IOS9 ‘fastest adoption ever’
After a five-day delay due to errant software code, Apple has released its new watchOS 2 operating system for the Apple Watch.
Usatoday has also reported the refusal of Apple to reveal its sales figures, however, Apple has now granted 10,000 apps available for the company’s high tech timepiece. The new OS will enable lots of new apps, one of most important of the novelties consisting in Facebook Messenger app for Apple Watch which will be able to text, send audio files and share locations right from the wrist. If you haven’t, you just need to go to Settings iCloud Find My iPhone and switch the feature on. It portends some fundamental shifts in the way the Apple Watch works.
September 16 was indeed a big day in the world of technology, as Apple’s latest version of the iOS, the iOS 9 started coming out for all compatible devices. The company has announced that more than 50% of its devices globally have been updated by users to run the new OS, which is the quickest adoption of an iOS software.
Apple watchOS 2 Release Notes – The public changelog is now live on this page and includes all known issues in regard to Keychain, Maps, Connectivity, and Activation Lock.
WatchOS 2 is something that would sound familiar to early iPhone users and that is native apps, which have access to more of the device’s features, including the Digital Crown, taptic feedback and health tracking.
There’s also a new Time Travel feature for viewing past and upcoming events in a watch face Complication, and a Nightstand mode that’s activated when the watch is charging, displaying the time. The new OS also lets you reply to emails, not only receive them as before.
More so, it has no any major changes once the watch is finally rebooted. One significant reason that the iOS 9 has recorded a higher adoption rate than its predecessor is the lower amount of free space required to install the update.