| Watch OS 2 Was Released Today: iMore’s Review The first version of watchOS shipped less than five months ago, same day as the Apple Watch itself, and now we’re already getting watchOS 2. That it’s not been a full year like iOS and OS X updates should tell you a lot about it’s purpose: to round out and fully realize the original Apple Watch experience. Almost everything that’s new has been hinted at before, including photo and time-lapse clock faces, glimpsing backwards and forwards in time, responding to mail, adding more friends, and locking down activation. The rest has felt inevitable, like direct networking, workouts on lock screen, moving third-party app logic from the phone and onto the watch, and allowing them to present custom complications all their own.
It was supposed to ship along with iOS 9 last week, but Apple’s Watch OS 2.0 was finally released today, bringing a ton of enhancements to the watch, the most important of which is that they opened up the platform for native apps to run directly on the Watch. With the first version of the OS, the third-party apps may as well have not existed, because they were running on your iPhone instead of directly on the watch… as you can imagine, they were slow and clunky and just didn’t integrate well. That should be all a thing of the past now that the apps can run natively. They will launch faster, run better, and be able to integrate with the microphone and other sensors on the watch. Of course, since the new OS just came out a few hours ago, there aren’t a whole lot of apps yet that support the new features, although more than you might think. The most important feature, other than real native apps, is that the apps can now integrate with the Watch home screen — the little widgets that you can customize are called Complications (which is a horology term from the world of mechnical watches), and being able to just glance down at your watch and see things like news alerts, sports scores, reminders, weather from your favorite weather app, or anything else you can imagine, is a huge feature that will transform the way people use the Apple Watch. Another awesome feature is called Time Travel, and you can just move the Digital Crown to fast forward to a particular time – so if you are showing your Calendar as a complication, or the weather, you can see exactly what’s going on at that time. In the screenshot below you can see that I fast-forwarded to an hour and 20 minutes from now, and my custom complication using the Carrot Weather app shows me what the weather will be like. 
What I really want is a way to have the Watch fetch and display custom text from a URL, so I can setup status tracking for all the HTG web servers, and glance down to see server load, current visitor numbers, and instantly see if everything is running fine. If you want to upgrade to Watch OS 2.0 and you haven’t already, we have you covered with a guide on how to do it. | |
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