Withtoday ’s launch of watchOS 2 , Apple has bring a whole unexampled rental of life to its pretty minuscule wrist ‘ puter . Here ’s the most interesting thing you may now do with your $ 800 wearable square of applied science .
With watchOS 2 , Apple is hoping to do what it did for the iPhone in 2008 : introduce third - political party apps , and make it a must - have man of technology .
WatchOS 2 brings the same thing to the Apple Watch : you’re able to now install fully - fledged apps that run on the Apple Watch ironware , rather than on the copulate iPhone . At the moment , there are apps useable from GoPro , a full Facebook Messenger app , and fittingness companies like Strava . you may expect a whole flood of third - party clobber in the coming workweek .
iOS 9 include public transport directions in Maps ( finally ! ) , which mean Siri and Maps on your vigil can tell you which train to take , in certain cities . At the mo , you ’re restricted to New York City , San Francisco , Baltimore , Chicago , Philadelphia , Washington DC , Mexico City , Toronto , London , and Berlin .
If you leave your watch plugged in and on its side at night , it ’ll now do something slightly useful : act as an alarm clock , perch up whenever you touch on the blind , but most significantly , make the digital crown push work as a snooze for the warning signal . You ’re piddle it too easy , Apple .
If you do n’t require to draw your phone out to answer to emails , you ’ve now got two much better pick : respond with emoji(s ) , or use the microphone to dictate a response .
coup d’oeil are the short previews of information you’re able to swipe into without opening the app proper . They ’re ready to hand , but voyage through them can be a pain , so I keep my list of active Glances pare to the lower limit . Siri ’s handy new trick is to spread any Glance , even if it ’s not active . So , want to check the sport scotch once a calendar month ? Ask her to afford the EPSN coup d’oeil , even if it ’s not on your lean .
This one ’s actually moderately neat : start turning the digital crownwork from the watch expression , and you ’ll depart ‘ travelling ’ forwards in time — all the complication ( thingamajig showing information other than the prison term on the lookout man aspect ) raise with the clock time , so the temperature update for what it will be in a few hours , and your calendar appointments will show .
The first translation of watchOS had no controls for Facetime . Now , you have the option to take over voice calls , just like you would a regular phone call . For television Call , you ’re obviously lack a photographic camera on your articulatio radiocarpea , so you just get the option to accept the call on your iPhone , or reject Mom outright .
As you ’d expect , the Music app has been updated with a unexampled image , and a young option to listen to the Beats 1 radio post .
Previously , the screen time out after 10 second base , which wiretap the hell out of me ( true , mostly when taking photo ) . Go to preferences > General > Wake Screen , and you ’ve now got a 70 - second option , which seems more than long enough .
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