How to use Apple Watch Series 6 + Tips/Tricks!

hi everyone harris here with i download blog and in this video we're taking a look at around 1718 tips tricks and generally how to use your apple watch series six here i have it in the new blue color and i actually did a video quite recently talking just about the blue color so i invite you to check out that if you are considering it but if you have an apple watch series 6 here's a bunch of nifty things to know about this watch as well as watch os 7 in general so starting out with number one is that this watch does have faster charging now i've seen some reports that say that you must use the new charging cable that's included with your apple watch in order to utilize this faster charging about 20 percent faster charging but actually you can use any generation charging cable for the apple watch as well as the standard 5 watt charging brick that apple doesn't include with this apple watch but has included in years past so you can use your small cheap 5 watt charger for this apple watch and any of the apple watch charging cables from apple as well as pretty much any mfi charging cable that you can get third party as well and it will give you about 20 faster charging speeds on the apple watch because the apple watch takes advantage of closer to 5 watts of speed versus the older apple watches so that's good to know for faster charging with your apple watch now secondly in conjunction with the health app on your phone you can actually set up sleep tracking now to enable sleep tracking mode you just go into control center on your apple watch and then you go down and you click the little bed and that will put your watch into sleep mode which is very similar to the theater mode which basically turns off the screen from auto waking so no matter what you do won't turn on puts it into do not disturb and then a very dim display and you can see what it looks like there with tomorrow's alarm and just the time and date and then you use a digital crown to wake it up and with this on if you have it set up in the settings on the watch it will actually record your sleep and give you all the data that it collects from that and so you can see those settings here on the watch app so sleep is a great new feature with watch os 7 and with faster charging on the series six it should be something that's more manageable to do on a daily basis and then when you're done you just turn off sleep mode and you're good to go now there's also the new kids mode or student mode which is called school time which you can get to again from control center and this is mainly for the apple watch sc so if you're giving this to a kid they can put it in this mode puts it do not disturb a simple display and limits a lot of the applications and actually limits you from leaving the screen at all so this is a great feature for kids so they don't get distracted with their apple watch in class and again turn the digital crown to get out and exit pretty simple next so the apple watch series 4 brought the ecg scanner and of course the series 6 has that so if you go into this ecg app which again it looks like little heart scan there and you have your watch on your wrist and then you hold your finger to the digital crown and you can get your ecg reading and you hold it there for about 30 seconds and it will give you your data next on top of ecg scanning and blood oxygen you can also check your vo2 and this is a really good measurement of physical and cardiovascular fitness so to get into this you actually go to the respiratory settings in the health application on your phone and once you go into respiratory you can see vo2 max up at the top and you can see how my vo2 has dropped off since my marathon but you can see there your settings and this will use data from your watch and different workouts to test your vo2 max which is a great data point to have especially if you're a runner or cyclist or more next so apple now has a hand washing feature on apple watch with watch os 7. now it might be more annoying than the breathe app unless you actually use the breathe app but basically when you're watching text that you are going to be washing your hands it'll give you a little timer for 20 seconds so that you know that you're washing your hands for 20 seconds and this is again just a general health but also a covered thing to try to get people to be a little bit cleaner you can find the settings for that both on your phone but also in the settings on your apple watch next so notifications are different now with watch os 7. unfortunately you no longer have the force touch where you could hold down and get the little haptic feedback and then clear all your notifications that you could before pretty sad that apple actually took away a cool feature so instead if you want to clear all of your notifications you have to scroll up to the top and click clear all and then it'll clear all of your notifications and then you don't have any left next if you have a watch face that you really like and you want to give it to somebody or share it with them or somebody asked for your watch face you can actually share your exact watch face with the same compilations to someone else by clicking the little share button down in the bottom and then you can choose a contact and create a message and send it next this is a feature that is actually really cool in conjunction with your mac so if you go into the privacy settings of your mac you can edit the settings and allow your apple watch to unlock your mac so if you have a mac definitely turn that on so that whenever you are near your mac with your apple watch on and unlocked you can unlock your mac as well which is a fantastic feature to have now one thing to note is that you do need to have a passcode on your apple watch in order to make this work on your mac because then anyone could just take your apple watch and also unlock your mac next if you hop over to general in your settings you do have the ability to have screenshots on your device by holding down the two side buttons at the same time and it takes a screenshot and it sends it to the photos app on your iphone now let's keep in mind that this will still work with the play and pause or the start and pause on different workout apps so for instance if i have a run going and i do those buttons it'll both resume the run and take a screenshot so just keep that in mind so previously apple wouldn't let you change all of your move goals and especially not on the watch itself but now if you go to the bottom of the activity app you click change goals and you can change both the move goal but now you can also change the exercise goal which you couldn't before and then the stand goal as well so maybe you're someone that only needs one hour well i guess the minimum is six so you can go down to six hours standing a day and up to 12. so you can't be an overachiever with the stand goal all right next is a tip i've given before in different videos but i love this tip so if you go into your control center for the apple watch you know that you can make your apple watch ping or your phone ping i should say using this control what you might not have known is that you can actually make the flashlight go off as well if you hold it instead of just tapping it so we will hold it and you can see that it did flash there now with the series 7 you do have an altimeter that can work at all times so if you go to any watch face that you want you can change the compilations to include the altimeter go to compass and you can choose elevation as a compilation now so you can have real-time elevation data right on your watch face now a brand new watch face that you have now is pretty cool and this is just a kind of an interesting one so you can go into the count up watch face and you can get a timer or a stopwatch within that so you click on the little toggle right here and then you rotate the digital crown to choose how much leeway you want and you click start and you can see a timer is going there and you can see elapsed time in here so that's a pretty cool watch face that you can have there now a siri on the apple watch you can ask for translations translate pizza into russian in russian pizza is pizza there you go pizza pizza very nice now you can also have multiple compilations from the same third party application on the watch which is something you couldn't do before so if you have an app that you really love you can do multiple complications from that same app now within the same watch face now with a map you can get cycling directions when you are going somewhere which is new for watch os 7 and ios 14 which is super handy but on top of just getting your cycling directions you can also ask siri to give you cycling directions if it is available in your area and not every area has it so i could say give me cycling directions to harvard university and it's not always available but when it is available it will pop up and finally is a pretty cool new camera compilation for your apple watch so if you go into the c section of compilations you can find the camera remote so you can start the camera viewfinder just from the watch face which is pretty nifty so you can see that so those are my tips and tricks for the apple watch series 6 and watch os 7 as you can see i didn't talk about the blood o2 monitoring as i am having issues with that because of the beta software running on my iphone but i'll talk about that in a future episode anyway thanks for watching

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Length: 9min 24sec (564 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 06 2020