The Watch League

About The Watch League

The Watch League comes to your Home Screen! Five widgets, in every size iOS offers — including the new extra-large size on iOS 27. "Watch of the Hour" shows a watch drawn from The League as a full-screen photograph, with its position in the rankings, and changes every hour. "New to the League" does the same for the watches most recently admitted, so arrivals find you rather than the other way round. Tap either one to open that watch. "League Table" puts the standings themselves on your Home Screen — The League overall, any of the nine sub-leagues, or your own favourites. Long-press the widget and choose Edit to switch between them. Every row carries the same up or down arrow you see on Curate, and the extra-large size lists 25 places at once. "Watch Nerds" shows where you stand on the voting leaderboard, with the members immediately above and below you. And "Search the League" opens search with the keyboard already up, over the newest watch in the catalogue. Other improvements: Discussions now stay with the watch. When a member agrees or disagrees with someone's take in Discuss and adds a note, that note appears on the watch's own page — threaded directly under the take it responds to, in "What League members say." Previously those notes went only to the original poster's notifications, so the back-and-forth was invisible to everyone else reading the watch. The whole conversation now lives where the watch lives. Replies carry the same controls as the posts above them. You can delete your own, and report or block anyone else's. Deleting a reply removes only the words — your agree or disagree still counts. Reporting has been fixed. Reports of comments, vote reasons and feed posts were being rejected before they were ever saved, which meant nothing anyone reported reached us. That's now working, and reported content disappears from your view straight away while we review it. Also in this release: the Search tab's "New to the League", "Rising This Week" and "You might have missed" could quietly miss watches that had only just been approved, which is fixed; watch links from member pages on the website now open the watch rather than just the app; and returning members who reinstalled or updated are no longer wrongly asked to choose a new @handle, then left stuck when their existing one came back as "already taken." And please rate the app... We continue to beaver away, improving The Watch League. If you're enjoying it, a quick rating or review in the App Store takes thirty seconds and genuinely means the world to us.

App privacy

The developer, Andrew Carrier, reported these privacy practices to Apple.