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 Welcome to

Apple
Watch
The Complete Manual
With its latest product, Apple has looked to do for
wearable technology what it has done for smartphones
and tablets in the past. Like the iPhone and the iPad
before it, the Apple Watch looks to revolutionise an
entire area of technology, making it more integral and
intuitive than ever before. As with all new tech, the
Apple Watch can take a little getting used to, but that’s
where Apple Watch The Complete Manual comes in.
In this bookazine, we’ll guide you through everything
you need to know to go from an Apple Watch novice,
to an accomplished user in no time at all, highlighting
essential features and fantastic apps along the way.
Read on to find out more.
 Apple
Watch
The Complete Manual
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Contents
What you can find inside the bookazine

Getting started Built-in apps

8 Introducing Apple Watch
Learn about your smartwatch 38 Clock
The heart of the Apple Watch













t Unparalleled timekeeping t Choose faces
t Personalise appearance t Tweak settings
t Add Complications t Access Glances

44 Settings 68 Maps
18 Set up your
Personalise your Get directions in
Apple Watch
Apple Watch an instant
Activate it and get started
48 Messages 70 Passbook
Contact friends Store tickets on
and family your Watch
52 Phone 72 Music
Make and Manage your
receive calls song playback
54 Mail 76 Camera Remote
Manage email Take snaps from
26 How to use your
on your wrist a distance
Apple Watch
Discover tips and tricks 58 Calendar 78 Remote
View upcoming Pause and play
schedule your Apple TV
60 Activity 80 Weather
See how much Get a convenient
you’re exercising local forecast

64 Workout 82 Stocks
34 Glances Use your Watch Get the latest
Get instant access to apps to get fit market info

Discover how to
download even more
apps and expand your
36 Built-in applications Apple Watch’s abilities
A guide to the Apple apps

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 Get more
from your
Apple
Watch
110 Evernote
Make and read
notes on the go
84 Photos The next step 112 Wunderlist
View your View your lists in
favourite snaps 98 Third-party applications one place
See what the App Store offers
86 Alarms 114 Just A Score
Set alarms for 100 Download apps Score anything
any time of day Expand your Watch’s abilities with a few taps
87 Stopwatch 116 Peak
Time anything Keep your mind
accurately Third-party apps in top condition
88 Timer 102 Instagram 118 Onefootball
Start a Quickly browse Get updates on
countdown your timeline the latest scores
89 World Clock 104 Twitter 120 Citymapper
View local times See what topics Find the quickest
across the globe are trending city routes
90 Siri 106 Skype 122 Flipboard
Navigate with Keep up with Get daily news
your voice your messages on your wrist
94 Digital Touch 108 Slack 124 National Rail
Send sketches Stay in the loop Enquiries
and more with your teams View live info

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Glossary
Learn the Apple
Watch lingo

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Introducing Apple Watch

Get to know Apple’s first foray into the wearable market, the Apple Watch

Over the past 12 months, wearable devices have become much more
commonplace in everyday life. While they come in all shapes and sizes, the
one type that has seen the biggest increase – in sales and number of models
– is the smartwatch. Although we’ve already seen many great smartwatches
hit the market, the Apple Watch is an entirely different entity, but still one of
the most useful products to come from Apple in recent years. The mix of
strong design, excellent functionality and ease of use has made the Apple
Watch the ultimate iPhone companion, enabling users to control each and
every part of their iOS experience solely on their wrist. Want to manage your
emails? The Apple Watch can do that. Want to track the latest sports scores?
The Apple Watch can do that. With third-party apps adding even more
features, the Apple Watch is a product to get excited about.

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 Getting Started
started Introducing Apple Watch

What is the Apple Watch?

The term ‘smartwatch’ will mean different things to different people,
but when it comes to the Apple Watch, the idea behind it is very
clear. The tiny wristwear device is an extension of your iPhone,
enabling users to avoid having to reach for their phone every time
they need to check something and instead use their Apple Watch
as an alternative. Although modest in size, the Apple Watch packs a
surprisingly powerful processor and battery to make it the ultimate
companion for your smartphone. While its fundamental features all
Fig 1 Users can choose from a plethora of coincide with your iPhone – such as managing notifications, taking
different digital watch faces built into the
Apple Watch calls and reading messages – it’s the standalone features that will
really catch your eye. Through the hundreds of third-party apps
that are ready to download, users are able to equip their new Apple
Watch with games, remote controls and various social media feeds.
However, let’s not forget that the Apple Watch is still a timepiece
at its core, but one that offers a freely customisable way of taking a
quick glance at the time whenever you need it, through a range of
watch faces which includes a fantastic Mickey Mouse offering (Fig 1).
When you consider that this is Apple’s first ever smartwatch, it’ll be
very interesting to see what future updates the firm has in store for
the Apple Watch.
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started

Why choose Apple Watch?

Unless you’ve been living with your head in the sand for the
past two years, chances are you’ll have seen a large number
of smartwatches hit the market. While nearly all of the current
selection run Google’s Android operating system, iOS users have
largely been left out in the cold with Apple’s first smartwatch
being in development for over a year. However, the wait was
certainly worth it and iOS users now have access to one of the
best smartwatches on the market. So what are the main reasons
you should buy an Apple Watch? For one, it’s by far the most
customisable smartwatch around. There are numerous watch straps
available for purchase and three very different types of Apple Watch,
depending on your budget and requirements. It’s also arguably the
most feature-packed smartwatch currently on the market. There are
already hundreds of third-party apps that are readily available for
download from the App Store (Fig 2), which expand on the many
functions that the Apple Watch is able to perform by default. All of
this combined makes the Apple Watch a very attractive package for
anyone who is a seasoned smartwatch user, or completely new to
the market. The only decision you will need to make is which type Fig 2 There are hundreds of third-party
apps ready to download from the Apple
of Apple Watch you want to buy. App Store

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Apple Watch
The stainless steel version of the Apple
Watch is the mid-priced option. The
main differences between this version
and the other Watch models is the
robust build materials that have been
used to help protect both the watch
face and chassis. Sapphire crystal
glass offers a thin but tough layer of
protection across the display, which
should help limit the impact if the
Apple Watch is ever dropped. What
makes the addition of sapphire glass
even more remarkable is that it’s arguably
more robust than the Gorilla Glass used
on Apple iPhones. The Apple Watch’s
stainless steel chassis is also ideal for avoiding
everyday scuffs and scratches. Overall, this
model is both practical and smart.

Watch Sport
For most potential purchasers, the
Watch Sport will be the variant that
they end up going for. Not only does
it include the same high level of build
quality seen in its more expensive
counterparts, but it’s nearly half the
price of the stainless steel Apple Watch.
With a layer of Ion-X glass, hardened
down to its molecules, the Watch Sport
is also best built for those who want to
use their Watch as a health and fitness
accessory. When you consider that the
Watch Sport is noticeably thinner and lighter
than the other models as well, avid fitness fans
should definitely make it their tool of choice. A
range of sports straps are available for it, which are
particularly suited to being worn during exercise.
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Watch Edition
Without doubt the biggest difference between
the Watch Edition and the other variants is its
wallet-busting price. The most basic Watch
Edition model is currently on sale for an eye-
watering £8,500, with prices going all the
way up to £13,000. Along with the high
price tag, some of the other differences in
the Edition will catch your eye. The Watch
Edition’s casing is crafted from specially
toughened 18-karat gold, while the
accompanying leather carry case doubles
up as a charging cradle. The Watch Edition
is undoubtedly expensive, but it’s the best-
looking Apple Watch out there and worth
the money if you can afford it. You even get
a choice of standard yellow gold or rose gold
for the finish, both of which look stunning.

“The Watch Edition’s casing

is crafted from specially
toughened 18-karat gold”
Sizes

38 42
Height Height
38.6mm 42.0mm
Width Width
33.3mm 35.9mm
Depth Depth
10.5mm 10.5mm
Case MILLIMETRES Case
MILLIMETRES 40g 50g

The smaller of the two Watch sizes is better suited for The biggest benefit of choosing the 42mm Watch model
more dainty wrists. Both first- and third-party straps are is the larger screen. It can help make switching between
predominantly made for this size, so this is worth bearing menus or using apps a generally simpler and more
in mind when making your order. enjoyable experience.

