Congratulations! A new Apple Watch is always a source of joy. A very interesting device with which we can really do a lot. The iPhone substitute? Maybe not yet, but a device with which many interactions will pass through our wrist instead of using our iPhone.
Interface, notifications, spheres, health and more, we explain everything to you
The possibilities of the Apple Watch are numerous and very diverse. From its vocation for health to its way of delivering notifications, we can use our watch in several ways. In this article we are going to do a very basic introduction, bases on which to build a more complex use.
First things first, how do you get around the Apple Watch? Easy. Let’s take a look at the two buttons on our watch first. The first, round, rotating, is called the Digital Crown, the second, flat and elongated, we will simply call it the side button. From there we have the following:
- Can we turn on our Apple Watch by pressing the side button. To turn it off, hold down that same side button and drag it Swipe to deactivate.
- If we look at the time, a touch on the digital crown will take you to the apps screen, where we can find all installed on our watch and open them with a simple touch.
- If we are within an application, be it weather, calendar or Mail, a touch on the digital crown will take us out of the application, either on time, if we accessed an app from there, or the apps screen.
- At the end of our interaction with the Apple Watch, we can cover its screen with the palm of our hand. With this we will return to the screen of time, what we call the sphere, and, in addition, we will turn off the screen or let him sleep .
- One press of the side button at any time takes us to the wharf, where the apps we used most recently appear. We can scroll through them by turning the digital crown and pressing any of them to open it.
Let’s continue with the Apple Watch. So far we’ve seen navigation through its most basic interface. Now let’s pay attention to notification center, in the control center and to a function that we find in both.
- Access the control center it’s as easy as swiping up from the bottom of the screen.
- If we are in an application and we want to go to the Control Center, just put our finger on the bottom of the screen for a second and then swipe up like we normally would.
- Let’s look at the button Edit at the bottom of the control center. With him we can
rearrange the different buttons so that we can easily access those that are most important to us. - Let’s also look at some buttons inside this Control Center: the flashlight-shaped button will activate the screen to full brightness in white to illuminate, the moon-shaped button will activate do not disturb mode or other focus states and the button with two faces will activate theater mode, in which the screen is turned off so as not to glare.
- It is in the Control Center that we can see the battery quantity of our Apple Watch.
- For access the notification center we just swipe down from the top of the screen.
- As for the control center, if we are in an application we can maintain up before sliding down.
- Can we delete notifications slide over them to the left. Unfold groups of them with one touch and also open them with one touch.
- At the top of the notification center there is a button that allows us to “Delete all” the content of notifications.
- If our Apple Watch starts ringing, we can put our hand on the screen for three seconds. silence him.
Now let’s move on to talk about spheres. As we have already mentioned, the sphere of our Apple Watch is where we see the time. A time that appears, depending on the design, in different formats and sizes, accompanied by small information, such as the date or the compass, which we call complications.
- Create a new sphere It’s as simple as holding down the screen where we see the time and then pressing the big “+” button that appears to the right of the spheres we already have.
- Modify a sphere it’s just as easy. We just tap on it and click on Edit. From there, we move horizontally between the color settings and the complication settings.
- For switch between spheres we can slide our finger from left to right while looking at the time. Let’s always do this from the ends of the screen.
- And in this section let’s also talk about the Siri sphere, which shows us the information we need every moment of the day.
- By going a little further we can automate the change of spheres, this is something that we will do with a shortcut that the will change for us depending on the time of day or location.
In the domain of health, one of the strengths of the Apple Watch, we also have several things to say. Let’s go over the basics.
- The Training app, that of an icon with a person running, is where we should go record our sessions. Here we can choose the type of training and set goals based on calories, distance or time.
- Another important application is the so-called ECG, which allows us to do an electrocardiogram by simply resting our finger on the digital crown for 30 seconds.
- With a similar operation we find the application Blood Oxygen. An app with an icon shaped like a pair of rotating red and blue circles. With him we can, by remaining still for 15 seconds, measuring the concentration of oxygen in our bloodstream.
- Also highlight from our iPhone’s Health app, by tapping on our name and then on Health checklist can turn on and off the notices that the Apple Watch can give us about our health. Notices such as high or low heart rate or even notification of falls.
- With the Apple Watch, we can monitor our sleep hours, their quality and to follow evolution of this important parameter.
- Now let’s talk about goals. What? These little ones rings of red, green and blue that we have to close every day . From the Activity app, at the bottom, we can tap Change goals to set more or less hours standing, minutes of exercise or number of calories burned.
- From this same app we can invite other people to share closing rings and motivate / compete amicably to stay active.
- Finally, it is also in the Activity application where you can see the rewards for different challenges activity that we overcome.
And there is a lot to be said for the Apple Watch. So let’s see a collection of various tips, resources and, in general, functions that we need to know.
- One of the most common is set up a mobile data plan under our supervision. Something very simple once explained.
- Let’s also talk about Apple Pay, with which we can withdraw money from an ATM whenever we need money without having to carry it with us. just our watch.
- If we are Spotify users It is convenient for us to know how to download music for offline listening.
- We have already said that we can control our health with the Apple Watch. If we want more details on such an important variable as heart rate, we can get our hands on the HeartWatch app which will provide us more information than we could imagine.
- It’s very comfortable to be able to dictate notes to Apple Watch. It’s an easy way to record certain thoughts or conversations quickly and easily, and it’s all thanks to the Voice Notes app.
- In the Sleep app we can set an alarm for each day of the week. The one that will make the Apple Watch vibrate, as long as we wear it in the morning, without emitting any sound and without waking anyone other than us.
- In the Mail application, we can configure, from our iPhone, from which people we want to receive a notification when we receive an email.
- You can take a look at the WaterMinder application, ideal for monitoring and monitor how much water we drink throughout the day and improve those values.
We could go on, but we had better leave it here. We have laid out some basic resources that allow us to get into what Apple Watch is all about. An Apple Watch that we may only get to know, but which will surely surprise us with all it is capable of.
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