Key Takeaways
- With Apple Watch, you can activate your iPhone camera, calculate tips, keep track of medications, and more.
- Use gestures and accessibility features to operate with one hand.
- Get turn-by-turn directions and hear the time on your Apple Watch.
Your Apple Watch is the perfect companion to your iPhone, like peanut butter to your jelly or avocado to your toast. When it comes to sports and activity tracking, health monitoring, calendar notifications, calls and messages, and access to other important daily data, your smartwatch is a powerful device on your wrist. But it’s so much more.
Of course, we all know that the 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 are plenty of features on the 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 them 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 short 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. I set Camera Trigger as a complication on my watch face for easy access with a single button press.
- open Camera app On Apple Watch.
- 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.
- Press center Press the button to take a photo.
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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 within that calculator app, you can instantly calculate your tip based on your total bill and your desired tipping rate? You can even enter how many people you’ll be dining with (or splitting the cost) to get the final amount due for each person.
Whether you’re going out to brunch or buying tickets to an event, it’s a convenient way to split the bill equally between friends. Apple Cash makes it easy for anyone to send the right amount to the person paying — no need to do the math in your head or awkwardly pull out your phone in front of the cashier.
- open Calculator App On Apple Watch.
- Please enter total Billing amount.
- 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.
- select people and, Digital Crown Increase or decrease the number depending on how many people you’re splitting the bill with.
- 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.
- open Health Apps On your iPhone, Browseand Pharmaceuticals.
- select Add a drugEnter name and select Next.
- Please provide any additional details (unit strength or skip if not applicable). frequency, start date, time, color,Furthermore shape of tablets or ointment bottles.
- Now, Medicine App On Apple Watch.
- select log No matter when you drink it.
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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 to what app you have open like the newer features, but if that’s all you need, or if you have an older model Apple Watch that doesn’t support the latest OS, it’s an easy way to program one function per gesture.
- Open the Watch app on your iPhone
- under My Watchselect Accessibility after that Assistive Touch Turn it on, turn it on Hands.
- from here, pinch, Double pinch,Clenchand Double Clench The gesture does.
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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.
- Open the Watch app on your iPhone. My Watchselect clock.
- confirm Talking Time It is enabled.
- If you want your watch to work even when it’s in silent mode, Always talk.
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6 Get turn-by-turn directions
Navigate to your destination with your phone in your pocket
As a self-proclaimed directionally 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.
- Open Apple Maps Enter your destination on your iPhone. Select a walking route option.
- When connected to your iPhone, directions will automatically appear on the Watch screen.
- The next turn and its distance are displayed. When approaching a corner, you feel a slight vibration.You can raise your wrist to check and follow along.
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