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Are the Apple Watch apps pre installed? If they are can we remove them?
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That doesn't make any sense
At least you can use all of the other apps with your iPhone by it self. Those Apple Watch apps are useless unless you actually get an Apple Watch.That doesn't make any sense
It's marketing.
I assumed everyone had a folder somewhere called "Misc" or "Useless" or "Misc Useless" where all the unused, unremovable 
apps go to live out their retirement. I already tossed it in there.
It'll come out if I get a watch.
apps go to live out their retirement. I already tossed it in there.It'll come out if I get a watch.
Is it that hard to just have a "Rarely Used" folder, and dump all the stuff you don't use into that folder?
Every time Apple adds an app to the stock iOS install, these threads come up. C'mon folks just drop it in a "Rarely Used" folder and never worry about it again. It's not hard!
Every time Apple adds an app to the stock iOS install, these threads come up. C'mon folks just drop it in a "Rarely Used" folder and never worry about it again. It's not hard!
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or just something else to clog up those with 16GB models
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No, but it is another bloody work-around we have to develop to use iOS products.
Well, technically it's already been developed and used long long ago by now.or just something else to clog up those with 16GB models
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No, but it is another bloody work-around we have to develop to use iOS products.
The shop is coming later once the watch is available. The app is how you will install apps onto the watch.
Glad someone is mentioning this. People think Android is the only platform to do this.
At least with my Gear S watch, I had to download the app to use with my Watch. It wasn't force installed.
The Apple Watch app isn't supposed to be on the iPad right? Just want to make sure as it was on my iPhone but not my Air 2.
Y'all should be lucky that the app can moved to a crapware folder. Once upon a time, the Newsstand apps was unhideable.
Same here man.I assumed everyone had a folder somewhere called "Misc" or "Useless" or "Misc Useless" where all the unused, unremovable
It'll come out if I get a watch.
a core app is not bloat ware. In the future this app will be used by those purchasing the apple watch, that is not the definition of bloat ware by any stretch of the imagination. Nor is the definition of bloat ware apps YOU don't like and want to get rid of.
To be fair, an app that doesn't do anything for the device itself and is only relevant if another separate device is purchased and used doesn't fall under what would be considered "core".
Apple might as well put out an app for Macs, and perhaps make Apple Store and iTunes U as default apps too since they are sort of related. All while more relevant apps like Find My Phone and/or Find My Friends are separate and optional.
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So what you are advocating if you don't have a Bluetooth device you should be able to remove the Bluetooth code?
you don't really know it not what the app does until you pair an iwatch.
What does underlying OS code have to do with it? We are talking about an app not the underlying capabilities. We don't get some specific default Bluetooth device apps (like let's say for a speaker or headphones or something) on the phone just because the phone supports Bluetooth. They are different things even if they are related.