Snapchat Launches Apple Watch App With Scribble, Dictation Support; Lens Studio Now on iOS

Snapchat on Thursday expanded its availability by launching a devoted app for the Apple Watch. This new app permits customers to preview an incoming message and reply to it utilizing a number of choices comparable to Dictation and Scribble. Alongside, the social media platform has additionally launched its Lens Studio app on iOS and as an online device which permits builders to create distinctive lenses utilizing synthetic intelligence (AI) and publish them for others to make use of.

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Snapchat shared particulars about its new Apple Watch app in a newsroom submit. The social media platform says it has over 900 million customers at present and “the number of devices we use in our daily lives has grown”. To assist extra folks keep linked to one another, the Snapchat app has been launched on the Apple Watch platform as a part of its dedication to creating it obtainable throughout all units. It requires watchOS 9.0 or later firmware.

It joins current platforms like smartphones, tablets, and the online. However, the app’s performance on the Apple Watch is barely completely different and it doesn’t present a full expertise. While you can not ship messages or Snaps from the brand new Apple Watch app straight, it lets you reply to incoming ones utilizing Scribble, Dictation, or emoji. Users can scribble on the display screen or use the smartwatch’s on-screen keyboard.

Notably, this functionality already existed if you happen to’ve ever paired an iPhone to the Apple Watch and chosen to reflect notifications.

Meanwhile, Snapchat has additionally expanded the provision of its Lens Studio app to iPhone and the online. Previously restricted to desktops, iOS customers can reap the benefits of experimental new instruments to create and publish new Lenses powered by augmented actuality (AR). They can leverage AI to generate results and add Bitmojis to create Lenses that higher categorical themselves.

While the desktop software nonetheless stays the first device for skilled builders, the brand new iOS app and internet device are geared toward empowering extra folks to create Lenses. Lens Studio is offered as a free-to-download app on the App Store for iPhone and hosted on the web site lensstudio.snapchat.com.