{"id":1268,"date":"2021-06-10T17:13:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T17:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:19:21","slug":"hands-on-watchos-8-brings-major-always-on-display-upgrades-for-third-party-and-apple-apps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/10\/hands-on-watchos-8-brings-major-always-on-display-upgrades-for-third-party-and-apple-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on: watchOS 8 brings major always-on display upgrades for third-party and Apple apps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/client-mu-plugins\/9to5-core\/includes\/obfuscate-images\/images\/9to5mac-default.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>watchOS 8 didn\u2019t receive as much focus during Apple\u2019s WWDC keynote as other platforms, but there are <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/06\/07\/watchos-8-for-apple-watch-brings-portrait-mode-photo-faces-mindfulness-features-more\/\">still notable new features coming<\/a> to Apple Watch users this year. Perhaps most notably for some users, watchOS 8 includes new built-in applications that take advantage of the always-on display used on the Apple Watch Series 5 and later. There is also a new way for developers to tap into the always-on display.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"watchos-8\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"729241\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/06\/10\/watchos-8-always-on-display\/#more-729241\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>watchOS 8 didn\u2019t receive as much focus during Apple\u2019s WWDC keynote as other platforms, but there are still notable new features coming to Apple Watch users this year. Perhaps most notably for some users, watchOS 8 includes new built-in applications that take advantage of the always-on display used on the Apple Watch Series 5 and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":325,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1269,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cozilydecor.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}