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Fig 1 The honeycomb-style app launcher

is great for quickly switching between
different apps without having to use the
scrolling function too much

A look at Watch OS
When you get your hands on the Apple Watch for the first time,
you could be forgiven for thinking that it’s going to use the exact
Fig 2 One of the best uses of the Glances
feature is the Maps panel. Using this, you same operating system that your iPhone is currently running.
can obtain a quick overview of your current
location on the map However, you’d be completely wrong and instead of implementing
standard iOS, Apple has developed its very own dedicated
operating system for the Apple Watch. Named Watch OS, this is
a virtual extension of iOS. It contains many of the same features
as its much bigger counterpart, but in a far more stripped back
format. Not only does this help Apple to cram a whole operating
system onto a smartwatch, but also one that functions well and is
responsive. Many of Apple’s competitors have been let down by
the poor operating systems they have looked to include on their
smartwatches, so Watch OS is already a massive success.
One of the key elements of the Watch OS is the inclusion of
a new style of app launcher (Fig 1) which enables users to see a
quick overview of every installed app on their device in one place,
Fig 3 Whether you would like to see how
much charge you have left, or want to with minimal scrolling required to switch between different apps.
activate Power Reserve mode, check out
the Battery Glances panel Similarly, Watch OS also includes its own notification system. While
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this works in the same vein as iOS, it offers users a wide variety of
interactive notifications. Best of all, the way your Watch manages
notifications can be altered by a quick play with the Apple Watch
app for iPhone. Another noticeable addition of the Watch OS is
the Glances menu. While on the move, Glances offer a quick look
at some of the most commonly used menus on the Apple Watch.
You can see the latest weather forecast, upcoming appointments,
your location on a map (Fig 2), battery level (Fig 3) or even the latest
stocks information with one quick swipe on the home screen. Via
the Settings panel, you can also activate Airplane Mode, enable Do Fig 4 Through the Settings panel in
Not Disturb Mode and access many other handy features (Fig 4). Glances, you can activate Airplane Mode,
enable Do Not Disturb Mode and access
Watch OS was made with ease of use in mind and while it is many other features

still in its infancy and definitely not perfect by any means, this is a
solid foundation that Apple should be able to build on with future
system updates.

“You can activate Airplane Mode, enable

Do Not Disturb Mode and access many
other handy features”
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Apple Watch accessories

Jabra Sport Wireless+

For those who want to work out, the
Jabra Sport Wireless+ earphones
offer crystal clear sound through their
S330 Stand Bluetooth functionality HiRise for Apple Watch
Once you’ve wrapped the Apple Watch For a quick charging solution that’s
around the top of the S330 Stand, truly portable, the HiRise for Apple
you’ll find it charges your Watch at a Watch is an inexpensive but highly
remarkable speed useful product to have to hand

Click Polymer WatchStand for

Strap Adapter Apple Watch
Can’t find a strap you like? Why not Although the WatchStand is a little Spigen Rugged Armour
make your own? The Click Polymer bigger than the competition, it still If safety is paramount to you, the
Adapter lets you cut any standard has the same high-quality charging Rugged Armour from Spigen is an
22mm watch strap to your size capabilities we’ve come to expect essential purchase. It adds a lot of bulk,
but will give you peace of mind

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Defense Edge case

To avoid your Apple Watch
getting damaged, the Defense
Edge is really useful. It’s thin
enough to add little bulk to your
device, but sturdy enough to
repel damage

Baseus Leather Strap

If you want a more secure
strap for your Apple Watch,
Baseus’s stylish leather straps
are available for both 38mm and
42mm models

“The Apple Watch

sits at the top of
DODOCase
the tower and is Charging Stand
Without doubt, the DODOCase
Charging Stand is a gorgeous

fully charged in piece of kit. The Apple Watch

sits at the top of the tower and is
fully charged in around an hour

around an hour”
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Set up your Apple Watch

Before diving in and exploring what your Apple Watch is capable of, you’ll need
to correctly set up and configure it. Follow our guide to get it sorted

Below the Digital Crown

sits a separate button.
Hold this in for a few
seconds to turn the
Watch on

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1 Start with a charge

When you first open up your Apple Watch package, you may want to eagerly
turn it on and start using it. We actually recommend that you don’t do this
– instead you’ll want to give your device a full charge before contemplating
setting it up. Use the accompanying charger that attaches to the rear of the
Apple Watch and either plug it into your mains with the adaptor, or attach it to
a USB port on your desktop computer. The initial charging process can take up
to two hours, which you’ll find to be on par with how long it normally takes an
iPhone to get a full charge on initial setup.

2 Initial setup
Below the Digital Crown on the right side of the Apple Watch sits a separate Fig 1 You will have two options available
button. Once your device is fully charged, hold this button in for a few seconds to help pair the device. To activate the
to power it on. Due to this being the first time you’d have turned the Apple default pairing process, select the Start
Pairing button
Watch on, you’ll find that the initial loading is slow. In fact, it can take up to 30
seconds for the first screen to appear. After a long wait, you’ll find the language
selection screen comes up. You can use either your finger or the Digital Crown
to scroll up and down the choice of available languages. Once you’ve made
your choice, press once on the language.

3 Pair with iPhone

After the Watch has configured itself to your chosen language, you’ll be taken
to the pairing screen (Fig 1). For the Watch and iPhone to be successfully paired,
you’ll first need to download and install the accompanying Apple Watch app on
iPhone. Once this is done, follow the on-screen prompt on the Apple Watch to
start the pairing process. A blue globe figure will now appear and you’ll need to
use your iPhone’s viewfinder to line up the Apple Watch display (Fig 2). Once it
has been recognised, it should take just a few seconds to complete the pairing
process. You’ll receive a notification on your iPhone to let you know if the Apple
Watch was successfully paired to the phone.
Fig 2 Use the viewfinder on your iPhone
to line up the display of the Apple Watch.
4 Alternate pairing process You’ll be notified after the devices have
On rare occasions, you may find that the initial pairing process simply doesn’t been paired
work. If you receive a notification on your Apple Watch that the pairing process
failed, press on the ‘i’ icon that will now be shown. By pressing on this icon you’ll
be taken to the alternate pairing procedure for the Apple Watch. A six-digit
code will now appear on your Watch, which you’ll need to make a mental note
of. If you now open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, you should see the
same six-digit code shown. Press on the confirm button to pair the two devices
together. This should take a few seconds to complete.

We recommend that you

set up a Passcode during
the syncing process to
save time later on Fig 3 Use your iPhone to select which wrist
you’ll be wearing the Apple Watch on.
It can make a difference to the layout of
some features

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5 Select preferences
The next screen that will greet you will ask you to select the wrist you’ll be
wearing the Apple Watch on (Fig 3), as well as which hand you’ll use to handle
the Digital Crown. Once you’ve made those choices, you’ll be prompted to
read through the lengthy terms and conditions on the Apple Watch app on the
iPhone. It can take a while to do, but it’s definitely worthwhile. After this you’ll be
directed to the login screen. For this you’ll need to not only register your Apple
Watch with Apple, but also add your ID (Fig 4). Enter your details within the
spaces provided before pressing the confirm button at the bottom.

6 Set up additional services

Over the next few menus you’ll be asked to set up a series of additional features.
These include the likes of Location Services, Diagnostics and Siri (Fig 5). For each
Fig 4 Log in with your Apple ID to gain of these options, you’ll need to turn the feature on using the toggles that are
access to any apps and settings that can be
transferred across to your Apple Watch provided to you. Every one that you enable will take the appropriate settings
across from your iPhone, meaning it won’t take you very long to get your
desired setup on your Watch. After the final services menu has passed, your
Apple Watch will begin the second stage of its syncing process. Be patient while
the Watch goes through this process as it can take a few minutes to complete.

