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Snapchat is now on Apple Watch for the first time ever

Snapchat is officially coming to your wrist. The first ever Snapchat app for Apple Watch just launched, here are the details.

New Snapchat app for watchOS is all about messaging

Snapchat has nearly a billion users, but until now it has never offered a native Apple Watch app.

That’s finally changed.

From Snap’s announcement post:

With the Snapchat app on Apple Watch, you can preview an incoming message and reply using the Keyboard, Scribble, Dictation, or send an emoji. Respond to let your friend know you’re “here” when you’re meeting up at a restaurant. Out for a run? Glance down and send a quick reply without breaking stride.

Unlike some early Apple Watch social networking apps, Snapchat seems highly focused on doing one thing only: letting users message their friends.

Previously, you could of course receive Snapchat messages on your Apple Watch via a paired iPhone. But without a native watchOS app, there was no way to reply from your wrist.

It’s nice to see a major social network invest in the Apple Watch, and offer an app that doesn’t overcomplicate things. My only complaint: you can’t start conversations from the app, only reply to them when notifications come in.

Here’s hoping that will be addressed in a forthcoming update.

Are you excited to get Snapchat on your wrist? Let us know in the comments.

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Ryan got his start in journalism as an Editor at MacStories, where he worked for four years covering Apple news, writing app reviews, and more. For two years he co-hosted the Adapt podcast on Relay FM, which focused entirely on the iPad. As a result, it should come as no surprise that his favorite Apple device is the iPad Pro.