Apple Watch is compact and portable, but sometimes it is a drawback.
It's great to be able to wear a minicomputer on your wrist, but it's unexpectedly dragged down by basic operations such as app switching.
This time, we will introduce the hidden features in which the operation of Apple Watch becomes more blurred.
Apple Watch's "always on" feature is not aimed at tens of thousands of people. Older models of Apple Watch do not support this feature, and some users disable "always on" to save batteries.
If you are such a person, remember to let Digital Crown rotate slowly to display the picture, and then turn to the other side to put the picture back to sleep.
In this way, you can quickly check your watch without having to turn your wrist and save the battery. This is because the Apple Watch screen only needs to be turned on at low brightness in a short period of time.
There are two ways to quickly switch multiple dials. One way is to slide from the right end of the dial to the left or from the left to the right to switch the dial.
The other is to open Watch App on iPhone and click Edit next to my dial.
The collection of dials is then displayed, so you can drag the three line icons on the right up or down to reorder.
Another way to change the dial is to use Apple's shortcut App to automatically switch the dial at a specific location and at a specific time.
For example, when you arrive at a nearby park, you can automatically switch to the exercise dial.
If you accidentally click on a notification while using the application, it will take extra time to return to the original application. In this case, double-clicking the Digital Crown in Apple Watch can save time.
By doing this, you can open the application you used previously.
Note, however, that this feature can be used to switch between two applications, but not when you want to switch three or more applications at the same time.
When opening the dial in Apple Watch, slide from the bottom to the top to open the control center.
Similarly, slide from top to bottom and the notification center will open. However, these gestures do not work when you open other applications.
There is a solution to this problem.
When you open another application, touch the bottom of the screen and hold it down, then slide up to open the control center.
Similarly, when you touch the top of the screen and hold it down and slide down, the notification center starts.
While using Apple Watch's exercise App to track workouts, you can control the music while opening the app.
When you swipe the screen showing exercise data to the left, the music playback control is displayed.
This is much easier than playing Apple Watch during intense exercise to find the "playing" screen.
By the way, let's control how the data displayed during exercise is changed.
When the phone calls, Apple Watch will ring. If you don't want to ring, or if you want to refuse a call, you can use a little trick.
When you want to turn off the bell, cover the Apple Watch screen with the palm of your hand for one second. However, the status of the incoming call continues until the caller hangs up.
If you want to refuse an incoming call, please cover the Apple Watch with the palm of your hand for 3 seconds. After a strong shock, the call was rejected.
If this feature does not work well, open Watch App on iPhone and make sure Sound and Vibration > overlay and mute is turned on.
With Apple Watch, you can unlock iPhone while wearing a mask. Once experienced, you will not be able to return to the unlock of the input password.
The only problem is that if you use Face ID in third-party applications such as 1Password or Apollo for Reddit, Apple Watch cannot unlock those applications.
You can also unlock the Mac through Apple Watch.
If this feature works well, you can save a lot of time (sometimes you can't work). Restart Mac and Apple Watch in this case).
You can also use Apple Watch to approve actions that require administrator privileges, such as deleting files in system folders.
Applications such as Mac's 1Password can also be unlocked using Apple Watch instead of entering a longer password.
Source: support