7 Add some security

You’ll now need to set up a Passcode for the Apple Watch. This adds a layer
of security to your device and can help prevent people getting unwarranted
access to your Watch’s sensitive data. A screen will appear on your Apple Watch
asking you to enter a four-digit PIN that will be used to unlock the Watch. Once
entered, the same screen will appear on the iPhone for you to enter the same
PIN. The two devices will now sync for a third time, but you’ll find that the
Passcode has been set. Whenever you subsequently remove and put on your
Apple Watch again, you’ll need to keep this code handy.
Fig 5 Make sure to carefully read about the
various features that you can activate after
the Apple Watch has finished setting up 8 Install first-party apps
By default, you’ll have access to around 20 apps developed by Apple that can
be installed on your Apple Watch. This final part of the setup will appear on
the iPhone’s Apple Watch app and will ask whether or not you want to install
these available apps. Due to the fact you can alter your installed apps at a later
point, it’s recommended that you select the Install All option that’s provided.
However, the downside to this is that you’ll need to wait for a further 5 minutes
for the installation process to finish. Alternatively, you can select the Choose
Later option to skip this section and finish the initial setup.

The default home

screen can be heavily
customised to suit your
Fig 6 A radial dial will appear to signify
the final sync between both the iPhone
and Apple Watch. This can take around
needs and tastes
10 minutes to finish

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9 Sync and explore

The final sync will now take place and you’ll be greeted with a radial dial that
will let you track its progress (Fig 6). Once this has finished, the Watch will restart
itself and you’ll be presented with the default home screen for you to look at.
Before taking the setup process any further, it’s best to get used to controlling
the screen, as it may be a little different to what you’re used to. You can use the
Digital Crown to scroll through menus, or why not try the screenshot function
by pressing the DC and second side button simultaneously? Go on to the next
part of the setup process once you’ve mastered the basic controls.

10 Set up your Apple Watch face

Force Touch on the home screen to open up the Watch face menu. Swipe
left and right to browse the selection of faces before tapping the Customise
button to make some changes to it. The various elements of the Watch face Fig 7 Use the Digital Crown to scroll
through different elements of the Watch
will now be highlighted in green, but by selecting one of them, you can have face and edit them accordingly
complete control of it. Use the Digital Crown to scroll through the options
relevant to the element you’ve selected (Fig 7); press on it for a second time to
confirm any changes. Once you’ve gone through each of the various elements,
press on the Digital Crown to exit the menu and save all changes.

11 Manage sound and brightness

By now you’ll have received your first notifications and may already be irate
with the constant buzz and sounds every time you receive one. Press on the
Digital Crown to open the app launcher and head to the Settings menu at the
bottom left. Select the Sounds & Haptics option and set the volume levels for
your Watch, or use the Mute option to disable any sounds from taking place
(Fig 8). We also recommend you visit the Brightness tab within the Settings
menu and manually adjust how bright you want the screen to be (Fig 9).

12 Manage notifications Fig 8 You can set the tones and volumes
emitted by your Apple Watch by using
Now you’ve changed how your Apple Watch deals with notifications (Fig 10), the Sounds & Haptics menu within the
we can go a step further and manage how many notifications it’ll receive. For Settings app

this you need to open up the Apple Watch app on iPhone and scroll down to
the Notifications section from within My Watch. You’ll be greeted with a host
of options, but instead head down to the list of apps that are currently installed
on your Apple Watch. Use the toggles provided to allow or disallow certain
apps sending you notifications. You will want to repeat this process when you
begin downloading third-party apps.

The Passcode is the

best way to make sure
your Apple Watch
stays protected Fig 9 To help get the most battery life
between charges, head over to the
Brightness menu and lower the overall
brightness level

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13 Arrange Glances
Similar to the notifications menu, with Glances you can get bits of information
in individual panels on your Watch. Back out of the notifications menu on
your iPhone and scroll to the Glances tab. Once it’s opened you’ll be able to
see all the apps that currently have access to the Glances feature. Use the red
icons to the right of each app listing to remove them from the Glances menu
permanently. To then add any new app to Glances, you’ll need to go to its
listing with the Apple Watch app and use the Add to Glances toggle that’s
provided. If you now open up the Glances menu on Apple Watch by swiping
up on the home screen, you’ll be able to take a look at them (Fig 11).

14 Download third-party apps

Fig 10 Notifications will arrive from various Now we can begin the fun part: downloading new apps. Head to the home
first and third party apps. You can use the screen on the Apple Watch app and select Explore. You’ll now be presented
Apple Watch app to edit the apps that
have access. with the familiar App Store layout, but this particular store is filled with Apple
Watch apps. Go ahead and select an app that you’d like to download before
pressing the Get option. Once the app has finished downloaded, head over to
the My Watch section of the app and scroll right to the bottom of the menu.
A list of all your third-party apps will be shown here for you to take a look
through. Select one of the apps and choose the Install option that’s provided.

15 Change app layout

If you’ve correctly added third-party apps to the Watch, you should now see
some additional icons on its app launcher. It can start to look a little cluttered,
so it’s generally a good idea to alter the overall layout. Force Touch on a
specific icon on the app launcher to get control of it (Fig 12). You can then use
a finger to move it to your desired location on the screen, while the other icons
will move around it to fit into place. Alternatively, you can open up the Apple
Watch app on your iPhone and select the App Layout option to make the
changes. Any edits you make using the iPhone will sync to the Watch.

Fig11 Glances are a convenient way to 16 Set app preferences

monitor various parts of your Apple Watch,
including taking a look at the remaining Many of the apps you’ll come into contact with while using your Apple
battery life Watch will have a selection of individual preferences that you may need to
edit. In particular, you’ll find that many messaging and email apps offer such
preferences. Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and select the Mail
app from the list. Here you can set how often you want your emails to be
synced with your Apple Watch, as well as other options. It’s best practice to go
through all of your currently installed apps and check to see if there are any
preference options that you need to enable or disable.

There are numerous

watch faces to choose
from that are built into
Fig 12 Force Touch and drag your finger
around the display to move app icons to
the Apple Watch
different areas of the launcher

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17 Enable Siri integration

Only a few more steps to go until you’ve completely finished setting up and
configuring your Watch! One of the most integral parts of the experience is
being able to use Siri. Not only can you use Siri to automate tasks, but it can
also be used to switch between apps. In essence, you’ll never need to use your
hands on your Watch. Open the app launcher on your Apple Watch and head
over to the Settings menu. Select the General option that’s provided before
opening the Siri tab. Toggle the Hey Siri option to on to enable Siri on your
device. You can now start Siri with a simple ‘Hey Siri’ voice command (Fig 13).

18 Connect Bluetooth devices

Before backing out of the Settings app altogether, you’ll want to quickly pair
some headphones to your device. Open the Bluetooth section within the
Settings menu and press the Paired Devices option (Fig 14). Make sure your Fig 13 To get full voice control on your
Apple Watch, open the Siri menu and
headphones are now turned on and you should find that your Apple Watch enable the Hey Siri option that’s provided
picks them up. Although pairing does take just a few seconds to complete,
you’ll need to keep both devices close to each other to make sure they’re
paired correctly. You’ll receive a vibration on your wrist from your Apple Watch
when the two devices have been paired together.

19 Add friends
The final part of the process will be to get some of your contacts across to your
Apple Watch. While on the home screen of your Watch, press on the button
underneath the Digital Crown to open the Friends menu (Fig 15). By default,
this will be empty; by pressing on one of the panels provided, you can add the
details of a friend. If you previously synced your contacts list across when we
initially set up the Apple Watch, it’s a simple case of adding your most used
contacts to these panels. When you then press on one of these panels, you’ll
be able to instantly give them a call or send them a message.

20 You’re done!
Fig 14 Open the Bluetooth menu on the
That’s it, the setup process is completely finished. But before you delve into Apple Watch to perform a full scan for any
using your Apple Watch, we’d recommend a quick restart of your device to compatible headphones or smart TVs
allow it to finish syncing any additional files and settings you may have added
or edited during setup. If you’re alarmed that your Apple Watch is being a
little laggy the first few times you use it, don’t worry as it’s a common thing
that has been noted to be happening with most devices. After a week or so,
you should find that your Watch is in fully working order and you’ve got your
hands on one of the best smartwatches on the market.

