Apple Watch's Platform watchOS 2.1: Additional Language Support, Siri, Dictation And Other Enhancements

Apple's new platform version for its wearable, watchOS 2.1 has arrived on Tuesday, delivering an enhanced language support for some aspects like system languages, dictation and Siri. iMore gave the following features of the watchOS 2.1.

Additional support for system language in Czech, Vietnamese, Portugal's Portuguese, Hebrew,Arabic, Hungarian, Greek and Malay; right-to-left user interface; Siri and dictation in Saudi Arabia and UAE's Arabic; as well as dictation in Malaysian English, Hungarian, Portugal's Portuguese, Greek, Czech, Vietnamese and Hebrew.

Apple watchOS 2.1 also brings the ability to switch between Hindi and Latin numerals and a new complication for Hebrew and Islamic Calendars.

It solves the issue that prevents updating in the Calendar, time from showing in Power Reserve mode, third-party apps from launching and third-party app icons from being displayed properly. It also fixes the issue that could result to instability when charging the system language.

The Apple watchOS 2.1 can be found through the dedicated Apple Watch app on the iPhone from  General, Software Update, Download and Install. MacRumors gave a reminder that to do the system update, the Apple Watch should have 50 percent battery, must be on its charger,  and must be close to the iPhone.

watchOS 2 was the first upgrade of the Apple Watch operating system two and a half months ago and six weeks after the Cupertino colossus released version 2.0.1.

Apple Support has a complete list of the security content of watchOS 2.1 which includes  enhanced hardeding of the Sandbox app to address the issue in handling hard links in the sandbox to prvent malicious application that might maintain access to Contacts even after revoked access; improved initialization of memory as well as more validation of zlib streams to address the uninitialized memory access that existed in zlib and enhanced validation of input to solve the issue in font file processing that corrupted memory.

There were also some issues when the user visits a website that is maliciously crafted which can cause arbitrary execution of code. Apple watchOS 2.1 addresses the issue by improving memory handling.