The Black Unity collection for 2025
Apple has launched its 2025 edition of the Black Unity Sport Loop for Apple Watch and device wallpapers, as the company once again honors Black History Month.
Apple marks Black History Month every year with an Apple Watch band made for the occasion. While 2024 involved a flower motif and a mosaic pattern was used for 2023, the 2025 effort employs a line and handwriting-based design.
The new Black Unity Collection is inspired by “the rhythm of humanity,” with the collection officially referred to as Unity Rhythm. A collaboration of Black creatives and allies worked on the design, which uses the black, green, and red colors of the Pan-African flag.
For the Black Unity Sport Loop, Apple uses a custom pattern of raised and recessed loops, producing a lenticular effect with green on one side of the loop and red on the other. When worn, this gives the effect of the colors shifting from green to red, with yellow appearing as the colors transition.
Apple Watch Black Unity Sport Loop – Image Credit: Apple
The Black Unity Sport Loop is available from the online Apple Store today and from Apple Store locations this week. It is priced at $49, and is available in 42mm and 46mm sizes, and is compatible with the Apple Watch Series 4, Apple Watch SE, and Apple Watch Ultra.
The accompanying Unity Rhythm watch face uses custom numerals that use threads of red, green, and yellow. It reacts to the gyroscope, with the strands shifting from brush strokes into digits with a raise of the wrist.
The watch face also has rhythmic chimes playing to mark every full and half hour. It is arriving as part of a software update, and will work with the Apple Watch Series 6 or later.
Unity Rhythm iPhone and iPad wallpapers are also available, showing the word Unity. Again, this changes orientation whenever the iPhone or iPad is locked or unlocked.
Apple’s launch will support several organizations working on elements of rhythm, creativity and community. The list 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.