You can use your voice

to dictate messages
and send them directly
to contacts Fig 15 Press on the side button to open the
Friends menu. Force Touch on any of the
panels to add details of a contact

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Apple Watch hardware

“To highlight a specific element on the Apple Watch

display, Force Touch on the screen”
Force Touch
To highlight a specific
element on the display,
Force Touch on the
screen, which is the
equivalent of performing
a long press on a phone

Take a screenshot
Although it can be hard
to time correctly, by
simultaneously pressing
both buttons on the side
of the Watch you’ll be
able to take a screenshot

Digital Crown
You can use the Digital
Crown to not only access
the app launcher on your
Apple Watch, but also to
scroll through pages of
text on screen

Sensors
Around the back of
the Watch, you’ll find
both the charging and
heartbeat sensors. The
latter is used when
attached to your wrist

Find friends
Use the button underneath
the Digital Crown to access
the Friends screen. You
can add your most recent
contacts to this menu in a
matter of minutes

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iPhone hardware

“You’ll need
to set up
App Layout the apps
Choose this option to alter
the layout of your device’s
app launcher. Whenever
that can
you make changes through
the app, it’ll be mimicked
on your Apple Watch
use Glances
through
the iPhone”

Set up Glances
Before the Glances menu
will be up and running
on your Apple Watch,
you’ll need to set up the
apps that can use them
through the iPhone

Manage
notifications
Your Apple Watch uses a lot
of notifications, so make sure
you stay on top of the apps
that have access to them by
selecting the Notifications tab

Do Not Disturb
For a quick way of muting
calls, texts and notifications
on your Apple Watch,
enable the Do Not Disturb
mode from within the DND
tab that’s provided

Edit settings
To edit specific settings in
your Apple Watch, select
the General menu. You
can change things like the Download apps
timezone and how it handles You’ll need to press either
battery life from here the Search or Featured
icons at the bottom of the
Apple Watch app to find
compatible third-party apps
that you can download

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How to use your Watch

Learn all the basics with our complete guide to Apple’s first ever smartwatch

If the Apple Watch turns out to be the very first smartwatch that you’ve owned, chances are you’re
going to be fairly clueless on some of its basic functions. Even if you’re a seasoned smartwatch user, the
Apple Watch does do things a little differently than most, so all your usual methods will undoubtedly
be slightly different. Due to the complex nature of the Apple Watch, there are a ton of features and
shortcuts to explore, but instead of it being a daunting task, Apple has made it quite enjoyable to truly
discover what the Apple Watch is capable of. Nevertheless, if you’re a little bit skeptical and need a push
in the right direction, use this feature to master all the basics of Apple’s first-ever wearable.

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“The Apple Watch does

things a little differently to
other smartwatches”
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 How to use your Apple Watch Getting started

Turn your Watch on and off

2 Power off Hold the power button

until the power off menu appears.

1 The power button The power button on the Apple Watch sits below the
Digital Crown. Hold it in for three seconds until the Apple logo appears, signifying 3 Swipe to confirm To power off your
that the Apple Watch is turning on. The home screen will now appear. watch, swipe from left to right.

Turn the Watch display on and off

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1 Off Instead of holding the power

button in, which turns the Watch off,
a single press will turn the display off.

2 On To then turn the display on once

again, press the power button one
more time to open the home screen.

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Lock and unlock

2 Enable Passcode On the next

menu, select Enable Passcode.

1 Open Settings app The main locking system on Apple Watch is in the form of
a Passcode. Open the Settings app on your device and find the Passcode option 3 Add a Passcode Type in a Passcode
that’s located right at the bottom of the menu. using the digits to add a lock.

Manage your apps

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2 Place down Put the icon where you

want it and press on it to drop it down.

1 Force Touch Open the app launcher on your Apple Watch and Force Touch on
any app icon that you’d like to move. The screen should now vibrate and the icon 3 Check storage See how much
will be available to move. space is left in the About section.

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Charge your Apple Watch

1 Attach charger Attach the Apple 2 Start charge Plug the end of the 3 Fully charged Go to the Battery
Watch cable to the magnetic plate. cable into the mains or via USB port. page in Glances and check its charge.

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Activate power reserve mode

1 Find Power Reserve Hold the power

button for three seconds to reach the
power off menu.

2 Activate it Instead selecting the Power

Off option, select the Power Reserve
mode option to activate it.

Change the volume

2 Set volume Use the volume bar to

adjust the volume on your watch.

1 Open Settings app Open the Settings app that’s represented by a small gear
icon on your Apple Watch, before selecting the Sounds & Haptics menu that you 3 Toggle mute You can mute sound
can find within your various settings. with the mute option at the bottom.

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Zoom in and out Set the brightness

1 Access your settings Open the

Settings app from the bottom left
of the Apple Watch app launcher.

1 Get a group While on the app

launcher, grab the Digital Crown
between two of your fingers.

2 Rotate to zoom Rotate either

clockwise or anti-clockwise to 2 Set brightness Scroll until you
zoom in and out of the launcher. reach the Brightness tab, and use
the toolbar to set the brightness.

Take a screenshot

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1 Press buttons Find the

screen that you want to
screenshot and press the
Digital Crown and power
button simultaneously.

2 Saved to Photos The

screenshot you just took will be
readily available for you to view
within the Camera Roll in the
iPhone Photos app.

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View and respond to notifications

1 Swipe on screen Swipe up once to 2 Check notifications Swipe left and 3 Respond At the bottom you’ll see
open the Notifications menu. right to open other notifications. options to respond or dismiss it.

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Locate your iPhone Activate Airplane mode

1 Open Glances Open the

Glances menu from the home
screen by swiping up once.

1 Open Glances Swipe down once

on your Apple Watch home screen
to open up the Glances menu.

2 Find your iPhone Press on the

phone icon on the first Glances
page to send a high-pitch tone to
your iPhone. 2 Activate Airplane Mode Press
the aeroplane symbol to enable
Airplane Mode on your Watch.

Access Siri

1 Press Digital Crown Hold

the Digital Crown to access the
Siri menu on Apple Watch.

2 Start speaking Move the

Apple Watch close to your
mouth and start speaking so
Siri starts recording.

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 Getting started Glances

Master Settings panel

Glances
Access quick snippets from your favourite apps
using Glances

Quick overviews
1 Connect to iPhone One of the reasons many of you would have bought an Apple
Open the Settings Glances panel
and iPhone Apple Watch app. Watch is to have a device that can provide you with all the
information you need within seconds of turning it on. To make
these processes as seamless as possible, Apple has introduced the
Glances feature. As its name suggests, Glances provides users with
snippets of information from their favourite or most-used Apple
Watch apps. A quick scroll up from the Watch face will open the first
Glances panel. From here it’s a case of swiping left and right on the
display to access the different panels. By default, you’ll find most of
2 Enable Do Not Disturb the first-party apps will have their
Press on the moon icon to own dedicated panel, but
activate Do Not Disturb mode. you do have the option
to change the ones that
are listed. Some of
the ones to check
out include the
Heart Monitor
Glance, for a quick
reading, and
3 Ping your iPhone also the Settings
If you’ve lost your iPhone, use the
bottom icon to send an alert to it.
Glance for instant
control of some
of your Apple
Watch’s settings.

Adding
panels
Although the
standard array of panels
4 Muting benefits
Using mute and Do Not Disturb looks great, you may want
can save a lot of battery life. to expand it somewhat. For this,
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you’re going to need to open up the Apple Watch app on iPhone

Order Glances panels
and select the Glances menu. From here you’ll be able to see every
app that currently has its own Glances panel, as well as the order in
which they’re arranged. Long-press on any of the app listings and
drag it up and down to get the layout and order you want.
If you then scroll down to the bottom of the page, you’ll see all
the third-party apps that are installed on your device. Simply use the
‘+’ symbols that sit on the left side of the listing to add them to your
Glances menu. One of the best things about the Glances menu is
that it’s completely customisable, so much so that you can choose 1 Open iPhone app
Open the Glances menu in the
to have as many or as few panels as you wish. Generally, it’s best to My Watch section of the app.
simply play around with the options and see what works for you.
You’ll settle on the right mix in time.

