Apple WatchOS 10 Will Bring Widgets, Snoopy Comics to Your Watch Face
Widgets, and the beloved beagle Snoopy, are headed to your Apple Watch face.
At its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) today, Apple offered a first look at its upcoming watchOS 10 smartwatch operating system, slated to arrive as a free software update this fall. In addition to widgets and watch faces, the watchOS 10 update will deliver new mental health and vision health tools, as well as fresh cycling and compass features.
With watchOS 10, turning the digital crown from the watch face will reveal a new Smart Stack of widgets, offering useful information like the weather forecast and the day's latest headlines. Leveraging machine learning technology, the feature is meant to offer pertinent, time-sensitive information just when you need it, like upcoming calendar events, medication reminders, boarding passes, and more. The Smart Stack will also dynamically prioritize widgets for apps that you have running, like Podcasts, Stopwatch, or Workout, so they are easily accessible.
"This is a fast new way to view information from any watch face," Apple Vice President of Technology Kevin Lynch said on stage at WWDC.
New Apple Watch faces are pretty much a given with every watchOS update, and this year, users are getting two new ones: Palette and Snoopy.
Based on the Peanuts comic strip, the new Snoopy face puts the character and his sidekick Woodstock front and center on your Apple Watch, where they will "interact and play with the watch hands, react to the weather conditions in the area, or even get active when the user does a workout," Apple said(Opens in a new window). Meanwhile, Palette is an analog-style watch face that "depicts time in a wide variety of colors that shift as the time changes," Apple said.
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