The news keeps us informed, from natural disasters to politics to crime in our area, and with these five Apple Watch apps, you can stay in the know.
One of the biggest advantages of having an Apple Watch is the immediacy with which you can receive and check push notifications that you may not see right away if you’re not looking at your iPhone. This makes the Apple Watch great for receiving text messages, personal reminders, and notices from smart home devices such as a video doorbell. It’s also great for news alerts, which, by their very nature, are often urgent and important. By having a news app on your smartwatch, you can make sure that you’ll constantly be in the know when a big story breaks.
News apps on the Apple Watch can also make reading the news easier. While you may not get the same in-depth stories on your watch that you otherwise would from some of the best free news apps for your smartphone, many apps offer a digest of top stories you can easily peruse on your Apple Watch. This will give you a rough idea of current events, with the best apps allowing you to save a story to read on your phone or tablet later, open it on your device automatically, or even let you read the entire story straight from your wrist. Based on (quite literally) hands-on experience, here are five useful Apple Watch apps for keeping up with the news. A more in-depth explanation of how these apps were selected for this list is available at the end of the article.AP News
The Associated Press is a nonprofit agency that has been providing news reports to media outlets around the globe for nearly 180 years. In addition to conducting trusted election counts and polls and publishing its own Stylebook, the AP has earned 58 Pulitzer Prizes since the award was established and is one of the most trusted news sources in the world. It shouldn’t be a surprise that its Apple Watch app is one of the most useful news apps available for the device.
The AP News app, which is available for the iPhone or iPad, offers breaking headline stories directly from the source and includes global, national, and local events. As an added bonus, you can also curate a feed of developing stories based on specific topics you’re interested in. The Apple Watch app will present you, carousel-style, the top five stories of the moment and include their headlines, thumbnails, and bylines. You can scroll through and get a quick heads up of the day’s biggest events, as well as use the Save button to read the stories later. Since you’re getting more of a bird’s-eye view of the news, rather than the full stories you would on the iPhone or iPad app, it would be nice if you could scroll through more than five stories, however. Besides that limitation, though, the AP News app for the Apple Watch will help you easily keep up with the most important current events.Apple News
Apple has put a lot of effort into its News app since its 2015 debut, making it a core part of Apple’s app ecosystem, along with music and podcasts. In addition to aggregating free news stories from major and boutique media outlets, it emphasizes trustworthy news sources.
