20 INCREDIBLE things Apple Watch can do Right Now!

I've been wearing an Apple Watch for the past 4 years but it's the one Apple product where I've never really stopped to think about the hidden features tips and tricks that are available for it the watch on your wrist can do a lot more than just tell the time and in this video I'm going to share 20 tips and tricks for your Apple watch with you okay let's get into it a feature that was introduced in iOS 17 is the ability to leave someone a video voicemail if they're not available to take your FaceTime call a cool feature on the watch is the ability to view those videos on your watch so if you know that someone has left you a video of voicemail go to the app list on your watch and choose the phone app scroll down and select voicemail any video voicemails that have been left for you will be visible here and you can simply tap on one to play it like a regular video there are some people out there who like to set their watch Fast Maybe by 5 or 10 minutes so that the time that they're working to is a bit earlier than the actual time I guess if you're someone who's perpetually late this might make sense and there is a way that you can do this on your Apple watch on your watch open settings and choose clock the first option at the top of the page should say plus Z Min tap into it and use the digital Crown to set your clock face fast by up to 1 hour note that the only thing that this will impact on your watch is the time on the watch face itself everything else will run off the actual time if you receive a call on your Apple watch you can tap the green button to answer it and use the watch to take the call I've had entire phone calls while I've been out where I've used the speaker and microphone in my watch for the entire call there may be situations where you don't want to do this and would prefer instead to quickly find your phone and answer it there problem is by the time you get to your phone the person may have hung up so instead of pressing the green button tap the Ellipsis button next to it and choose answer call on iPhone doing this answers the call but puts the caller on hold while you go and find your phone you can tap to resume the call on your iPhone when you find it if you go to the control center and tap the iPhone icon it will ping your iPhone making it play a sound that you can follow to go and find it but did you know that if you tap and hold on that icon it will not only make your iPhone play a sound but also Flash the camera flash this video is sponsored by novium creators of the hover pen I'll be honest I don't write as much these days with so much of my life going digital so when I do I want to do so using something beautiful functional and meticulously crafted and that's definitely the case with the hover pen I've been using a couple of different ones there's the hover pen in Interstellar Edition novi's most ambitious design it's a refillable ballpoint pen sitting at a perfect 23.5° angle when on its base and Nod to the 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get as a gift for someone special you can do so with a 10% discount using the code PHT or the link in the description of this video no VM ship worldwide so be sure to get yours today if you start a workout on your Apple watch it will begin with a 3se second countdown if you're doing some kind of Sprint training you probably want the countdown but if you're doing anything else especially something like just going for a walk it is a waste of time simply tap the middle of your watch while the countdown is happening to skip it you can log medication as you're taking it using your watch saving you from ever having to do the whole did I take my meds this morning thing ever again to do this you first need to go to the health app on your iPhone tap the browse button in the bottom right corner and choose medication in here you'll need to follow the steps to add a medication to your health app but once you've done this you can go to the app list on your watch and choose medication your medication will be listed here tap on the one that you'd like to log then tap the log button find my work really well across all of your Apple devices but the one device where I think it adds the most value is your Apple watch your watch is attached to your wrist all the time so chances are it is the item that you're less likely to lose as long as you have find M enabled on all your devices you can go to the app menu and choose find devices if I tap on my iPhone for example I can see its location on a map check its current charge State and if I scroll down I can send a request for the iPhone to play a sound to help me locate it I can also tap on directions to get directions to its location if you scroll down you can also toggle on Lost mode this will immediately lock the device and display contact information on the screen so that if someone finds it they can use that information to return it to you also if you go back to the app menu you've also got find items which is for use with your air tags and you've got find people which can help you locate anyone sharing this information with you your watch has a water loock mode which is designed for when you go swimming so if you know that you're about to jump into a pool tap on Control Center and tap the water icon your watch will enter water lock mode during this time the screen becomes less responsive meaning you're less likely to tap it by accident while you're underwater and it will also stop things like the excessive noise warning from happening because this does trigger all the time underwater if you don't enable this mode first when you get out of the water simply tap the side button to open Control Center and your watch should automatically recognize that you want to disable water lock mode tap and hold the digital crown for just a moment to eject any water from your watch one of the biggest frustrations of the watch in my opinion is how difficult it is to access an app there's no home screen so you can't select apps using that method one option is to add complications for the apps that you frequently use but there is a limit to the number of complications you can have and I'm not sure how practical this actually is in my opinion the easiest way to solve the issue is to tap and hold on the digital Crown to activate your voice assistant and then say the name of the app that you'd like to open for example you can say messages and your watch will open the messages app or you could say settings to open the settings menu or you could even say accessibility to not only open settings but also navigate to the accessibility page within settings this tip is kind of controversial because it's actually referencing a feature that was removed in watch OS 10 which many people really liked before watch OS 10 if you double tapped the digital crown it would switch you between two open apps unfortunately that feature is no longer available but in its place is the ability to open the app Carousel this is the same as the app carousel on your iPhone where you can scroll between open apps and tap on one to quickly jump back into it the only difference is that if you want to force quit an app here instead of swiping up like you would on your iPhone you swipe from right to left and tap the Red Cross if you find viewing the content on your watch difficult there is a zoom option on your watch open settings and choose accessibility tap on Zoom to toggle this option on with zoom enabled use two fingers to double tap on your watch face to zoom in use the same two fingers to move around on the watch face similar to using a trackpad double tap with two fingers to zoom back out you can adjust the level of Zoom by double tapping and keeping your fingers pressed down on the second tap then swipe up or down to change the zoom level the best camera on your iPhone is the one on the back of your iPhone it's always going to be