Apple announced a new update for Apple Watch users at WWDC last Monday, with some incredible new features. Apple has included new watch faces, complications, easier ways to see your day at a glance, a new nightstand mode, native apps and much more.

New Watch Faces

Apple Watch has new options for watch faces including Time lapse, Photo, and Photo Album. Time lapse lets you choose between five beautiful, professionally-filmed time lapses of cities like New York, Hong Kong and London. For the photo and photo album watch faces, you can select any photo or photo album to display behind the watch readout. Photo album will display a different photo from an album of your choice every time the screen turns on.

Complications

Complications are the little tidbits of information on your watch face that act as links to apps like calendar events, weather, etc. In watchOS 2, developers can add their own complications, letting you view information like the battery level on your electric car or delays to your flight time.

Time Travel

With Time Travel, you can turn Apple Watch's Digital Crown to go forward in time. This works well with complications, as it lets you see what your day will look like ahead of time. As you go forward, you’ll see whatever event is on your calendar, what the temperature will be at a particular time, or just about any other piece of changing information.

Nightstand Mode

When your phone is plugged in for the night, Apple Watch will go into nightstand mode, which displays a horizontal clock anytime you touch the screen or any of the buttons. When the alarm goes off, press the side button to turn it off, or the digital crown to snooze.

Activation Lock

Just like on iPhone, watchOS 2 includes activation lock - which means if it is lost or stolen, your AppleID and password will be required to access the information on it and reactivate it.

Native Apps

With watchOS 2, most apps run natively on the watch rather than as an extension of iPhone. This means they’ll load faster and run smoother. In watchOS 1, almost all Apple Watch applications ran off a paired iPhone, with the watch acting more as an external display. Apple also opened native watch apps to developers, so true third-party apps will be coming to Apple Watch as well.

3rd Party App Capabilities

Developers can now use the watch’s taptic engine, digital crown, accelerometer, heart rate sensor, speaker and microphone. This means there will be new apps for Apple Watch that can do more than ever before. For example, the Ping app will track how fast your golf swing is, Strava will detect your heart rate during workouts and much more.

Reply to Email

Rather than just reading email, you can now reply right from your wrist. Choose from a list of preset replies, dictate a response or send emoji.

More Friends

You can now have multiple screens of contacts (12 on each page) for quick access. You can organize them into groups like coworkers, family, friends, etc.

Colorful Sketches

watchOS 2 adds the ability to choose different colors when sending sketches to other Apple Watch users.

Transit in Maps

Just like in iOS9, transit information displays right on Apple Watch.

Wallet App and Apple Pay Improvements

Passbook has been renamed “Wallet” and cards are now accessible in the watch Notification Center. Apple has also enabled developers to add passes to wallet directly from their own apps. Apple Pay now supports Discover, Store Cards and Loyalty Cards - covering 98% of all card-based transactions in the United States.

Do More with Siri

Siri can now do things like start a workout, check your glances, get transit information, lookup a word in the dictionary and calculate a tip.

HomeKit

Users can now control HomeKit connected devices with Apple Watch, rather than just iPhone.