6 things you didn’t know your Apple Watch could do

The Apple Watch is the perfect companion to your iPhone – like jam on peanut butter or avocado on toast. When it comes to tracking sports and activity, monitoring your health and wellness vitals, and accessing calendar notifications, calls and messages, and other important daily data, the smartwatch is a powerful device on your wrist. But it’s so much more.

Of course, we all know that Apple Watch works with a ton of third-party (and Apple) apps to let you pay for items with Apple Wallet, call an Uber, check the status of your food delivery, track your morning run, listen to music, and more. But there’s a lot more to Apple Watch that you may not know about, or simply haven’t tried yet. These features will help you realize the full potential of your smartwatch, and you’ll probably use it more than you think.

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1 Acts as a trigger for your phone’s camera

Easily take selfies, group photos, and more

At a recent summer barbecue with friends, I set up my iPhone on the table using a mini tripod and got into position for a group photo. My friends beside me were curious as I raised my wrist and tapped a button to trigger the shutter on my phone’s camera. “What did you just do?” one of them asked. It’s a very simple feature that’s been built into the Apple Watch for a long time, but people rarely use it because they don’t know about it or realize how easy it is.

Camera Trigger instantly connects to your iPhone camera and switches from the rear to the front camera to take a photo after a quick 3-second timer. I use it daily to take a post-workout photo to send to my fitness chat group, or to take a group photo of myself and everyone in situations like the event I mentioned earlier. Set Camera Trigger as a watch face complication for easy access with a single button press.

1. Open the Camera app on your Apple Watch.
2. Tap Three points Adjust the right camera view (front or Rear), Flash (car, uponor off), and Live Photos (On or Off), and turn the 3-second timer on or off.
3. Press the center button to take a photo.

2 Calculate tip and split the bill

You don’t need to use your head

Yes, we all know that the Apple Watch has the Apple Wallet app, which makes it easy to pay with just a tap of your loaded credit or debit card. We also know that the Apple Watch has a handy calculator app. But did you know that the calculator app can instantly calculate your tip based on the total bill and your desired tipping rate? You can also enter how many people you’re dining with (or splitting the cost) to get the final amount each person pays. It’s a great way to split the bill evenly among friends when you’re out to brunch or buying tickets to an event. Everyone can use Apple Cash to easily send the right amount to whoever is paying. It’s a super handy feature that eliminates the need to do the math in your head or awkwardly pull out your phone in front of the server.

1. Open the Calculator app on your Apple Watch.
2. Please enter the total amount due.
3. select Tip Use the Digital Crown to move the percentage up or down to the desired percentage amount, and the corresponding dollar amount will appear as you move it.
4. select people Use the Digital Crown to move the numbers up or down depending on how many people you’re splitting the bill with.
5. See below for total prices and per person prices.

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3 Track your medications and get reminders

Let your Apple Watch remember for you

You can use your Apple Watch as a reminder to take medications, such as daily vitamins, medications to treat a specific illness or condition, or antibiotics you take for a period of time while recovering from surgery or injury. You can also record whether you’ve missed or taken your medication from the Apple Watch screen.

First, you need to set up your medications in the Health app on your iPhone. This feature can be used for over-the-counter and prescription medications, as well as protein supplements, natural supplements, and even pet medication reminders.

1. Open the Health app on your iPhone. Browseand Pharmaceuticals.
2. select Add a drugEnter name and select Next.
3. Please provide any additional details (unit strength or skip if not applicable). frequency, start date, time,Furthermore shape Bottle of pills or ointment and color.
4. Next, open the Medicines app on your Apple Watch.
5. select log No matter when you drink it.

Operate your Apple Watch with one hand

Apple introduced the double-tap feature with the Apple Watch Series 9, but many people don’t know that the feature has always been available on the Apple Watch in some form – just hidden away in the Accessibility menu. It’s a great way to interact with your Watch’s screen when you only have one hand free – like when you’re holding groceries, walking your dog, or holding a hot cup of coffee you don’t want to spill in the other.

Tap your thumb and index finger together to trigger a function in an app, or clench your fist to simulate a tap and do something like select an item and move to the next screen or launch Siri. For example, I have the squeeze function set to show apps, and a pinch instantly opens Apple Pay. It doesn’t intelligently adapt depending on which app you have open like the newer features, but it’s an easy way to program one function per gesture if that’s all you need, or if you have an older model Apple Watch that doesn’t support the latest OS.

1. Open the Watch app on your iPhone
2. under My Watchselect Accessibility after that Assistive Touch Turn it on, turn it on Hands.
3. from here, pinch, Double pinch,Clenchand Double Clench The gesture does.

Five Telling you the time

Hear the current time

Your Apple Watch watch face will show you the current time in the format you choose, based on the clock face you’ve selected. You can also have your watch tell you the time. This is great for when you just got out of bed and don’t want to open your eyes yet, or when you’re immersed in an assignment and need a quick reminder of the time without taking your eyes off your computer screen. Once set up, just place two fingers on the screen and your watch will tell you the time. It’s that easy.

1. Open the Watch app on your iPhone and go to “My Watch” clock.
2. confirm Talking Time It is enabled.
3. If you want your watch to work even when it’s in silent mode, Always talk.

6 Get turn-by-turn directions

Navigate to your destination with your phone in your pocket

As a self-proclaimed “direction-challenged person,” I love using directions when I’m walking somewhere. When you connect your Apple Watch to your iPhone, you can get turn-by-turn directions from Apple Maps right on the watch face, with a handy buzzer when there’s a turn ahead so you can follow directions, even on silent mode. This gives you the confidence that you’ll get to your destination safely without having to bury your face in your phone and try to follow on-screen directions. This feature is also available for Google Maps if you download the app on your device.

1. Open Apple Maps on your iPhone, enter your destination, and select the walking directions option.
2. When connected to your iPhone, directions will automatically appear on the Watch screen.
3. It shows you upcoming turns and how far they are, and when a turn approaches you feel a slight vibration so you can raise your wrist to check and follow the turn.