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Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015 APPLE WATCH TIPS Finding your way around the Apple Watch You have to work out how to use the button on the side, the digital crown, swipes up and down as well as left and right. Then you also have the Force Touch to dive deeper into the applications of the Apple Watch. Don’t worry, after a few days you’ll navigating the interface like a professional. It only takes a short time playing with the Watch to work it all out. Apple Watch Tips 1 When you first get your Apple Watch, because it is a new operating system the interface will seem strange.
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Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015APPLE WATCH TIPS Finding your way around the Apple Watch You have to work out how to use the button on the side, the digital crown, swipes up and down as well as left and right. Then you also have the Force Touch to dive deeper into the applications of the Apple Watch. Dont worry, after a few days youll navigating the interface like a professional. It only takes a short time playing with the Watch to work it all out. Apple Watch Tips1When you rst get your Apple Watch, because it is a new operating system the interface will seem strange. Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015Here are some of the basics Just by lifting the wrist gets you into the interface on your watch. It opens to the watch face or you can set it to go to the last used application. You can save on battery usage by turning off the start by lifting the wrist. Then you would need to tap the screen, the same as you can do anyway when you have lifted your wrist and the screen has already gone off. Swipe up to see your glances. You can swipe to the left and to the right to move between the glances you have set up. Swipe down to see your notications. Press the digital crown to see all the icons for your applications. Press and hold the digital crown to access Siri. Apple Watch Tips2Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015 Press the side button once to see your favourite contacts. From there you can send a message or make a phone call. Double-click the side button to go into Apple Pay. (If you are in a country that accepts Apple Pay) Force Touch can be used on numerous screens, giving you options depending upon the application you are using. Wake to Your Last Used Application My best use case for the Apple watch was to be able to control my podcast listening from my wrist. When I rst got the watch, I was disappointed because this didnt really happen. To use the Apple Watch to do something with Overcast, I would lift up my arm and I would see the clock face rst of all. Then I would have to swipe up to go to one of the glances and hopefully the glance for Overcast would be the rst one available, before I would be able to do anything. It would be easier to get out my iPhone and control with the pause button on the lock screen. Or it would be easier to open the application after getting past the lock screen to press pause or play. Then I found out it is possible to wake up the watch to your last used application. So instead of seeing Apple Watch Tips3Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015the watch face when lifting the wrist, I would see the interface for Overcast, assuming it was the last ive used. Given that in the situations where I wanted this to work, Overcast would be my last used application, this has been working very well indeed. To change this from the default, you going to Settings General Activate on Wrist Raise On and then you select Open to Last Used App. Use your palm If you have a phone call coming in and you are not able to take it, it is quick and simple to place the palm of your hand over the watch face to deny the call. You may also go into the settings in the Apple Watch application on your iPhone, go to Sounds & Haptics and in there you will see a switch called Cover to Mute. When this is activated you are able to mute the Apple Watch by resting your palm on the display, covering it for at least three seconds. You will feel a tap to conrm that the mute has been enabled. Apple Watch Tips4Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015Find your lost iPhone Youll probably nd youre putting your phone down in the house and not carrying it around, due to be able to see notications on your Apple watch. You will almost certainly at some point in time not remember, exactly where it was you left your iPhone. No problem locate your iPhone from your Apple Watch. Swipe up from the watch face to activate the glances, go to the settings glance. Apart from gaining access to the buttons to turn the watch to aeroplane mode, the do not disturb mode and the button to mute, you also see the Ping iPhone button. The iPhone will make a noise and you will be able to nd it. When Siri doesnt get it quite right Although many people have commented on how the Siri application on the Apple Watch seems to be more accurate than on the phone, sometimes it doesnt get it quite right. When you are sending the message, make sure to read before you Apple Watch Tips5Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015send. Depending upon to whom you are sending the messages to, it might be okay to send, even if one word is not quite right. That is choice one, but you can also choose to send the audio instead. At least that is always going to be correct, unless you have a speech impediment or you just said something silly. Go into the Apple