
Picture: Snap, Inc.
Snapchat simply reached a brand new frontier: your wrist. That’s proper, Snap introduced a model of its signature software for Apple Watch on Thursday.
However mood your expectations. The app presents a really restricted function set.
Snapchat for Apple Watch retains customers in contact
Snapchat permits customers to ship photos and movies (referred to as “Snaps”) or textual content messages to buddies. The important thing function is that these messages are designed to vanish after they’re opened or after a brief interval.
“With the Snapchat app on Apple Watch, you’ll be able to preview an incoming message and reply utilizing the Keyboard, Scribble, Dictation, or ship an emoji,” stated Snap, Inc.
Be aware that there’s no point out of beginning a dialog. That’s as a result of the brand new smartwatch model of the appliance can solely reply to messages. When the app is opened, it simply exhibits the Snapchat brand — there’s no approach to begin a dialog and even see an inventory of earlier conversations.
There’s definitely no approach to share photos or movies from this model of the software program, which is sensible as Apple’s smartwatch doesn’t have a digicam.
Nonetheless, with the newly launched Apple Watch model, Snapchat is now out there on iPhone, iPad, and on Mac by way of the online. The cell variations of the free social media software program could be discovered within the App Retailer.