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 software 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 post. The social media platform says it has over 900 million customers immediately and “the variety of units we use in our each day lives has grown”. To assist extra folks keep related to one another, the Snapchat app has been launched on the Apple Watch platform as a part of its dedication to creating it out there throughout all units. It requires watchOS 9.0 or later firmware.

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

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

In the meantime, Snapchat has additionally expanded the availability of its Lens Studio app to iPhone and the online. Beforehand 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 will leverage AI to generate results and add Bitmojis to create Lenses that higher specific themselves.

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