Watch application on your iPhone and go to My Watch Messages Audio Messages. Here you can choose whether you want to have the choice of dictation or audio. You can also choose either Always Dictation or Always Audio. Creates custom messages responses In the Apple Watch application on your iPhone go to Messages and scroll down to Default Replies. In there you will see six default replies. You can change the defaults by putting the cursor into one of the responses and typing in what you would like to use instead. At the moment, you cant add extra replies to have more than 6 to choose from. At least it is easy to change what is there as a default, to something you would personally use. Apple Watch Tips6Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015How to take a screenshot Now and then there will be something on the screen that you would like to capture. Its pretty easy to take a screenshot with your Apple watch. All you have to do is to simultaneously press the side button and the digital crown. The screen will ash and you will hear the audio representation of a camera sound. Youll be able to nd the picture you have taken in the Photos app. I just looked into the Photos application on the Apple Watch and it was just showing my favourites. If you need to see more, open up the Apple Watch application on your iPhone and choose either All Photos or Recently Added. You can also set the limit of the number of photos available on your Apple Watch. Starting with 25 photos and anallocation of 5 MB up to 500 photos and an allocation of 75 MB. I have been using the setting of 250 photos and 40 MB. It seems to work well for me. Apple Watch Tips7Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015Stop the Misbehaving It is a version 1 product with version 1 software and there will be times of misbehaviour. If your Apple Watch is not working as it should do, then you can force the Apple Watch to do a restart. Just press the side button until you see the Power off slider and drag it across the screen. If things have gone really bad you can do a force reboot by holding the side button and the digital crown for at least 10 seconds. You will see the Apple logo when the reboot starts. On one occasion I found the Apple Watch and my phone were not talking to each other any more. They had a lovers tiff and were giving each other the silent treatment. I tried a reboot with both devices and nothing was working. In the end, the only solution was to do a complete reset of the Apple Watch. You will have backups of the watch on your phone, the amount of data you lose depends upon how long since your last backup. When this happened to me I was able to get most things back. I was a little bit disappointed at losing my exercise data for that morning. I had to start again in order to be able to close the activity rings by the end of the day. Apple Watch Tips8You can also set the Apple Watch to Power Reserve or Lock the DeviceGood and Geeky Books 13 May 2015Saving custom watch faces Im sure you know already that to customise the default Apple Watch faces you do a Force Touch on the watch display. If you want to keep a customised version of one of the faces you should swipe through the faces to get to the screen with a plus symbol and the word new. Give the screen a tap, make all of your watch face choices so you have another watch face saved. It would be nice if you could change the name of your saved watch face. Maybe that ability will come when the operating system gets updated over time. Sharing your location in Messages While you are in a messages conversation use the force touch to bring up a screen giving you three choices. The rst choice is to reply to that person. Choice number two is to see the details of the contact and from there you Apple Watch Tips9Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015get the option to contact by telephone or to choose which email address you use within the Messages application on the watch. Choice three is to send your location and obviously this can be very useful indeed. Just click on the button and your location will go through the Messages application to your contact. Force Touch to clear your notifications Its easy enough to swipe left on a notication to get to the button to clear the notication away. If you have a lot of notications and you want to get rid of them all in one go, all you have to do is to force touch the display. This brings up the Clear All option, touch that and the job is done. Dealing with mail on the Apple watch The Apple watches them all for notications of emails and is not really practical as a device for sending or replying. The thing to do is to ag emails to remind you which ones to deal with later in your iOS email applications. If you are getting too many notications regarding emails coming in you can choose which mailboxes will show up on your watch. Using the iPhone application go to My Watch Mail Include Mail.Apple Watch Tips10Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015You can choose a specic mailbox rather than your inbox. You may also decide just to see emails coming in from persons you have agged as being a VIP. You may need to experiment with which works out best for you. In all, it is quite customisable and you can just mirror your iPhone or set up custom specications. The best thing to do is to test out a few of the settings and work out which suits you best. Choosing your view in Calendar In the calendar app on your Apple Watch you can choose between two different views, Day and Today. If you click on day you get a