APPLE WWDC 2015 : watchOS 2
Apple Watch the apple's take on wearable technology , had a great success on it's launch. Apple watchOS a specific OS made for the watch has come again with better improvements in the watchOS 2. watchOS 2 has made a large improvement over the initial watchOS revealed. WatchOS 2 is just a refinement of watchOS and makes the Apple watch more productive.
Apple watchOS 2 has more watch faces including the original watch faces.Time lapse watch faces are the new addition in the faces of Apple watch. Apple has time lapse videos of over 24 hours shoot of locations from Hong Kong , New York , Shanghai , London & Mac Lake. You can choose between the time lapse of these places and make them your watch face.
With the new watchOS 2 you can choose a customized image from the photo album and save it as your watch face. It also allows you to choose a photo album or all your favorite photo's and every time you raise your wrist , a new photo will appear. This adds a more personal customized feel to the Apple Watch.
Time travel ,a new feature in watchOS 2 can look beyond you ahead of time for your device. Time travel is a handy feature which work with time faces which have complications. Just turn the crown of the watch to see what will happen in the future. Time travel can tell you the weather, battery life , events upcoming in the future of the day. A simple press will on the crown button will take to the current time. An extremely cool feature.
With watchOS 2 , your phone is now a night alarm clock also. Just place
it on its side and connect the charger. Apple Watch will automatically
go into Nightstand mode, a digital display that illuminates whenever you
will touch the screen, the Digital Crown, or the side button of the
watch. You can also snooze the alarm with touching the side crown or
turn it off using the home button.
Apple watchOS 2 can now let your Apple watch reply to emails.You can go at the bottom of the message and tap on reply. You can reply with dictation using Siri or send an emoji or you can also choose from a set of replies already present.
Adding a new contact can also be done now by using the watch.In the inner circle their are 12 contacts, but if you want to add or remove you would have to go to the phone and then do it. With watchOS 2 you can directly add in the watch from your collection of contacts in the iPhone.
Apple Watch had a unique feature ,Digital touch which allowed users to draw sketches and send them.But had only one color, now with watchOS 2 you can add a variety of colors to the sketches.
Like the iOS and the OS X , the watchOS 2 has also been updated with the latest maps app.In the maps app there's a transit view to help people get around using the public transport routes. This helps you to have multiple transports in a single trip smoothly. However the transit maps are for few cities and more cities are said to come
Apple Pay will make the payments right from your wrist. But now with addition of credit cards , you can have store credit cards and also reward cards. Siri is more better in watchOS 2 as it is seen in iOS 9. You can ask specific things to do like start a specific workout or calculate a tip.
You can see the whole detailed about Siri, Apple Pay and Maps in our iOS 9 article.
Apple watchOS 2 will be coming to the Apple Watch's in the fall. watchOS 2 will have the apps load' s faster and even more control to developer's to access the taptic engine , crown , accelerometer and also the microphone. watchOS 2 is a good update over the original watchOS and makes the watch more productive.
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