A new version of the Apple Watch operating system arrives, the watchOS 2

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As advertised by the posters installed in the Moscone Center Today we were going to talk about the three systems, OS X El Capitan, iOS 9 and to everyone's surprise Watch 2. It is a new version of the Apple Watch system that improves its stability and adds new functions. Gives a facelift to a device that has only recently been on the market and that due to its infinite possibilities it needs a system that has to evolve very quickly.

On this occasion, the novelties of the new system have been shown Kevin Lynch. These are functions that make the use of the watch richer and also add new features such as colors for drawings, video playback, creation of wallpapers from photographs or Possibility of setting a time-lapse video as wallpaper.

The first of the news that Apple has announced with great fanfare is that the operating system will support native applications. However, we anticipate you since a twist has been made and now we will be able to have new watchfaces while being able to personalize our watch much more. Now we can use photos from our gallery to be able to use them as wallpapers of our clock, being able to customize the final capture by zooming. Another possibility is that You will be able to select a certain photo album so that throughout the day the wallpaper changes depending on what the album has. 

Personalize your Apple Watch with new watchfaces

However, these are not the only possibilities of watchfaces since we can also use time-lapse videos by incorporating what Apple has called complications,  widgets that can be created by developers.

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Changing the subject, now we can use Apple Watch in landscape mode so that when we have it on the bedside table it can be used as an alarm clock and using the button and the crown to stop or modify the alarm.

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What's new in the Health app and third-party fitness apps

With the arrival of watchOS 2 finally it will be possible to run third-party Health applications and fitness applications without the need for the iPhone. It is no longer necessary to carry the iPhone to obtain measurements.

Communications improve with watchOS 2

As for the communications that we can do with the watch, with the watchOS 2 it will be possible to respond from the watch itself with voice. To do this, we click on answer and we dictate to Siri what we want to say. Another novelty is that we are going to be able to receive FaceTim audio callse, add friends from the friends screen, use other colors in the drawings that we can make with the finger, etc.

Rest of news

We could write much more, but we think it is appropriate to talk in more detail about each of the news separately. Before finishing this article we can add that there are news regarding the use of the Apple Pay on Apple Watch with the new Wallet app since with iOS 9 we can save credit cards on the clock itself. Maps have been improved by adding data on public transport and functions such as using the microphone or using the accelerometer will be accessible by developers.

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watchOS 2 will be available in the fall for all Apple Watch users completely free and from today for developers. We are facing a very rapid evolution of a system that promises to give many more functions to a new device than to Spain will arrive on June 26. For now, most of us can't make use of any of these features unless you went ahead and bought it in the first wave of countries.

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