You recently configured a brand-new Apple Watch. Apple’s well-liked wearable is a fantastic addition to your iPhone, offering a plethora of capabilities for communication, entertainment, fitness, and health. To get the most out of your watch right out of the box, there are ten things you should definitely do before exploring all of those fascinating and engaging possibilities.
Your Apple Watch has sound enabled by default. Listening to all of the distinctive bells and tones that Apple included in its wearable is initially entertaining. But eventually, it could get annoying, particularly if you do have a lot of notifications. Later on, more on this. You might want to think about setting the watch to silence if you often keep your iPhone on silent.
Simply swipe up from the bottom of your watch to wake it up, then tap the Control Centre alarm bell symbol to silence it. To simply reduce the volume, navigate to Settings > Sounds & Haptics on the watch or within the Watch app, and then make the necessary adjustments using the volume icons. If you’d like, you can also use “Silent Mode” to turn off notifications from here.
You should enable this function if you own a Mac, particularly if it is an older model lacking Touch ID. As long as your Apple Watch is unlocked on your wrist, your Mac will open instantly whenever you wake it up—whether you do so by lifting the lid of your MacBook or by pushing a key on your iMac. See writer Khamosh Pathak of Lifehacker’s tutorial for additional details.
Particularly if you have a lot of notifications configured on your iPhone, the Apple Watch comes with a lot of notifications by default. Fortunately, controlling these notifications—specifically, those on the watch—is not too difficult.
Navigate to Notifications under Settings after launching the Watch app on your iPhone. Now, go through each app and turn off the notifications for those that you don’t want to see. To get the most out of your Apple Watch, you must customise your experience: You’ll be glad you took the effort to get here if you want to see your Messenger notifications but don’t want to see any more breathing reminders.
Simply remove any apps from your iPhone that are on your watch if you don’t want them there! You may have far more selections than you actually need if you set your watch to download every app from your iPhone. When you delete these apps, the app window will open with less irrelevant options, making it much easier to identify the apps you actually want to use.
Similar to your iPhone, you may delete apps from your Apple Watch by long-pressing on the app and tapping the (X) that appears. An alternative method is to launch the Watch app, navigate to the list of installed apps, choose the app you wish to delete, and then press the Show App on Apple Watch option to verify.
Your Apple Watch won’t just come with free cellular connectivity right out of the box if it has cellular capability. You will need to purchase a cellular plan from your carrier in its place. The Watch app on your iPhone or Settings > Cellular on the watch are the two places you can start this process.
Do you not know if your Apple Watch is cellular or not? There are two simple ways to find out: Only cellular watches that are connected to the Watch app will display the Cellular settings page. Furthermore, the red ring on the crown of the cellular watch is an obvious telltale sign.
Your Apple Watch probably has an Always On display if it is more recent. It allows you to instantly check the time, see any new notifications, and read data directly from the watch face without even waking it up. The battery is strained by this feature, despite how great it is. Try turning it off by navigating to Settings > Display & Brightness > Always On if you want to extend the life of your batteries.
Moreover, I would advise turning off Background App Refresh by going to General > Background App Refresh. This feature is another battery drainer, although it might be useful for keeping your different Apple Watch apps updated with the newest content. It’s generally best to just open the apps whenever you want to check what’s new.