As I make this video we’re about a month away from Apple, releasing the latest version of watch OS, which will come with a bunch of new features, but your watch can do a lot right now and I reckon most watch owners. Don’T know half of what their watch can do. So that’s what we’re going to talk about in this video 12 watch tips that I think most watch owners don’t know. Okay, let’s get into it. Your Apple watch can use findm to let you know very quickly if you’ve left your phone behind, which could be really useful if you’re out drinking at a bar.
For example, you grab your coat at the end of the night and go to leave, but accidentally leave your phone behind the way that you would set this up is on your watch. You would tap the digital crown on the right hand, side to go to your apps and choose find devices.
This will list all of the devices associated with your Apple ID that are on the find my network scroll through and tap on the device that you’d like to ensure. This is enabled for you’ll see some information about the device, including its current location, and, if you scroll down underneath notifications, there is an option called notify when left behind, ensure that this is switched on. Also, if you tap into this, you can see down at the bottom of the screen.
There is an accept at option where you can add a trusted location for this particular device.
So, for example, mine won’t ping. If I leave my iPhone at home, but it would, let me know if I leave it anywhere else as good as your Apple watch. Is it isn’t a particularly good advice when it comes to email? The screen makes it really difficult to properly read lengthy emails and attachments, and, whilst dictation can get you out of a bind, if you need need to quickly reply to something, it’s not the best. I think a better way of dealing with your email is to quickly glance at emails when they arrive on your watch and then come back to them later on your iPhone iPad or Mac.
One way that you could do this is to swipe from right to left on an email in your inbox and hit the flag button. This will then flag that email and you can access your flagged emails later on your device, but there isn’t even better way to do this and that’s to tap and hold on the digital crown with an email, open and use. Your voice assist to say remind me about this. You can even add a specific time if you wish like remind me about this at 6:00 p.m.
Or remind me about this tomorrow, Siri will not only add a reminder to your reminders list. It will do so with a link back to that particular email, and you can access this on all of your connected devices, meaning that when you get back to your computer or your iPhone later, it’s really quick and easy for you to get back to the email That you need to action. You can even do this from the news app and from messages and you’re going to have to decide just how useful that is to you, but it’s a pretty cool feature.
Nonetheless, by far the quickest way to set a timer when using your Apple watch is to Simply hold the digital crown on the right hand, side until sir appears, then you would simply say the amount of time that you want the timer to run. For you. Don’t have to say things like set a timer or even 10minute timer, you literally just say the words 10 minutes. If you want to set a timer for 10 minutes, for example.
However, if you want to run multiple timers at the same time, you will need to add a bit of context when you do this. So let’s say, for example, that you’re cooking a meal, maybe you’re cooking beef on a slow cook and you’re cooking potatoes with it. If you wanted to set a timer to monitor the beef cooking for an hour, you would access your voice, assistant and say 1 hour, beef timer. If you wanted to time the potatoes for 45 minutes, you would do the same thing but say 45-minute, potato timer.
If you then want to see all of your timers together to get an idea of what’s going on, you will again press and hold the two Crown to access your voice assistant and say open Timer.
This will open the timer app on your watch, and you can see all of the timers that you currently have running. I’M sure you already know that your watch has a Maps feature just like your iPhone, and you know that you can use the maps app on your watch to get turn BYT navigation, which is really useful if you’re walking somewhere. But did you know about haptic feedback? So, to enable this on your phone, go to the watch, app choose maps and then ensure that turn alerts are enabled for whatever you want. I have this disabled for driving and driving with CarPlay, and I only use this for walking and cycling. You set it up.
How you like so let’s say that you’ve got a route on the map’s app on your watch and you’re beginning to walk to your destination. What most people do? Is they constantly glance at their watch to see what the next turn is going to be to make sure that they don’t miss it? But your watch lets you know when you need to make a turn by buzzing on your wrist. If you need to make a left turn, your watch will vibrate with two Taps three times in a row. If you need to turn right, your watch will buzz 12 times and when you arrive at your destination, your watch will give one long vibration.
It might all sound a bit weird, but trust me once you get used to this and you can remember which feeling represents, which turn you get really good at being able to follow the instructions that your watch is giving you without even having to look at your Watch screen, I love my Apple watch because of all the amazing Health tracking features that it has and something else I’ve been loving recently is my Lumen big thanks to Lumen for sponsoring this video Lumen is the world’s first handheld metabolic coach.
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If you live in a part of the world where it’s supported and if your bank supports it, I believe that Apple pay is one of the most convenient ways to pay for things when you’re out and about I’m. At the point now, where I pretty much don’t take my wallet with me anywhere, I just pay for everything using my iPhone, but remember you can do the same thing with your Apple watch. If you haven’t already set this up, the way that you would do so is you would open the watch app on your iPhone and you would scroll down until you get to wallet and Apple pay tap into here and then use the add card button to follow.
The steps for adding your bank cards to your Apple watch note that if you have your bank cards connected to your iPhone, this isn’t the same as having them connected to your watch. You have to do this on a per device basis and if you own, a couple of Apple watches, you’ll need to do this for both of the watches once you’ve done this next time. You’re at a payment reader, you can simply double tap the side button to access Apple pay, your default card will appear, and you can use the digital Crown to move up and down to choose between different cards. Also, under the transaction default section you can choose which card you’d like to have as the default card that appears each time.
So, if there’s one that you use for 90 % of your transactions, I would set that up as your default card. If you have a card that you want to use for paying for travel, you can choose that in the Express Travel Card, for example here in the UK in London, you, you can simply tap your iPhone or watch without having to access your wallet, and you would Set that card up here – okay I’ll admit this next tip – is kind of Niche. But let me tell you about it and then you can see whether this would be something that you might find useful. I was talking the other day to a friend of mine, who’s.
