Apple Watch cuts more ties with the iPhone in latest watchOS 6 beta

VentureBeat's Jeremy Horwitz (via BGR) discovered something interesting on his Apple Watch when he installed watchOS 6 Developer beta 2...

VentureBeat's Jeremy Horwitz (via BGR) discovered something interesting on his Apple Watch when he installed watchOS 6 Developer beta 2 on the device. There are indications that with the latest watchOS build, the wearable will be able to directly load OTA updates without having to go through an Apple iPhone. It's another cut in the umbilical cord that connected the Apple Watch to the iPhone when the timepiece was first released in 2015. If you're running the latest Developer beta of watchOS, you can see how the timepiece can run OTA updates through the settings menu by going to Settings > ...

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