Apple is honoring Black History Month as soon as once more, and that features a particular deal with for Watch house owners. The firm has released a particular version $99 Black Unity Braided Solo Loop that weaves the Pan-African flag’s colours into the stretchable black band. There’s additionally a free, matching Unity Lights face you’ll be able to download (utilizing your iPhone) to indicate assist — it is reportedly the primary watch face to make use of ‘2D ray tracing’ to simulate gentle, creating a particular aura across the minute and hour fingers.

There’s no particular version Apple Watch mannequin this 12 months. However, final 12 months’s was actually a normal grey aluminum mannequin with a bundled strap. This is an acknowledgment that you simply’re extra doubtless to purchase the strap on your present wearable.

The tech agency can also be curating Black content material throughout its providers via February, and that features materials it is creating for health experts. There shall be new Black History Month exercises in Fitness+ with complementary soundtracks, a Time to Walk episode with Black Lives Matter co-founder Ayo Tometi and a Time to Run episode that features civil rights landmarks in Atlanta. Whether or not you subscribe, there is a Unity Challenge Apple Watch house owners can earn by closing their Move ring seven days in a row.