The Apple Watch is more than just a timepiece. It’s a powerful device that can help you stay connected, track your health, and even pay for your coffee. But are you using your Apple Watch to its full potential? Here are seven simple tips and tricks that every Apple Watch owner should be using.
- Customize Your Watch Face: Your Apple Watch face is not just for telling time; it can also provide you with quick access to the information you need most. By force touching the watch face, you can customize it to show your most-used apps, weather updates, your activity rings, and more. You can even set different watch faces for different occasions and switch between them with a simple swipe.
- Use Theater Mode: If you’re in a dark room or a movie theater and don’t want your watch to light up with every little movement, use Theater Mode. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to open the Control Center and tap the drama masks icon. This will keep your watch’s screen dark until you tap it or press a button.
- Clear All Notifications: If you have a pile-up of notifications, you don’t have to clear them one by one. Simply swipe down from the top of your watch face to access your notifications, then force touch the screen and tap “Clear All.”
- Handoff Tasks to another device: Start a task on your watch and finish it on your iPhone. For example, you can start composing a message on your watch and then pick up where you left off on your iPhone. Just look for the small icon that appears at the bottom left corner of your iPhone lock screen when you’re using an app on your watch, then swipe up on this icon to open the app on your iPhone.
- Send Your Location: If you’re meeting up with a friend or need to share your location for safety reasons, you can do so directly from your watch. Press and hold the side button to bring up the emergency options, then swipe on the “Send Location” option.
- Use Apple Pay: No need to pull out your wallet or phone to pay for your coffee. Double-click the side button to bring up Apple Pay, then hold your watch near the payment terminal to pay. You can also use Apple Pay in apps that support it by selecting Apple Pay at checkout and double-clicking the side button.
- Take a Screenshot: Want to share your activity rings or a message from a friend? You can take a screenshot on your Apple Watch by quickly pressing both the side button and the Digital Crown at the same time. The screenshot will be saved to the Photos app on your iPhone.
These are just a few of the many ways you can use your Apple Watch. Do you have a useful tip to share with us on how you use your Apple watch – drop it in the comments!!
