Snapchat launches an Apple Watch app globally

Snapchat introduced on Thursday that it’s launching a watchOS app to permit Apple Watch customers to entry the social community on their wrists. With this new app, customers can now use Snapchat throughout cellular, net, tablets, and Apple Watch.

Customers can now preview an incoming message and in addition reply utilizing the keyboard, Scribble, Dictation, or an emoji. The corporate says the brand new app will enable customers to do issues like rapidly let their pal know they’re “right here” when assembly up at a restaurant or look down and ship a fast reply whereas on a run.

When you may already preview Snapchat messages in your Apple Watch by enabling them in your iPhone, there wasn’t a manner to reply to them till now.

“The variety of units we use in our every day lives has grown,” Snap wrote in a weblog publish. “Already we’re seeing our neighborhood get pleasure from utilizing Snapchat throughout surfaces together with pill and net, along with cellular, and this builds on our dedication to creating Snapchat out there throughout all of the units you employ, together with wearables.”

Thursday’s announcement marks a shift in pondering for Snapchat, as Snap CEO Evan Spiegel mentioned years in the past that he wasn’t too eager on the Apple Watch’s small display, noting that individuals would most likely want to look an image on their telephone, fairly than their Watch.

Snapchat is now centered on utilizing its watchOS app to allow customers to rapidly reply to messages, to not view photos or movies.

With this launch, Snapchat has outpaced rival messaging apps like Fb Messenger and WhatsApp by releasing a devoted watchOS app.