Sleep Cycle is bringing snore prevention and haptic wake up features to your wrist.
Sleep Cycle silently nudges you via Apple Watch Taptic Engine when you’re snoring
Watch Apps
watchOS 4.3.1 adds a warning for legacy apps
Apple's first developer beta of watchOS 4.3.1 has added a warning about legacy apps.
How to stop receiving turn-by-turn directions on Apple Watch when using the Maps app
In this guide, we'll show you how to stop displaying Maps directions and receiving alerts for every upcoming turn on your Apple Watch.
Spotify for Apple Watch could be announced at WWDC
The long-awaited Spotify app for Apple Watch could be unveiled at WWDC 2018, in June, according to an anonymous MacRumors source, who claims to be involved in the development of the app.
The app would take advantage of a new watchOS 5 framework called StreamKit, which would supposedly allow cellular Apple Watch models to stream music and receive notifications from third-party apps independently of their paired iPhone.
The HeartMonitor app tracks your heart rate continuously without starting an active workout
Due to power concerns, Apple Watch does not monitor your heart rates continually.
Slack pulls Apple Watch app from latest update
Popular cloud-based enterprise team collaboration service Slack has removed its Apple Watch app from the most recent update to its app on App Store.
MiniCast brings podcasts to Apple Watch
The Apple Watch is a great companion device for exercise, tracking your activity, and with watchOS 4, provides access to Apple Music. For people that prefer listening to podcasts while they work out, the Apple Watch is less ideal due to the lack of podcast app, either Apple's own Podcast app or third-party apps. A new Apple Watch app called MiniCast is looking to fill that gap and bring podcasts to your wrist.
MiniCast, available for free in the App Store (with $3.99 In-App Purchase), is a simple iPhone extension and Apple Watch app that allows uses to send podcasts from Apple's Podcasts app, Overcast, Castro, or PocketCast to their watch.
Carrot Weather’s watch app now speaks to you
Your favorite weather robot now speaks to you through your Apple Watch's speaker.
Apple Heart Study app launches in partnership with Stanford Medicine
Following the announcement earlier this year, Apple on Thursday released the new Heart Study app on App Store. This joint medical research study between Apple and Stanford Medicine aims to detect irregular heart rhythms in participants, said to the company.
Beginning April 1, 2018, Apple will stop accepting updates to watchOS 1 apps
Starting on April 1, 2018, all updates to Apple Watch apps must be built for watchOS 2 and up, while new submissions must be built with the watchOS 4 SDK or later, Apple said today.
Latest Twitter for iOS update removes Apple Watch app
Yesterday's update to Twitter for iOS removes the companion watch app for reasons unknown.
The best voice recording apps for Apple Watch
The potential of voice recording from your wrist is huge, as it certainly has been for years on iPhone and iPad. For that reason, Apple itself has equipped their iPhones with a stock memo app years ago, and here at iDB we have showcased the most compelling alternatives for iOS back in 2016. Alas, the Apple gods haven’t graced us with a similar stock app for Apple Watch yet and that’s in spite of the fact that for the longest time quality third party apps to fill the gap were few and far between.