Facebook Launches New 'Kit' App for Apple Watch to Keep in Touch With Your Closest Friends

[MacRumors]

Facebook's experimental NPE Team today has launched a new app called "Kit" or "Keep in Touch" for connecting with close friends over Messenger on the Apple Watch.

To get started, users scan a QR code on the Apple Watch, or enter an access code at fb.com/devices. Then, users select a Messenger contact and can quickly send that person a message, voice recording, emoji, or their location with a single tap.

While the main Facebook Messenger app already supports the Apple Watch, TechCrunch notes that Kit is focused on keeping in touch with close contacts, such as a significant other, best friend, or family member. Kit is essentially a simplified version of the Messenger app on Apple Watch for keeping in touch with only a few people.

This is the second app released by Facebook's NPE Team in the last week after "Tuned," a messaging app designed to provide a "private space" for couples to connect. "NPE" stands for "New Product Experimentation."

Kit is free on the App Store for Apple Watch only. It appears to be limited to Canada for now.

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[Baymowe335]

Even through the App Store, I don’t want Facebook Apps on my devices.

 

[Slippery Gimp]

Or you could just phone or meet up with your close friends.

 

[212rikanmofo]

Facebook always finding ways to conveniently spy on us and steal our data. What a joke. So glad I deleted this social "experiment" app from my life years ago.

 

[nvmls]

Brilliant, nothing like buying your "premium" itoy waving the "privacy" flag all over only to install crap like this later on.

Seems like Zuckerberg knows their user-base as well as Timmy.

 

[CaptainBlue]

Or you could just use iMessage to your Apple device owning close friends.

What is the point, other than another attempt to slurp valuable personal data into the Facebook universe?

 

[LeadingHeat]

I completely agree with all the privacy-concerned comments on here, (because let’s face it: it’s Facebook we’re talking about). But I’m failing to see how this is different than just using the Facebook messenger app? Seems like an unnecessarily stripped-down version of it.

 

[djcerla]

Or you could just phone or meet up with your close friends.

no,you actually CAN’T meet them.

 

[bb9]

Even through the App Store, I don’t want Facebook Apps on my devices.

It was as if you took the words right out of my mouth. Agreed 100%

 

[TheSkywalker77]

Ew, Facebook. Strong pass for me.

 

[Wando64]

No way I'd give Facebook access to my watch.

 

[MisterSavage]

Hard pass on this one. Even if it wasn't someone untrusted like Facebook I don't have any problem easily calling/texting someone with my watch already.

 

[Rocko99991]

Who, at this point, would willingly install a FB app on any device they have?

 

[CarpalMac]

Even through the App Store, I don’t want Facebook Apps on my devices.

On this one item, we agree!

 

[itsmilo]

Can they just focus on the apps they already have first before releasing new crap every other day.

where is the Apple Watch WhatsApp App?

 

[routine_analyst]

This will last a total of two months like most of everything else this team builds.

 

[macsba]

facebook spyware.

 

[TheAppleFairy]

Calling it "Kit", where have I heard that before?

 

[Newbie67]

BIG NOPE!

 

[BWhaler]

Facebook. So gross.

 

[femike]

Facebook... no way

 

[Lionel Messi]

Deleted Facebook back in November after the camera running in background update. I still use Messenger to connect with friends though. At least I don't have to look at spammy content and toxic comments on the Facebook feed.