirm from a still screenshot.

As mentioned, that watch face will of course be free to all Apple Watch owners but you'll need to buy the watch band. The Apple Watch Sport Loops normally sell for $49 each, so that's very likely to be the price this time around as well.

Oliver Haslam
Oliver Haslam
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Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.