This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple’s 2018 WWDC keynote was about software, not hardware. And yes, there was a lot of news on iOS 12. But there was also a rundown on WatchOS 5, Apple’s newest software update for Apple Watches. And like iOS …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Going into Apple’s WWDC 2018 keynote, rumor had it that with the arrival of WatchOS 5 Apple would finally allow third-party developers to create and sell watch faces for the Apple Watch. That didn’t happen, but Apple did announce enhancements to the Activity …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Apple has some new features for its Siri watch face on the Apple Watch. The Siri watch face, first introduced last year, brings a handful of the voice assistant’s features right up front on your Apple Watch, providing your calendar, reminders and commute times. …
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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET’s complete coverage from and about Apple’s annual developers conference. Traditionally, gold watches are heirlooms that never go out of date. The 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, however, is now officially behind the times. According to Apple (via Kyle Seth Gray on Twitter) the original first-generation Apple Watch, gold or otherwise, won’t get …
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The ability to browse and play music stored on your iPhone from an Apple Watch was removed with the release of WatchOS 4 last September. This, as Apple soon found out, wasn’t a welcome decision. With the release of WatchOS 4.3 last week, the ability to browse your iPhone’s music library from your wrist has been restored. Screenshots by Jason …
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Apple just made connecting to treadmills and ellipticals as easy as tapping your Apple Watch on a piece of gym equipment. GymKit, a feature built into WatchOS 4.1, enables seamless tap-to-connect tech. It’s like CarPlay, but for fitness machines. Apple announced GymKit as a feature for Apple Watch back in June at its WWDC keynote, promising it would arrive this year. It’s just …
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I pull out my phone. I tap it to the terminal. I’m told I can’t use it, I have to use a credit card. I apologize, reach for my wallet. I feel like an idiot. This is me making payments in 2017. I don’t use my phone to pay for things all that much. Or, my watch. I use my …
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I used to wear an iPod Nano on my wrist. It stored songs, it had an FM radio and it told me the time. Years later, the Apple Watch is finally living up to the promise of being an iPod on my wrist again — a little voice-activated streaming music player, in fact. The upgraded features come courtesy of the …
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Until recently, setting up the Apple Watch was a simple process. Scan a bar code, agree to some terms, add a PIN and that was more or less it. With the release of the Apple Watch Series 3 ($199 at Best Buy) with cellular, however, the process has a few extra steps. Namely, you now have to go through the …
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The Apple Watch got upgraded with a cellular connection, but it’s still got problems. We brought on reviewer Scott Stein for today’s podcast to discuss his appraisal of the new Apple Watch Series 3, which he said suffered from limited battery life and isn’t as free from an iPhone as some may have hoped. Plus, we talk about the new …
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