Add shortcuts to apps

Once you’ve put together your chosen
Glances menu, head back to your Apple
Watch. If you’ve dramatically changed
things, chances are your Watch will need 2 What’s enabled?
to sync the new array of menus together Each app with the ‘–’ icon to the
– so be patient at this point. Some of left is enabled to work in Glances.
the Glances panels you’ve added will
undoubtedly have some amazing
features that are worth exploring and many offer quick shortcuts to
apps. One of the best Glances integrations we’ve seen during our
time with the Apple Watch is for the battery. Through this panel,
not only can you monitor the overall remaining battery life of the
Apple Watch, but also have access to a quick way of enabling Power
Reserve mode. It’s a very handy method for preserving your Watch’s 3 Arrange layout
Use the icons to the right to drag
battery life. For the most part, however, you’ll simply want to play them into your preferred order.
around with the various panels to discover what the Glances menu
is really capable of.

You can get an instant heart

rate reading through the
Glances panel; just make sure
4 Add extra apps
you’re wearing the Watch Scroll down to see third-party
apps. Use ‘+’ icons to add them.

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 Getting started Built-in applications

Built-in
applications
Your at-a-glance guide to what Apple’s built-in
Watch apps can do for you
Fig 1, Clock Customise your faces

Clock At the heart of the Apple Watch is the Clock app. Though it’s
much more besides, the Watch shines as a timekeeping device, with a
range of customisable faces to choose from. See page 38.

Settings The Settings app is where you can change every element of
your Apple Watch to your liking. From screen brightness to vibration
intensity, everything is available to tweak. See page 44.

Messages Keeping in contact with your friends has never been

easier. The Messages app for Apple Watch ensures you receive all your
important correspondence, straight to your wrist. See page 48.
Fig 2, Settings Personalise your Watch
Phone The Phone app makes it easy and convenient to both take and
respond to phone calls. Either pick up, or send a quick response on the
fly from your Watch. See page 52.

Mail Responding to emails on your Apple Watch is a breeze, with this

slick app boiling the process down to its essentials. Read and respond to
mail with just a few taps of your wrist. See page 54.

Calendar Keep on top of your appointments with the Apple Watch’s

Calendar app. View your weekly itinerary and get subtle reminders
when an important event is on the horizon. See page 58.

Activity The Activity app makes use of the Apple Watch’s array of
Fig 3, Activity Track your daily movements sensors to deliver detailed information about your daily movements,
giving you a huge number of stats to pore over. See page 60.

Workout When it comes to exercising, the Workout app should be your

first port of call. Again, it uses the Watch’s sensors to track your heart
rate, and the number of calories you’re burning. See page 64.

Maps Its screen might be small, but the Apple Watch’s Taptic Engine
means that it’s super effective at giving directions. Simply open the
Maps app and it’ll tap you when it’s time to turn. See page 68.

Passbook Physical tickets could soon be a thing of the past, and the
Apple Watch’s Passbook app is sure to be the future – whether it’s
Fig 4, Maps Get directions on your wrist buying movie tickets or swiping through customs. See page 70.

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Music Thanks to the Apple Watch, you’ll no longer need to fumble

around looking for your phone just to skip a particular song. The Music
app puts all the essential controls at your fingertips. See page 72.

Camera Remote Your iPhone snaps are now no longer restricted

by the length of your arm. With the Apple Watch, you can pick your
moment and press the shutter from a distance. See page 76.

Remote Apple’s products have always linked together well, and the
Apple Watch is no exception. The Remote app allows you to control
Fig 5, Music Control your music playback
your Apple TV from your wrist. See page 78.

Weather Tracking the temperature and checking the forecast has never
been easier thanks to the Weather app, which presents you with a
wealth of information at a glance. See page 80.

Stocks In the stock market every second counts, so having instant

access to information is crucial. The Stocks app for Apple Watch knows
this, and makes checking prices a breeze. See page 82.

Photos Browsing photos on your Apple Watch could have been clunky,
but Apple’s elegant app makes it fantastically easy. You won’t need to
fish those pictures out of your wallet in future. See page 84.
Fig 6, Weather Check your local forecast
Alarm Your Apple Watch is with you, wherever you go, so it makes
sense to have it alert you when you need a reminder. The Alarms app is
simple, but you’ll find it’s one of your most used apps. See page 86.

Stopwatch Whether it’s a race, a test, or any other event that needs to
be timed, the Stopwatch app provides an ideal solution, and the Apple
Watch’s impeccable timekeeping ensures it’s accurate. See page 87.

Timer You might be cooking a meal, or perhaps simply having a nap,

but in any case, there are many occasions when the Timer app is useful.
And thanks to the Apple Watch, it’s available in an instant. See page 88.

World Clock Using the Apple Watch’s perfect timekeeping, the World Fig 7, Photos View your favourite snaps
Clock app is able to give you the time in any location around the globe
at a glance – no arithmetic necessary. See page 89.

Siri The Apple Watch is small, and lacks a keyboard, but that doesn’t
matter when you have Siri. Apple’s virtual assistant is an essential tool for
navigating the Watch and getting things done. See page 90.

Digital Touch The Apple Watch has pioneered several brand new ways
of communicating, allowing you to tap friends on the wrist, send them a
sketch in real time, or even send your heartbeat. See page 94.

Apple Watch The Apple Watch iPhone app is one of the most
important bits of software you’ll use. It’s essential for managing content
on your Watch, as well as tweaking additional settings. Fig 8, Siri Ask questions and get answers

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Clock
Learn everything you need to know about the
Clock app on your Apple Watch

You’ll use it to… Timekeeping

The Apple Watch is full of innovative and exciting features to
Check the time
Traditional or modern, choose how you explore, but at its core – as with any watch – is its ability to show
visualise time
you the current time of day.
Keep up to date
Find out the date, check your alarms The Clock app showcases your chosen Watch face and acts as a
and more
kind of secondary home screen. From the Watch face, swipe down
Pick a Watch face
Choose between ten different Watch faces to check your notifications, swipe up for Glances and press the
as standard
Digital Crown to open the app home screen.
Personalise the look
Change the colour and background image Your Apple Watch will often beep or vibrate, alerting you to
Add extra information recent messages, alarms or other updates. The Clock app enables
Add Complications to the face, including
calendar events you to quickly and conveniently manage these notifications. For
Access more example, if you have an unread text message, you can swipe
Swipe down for notifications and up
for Glances down to reveal the message and
then dismiss it or respond to
it accordingly.
Although the
Clock is a hub for
accessing the app
home screen,
notification menu
and Glances, its
primary role is
displaying the
Watch face.

Choose a
Watch face
The Watch faces
Fig 1 (above) You can select and customise
the faces to suit you are one of the most
iconic and beautiful
features of the new Apple
Fig 2 (right) The Clock app contains the
Watch face Watch. Pressing firmly on the
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Watch face take you to the editing mode, showcasing a range of

Notifications & Glances
unique and customisable faces.
Many of the Watch faces offer a traditional round dial, evoking a
more familiar Watch experience on the rectangular-shaped Apple
Watch display. Others, including the Modular face, offer a modern
digital style with an emphasis on displaying information. With a
celestial theme, the Astronomy and Solar themes visualise time in
terms of the solar cycle, moon phase and even planetary alignment.
Practical faces such as the Chronograph offer a stopwatch and
activity tracker, whereas the Mickey face, featuring a foot-tapping 1 Show notifications menu
Check notifications by swiping
Mickey Mouse, is more fun and light-hearted. down from the Watch face.
The Utility and Simple faces are very similar in concept. Both can
be packed with detail, features or simplified to just the dial and
hands. The Simple face takes this a step further with the option to
remove the dial completely. Motion is one of the most dynamic
faces available, allowing you to choose between an animated
butterfly, flower or jellyfish as the background. The only additional
option is to add a date to the display. The analogue Colour and
digital X-Large Watch faces are two of the brightest and most
2 Access Glances
colourful faces on the Apple Watch. In the Watch face editing mode, You can find Glances by swiping
you can turn the Digital Crown in order to scroll through a range of up from the Watch face.
colours for the faces.

Customise your Watch face

There is a great deal more to the Clock
app than simply telling the time. It also
gives you the chance to add your own
personality to your Apple Watch. Picking
a Watch face is just the beginning, as 3 Variety of Glances
you can further customise the properties Swipe left or right to view all ten
glances. More can be added.
and appearance of most faces to suit
your own personal tastes. You can edit

The Clock app is positioned at

the centre of the app home
screen and is the only icon
that cannot be moved 4 Return to Watch face
Swipe down or press the Digital
Crown to return to the Watch face.

