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watchOS 3 is the third version of Apple's operating system for Apple Watch and is the successor to watchOS. It was announced at the company's Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 13, 2016, and will be released this fall. Use this tag only for questions related to watchOS 3.

The watchOS 3.1 is available.

The watchOS 3.1.1 Developer Beta 2 is available for testing to developers here.

Main features include:

  • Performance & Navigation
  • Watch Face
  • Activity Sharing
  • Wheelchair Use
  • Workout
  • Messages
  • new Breathe App
  • new Home app

More information is available on Apple's website.

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Where Can I Intercept NSXPCConnectionInterrupted?

OK. I have an app that is in regular communication with a Watch. They are running apps that can do iOS 10.0 or greater, and WatchOS 3.0 or greater. I don't care about less. When the iOS app gets shoved into the background, comms to the Watch get…
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How can I use relative dates like "Today" or "Tomorrow" in a watchOS complication?

I have a watchOS complication that shows information about what's happening either on the current day or on some future day. As with any complication, I have a CLKComplicationDataSource set up with various methods including…
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WatchOS 3 : Why does WCSession never activate on iPhone?

I am creating a simple app that involves communication between an Apple Watch and an iPhone. Currently using an iPhone 6s (10.3.2) with WatchOS 3.2.2 I cannot get the two to communicate, and I believe my poblem is that WCSession does not activate on…
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How to implement WatchKit sliding button?

Is there a way to implement a sliding button on the watch, similar to the power button linked below? power off screen from watch
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Watch OS3 cannot get Accelerometer data when screen is off

It's seems no way to get realtime Accelerometer data on WatchOS after wrist down ,screen is off. get data from CMMotionManager will stop after seconds for Apple's battery care. You can query data from HKWorkoutSession in background ,for example:…
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watchOS 3 Using WCSession in class shared between device and watch

My app depends on constant communication between the watch and the device. I want to use a singleton to manage all messaging and session states. I want to use inheritance to further customize this behavior separately on the watch and on the device.…
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WatchOS3 Is it possible to stream audio and video from iPhone Camera?

i'm asking a question : Is it possible to stream (real-time) video/audio captured from iPhone camera directly to an Apple Watch 2 (WatchOS3) ? Something like the camera button on the apple watch that automatically starts camera app on iPhone, but…
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XCode Cannot Run Deployed Watch Apps: dyld: warning: could not load inserted library

My XCode installation has something wrong with it and I have not been able to fix it. Anytime I run any Watch App in the simulator, the Phone and the watch simulator will open, but when the Watch App runs, my Mac crashes and reboots. I am running…
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How do I reference in watch kit extension?

I'm not able to make references to outlets created in the Interface Controller in the Extension Delegate. Eg The name of a timer, created in the interface controller, does not come up automatically when I make mention of it in the extension delegate…
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Watch OS3 accelerometer in the background ?

Hey I am trying to have my watch app run the accelerometer in the background while the app is in the dock. I have been looking through documentation and it appears that there isn't any way to do this ? Can anyone confirm ? The other way I was…
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How to implement Socket connection in Watch OS 3.0

In one of my application we are implementing live stock market update using socket connection and we have implemented it using in iOS app using Socket.io. But we also developing same app in Watch OS 3.0. But compiler not able to deal with classes of…
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Apple Watch: WKInterfaceDevice.current().play(.success) not working

I try to let the  Watch vibrate from within my code: WKInterfaceDevice.current().play(.success) but nothing happens. I also tried to ensure to be on the main thread: DispatchQueue.main.async { …
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Create custom components in Watch OS3

I have recently gone through the video of WWDC 2016 - 806 (Design guidelines). In watchOS 3 there is now SpriteKit and SceneKit available. Anyone tried making a custom component as iOS in watchOS. We can't subclass a interface. So, how is it…
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WCSession sendMessageData not working in watchOS 3

I am trying to send image from iOS to watchOS and I am getting below error. sendMessageData getting error: Error Domain=WCErrorDomain Code=7014 "Payload could not be delivered." UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Payload could not be…
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watchOS get activity data

How can I go about capturing daily activity data from Apple Watch at a high level (gyroscope and accelerometer data) or is that not possible (due to current limitations of the API)? I am trying to figure out a way to find all occurrences of a custom…
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