What’s Snapchat without the ability to snap and send photos to your friends? It’s the social platform’s new Apple Watch app that instead provides a quick way to preview messages and reply right from your wrist.
Joining mobile and web-based versions of Snapchat, the Apple Watch app lets you preview incoming messages on your wrist (functionality that already existed if you chose to mirror notifications from your iPhone) and reply to them using the wearable’s tiny keyboard, scribbling letters with your finger, or by dictating a response that’s converted to text.
“The number of devices we use in our daily lives has grown,” the company says in a blog post on its website. “Already we’re seeing our community enjoy using Snapchat across surfaces including tablet and web, in addition to mobile, and this builds on our commitment to making Snapchat available across all the devices you use, including wearables.”
The app doesn’t provide the full Snapchat experience, but it’s still a welcome new feature in a time when many companies have abandoned support for the Apple Watch. Instagram, Slack, Lyft, Uber, Amazon, Trello, and Evernote have all abandoned their Apple Watch apps over the past few years.