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a variety of features, from the colour and timescale to the level of

detail and background image.
In addition to changing the cosmetic appearance, you can add
Complications to your Watch face. Complications, a term used in
the study of clocks and watches, refers to things beyond the basic
timekeeping function of the clock. While customising your Watch
face, swipe left to view certain predefined areas, highlighted by
green outlines, where you can add Complications. This allows you
to add extra information including the
date, weather, activity tracker, location,
moon phase and more. Press the Digital
Fig 3 Complications vary from the fairly
standard Date and Battery features, to the Crown to save any changes and exit the
more obscure Moon Phase variety
editing mode.
Whether you prefer a simple and
refined style or a bright and eye-
catching look, you can customise the
Watch face to suit you.

World Clock Weather

Select your local time Add a Weather Complication
or view a time from and you can view the
anywhere around the temperature at your location
world with the World in Celsius or Fahrenheit
Clock Complication

Calendar Date
The Calendar Complication This Complication gives
highlights the day’s upcoming you the option to show
events marked on your paired the day and date or just
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Disable push alerts

The X-Large Watch face
offers a colourful, simple and
modern-looking digital display
for your Apple Watch
Add and remove Watch faces
It is probable that Apple will make more first-party Watch faces 1 Open Clock settings
In the iPhone Apple Watch app,
available in the future. Until then, you can add new faces by scroll down and tap Clock.
duplicating one of the eight customisable faces, allowing you to
have multiple sub-displays.
Add more faces by pressing firmly on the Watch face to bring
up the editing mode and swiping left to reveal the ‘+ New’ button.
Use your finger or the Digital Crown to scroll through the choice
of faces. Once you have selected one to duplicate, tap it to set it as
your new Watch face. Finally, return to the faces gallery with a firm
press, scroll left and tap Customise on your newly created face. For
2 Push Alerts from iPhone
example, you may now have two Chronographs faces which you This setting notifies you via Watch
can individually customise – perhaps a day and a night style? of alerts/timers set on iPhone.
To remove any of the Watch faces, swipe upwards in the editing
mode to reveal a picture of a waste bin. If you accidentally delete

Customising Watch faces

3 Disable push alerts

Tap the green switch to disable
Push Alerts from iPhone.

1 Change colour 2 Edit Complications 4 No interruptions

The top white dots show the number Swipe left to Complications to add, The Watch will no longer alert you
of pages. This one changes the colour. remove and change several features. to timers/alarms set on iPhone.

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one of the original ten Watch faces, don’t panic – you can replace it
by swiping left in the gallery, tapping ‘+ New’ and selecting the face
to replace it.
Although there isn’t currently a process whereby you can
download or create entirely new faces, this method allows you to
quickly and conveniently swap between different versions of the
same style of face.

Explore the Clock settings

You can delve deeper into the workings
Fig 4 You can change the colour of your
Watch face using the Digital Crown, vastly of the Clock by opening the Settings
increasing the variety of looks available
app. From the Watch face, press the
Digital Crown to go to the app home
screen. Tap the Settings app and then
select Time. The only option that you
have access to from the Watch itself
is to manually adjust the time being

Activity tracker Clock Events Stopwatch

Most Watch faces allow The Clock app is a Details of your The Chronograph
you to add an activity hub for accessing events can be Watch face adds a
tracker Complication, many features found by swiping convenient and easy-
but your activity can found in other apps up from the Watch to-use stopwatch
also be accessed through the Watch face in the Clock Complication in the
through Glances faces and Glances app to Glances Clock app

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Add a monogram
The Astronomy and Solar
Watch faces are the only two
that cannot be customised
by the user
displayed – for example, you could set the time to be 5 minutes
ahead to try to avoid being late for any appointments. For more 1 Open Apple Watch app
In the iPhone app, scroll down
extensive options, you’ll need to turn to your paired iPhone. In and select the Clock setting.
the Apple Watch app, scroll down to Clock to access the relevant
settings. Here, you can decide whether you want to use a 24-hour
time format, add a monogram to your Watch face or change what
city abbreviations are used in your Complications.
You can also change whether or not you want push alerts from
your iPhone to come through on your Apple Watch. When enabled,
your Watch will alert you to alarms and timers set on your phone,
which can then be snoozed or dismissed remotely from the Watch.
2 Select Monogram
You may sometimes notice a small red dot at the top of your Watch Within Clock, tap on Monogram
face – this indicates you have an unread notification. This red dot and enter 1-4 letters for it.
indicator can be disabled in the Clock settings of the Apple Watch
app on your iPhone: simply tap on the Notifications Indicator in
order to turn it off.

Timekeeping without an iPhone

If you haven’t yet paired your Apple Watch to an iPhone, or your
paired device has gone out of range, a small red image of a phone
with a line through it will appear at the top of your Watch face. 3 Enter Watch face gallery
Many of the Apple Watch’s functions do require a paired phone in Swipe left or right to find the
Colour face, then tap Customise.
order to work, but you can continue to use the Watch to check the
time and even set alarms without an iPhone in range.
However, obviously we recommend you keep your devices
paired and within range whenever possible. The Apple Watch is
entirely complementary to the iPhone, and the two work best
when used in tandem – with the Watch as a brilliantly quick and
simple portal for checking the time, dealing with notifications, and
completing simple tasks, and the iPhone as a more advanced hub,
4 Customise the Colour face
ideal for managing the more complex and intricate aspects of the Swipe left and tap middle box.
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Settings
Change your Apple Watch settings to suit your
personal requirements

You’ll use it to… Control your Watch

From the Settings app, found on the home screen, you can
Connect to other devices
Pair your Watch with devices via Bluetooth configure the Apple Watch to suit your needs. Use your finger or
Set a Passcode the Digital Crown to scroll through a list of settings and options to
Enter a four-digit passcode for security
edit the appearance, functionality and accessibility of your Watch.
Change the brightness
Select one of three brightness settings The majority of settings for your Apple Watch can be accessed
Increase the through the app on the Watch; however, more options are available
vibration feedback
Ensure you never miss an alert on the accompanying Apple Watch app installed on your paired
or  notification
iPhone. In that app, there is a tab called General which contains
Adapt your Watch wearing
Set which wrist and orientation you use additional Watch information and settings.
Start again
Reset your Watch by erasing all content
and settings Stay connected
Bluetooth allows your Watch
to connect to a range of
compatible devices in
addition to a paired
iPhone. Wearable
peripherals including
health tracking
kits, and audio
devices such as
headphones, can
be connected. In
the Settings app
on the Watch,
tap Bluetooth
to search and
connect to
Fig 1 (above) Configure your Watch to suit
your own preferences compatible devices.
If your Watch is already
Fig 2 (right) Access the Settings app from connected to a device, you
the Watch home screen
can disconnect it from here.
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There will be times when you won’t want your connected

Wake on wrist raise
devices to push alerts and notifications to your Apple Watch.
Airplane Mode turns off the Watch’s Bluetooth connection and
disconnects it from any paired iPhone. The Apple Watch will still
function, but no data, emails or messages will be sent or received
to/from the Watch until it’s switched off. Another option is to enable
Do Not Disturb mode, which silences all incoming calls and alerts,
except for alarms.
If you enable the Mirror iPhone setting in the Apple Watch app
on your iPhone, changing Airplane Mode or Do Not Disturb on 1 Open the Settings app
Scroll down, open General, then
either device will be matched by the other. This is a convenient way tap Activate on Wrist Raise.
to ensure both your devices have the same setting.

Make it more accessible

There are a range of settings on your
Watch designed to improve the user
experience and make it more accessible.
In the Settings app on the Watch, tap
Brightness & Text Size to select from one
2 Enable Wrist Raise
of three brightness levels for the display Tap Wrist Raise. This makes raising
and one of six text sizes. Text can be your wrist turn the screen on.
made bigger to make it clearer on the
screen, or smaller so more text can be displayed on it at once. Tap
Bold Text to make reading even easier – although this requires a
restart of the Watch.
There are also settings to change the volume and vibration
levels on the Watch. Go to Sounds & Haptics in the Settings app
and tap the sliders to adjust the sound levels and haptic feedback
(ie vibration) intensity. There is also a Mute option to effectively put 3 Resume To
your Watch into silent mode. Select if it displays the Clock Face
or Last Used App upon waking.
Haptic feedback is the term used to describe the vibrations you
feel when you receive notifications or perform certain functions.

