That would be a massive surge compared with with the original Apple Watch. Once you open the app, you can change the amount of time you want to do your session, from one to five minutes, just by turning the digital crown. Whilst apps and websites have already implemented Apple’s payment platform within their mobile experiences, this was the first example of a desktop Apple Pay experience.
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There’s also a new Control Center in watchOS 3 which allows you to mute your Watch, toggle Wi-Fi on, and so forth.
The Apple Watch has been here for over a year now and while expectations are high that Cupertino will be refreshing this wearable this year with a new Apple Watch 2, the company has been busy with curving in new features for the first adopters of this device in a bid to attract even more buyers. The company introduced a new update for the device – the watchOS 3, which will be available soon. A new Dock in watchOS 3 will allow users to press the watch face or the side button to instantly and easily access their recent and favorite native and third-party apps for fast viewing. You often spend so much time looking at the loading screen that it’s easier to just whip out your iPhone and use the app there instead.
Today, anybody in the US with a cell phone can call – and usually even text – 911 when in need of help, either in a medical emergency or when in danger.
The new software will be available to the public in July.
New watch faces have also been added, including a Minnie Mouse to go with the Mickey Mouse face, a elegant simple face dubbed Numerals and a watch face called Activity, which comes in three guises and as the name suggests shows activity data integrated into the watch face.
Scribble brings handwriting recognition to Apple Watch by letting users write replies in Messages.
“We’re finding people who wear an Apple Watch wear it all the time”, Lynch said, which gives the SOS feature the ability to be a quick-response app, referred to in the industry as a panic app. Collectively, the crowd of 6,000 watched while Lynch opened a third-party soccer app on an Apple Watch running last year’s watchOS 2 software; the app took almost seven seconds to load.
With the watchOS 3, apps will now load quicker and work faster while being used. The OS will also add another app dubbed as Breathe, which will help users do short breathing exercises whenever they feel the need to.
Other changes were around health and fitness, since that’s one of the most popular use cases for the Watch.
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Peter Wells travelled to WWDC at the invitation of Apple. The tech giant also opening up Siri to third-party developers.
