You can configure your Apple Watch to wake when you do things like tap the screen or raise your wrist. In many cases you will see your default watch face when the screen wakes. But in other cases you may see the last app that you were using instead. This is helpful when you are … Read more
Screenshots on your iPhone are a useful way to share part of a text message conversation, give instructions on how to do something, or screencap a situation that you can see that someone else might find interesting or entertaining. Many other electronic devices include the ability to take screenshots, such as your computer. But your … Read more
Your Apple Watch has a lot of interesting features that longtime watch owners still find out about even after they’ve had the device for years. Some of these feature, like water lock, might cause some confusion, while others are simply hidden away. One of these features is called Nightstand Mode, and it illuminates the watch … Read more
Following a channel on YouTube is a great way to keep up with new videos that are created by your favorite content producers. The more you use YouTube and discover good channels, the larger that list of followed, or subscribed, channels is going to become. Your Apple watch mirrors the notification settings for the apps … Read more
Your Apple Watch syncs with many of the apps and services on your iPhone. This lets you get alerts and notifications from those apps and services on your watch, meaning that you won’t constantly need to check your phone. But, depending on how you use some of these apps, these alerts may be unwanted or … Read more
Is there a tiny green notification at the top of your Apple Watch face that looks like a running man? Or is the Workout complication on your Watch face moving? Both of these things are indicative of an active workout on the Apple Watch. Like the water drop icon that appears sometimes, however, it may … Read more
The Apple Watch has a limited number of buttons and screen space, but it can still do a lot of things. In an effort to fit all of these features on the device and make them easily accessible, Apple included a couple of interesting methods for accessing some things. One way that you can enable … Read more
The compatibility between the Apple Watch and your iPhone allows you to do some interesting things. One of these interactions that can be particularly useful is the ability for your watch to use the playlists that you have created on your iPhone. Particularly, this allows you to set an automatic workout playlist that will begin … Read more
Typing or writing a text message from your Apple Watch can be difficult (but it’s not too difficult on an iPad), so you may find that you avoid sending messages from the device. However, there is an alternative that you can utilize that lets you speak your intended message into the watch. If you have … Read more
The various workout options in the Workout app on your Apple Watch provide you with multiple options for engaging in exercise that can be measure and saved by your watch. In older versions of the WatchOS software it was very easy and obvious to change the metrics for the workout, but that has changed slightly … Read more