scrolling view of your day showing you whatever appointments and events you have arranged. If you are in the day view you need to choose the list view to change it back again. If you want to add travelling time to your event youll need to make sure that the travel times which is enabled. In order to do this you will need to open up the calendar app on your iPhone and adjust the settings for that event. Apple Watch Tips11Choose View Today View List ViewGood and Geeky Books 13 May 2015Finding your way around by getting haptic notifications Using the iPhone to nd your way around in the city might not be such a good idea in some places. It could easily get knocked out of your hand or even stolen. Why not let the Apple Watch give you directions. For a left turn the watch will tap your wrist twice and it will play three times.I had the sound on too and it was a kind of plink-plonk sound.For a right turn you will feel 12 taps on your wrist.I found it is easy to distinguish between the two haptic notications for left and right.The Apple Watch will give you one long vibration when you arrive at your destination without you having to lift your wrist to look for the blue dot. Your iPhone will have been resting safely within your pocket or your bag. You will see notications for 10 metres, 5 mtres and 1metre to the exact positioning of the dropped pin. A great use would be to pinpoint your car when you park it and have the watch guide you back to it. Apple Watch Tips12Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015Where do you want the weather to be on your Apple watch Youll have to go to the Apple watch application on your iPhone in order to set the default city for your weather information. You can also set if you wanted to show in glasses in the same place. You should tap on the section Default City and there you can choose from current location and from any cities you have already added using the web application on your iPhone. I live in northern Spain and sometimes it is nice to know how much it is raining in my native Birmingham in the UK when Im sitting in the sun. Apple Watch Tips13Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015Use handoff to go from the Apple watch to the phone It is quite likely that you are looking at an email on your Apple watch and you need to do something with it on your iPhone. It is very simple to wake up your iPhone and if you look in the bottom left-hand corner you will see an icon there for mail. It is just the same as when you open up the iPhone and you have the icon for the camera in the bottom right-hand corner if you quickly want to take a photo. When you swipe up on the mail icon on your iPhone you will get the prompt to unlock your phone and it will take you straight to the email you want to work with. If you have already started working with a specic email then it will continue where you left off. You can also use hand off with other applications. Maps, Messages, Phone, Reminders, Calendar as well as Siri. Just so long as you are within Bluetooth distance for proximity you will be able to use Handoff. Apple Watch Tips14Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015There are some things you can do without the iPhone Most times we are going to have the iPhone nearby us, but there will be occasions when it is out of range. There are still some things you can do without the iPhone being connected. Play music from a synced playlist. use all of the timing features such as alarms and the stopwatch. Continue tracking your activity with the activity application Workout tracking. Look at your photos from the photo albums you have Synchronised to the Apple Watch. Make purchases with Apple Pay. The Apple watch mostly uses Bluetooth to keep the connection between itself and your iPhone. For some things you will still have a connection if you are the same Wi-Fi network. You will still be able to send and receive messages using Messages application, continue sending and receiving digital touch messages. Siri will still work for you if you have a Wi-Fi connection to your iPhone. Two ways to start using Siri 1. If you just raise your Apple watch or just tap on the screen, when it wakes you just say Hey Siri followed directly by your request. Apple Watch Tips15Good and Geeky Books 13 May 20152. If you press and hold the digital crown until you see the listing indicator, so your request and then release the digital crown. It seems a little bit disappointing to not have audio feedback from Siri. Maybe thatll come in a future version of the operating system. I do like it when we have a conversation! I nd that sometimes it works better to use the method of pressing the digital crown and holding it until youve nished speaking. This is because when I am dictating something in without holding the digital crown, sometimes the screen will switch off before I nished. When that happens you lose the text you have already dictated into the Apple watch. If you are not sure what you can do with Siri on your Apple watch, dont forget that can simply ask the question, What kinds of things can I ask you? The Apple Watch is super for creating timers and alarms. For me it a feture I use often. You can set your modular watch face with the timer showing. if you dont have one set to run or running you can tap on it and start a new one with a click on the watch face. Apple Watch Tips16Good and Geeky Books 13 May 2015Get Jiggly with it You can organise your application icons on your iPhone and it is probably the best way to do it. 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