“Early this year, we posted the first screenshots and details of an early version of the Apple Watch Companion application for the iPhone,” Mark Gurman reports for 9to5Mac.
“Now that the application is bundled into iOS 8.2, developer Hamza Sood has activated the Apple Watch Settings portion and has shared a view of screenshots,” Gurman reports. “The interface is dark black, like the Activity app for fitness revealed yesterday, and includes all of the functionality we detailed earlier.”
Gurman reports, “Some interesting new settings, however, were revealed today, such as one for assigning a left or right wrist to the Watch, Handoff support, Haptic Strength, and volume levels.”
Check out all of the screenshots in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We like the deep black look of that app!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
” It’s like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.”
I would have liked better quality pictures so that I can read the stuff on the screens. I magnified it on my 30″ monitor but it is still unreadable.
click the pictures…. they automagically get bigger.
And I thought we’ve seen pictures of some of these screens in white?
I’ve worn my watch on the right wrist for over 50 years. I just started to try it on the left wrist in anticipation on my new Apple Watch. Glad to see there’s a setting that won’t make that change necessary.
I have no idea why anyone would downvote you for that comment. I’m in the same boat: I wear my watch on my right wrist. Switching would feel clumsy and uncomfortable after all these decades. Thankfully, Apple thought of that.
——RM
I saw this app pop-up on my phone yesterday. I immediately dropped it into my Unused Apps folder. I have never worn a watch, and I’m not gonna start now.
I’m sure everyone feels better knowing that someone they don’t know or have ever met isn’t going to buy something. I know it thrilled me so please do tell us all the other things that you are planning not to buy.
Lol!
AND you feel the need to broadcast this why?!
Get a clue. It’s not a watch. 😱💥
Apple has to use black graphic interface theme on Watches since there is OLED screen (by LG Display), which consumes more than 1.5 times more energy on light backgrounds than typical LCD.
Apple iPhone application for Watch is black for just stylistic coherency.
By the way, coming of OLED to Watch does not mean that it will come to iPhone this year or later since most of the time on iPhone people browse or read or use settings and other activities where LCD screen consumes much less than OLED.
Forbes has a FUD article with people supposedly screaming about the “bloatware” watch app on their iPhones after the iOS update. They “HAD NO CHOICE!!!!” whether it was installed, and HORRORS!!!! it’s a “STEALTH” application unless you have the watch. “YOU CAN’T EVEN SEE IT!!!!” OMFG!!!!
Puleeeeze!
same argument when Newsstand came out.
At least you can toss them both in another folder now. And I doubt the watch app is very big, people with the 8GB iPhones are the ones probably bitching the most.
It’s not FUD
Try going to Apple support forums
the whining has begun
People whining doesn’t make it suddenly legitimate. It’s still FUD.
Apple fanboys need to admit it is bloatware by any definition, taking up memory space, whether you have a watch or not.
Once in a while, you need to tell Apple its f-ed up.
Bloatware is your head around your pea brain
I’d rather just tell you that you’re f**ked up.