“There’s a lot to love about the impending watchOS 3 update dropping this fall,” Serenity Caldwell writes for iMore.
“Apple has previewed a bunch of the tentpole features coming to your Apple Watch, and I took an in-depth first look at the new version of watchOS but there are still always little tidbits to highlight,” Caldwell writes. “Here are ten of the most underrated features coming to your Apple Watch this fall.”
1. Siri processes in the background
2. More app taps
3. Kill the Screenshot option
4. Add recent apps to your Dock
5. Phone home
6. Find your friends, too
7. Reorganize your watch faces
8. Scribble your message
9. Change your Workout metrics
10. Name your Other workouts
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: watchOS 3 is the sort of thing you’d expect Steve Jobs’ Apple to have shipped upon the Apple Watch’s release because Jobs would have tested and sent back watchOS 1 and 2 with copious notes, demanding that the Watch team try again until they got it right.
I like the Dock feature, find your friends, better way to organize watch faces, and phone home.
Thanks for the write up.
Regarding your comments, MDN, have you not yet grasped Steve Jobs is no longer alive and is thus no longer with Apple?!
I find it encouraging the new Apple is willing to make significant changes to watchOS, in order to provide an improved product. As an owner and user of Apple Watch since 12 May 2015, I’m a big fan and look forward to watch OS 3. It will make my watch even better without costing me a penny.
Arnold; SJ is a young monument in the history books and will be referenced again and again going forward. I find the MDN comment interesting/relevant as “we” consider how Apple has changed. It seems like a concrete observation. Of course MDN grasps….
Steve Jobs speculation is pretty irrelevant. You actually don’t know what Steve Jobs would have done. And whether or not Tum did differently what Steve would have done. Right?
Is there a way to have the watch screen flash a color for a notification?
My situation: Riding lawn mower, don’t feel like wearing my bluetooth headphones that day, wear ear protection.
While mowing the vibration is enough that I never feel the iPhone or Apple Watch and obviously don’t hear it. I thought if a orange or red full screen flash every so many seconds might get my attention.
Any App out there that does this?
Apple launched the iPhone without an App Store. Steve Jobs suggested that web apps were the way things were going. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves and speculate what SJ would have done with Apple Watch or the OS or that OS 1 or 2 wasn’t right on track.
Hindsight is always 20/20.
“Apple should have never shipped the first iPhone without 3rd party Apps.”
See how easy it is to do?