Snapchat finally has a watchOS app after a decade

There’s lastly a , bringing the social media platform to Apple‘s line of wearables. This has been a very long time coming, provided that the primary Apple Watch graced our wrists .

The app lets customers preview incoming messages and reply by utilizing the keyboard, scribbling with a finger, voice dictation or sending out an emoji. Apple Watch wearers may already preview a Snapchat message by enabling them on an iPhone, however there wasn’t a method to reply till now.

Snapchat says the app will probably be helpful when doing issues like alerting associates when arriving at a restaurant or when sending out a fast reply throughout a run. An organization consultant instructed us that it is good for individuals who wish to “hold energetic conversations going whereas they’re on the go.”

Additionally they indicated that previewing a message on an Apple Watch is not going to mark it as “learn” on the cell or internet app, because it solely reveals the primary 100 characters. The app can’t be used to view photographs or movies, however the firm plans to “evolve the expertise over time.”

Regardless of coming ten years after the Apple Watch first launched, Snapchat has nonetheless outpaced lots of its rivals. There is not a devoted Fb app for the wearable, or a WhatsApp launch. Fb Messenger did have an app as soon as upon a time, but it was pulled.

Snapchat’s watchOS app comes simply forward of this 12 months’s WWDC occasion. Rumors point out that Apple is planning on some main bulletins all through the occasion, together with an entire and new Apple Intelligence options that I am certain .