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Apple Unveils watchOS 6 With Dedicated App Store, New Apple Watch Faces and Native Apps

Apple today announced (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/06/watchos-6-advances-health-and-fitness-capabilities-for-apple-watch/) a new version of watchOS coming this fall that will introduce several new watch faces, stock apps, and a new App Store (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/app-store/) dedicated to Apple Watch (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/apple-watch/).





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During its WWDC event, Apple showed off several new faces, including Modular Compact, Solar Dial, California, Gradient and Numerals faces.





The new watch faces introduce a new feature called Taptic Chimes that deliver a silent vibration on your wrist, and an hourly chime when audio is turned on.





The new apps include wrist-based versions of Audiobooks, Voice Memos, and Calculator, while the new <!---->App Store<!----> will allow users to purchase and download apps directly to their watch, bypassing iPhone.





Users can install third-party apps using the dedicated <!---->Apple Watch<!----> app store, search for apps using Siri (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/siri/), dictation or Scribble, and view app product pages designed for the watch screen right from the wrist. Developers can also build <!---->Apple Watch<!---->-only apps, created to work independently on <!---->Apple Watch<!----> without an iOS app.





<!---->Siri<!----> search queries will also display webpage results in full on <!---->Apple Watch<!---->.





In addition, watchOS 6 brings several new health and fitness features (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/03/apple-watch-noise-app-menstrual-cycle-tracking/) for <!---->Apple Watch<!---->, including a menstrual cycle tracking app, a Noise app, and a new Trends tab for the Activity tracking app.

<div class="linkback">Tags: WWDC 2019 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/wwdc-2019/), watchOS 6 (https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/watchos-6/)</div>
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Source: Apple Unveils watchOS 6 With Dedicated App Store, New Apple Watch Faces and Native Apps (https://www.macrumors.com/2019/06/03/apple-watchos6-with-new-apple-watch-app-store/)