Thanks to one developer's passion project, you can now play the original Prince of Persia on your Apple Watch, no app required, and it works great.
You can now play the classic Prince of Persia game on your Apple Watch
Watch Apps
You can no longer hail an Uber from your wrist
Uber has discontinued its Apple Watch app, telling users to switch to its mobile app instead. No more hailing an Uber ride from your wrist.
watchOS 8 may rebrand Breathe as Mind, bring Apple’s Contacts and Tips apps to your wrist
New watchOS 8 features should include an updated Breathe app, reportedly rebranded as Mind, plus a pair of brand new Apple Watch apps ported from iOS: Contacts and Tips.
NapBot sleep tracker gains calendar navigation, dynamic notifications & other new features
NapBot, an automatic sleep-tracker for Apple Watch by Majid Jabrayilov (the brains behind the heart-tracking app CardioBot), was recently updated on the App Store with some cool new features and enhancements that help it become a more independent app than before.
SearchLight: search the web and read articles in clutter-free text mode, right on your wrist
SearchLight is a new Apple Watch software release by ReBoard Keyboard makers Jeet and Gagandeep Singh from India which not only allows you to search the web via Google just like that, but also actually read articles reliably in clutter-free text mode, right on your wrist.
Watchsmith: create dynamic Apple Watch complications that change throughout the day
Watchsmith is a useful new app from developer David Smith (best known for his sleep-tracking Apple Watch software, called Sleep++) that lets you customize more than three-dozen dynamic watch complications which can change throughout the day. Given Apple doesn't permit third-party watch faces, it's the closest thing to being able to create your own watch faces.
Spotify’s Siri support launches on Apple Watch
Spotify's Apple Watch software was updated on the App Store earlier this morning with Siri integration that launched on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, HomePad, CarPlay and AirPods in October of last year, following the initial release of the iOS 13.0 software update.
Apple launches universal purchase support for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS apps
Universal purchase support for Mac apps that was announced on February 5, 2020 is now officially available, Apple announced yesterday via a blog post on its developer portal.
watchOS 6.2 lets apps authenticate you via Facebook, Google and other OAuth logins
The upcoming watchOS 6 update, currently available for beta testing, will permit apps on your Apple Watch to authenticate you with Facebook, Google, Microsoft and other web-based logins that are compliant with the OAuth standard.
Aurora is a powerful new color picker for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch
In the making over the past few months, Aurora is a powerful new color picker and dictionary app for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch which features a nicely designed interface and interesting capabilities like handy code snippets aimed at programmers and designers.
The new Fantastical brings interesting calendars, weather, meeting proposals & more
Flexibits created their award-winning Fantastical calendar/to-do app ten years ago. Now they've bumped it to version 3.0 with a plethora of new features available across platforms.
Transit app returns to Apple Watch after a 2-year hiatus
In a renewed vote of confidence in Apple's smartwatch, the popular Transit app is back on the Cupertino company's wearable platform. It also brings with it a few new features such as expanded trip information that now includes wheelchair accessibility information.