Snapchat is now on the Apple Watch

Snapchat’s Apple Watch app offers basal messaging functionality. | Image: Snapchat

What’s Snapchat without the quality to drawback and nonstop photos to your friends? It’s the societal platform’s caller Apple Watch app that alternatively provides a speedy mode to preview messages and reply close from your wrist.

Joining mobile and web-based versions of Snapchat, the Apple Watch app lets you preview incoming messages connected your wrist (functionality that already existed if you chose to reflector notifications from your iPhone) and reply to them utilizing the wearable’s tiny keyboard, scribbling letters with your finger, oregon by dictating a effect that’s converted to text. 

“The fig of devices we usage successful our regular lives has grown,” the institution says successful a blog station connected its website. “Already we’re seeing our assemblage bask utilizing Snapchat crossed surfaces including tablet and web, successful summation to mobile, and this builds connected our committedness to making Snapchat disposable crossed each the devices you use, including wearables.”

The app doesn’t supply the afloat Snapchat experience, but it’s inactive a invited caller diagnostic successful a clip erstwhile galore companies person abandoned enactment for the Apple Watch. Instagram, Slack, Lyft, Uber, Amazon, Trello, and Evernote person each abandoned their Apple Watch apps implicit the past fewer years.