

It allows you to store things like credit cards, boarding passes and movie tickets on your wrist once you've added them to the Wallet app on your phone. The Apple Watch is designed to make it so that you don't have to reach for your phone as often, and the Wallet app is one of the best examples. That latter feature is a new addition that Apple launched with WatchOS 8 in September. When wearing your Apple Watch overnight, it'll tell you how much time you've spent asleep while in bed as well as your sleeping respiratory rate. While Apple's Sleep app may not be as comprehensive as the sleep monitoring available on other devices, it's still a great way to keep track of your slumber and get into a regular bedtime routine. The Apple Watch was late to the game when it came to sleep tracking - a crucial wellness feature that rivals like Fitbit have offered for years. Switch through apps quickly on the Apple Watch. Here are several native Apple Watch apps that you may not already be using. While watches weren't an in-demand accessory in general back in 2015, the Apple Watch proved to be a useful tool for checking messages, the weather and reminders, Wang added - all of which are already built into the device. Today, there are more than 20,000 apps - 44 of which are built into the wearable. When the Apple Watch launched in 2015, it had 3,000 apps available to download.

Read more: Set Up Your New Apple Watch in Just a Few Taps Very few people use it as a standalone unless it's for fitness or health or some kind of monitoring." So I think the secret of building a good Apple Watch app is to think of it as an accessory in addition to something. "You're not going to spend so much screen time on your watch. "The watch is really about convenience," said Ray Wang, principal analyst and founder of Constellation Research.

What does matter is the built-in Activity tracker, Messages and Phone apps - the things we want on hand for a quick and convenient glance, regardless of which Apple Watch version we're currently sporting. If you want to take advantage of the best Apple Watch apps, we have some pretty straightforward advice: Skip the App Store and stick with the watch's native apps.Ĭompanies including Amazon, eBay, Target, Slack and TripAdvisor have dropped support for Apple Watch apps, but those services are better-suited for our phones, tablets and laptops anyway. It's specifically noteworthy when it comes to tracking your health and fitness.

With each new iteration, the Apple Watch gets more advanced. Apple Watch Series 8 is an iterative upgrade over the Series 7.
