watchOS 26 could help protect your privacy with this secret new Apple Watch setting

• Code in watchOS 26 suggests that a new privacy setting is coming
• It would let you hide data in complications until your Watch is unlocked
• Health data will always be hidden on a locked Watch

Apple’s watchOS 26 update contains a bunch of useful tweaks, but not everything new has been announced by Apple – and it looks like a secret feature has been discovered in the watchOS 26 beta that could bring an interesting change to your watch faces.

MacRumors contributor Steve Moser has apparently uncovered code in the watchOS 26 developer beta that brings a new setting to your watch: the ability to show or hide data inside complications while your watch is locked.

In practice, this would mean that you could disable complications on your watch face – such as weather info, your battery level, calendar info, and more – from appearing until you unlock your ...