This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Downloading apps to your Apple Watch might finally get a bit easier. Apple is set to bring the App Store to the Watch at WWDC, according to a report on Monday from Bloomberg. The new update, which is …
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When it comes to smartwatches, the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active and Apple Watch Series 4 are among the best you can buy. They can also keep an eye on your health with many fitness tracking features, on top of the regular smartwatch functions you’d expect — like displaying notifications from your phone or listening to music on the go. The Galaxy …
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One of the main selling points of the Apple Watch ($70 at Amazon) is how it can contribute to helping you live a healthier life by recording workouts, completing challenges or monitoring your heart’s health. For those who are just getting started with an Apple Watch, or those who have had one for a while but never used any of …
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While Apple was showing off its new credit card, the Apple Card, at a splashy event on Monday, it was also quietly making changes to its Apple Pay Cash feature. Apple Pay Cash is a peer-to-peer payment feature that lets you send and receive money through iMessage. The feature also puts a digital card in your iOS Wallet app to …
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One frustration I used to have when using apps on the Apple Watch ($70 at Amazon) was that there wasn’t a way to view notifications or access the Control Center from within an app. The only way to access either feature was to go back to the watch face. That changed with the release of WatchOS 5, but I only found out …
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Apple first released WatchOS 5 and iOS 12 back in September, adding a new walkie-talkie mode, improved notifications, the Podcasts app and other welcome tweaks to the Apple Watch. Last week, Apple released WatchOS 5.1.2. This update includes a critical feature for Apple Watch Series 4 owners — the ECG app. The app enables the Watch to act as an …
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When Apple released WatchOS 5 and the new Walkie-Talkie app, the company also made it possible for your Walkie-Talkie contacts to randomly — and without warning — start talking to you through your watch’s speaker. If you’re in a meeting, class, or even on a date, having someone randomly start talking to you through the Walkie Talkie app can be …
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There’s something nostalgic about pressing a button, talking, and then hearing another voice come through a speaker a few seconds later. With WatchOS 5, Apple Watch ($70 at Amazon) owners will gain a feature that mimics this old-school form of communication. It’s incredibly fun to use. Now playing: Watch this: WatchOS 5 updates the Apple Watch with Walkie-Talkie… 1:40 The …
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If you’re looking to buy an Apple Watch Series 4, the biggest changes include a new FDA approved ECG feature and fall detection, but hopefully you won’t have to use those two features on a daily basis. What you may use regularly are its fitness features. The Apple Watch Series 4 has added better training tools for athletes, automatic workout detection and …
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The current beta of WatchOS, version 5.1.2, looks like it will deliver support for the the ECG/EKG sensor that Apple touted when it announced the Apple Watch Series 4 in September. MacRumors reportedly got its hands on an Apple in-store training document, which indicated that the app needed to work with the sensor data is in the next version of …
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