First look: Apple's Clock app comes to iPad with iOS 6
The iPad will gain a new native application when users upgrade to iOS 6: The Clock software previously found on the iPhone.
The Clock application has been found on the iPhone since it first launched in 2007. But when Apple debuted the iPad in 2010, Clock was one of the applications that didn't make its way over to the iPad.
Apple has corrected that with iOS 6, as the Clock will become available on the iPad when the software update launches this fall. Developers were provided with a preview build of iOS 6 after Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday.
Like on the iPhone, Clock for iPad will allow users to set an alarm on their device. It also features a "World Clock" mode with a map of the globe featuring weather and times in different locales.
Also included is a "Stopwatch" functionality, which allows users to time and event, and mark lap numbers. A "Timer" feature is also included, for more traditional timekeeping.
The Clock application has been found on the iPhone since it first launched in 2007. But when Apple debuted the iPad in 2010, Clock was one of the applications that didn't make its way over to the iPad.
Apple has corrected that with iOS 6, as the Clock will become available on the iPad when the software update launches this fall. Developers were provided with a preview build of iOS 6 after Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on Monday.
Like on the iPhone, Clock for iPad will allow users to set an alarm on their device. It also features a "World Clock" mode with a map of the globe featuring weather and times in different locales.
Also included is a "Stopwatch" functionality, which allows users to time and event, and mark lap numbers. A "Timer" feature is also included, for more traditional timekeeping.
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Finally, i've been wanting for this for a while, but thankfully i just got my first iPad a month ago with LTE so finally its here! Should have been there from the start though
This must be one of those features that require a lot of horsepower. They couldn't add it until the iPad 3rdGen's specs caught up with the advancement in technology.
About time too! I use my ipad for displaying recipes when cooking quite a lot and it's a pain having to have my phone with me too in order to time stuff when I could just do it on the ipad which is already next to me....
Still no sign of an iPad calculator app? - dabrace1984 beat me by 20 seconds!
HOLY CRAP!!?!?!! A CLOCK!!?!?!?! APPLE REINVENTED TIME!?!?!?!?
I'm a little surprised at the Timer page... it's a little... ugly.
Good news. This is a system app that should have been there from the beginning. I use my clock on my iPhone constantly for various uses.
Apple didn't bother adding the Clock app to the iPad until now because Siri in iOS 6 for the 3rd gen iPad needs it in order to set alarms and timers. Otherwise it would still be MIA.
Weather and Calculator are still "third party opportunities"...
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Originally Posted by jbellanca
I'm a little surprised at the Timer page... it's a little... ugly.
I was thinking the same thing. It will probably be fixed by the final.
Pretty! I like it!
Maybe it's a Siri thing? But then Siri could just direct you to a website rather than those apps I guess.
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Originally Posted by Lun_Esex
Apple didn't bother adding the Clock app to the iPad until now because Siri in iOS 6 for the 3rd gen iPad needs it in order to set alarms and timers.
This is sarcasm/joking, correct?
The Alarm page is more interesting as it looks like alarms can be set for different times/days, and is integrated with the Calendar app??
Any devs out there who can confirm this? Or is this just the Repeat function?
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Originally Posted by sip
The Alarm page is more interesting as it looks like alarms can be set for different times/days, and is integrated with the Calendar app??
I imagine it's exactly the same as it was before, just more intuitively presented.
Calendar has its own alarm system that works for more permanent notifications. Would you want those to show up in a space for less permanent ones?
Ugly looking app btw with uninspired design, of apple could get some ceis from app store devs and stop making such boring apps, like is one and the reminders app.
Btw is the alarm able to play music on wake up time?
It is long overdue.. A simple clock app from beginning would do fine and save us a couple dollars from 3rd party ones.
Well, better now than never.