Posted Jun 10, 2026 at 12:19 PM UTC
The Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie fun is over, over.
The Walkie-Talkie app for Apple Watch that lets users send push-to-talk voice messages to one another over FaceTime has been quietly removed in the first watchOS 27 developer beta, with no option to reinstall it. It was first introduced alongside watchOS 5 in 2018.
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