To a degree, this is somewhat redundant because the iPhone is already a great alarm and travel clock (or main nightstand clock) for many, but now, you can also use the Apple Watch as a nightstand clock with the new Nightstand Mode. Nightstand ModeĪpple has finally made good use of the Apple Watch while it is charging. No, you can’t type in responses, but you can dictate them with Siri, use emojis, or reply with preset responses. This works almost identically to how people already respond to SMS and MMS messages on the Apple Watch, but now, you can do the same for e-mail. One of the new features of Apple Watch OS2 is the enhanced ability to reply to e-mails directly from the watch. While it might seem minor, allowing third-party developers to include data and utilize the Apple Watch dial screen is not only important for increasing the use-cases for the Apple Watch for more people, but also as an incentive for developers to make more interesting apps for the Apple Watch that until now have been pretty limited in their ability to access various parts of the Apple Watch OS environment. These are all those other notifications and pieces of information that surround many of the Apple Watch dials (especially Modular) which help make using the Apple Watch cool. Third Party Complications For Apple Watch DialsĪpple hasn’t exactly made it possible for third-party developers to create their own Apple Watch dials, but they have made it possible for third-party developers to create “complications” for Apple Watch dials. So here are my favorite Apple Watch updates announced today, on September 9, 2015, that I am looking forward to. We can also be pretty sure that Apple Watch 2 will share the same straps as today’s Apple Watch. While it is too early for the Apple Watch 2 to be released, Apple did offer a very compelling set of features that I think will be made use of very well for upcoming versions of the Apple Watch in the future. They also pushed to increase the fashionability of the Apple Watch by debuting many new “fall” colors for the Apple Watch Sport Band, offering new case colors, as well as the new mid-tier luxury model with the Apple Watch Hermes and the accompanying Hermes straps. Apple has referred to this in very “horological” terms, calling these new notifications and functions on watch dials “complications.”Īpple further delivered on their promise to open up the Apple Watch operating system environment a bit more to third-party developers. I was partially right in the sense that Apple did add some new watch dials with Apple Watch OS2, as well as the ability for third-party apps to integrate with Apple Watch dials. I originally predicted that Apple would debut an enhanced app store experience allowing for the download of third-party watch dials vetted by Apple that might even sync with new animated backgrounds on the iPhone. What I’d like to do in this post is sum up the new Apple Watch announcements that I am more excited about – especially having worn the Apple Watch since its launch. For Apple Watch, the major announcements are really about some new aesthetic options (new cases and straps) as well as the new Apple Watch OS2 operating system. In fact, Apple has made a lot of announcements today across various product categories from iPad to iPhone, and Apple TV to Apple Watch. Today, on September 9, 2015, during Apple’s press conference event, a series of updates for the Apple Watch were announced that rival the volume of news from when the Apple Watch itself was originally debuted last year at this time.
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