In honor of Black History Month, Apple has unveiled its 2025 Black Unity Collection of wallpapers, watch faces, and watch straps. This year’s set is “inspired by the rhythm of humanity,” according to Apple:
Black creatives and allies at Apple collaborated on the design of the new collection. The collection, Unity Rhythm, weaves together the colors of the Pan-African flag: black, green, and red.
Black Unity Rhythm Sport Loop
First up is the Black Unity Rhythm Sport Loop, which features a unique lenticular effect using red and green:
The Black Unity Sport Loop is woven in a custom pattern of raised and recessed loops that creates a lenticular effect, revealing green on one side of each loop, and red on the other. When the band is worn, the colors appear dynamic, shifting from green to red as a user moves their wrist, and the color yellow appears in the transition, as if by magic.
Here’s how it looks:
Find it exclusively in Apple retail stores and online here starting today for $49.
Unity Rhythm watch face
Following tradition, Apple has created a corresponding face for Apple Watch that will be available shortly through a software update to iPhone and Apple Watch:
The matching Unity Rhythm watch face features custom numerals formed by intertwined threads of red, green, and yellow. The watch face reacts to the gyroscope, so when a user raises their wrist to check the time, the strands coalesce from a series of abstract brush strokes into digits. When using the Unity Rhythm watch face, distinctive, rhythmic chimes mark every hour and half hour.
Also coming in the software update, which should be iOS 18.3 and iPadOS 18.3, is the latest edition of the Unity wallpaper:
The Unity Rhythm iPhone and iPad wallpapers feature the same custom lettering writing the word “Unity,” which changes orientation when the device is unlocked and locked.
Look for it in the Unity collection once iOS 18.3 becomes available.
Greater impact
Apple also says it will support a variety of organizations focused on creativity, community, and rhythm, including groups in New Orleans and Los Angeles:
As part of the launch, Apple is supporting several global organizations whose work focuses on elements of rhythm, creativity, and community. This includes grants to the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music in New Orleans; Battersea Arts Centre in London; Music Forward Foundation in Los Angeles; Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney; and The National Museum of African American Music in Nashville, Tennessee. Apple’s support for these organizations builds upon the company’s longstanding commitment to advancing economic, educational, and creative opportunities in communities around the world.
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