Turn on Hey Siri in the Settings

app on your Apple Watch
in order to start Siri using
voice activation 4 Try it
Upon raising your wrist, the screen
will wake to your chosen option.

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You can adjust the intensity of the vibration, as well as turning on

Prominent Haptic to add extra emphasis to the vibrations.
Tap Accessibility under the General tab for additional options.
VoiceOver makes using the Watch easier if you can’t see the display,
by reading out what is selected. Zoom magnifies the display to
make text and images clearer to see. On/Off Button Labels add a
number one (1) to settings that are enabled and a zero (0) to those
that are disabled. Reduce Motion makes some animations, including
switching between the home screen and Watch face, simpler and
easier to follow.
Fig 3 Secure your Apple Watch by setting a
passcode which must be entered to use it

Change orientation
Open up the Settings app on your Apple Watch, go to General and
then tap the Orientation option. Select the wrist that you wear the
Watch on and which side the Digital Crown is situated on, so that
raising your arm wakes the Watch up and the Crown scrolls in the
appropriate direction.

Watch Settings General Settings

The Settings app can be found Find accessibility modes,
on your Watch home screen. reset options and information
Additional options are available about your Apple Watch
on the iPhone companion app under General

Sounds and Haptics

Boosting the volume and
turning Prominent Haptic on
will ensure you are alerted
to notifications

Brightness
and Text
Make content on the
Watch screen easier to
see by increasing the
brightness and text size

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Play music
Reset your Watch by selecting
Reset and Erase All Content
and Settings under General in
the Settings app
Set a passcode
Secure your Apple Watch by setting a passcode. In the Settings 1 Store music on your Watch
In the iPhone Apple Watch app,
app, scroll down and tap Passcode – this displays the option to tap Music then Synced Playlist.
create a new passcode or change an existing one. Selecting Enable
Passcode prompts you to enter a four-digit code (Fig 3) which,
when confirmed, you’ll need to enter each time you use the Watch.
If you’ve set a passcode, you’ll see a new Unlock with iPhone option.
When you turn on the corresponding setting in the Apple Watch
app on iPhone, unlocking your iPhone will unlock the Watch as well.

About your Apple Watch 2 Sync playlist

To find out more about your Apple Watch, in the Settings app go Choose a playlist to save to Watch.
to General and tap About. Here you’ll find info including the name, Place it on the charger to sync.
number of applications installed, available storage and the software
version. It also contains the model and serial number of the Watch.

Change the time

3 Pair speakers or headphones

In Watch Settings, tap Bluetooth
to connect with devices.

1 Time settings 2 Set clock time ahead 4 Play music

Open the Settings app on the home Tap the button and turn the Digital In the Watch Music app, Force
screen and tap Time. Crown to adjust the time. Tap Set. Touch, tap Source>Apple Watch.

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Messages
Send and receive messages on your Apple Watch

Manage your messages

You’ll use it to… From the Messages app on your Apple Watch, you can view, reply
and send new messages to your contacts.
Check your messages
Simply raise your wrist to see your messages You will be alerted when you receive a new message by the
Send and reply to messages sound of a ‘ding’ and a gentle tap on your wrist. Rather than pulling
Use text, audio or animated emojis to reply
out your phone from your pocket, you can simply raise your wrist
Use Smart Replies
Respond to messages with prewritten replies up to display the new message and then lower it to mark as read
Never miss a message and dismiss it.
Your Watch will alert you with a gentle tap
The Messages app displays a list of recently received messages.
Send your location
Let your friends and know where you are You can tap on one to open a message into a conversation,
Mirror your iPhone showing all sent and received messages from that contact. You
The Watch mirrors your phones notifications
can then scroll down to the end
of your conversation and
tap reply to send a new
message to that person.
On your messages
list, swipe left on a
message to access
more details or
delete it. Tapping
Details opens the
contact’s info and
presents you with
options to call or
send a message.
The Delete option
lets you remove
the message, but
this doesn’t delete
Fig 1 (above) Smart Replies are the quickest
way to respond to messages on the Apple the message from the
Watch, and can be customised on your iPhone
messages app on your
Fig 2 (right) Emojis can be tweaked to your iPhone, so you will always
liking. Simply use the Digital Crown to scroll
through the various options have a backup.
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You can decide how you want to be notified within the Apple Set default audio reply
Watch app on your paired iPhone. Tap My Watch and then
Messages to show the notification options. Tap Custom and select
whether you want your Watch to show alerts, use haptic feedback
to tap your wrist or play sounds to alert you of new messages.

Replying to a message
When you receive a message, you can
reply immediately or do so later through
the Messages app. Apple has provided a 1 Dictation/Audio to reply
Tap Messages on the Apple
variety of ways for you to respond, from Watch app on your paired iPhone.
simple text responses to audio messages
and animated emojis.
To reply, open the message through
the notifications menu or the list in the
Messages app, scroll down to the end of the message and tap
Reply. You have the option to use one of Apple’s Smart Replies, like
‘What’s up?’ and ‘OK’, dictate an audio message or send an emoji.
There is no keyboard option on the Watch.
2 Audio Messages
If you tap the microphone icon, you can speak into your Watch Tap Audio Messages to display
and Siri will transcribe the message. This dictation process works the default audio reply options.
well, as the Apple Watch predicts what you might say from the
context of your message. You can send this as text message or an
audio reply so the person will hear your voice.

Smart Replies
Apple provide a range of prewritten responses, allowing you to
quickly and conveniently reply to a message. Smart Replies are the
fastest way to respond to a message, and may be the best option if 3 Dictation or Audio
you don’t want to speak into the Watch directly to dictate a reply. Set an option to forgo having to
choose for each new message.
You can edit these Smart Replies from the Apple Watch app on
your iPhone. To do this, go to the app and scroll down to Messages.

The Messages app on

the home screen can be
moved around, but it can’t
be deleted 4 Default Reply
Audio messages will now be sent
as text or audio.

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Inside Messages, tap the Default Replies option. From here, you can
tap on any of the six prewritten replies to add your own text.

Send a new message

From the Messages app, press firmly to bring up the New Message
option. From here you can add contacts and begin composing your
new message. Alternatively, you can open a new message through
Siri with a double-tap of the Digital Crown and saying which
contact you wish to message.
Like with replying, you can send a Smart Reply, audio recording or
Fig 3 At launch, the Apple Watch’s range of
smart emojis is limited to a heart, a smiley emoji. Once you have entered your message, tap Send.
face, and a hand

Sharing Emojis
As well as a typical range of emojis you can find on most
smartphones and social media, the Apple Watch lets you send
and reply to messages with one of three dynamic emojis. It’s likely
that Apple will provide more in future updates, but at launch you

Recent messages
Messages app displays a
list of your most recent
messages and contacts Delete messages
Tap the bin icon to delete
the message from your
Watch. This does not
delete it from your phone

Show details
Show contact details Send a new
and send new messages message
Press firmly from
anywhere on the message
list to send a new message

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Never miss a message

Send your current location in a
message via the Watch. Press
firmly on a message and tap
Send Location
can choose between an animated face, heart or hand. Using the
Digital Crown, scroll though different variations of each emoji – for 1 Increase the haptic feedback
In the Settings app on your
example, you can send a happy face, broken heart or thumbs up. Watch, select Sounds & Haptics.

Playback photos, videos and audio

If you receive a photo in a message, double-tap it to view in full-
screen. You can use your finger or the Digital Crown to pan around
the image. Swipe left from the edge of screen to return to the
message. To save the photo, open the message on your paired
iPhone and save it there.
Similarly, you can tap to play video or audio clips in a message.
2 Increase the vibration
Tap again on video files to show playback controls and turn the Tap right or scroll up on the
Digital Crown to adjust the volume. Audio files are deleted two Ringer and Alert Haptics bar.
minutes after playback to save space, but can be saved on your
iPhone for 30 days by tapping Keep below the clip.