Renovating their house and as part of that they’re trying to figure out what all of the different electrical circuits in their breaker box are responsible for the way that they were doing. This is, in my opinion, really clever. He taken his phone and propped it somewhere so that the camera on the rear was facing the lights in a part of the house.
He was then going onto his Apple watch and scrolling down and choosing camera remote.
This creates a remote connection between your Apple watch and your iPhone with a live preview of what the camera is seeing on your watch. The cool thing about this is, although it’s designed to be used in very close proximity, you can get quite a bit of distance between you wearing your watch and your iPhone. So my friend was then going to the breaker box flicking switches and watching the preview on his watch to figure out which one impacted which circuit I’ve even heard of some people using this as a temporary short-term baby monitor.
Clearly, it’s going to use up battery on both of your devices pretty quickly, so I wouldn’t recommend using this for long periods of time but keep it in mind. This might be useful to you in the future. Your watch can help you identify a song in the same way that your iPhone can using the Shazam app you access it by pressing and holding the digital crown and asking what song is. This then hold your watch where it can hear the music. Your watch will listen for a moment, then hopefully identify the song by default.
There isn’t a Shazam app built into your watch as such.
It’s just the functionality of Shazam, so it can identify songs, but you can’t see your past identification. History, like you, can on the iPhone. However, the two are synced. So if you want to go back and see songs that you’ve identified using your watch, you can do that by accessing Shazam on your iPhone and it will show in there. You can also download the Shazam app from the app store if you wish. The main reason why I think you might want to do this is because you can then access it without having to access your voice assistant first, you would simply open the app from the App Launcher on your watch or you can even add it as a complication. Then all you need to do is tap the complication.
When you want to identify some music, you might have noticed that when you’re in an app on your Apple watch, if you swipe down from the top of the screen, you won’t be able to access your notifications, like you, could, if you do this from the main Watch screen: well, this isn’t technically true you can.
There is just a slightly different way of doing this so from within an App instead of swiping down from the top. You would just tap and hold at the top for just a second and then swipe down. You can then view all of your notifications over the top of the app that you’re viewing just like normal and once you’ve cleared them, you’ll be taken right back to the app that you were viewing. I was showing a friend of mine the other day that you can use your iPhone as a remote control for your Apple TV. The feature in case you’re interested is in the control center. On your iPhone.
It’s called remote once you’ve added it, you can use it in the control center and get all the functionality of the regular Apple TV, remote control. On your iPhone. My friend thought this was pretty impressive, but he commented that it would make even more sense if you could do this on your Apple watch. Well, you can the difference. If you don’t access it from the control center on your watch?
It’s a dedicated app, but it should already be installed on your Apple watch. If it isn’t, you can get it for free from the App Store press, the digital crown on the right hand, side to access your app menu and choose remote. If you have more than one Apple TV box, you can choose the one that you want to operate from here now. The experience isn’t as good here as it is on the iPhone, but it’s not bad use.
The center part of your watch screen to swipe up and down left and right, and you tap in the center to select something you have a play. Pause button down at the bottom left a back button in the center at the bottom, which is kind of a pain, because I found myself tapping this accidentally quite a lot and a TV button down at the bottom right. That will take you back to your TV home screen by the way, if you prefer to have content like this in a written format.
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It is great, but face ID would be even better until that time there is a close second, in my opinion, so long as you own, an Apple Watch and that’s the ability to unlock your Mac using the watch that you wear on your wrist. To do this. Go to settings on your Mac and choose Touch ID and password on the left hand, side scroll down to the bottom and any Apple watches that you’ve associated with your account will be shown here. Use the toggle to enable the function for that particular watch and confirm using your max password once you’ve done this.
All you need to do rather than using Touch ID or inputting your password. Each time that you try to unlock your Mac is simply wear your watch. Your Mac will identify that you’re wearing your watch and unlock automatically. For you. A really important feature of the iPhone is the ability to check in with a trusted contact to. Let them know that you’re heading to a specific location and alert them. If you fail to get to that location by the time that you’re supposed to, unfortunately, this feature doesn’t yet exist on the Apple watch, but there is a feature: that’s almost as good if you’re out somewhere and you suddenly feel like you want to share your location With someone open messages on your watch head to a chat with the trusted contact that you want to share your location with and tap the App Store button to the left of message.
The little green orb icon is your way of sharing your location. You would press share on the next page to begin sharing your location, or you can use this to request that the other person shared their location with you. If you choose share, you can choose to do this for an hour until the end of the day or for an indefinite period of time. A feature on the Apple watch that I always forget about, but is really useful, is the ability to mute notifications from a specific app for an hour.
For example, I’m in a few WhatsApp group chats and they have a habit of Going Quiet for ages and then suddenly getting really busy. Usually when I’m in the middle of something or the security cameras that we have at the front of our house. Every time that my wife and I go out to load or unload the car, we get bombarded with notifications. The way that I typically deal with this is going into the relevant app and manually muting everything. But there is a much quicker way of dealing with this when you’re getting bombarded with notifications on your watch simply swipe down from the top of your main watch screen to access notifications, then swipe from right to left on one of the offending notifications tap the ellipses Button and then choose mute for 1 hour.
That particular app will now be muted for an hour, so there you go 12 tips and tricks for the Apple watch that I think most watch owners don’t know about what about you? How many of these did you know and are there any tips that you think I should have included instead drop me a comment and let me know, and as ever, if you found this video useful, do please consider leaving me a like and subscribing to my channel for more content, like this in the future, see you on the next video.
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