Snapchat is now on the Apple Watch

Snapchat’s Apple Watch app offers basic messaging functionality. | Image: Snapchat

What’s Snapchat without the ability to snap and send photos to your friends? It’s the social platform’s new Apple Watch app that instead provides a quick way to preview messages and reply right from your wrist.

Joining mobile and web-based versions of Snapchat, the Apple Watch app lets you preview incoming messages on your wrist (functionality that already existed if you chose to mirror notifications from...