Apple Watch loses Instagram app


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Despite dramatic improvements to Apple Watch speed, some high profile apps have been actively pulled from watchOS over the last several months. Instagram is the latest major app to disappear from Apple Watch as part of today’s iPhone app update…

Starting this month, Apple is requiring developers to make all Apple Watch updates run natively on the Apple Watch. The legacy watchOS 1 apps run via the tethered iPhone, while apps developed with watchOS 4 can run natively on the smartwatch. Since Apple Watch apps are bundled with the iOS app, developers are forced to either have an update ready for Apple's new requirement or remove Apple Watch support when updating iOS apps.

Apple notified developers in November that it would no longer accept watchOS 1.