Yahoo Weather, Sports Fantasy, News Digest and News Hong Kong will get Apple Watch support

The Apple Watch is coming, according to Apple, and as such many developers are getting their apps ready for the wearable’s arrival.

And now future Watch owners can add Yahoo to the growing list of developers bringing their apps to the smartwatch. Today, April 16, Yahoo announced that it is adding support for the Apple Watch to some of its most popular applications. Those include Yahoo Weather, Yahoo Sports Fantasy, Yahoo News Digest and Yahoo News Hong Kong. The apps are focused on bringing as much information as possible, but still be easily digestible, on the smaller form factor. Here’s how Yahoo breaks it down:

Yahoo Weather App on Apple Watch will feature morning updates and evening forecasts through notifications. With a Glance, users can find out if it’s a t-shirt or sweater day with Yahoo’s new “feels like” feature, or learn more about the conditions outside by tapping into the app. With the Yahoo Sports Fantasy App, users can see what’s going on in their matchups or check on their lineup for injuries with a Glance. They can even talk smack with their league using the Apple Watch dictation feature. Yahoo News Digest brings users in the U.S. the most important story on the hour, every hour so they are always up-to-date. Enjoy new microsummaries, visual atoms such as a map, stock ticker or infographic that bring the story to life, and a brand new speed reading feature to get you in-the-know in seconds. With the Yahoo News Hong Kong App, users in Hong Kong will receive breaking news delivered to their wrist and enjoy the top 10 headlines of the hour with a Glance.

The updates are not yet available, but Yahoo says they will be by April 24, the day that the Watch was supposed to officially launch, but Apple has changed their mind about that, at least marketing wise. (It now begins shipping that date, as quite a few pre-orders look to be filled.)

Download:

Yahoo Weather — Free
Yahoo Sports Fantasy — Free
Yahoo News Digest — Free
Yahoo News Hong Kong — Free

[via Yahoo; images via 9to5Mac]

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