better quality than the selfie camera the problem of course is that if you want to take a selfie you need to be able to see the screen to know what you're taking a picture of your watch has a function called camera remote that you can access by going into the app menu and choosing it there this will show you a preview on your watch of what your camera is seeing if you tap the ellipses menu you can choose from the front or rear camera you can also choose whether or not to enable a Flash and whether or not to have a live photo the top of this page you have the option of enabling or disabling a 3 second countdown timer I would recommend enabling this because it gives you the opportunity to set up and preview the image using your watch and then a couple of seconds to compose yourself and look at the camera a follow one from the previous tip if you tap and hold on the shutter button you'll begin recording a video you can even switch through the different lens options available by using the digital Crown to zoom in and out using either the dictation or the onscreen keyboard board you can reply to messages using your watch but you might find it easier to use the default replies instead the good thing about these is that you just tap on one to select and send it the bad thing about them is that they're pretty generic so it is worth taking a couple of moments to set up your own default replies open the watch app on your iPhone and scroll down to messages here tap on default replies you can enable or disable smart replies if you wish this is where your watch will try to intelligently figure out the kind of reply you would like to send regardless I would recommend that you choose add reply and type in your own response anything that you add here will then be available the next time that you receive a message on your watch if your watch supports the keyboard which I believe is a watch series 7 or newer or any watch Ultra model you can use the digital Crown to move the cursor through text while you're writing it's really easy to do and it makes it much easier to correct any mistakes the maps app on your watch is extremely useful especially if you're somewhere unfamiliar the the problem can sometimes be that your connected iPhone doesn't have data reception which means that Maps won't load one way to fix this is to download a map for an area that you plan on visiting ahead of time to do this your iPhone will need to be updated to at least iOS 17 open the maps app and tap on your Apple ID tap on offline maps and choose download new map input a location and use the guides to select the area that you'd like to download tap the download button when you're ready the map will be downloaded to your iPhone and as as long as you have your iPhone with you your watch will be able to access that downloaded data so if you like to go walking in places where there isn't much signal this is a game Cher side note this also works on Apple carplay the app list on your watch is kind of a mess regardless of whether you use the list or grid view part of the reason for this is that there are loads of apps that you're probably not using with this in mind I would recommend getting rid of anything that you don't use open the watch app on your iPhone and scroll down until you reach the section called installed on Apple watch these are all versions of apps that have been automatically installed on your watch for anything that you don't want tap on the app and toggle off show app on Apple watch this will remove the app from your watch but won't impact the app on your iPhone if you change your mind and you want to install something back scroll down to the bottom of the list and you'll see a section called available apps this represents any apps that aren't currently installed on your watch but are installed on your iPhone and have a compatible watch app simply tap install to install the app on your watch one of the most misunderstood features of the Apple ecosystem in my opinion is focus modes this is where you can have different modes set up for what you're doing a personal Focus Mode work Focus mode driving Focus mode pretty much anything you like when in a focus mode your devices will operate and look slightly different for example you could set a work Focus mode where your iPhone has a completely different home screen compared to your personal Focus mode where you remove apps like Instagram or Tik Tok but did you know that you can also apply this to an Apple Watch face on your iPhone open settings and choose Focus for this example I'm going to tap into my work Focus you can see a section here called customize screens the first two options are for choosing a custom screen for your iPhone both lock screen and home screen but the third option is for your watch tap choose and then select the watch face that you would like to apply to this particular Focus mode note that if you don't have options here you might have to go into to the watch app and create some new watch faces now with the watch face selected if I go to control center on my iPhone and change my focus mode from personal to work you can see that my watch face changes as well I'll change it back to personal and the watch face goes back to how it was you can get super creative with this and have different watch faces for all of the different things that you do I talk about shortcuts here on the Channel all the time because I think it's one of the best features of the iPhone I've already made a couple of videos about shortcuts with which I will link to in the description of this video but shortcuts combined with the Apple watch can be really powerful a shortcut is essentially a command to do pretty much anything that your phone can do let's say that I've created a shortcut to turn on all the lights in the downstairs of our house and also set our Robot vacuum cleaner to clean the floors I can't show you the process of creating that particular shortcut in this video you'll need to watch some of my shortcut videos to get a feel for how to create them yourself but the beauty of shortcuts on your watch is that once cre created you can assign a shortcut to your watch on any Apple watch you can go to the watch app on your iPhone tap on your watch face and scroll down to complications for any of the complications you can go to shortcuts and choose your shortcut from the list there if you have an Apple Watch Ultra you can even assign a shortcut to the action button open the watch app on your iPhone and choose the action button in here tap where it says action and choose shortcut scroll back out a page and tap where it says shortcut choose your shortcut from the list to assign it to the action button your watch can tell you the time instead of you having to look at it to enable this open settings on your watch and choose clock scroll down and ensure that speak time is enabled if you choose control with silent mode this function won't work if you have your watch silenced for this you would need to choose always speak then at any time use two fingers to tap and hold on the clock of your watch face for just a moment your watch will speak the time to you it does this using your Siri voice of choice but give it a try if you use the Mickey or Minnie Mouse watch faces you might be pleasantly surprised so there you go 20 tips and tricks for the Apple watch what do you think anything that I should have included in the list drop me a comment and let me know oh and remember if you'd like to pick up your own hover pen you can do so via the link in the video description and use code PHT for a 10% discount and as ever if you found this video useful do please consider leaving me a like and subscribing to my channel for more more content like this in the future see you on the next video

Channel: Proper Honest Tech

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Length: 15min 3sec (903 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 12 2023