Not only have native apps been off the table thus far, developers have also been restricted from creating new watch faces or helping users apply other cosmetic changes. The limitations have made most apps, like ride-hailing app Uber and activity-tracking apps like Strava, slower and sometimes harder to use than their iPhone counterparts because the apps can't access key parts of the Apple Watch architecture. That is set to change with the Watch OS update. "These apps today function by relying on your phone," said Lynch. "With native apps, you can move the logic to the watch so the both the logic and the UI [user interface] are there."WatchOS will also arrive with a few cosmetic changes. While Apple isn't handing over the reins to independent artists to design watch faces, it is introducing some new ones of its own. Those include a time-lapse face featuring cities like Shanghai and London and a customization option for showing personalized information on the watch face like your photos or upcoming flight and calendar event details.

Apple is also introducing a new feature called Time Travel, With watch faces that display calendar information, the Apple Watch's rotatable crown will let you move forward and back in time to show events and other information coming up soon and those that happened in the past, See all of today's WWDC news, So-called native apps will iphone case 7 plus apple arrive on the Apple Watch, helping the device's third-party software get smarter and faster, Apple is finally showing developers what's under the hood of its Apple Watch..

The Wall Street Journal reported the expected change, citing people familiar with the situation, adding that other features are expected to be announced Monday, as well, at Apple's annual developers conference known as WWDC. An Apple representative didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. Apple Pay has grown quickly since the company launched the mobile payments service in October, though Apple now faces more competition from Google's Android Pay, unveiled in late May, and Samsung's mobile payments service, called Samsung Pay, as well as PayPal. In March, Apple said the service was available in 700,000 locations, up from 220,000 from when it launched. And more than 2,500 banks supported the service compared with about 500 at launch.

Apple, Google, Samsung and others are all trying to grow their mobile payments systems to make their products more integral parts of their users' lives, while also gaining new insights on people's spending behavior, Yet, mobile payments for years hasn't gained much momentum, since people have seen little reason to switch from plastic and cash, and iphone case 7 plus apple many retailers haven't signed on to these new systems, Apple Pay appears to be giving mobile payments a much-needed boost, but time will tell if it will last, In January, Apple said Apple Pay made up more than $2 out of every $3 spent on purchases using contactless payments, (Contactless payments cover any devices -- smart-cards included -- that make payments using a radio frequency.) Cook has said that..

Apple announced in September that it was partnering with Visa, Mastercard and American Express along with several issuing banks to allow iPhone owners to store their credit card accounts on their devices and pay for items by tapping their phones on payment terminals. Apple has also worked with retailers, including Macy's, Walgreens, Duane Reade, Staples, Subway, McDonald's, Disney and Whole Foods, to bring Apple Pay to store locations. The new feature is said to be part of the additions the company will announce Monday coming to Apple's mobile-payments system.