{"id":254501,"date":"2018-04-03T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T10:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=254501"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:27:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T10:27:17","slug":"instagram-removes-its-apple-watch-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/254501-instagram-removes-its-apple-watch-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Instagram removes its Apple Watch app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram has removed its Apple Watch app as part of the latest watchOS update, <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2018\/04\/02\/instagram-apple-watch-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>9to5Mac<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Apple&#8217;s decision to <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=11162017a&amp;1510866181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>stop accepting updates<\/strong><\/a> for apps which are not native to the watchOS 2 SDK or later.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its non-native construction, the Apple Watch Instagram app could not deliver direct messages or play videos &#8211; and did not work when not connected to an iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>Other companies have also removed their apps from the Apple Watch, including Slack, Twitter, and Google Maps.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/248413-instagram-testing-screenshot-warnings-in-stories.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Instagram testing screenshot warnings in Stories<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram has removed its Apple Watch app as part of a watchOS update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":169151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[49725,18170,10424,30924],"class_list":["post-254501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-app-updates","tag-apple-watch","tag-instagram","tag-watchos-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254537,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254501\/revisions\/254537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}