Send Read Receipts

3 Enable Prominent Haptic

Toggle the Prominent Haptic for
stronger vibrations on alerts.

1 Notify you’ve read messages 2 Toggle Send Read Receipts 4 Good Vibrations
On Apple Watch’s iPhone app, tap Enable the setting to show your Stronger haptic vibrations will
Messages and Send Read Receipts. friends you have read their message. ensure you never miss a message.

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Phone
Yes, you really can make and receive phone calls on
your Apple Watch

You’ll use it to… Contact calling

Apple has ensured that you can make calls to your friends and
Answer calls in a hurry
Answer calls when your phone is not handy colleagues in seconds, despite the Watch’s small screen and limited
Calling and multitasking navigation controls. You can press the side button to quickly make
Speak to a friend while doing
something else contact with those closest to you, or select the Phone app and
Enjoy the novelty then tap Contacts. If you scroll the Digital Crown downwards, you
Embrace the futuristic way of calling
will see the letter ‘A’ appear at which point you can then scroll
Call and control your iPhone
Make calls from your iPhone with your upwards to jump through the alphabet and find the person you
Apple Watch
want to call in double-quick time (Fig 1). With the ability to call from
Mute calls with your palm
Dismiss incoming calls by covering links included as well, you will likely never find yourself scrabbling
the screen
around wondering what to do.
Calling from the Apple Watch
is a novel and enjoyable
experience which works
surprisingly well and
also offers the
kind of emotional
feedback few
other devices can
manage (Fig 2).

Your real
phone
The Apple Watch
does not have a
built-in cellular
radio, but rather
it can make a
receive calls through
Fig 1 (above) You can initiate outgoing calls your iPhone. It has a
in seconds
microphone and a speaker
Fig 2 (right) The calling interface could not
be easier to understand so you can hold a conversation
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by holding the Watch near to your

Start a new call
mouth and talking ‘Dick Tracy’ style,
which we admit is a bit of a thrill. All of
the work is done on your iPhone and in
the Apple Watch app you can manage
various settings including the alerts,
sounds and whether or not to use the
haptic function for alerts. Our advice,
however, would be to simply select the
‘Mirror my iPhone’ option because this 1 Who to call?
Press the side button and turn the
is the simplest method and it works Digital Crown to select a contact.
very well indeed. If you think of the
Apple Watch as merely an accessory for
your phone then you can judge better when and where to use it,
but it remains the case that it is best used only when the iPhone is
not available.

When and where?

Making and receiving calls on your Apple Watch will have an
2 Tap the icon
inevitable impact on battery performance and so you should only From the contact’s photo, tap the
use it if it is absolutely necessary. Your iPhone includes a much phone icon to begin the call.
bigger battery and also offers better sound quality through its
speaker, which makes the calling experience feel more natural and
easier to use. Apple states that you should “Use the built-in speaker
and microphone for quick chats, or seamlessly transfer calls to your
iPhone for longer conversations.” For these reasons, the transfer
process is very easy, which makes swapping between the devices
feel completely natural. Despite the obvious limitations and the fact
that the iPhone is still preferable for mobile calls, there is no doubt 3 Calling...
that the ability to make and receive calls from your wrist is still one Visual indicators let you know
exactly what is happening.
of the standout features of the Apple Watch experience. The future
just got one step closer to reality.

You can tap a phone number

in an email or message to
call it straight away from your
Apple Watch 4 Adjust the volume
Use the Digital Crown to adjust
the volume during the active call.

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Mail
Carry your emails with you wherever you are
with the Apple Watch Mail app

You’ll use it to… Basic management

When you consider how you should use your Apple Watch for
Never miss an
important email dealing with email, the best approach is to think of it as a viewer
Receive alerts for all of your new emails.
that will instantly alert you to what has been received. This means
Check your email inbox
Browse through your inbox in style. that you will always be aware of what is happening and be able to
Archive and dismiss emails read the latest messages, but you can also undertake some basic
You can easily archive unimportant mails.
management of your inbox. Reading an email (Fig 1) will not always
Get to inbox zero
Your Watch can help you reach inbox zero. mark it as read on your iPhone, but you can use the Apple Watch to
mark items as unread and also add flags and archive emails. If you
have a very busy email inbox (Fig 2) and are dealing with dozens
of messages per day, these features can help you to manage it no
matter what you are doing, which is a nice bonus.

Your email, your way

The Apple Watch Mail app
is entirely dependent
upon how you have
set up your emails
on your iPhone,
but this is far from
a bad thing. It
means that you
can choose how
many accounts
you want to use,
how often new
emails are fetched
or pushed to you
and exactly how
Fig 1 (above) Most emails can be read you prefer to manage
directly on the Apple Watch
your inbox. Despite the
Fig 2 (right) The inbox view will feel familiar
if you own an iPhone understandably scaled-down
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interface of the Apple Watch Mail app,

Browse your inbox
it is still perfectly usable and if you
remember that the iPhone is doing
most of the heavy lifting, you will come
to appreciate just how useful the Apple
Watch is for email management. If you
want to ensure that you never miss an
important communication, you should
set a frequent fetch period and make
sure that you are always wearing your Apple Watch. 1 One tap access
Tap the Mail app icon or an email
alert to access your latest emails.
Limits may be useful
If you’re used to receiving emails constantly throughout the day and
you have ‘push’ enabled, you may want to limit this functionality in
the Apple Watch iPhone app. It’s all very well receiving numerous
email alerts on a phone where it’s easy to ignore them when busy,
but on the Watch it becomes a case of all or nothing. If you don’t
manage how the Watch filters your incoming email, you may have
to disable certain functions completely and this will greatly limit the
2 A handy list
advantages that the Watch offers. Spend some time deciding what Your inbox is in date order with
exactly you need on your wrist and limit the alerts for your own snippets of information included.
sanity. The fact that you can differentiate between the email alerts
on your iPhone and Apple Watch is a huge advantage. It gives you
full control over what happens on each device throughout the day.

Threads and conversations

Despite some limitations, the Email app can show full conversations
where the content is readable. You can check on past and present
emails by simply lifting your wrist – handy in meetings or when 3 You can’t see it all
picking up your iPhone may appear rude. It goes to the heart of Some emails contain elements
not readable on the Apple Watch.
what the Watch is all about: it is designed to be invisible and to work
like a watch most of the time, but to be useful when needed.

You can tap phone numbers

within emails to initiate a
phone call direct from the
Apple Watch 4 Tap to read
Tap on an email to read it. You can
scroll with the Digital Crown.

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It all makes sense

Throughout the Apple Watch’s generous
feature-set, you are given the impression
that the device is designed to work
alongside the iPhone in order to offer
more convenient access to messages,
fitness data and the like, but with the
Mail app things feel slightly different.
When you receive an important email
and find yourself scrolling down to read the content, there is a
Fig 3 Emails can be dealt with in a number
of ways, including flagging, archiving, and sudden realisation that you are actually reading email on your
marking as unread
wrist. It feels entirely futuristic but at the same time completely
natural, which is a very clever trick to pull off on Apple’s part. It also
complements some of the other Apple Watch features very well,
meaning that you can read your emails, make and receive calls, and
send your heartbeat from your wrist at any time, with just a few
taps. That is extremely impressive.

A quick read There are Email Managing

Being able to quickly exclusions notifications your inbox
read a new email Not all emails will display Notifications will show You can flag or archive
without picking up fully because the Apple some of the contents of emails and also mark them
your iPhone saves a Watch Mail app is very a new email. Tap one to as unread. Your inbox can
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Set up Watch email

You cannot compose emails
directly from the Apple Watch,
but you can hand them off to
the iPhone
Natural limitations
Email can be a complex beast at times and this is in part why it 1 Simple settings
In the Apple Watch iPhone app,
remains such a successful means of communication. Images, files tap Mail to see a range of settings.
and cleverly formatted text are all crucial elements of many email
messages and at the current time, support for many of these things
is slightly limited on the Apple Watch. The good news, however,
is that you will still receive alerts for every new email that is sent to
you, but keep in mind that you will not be able to read all of the
content all of the time.
As time passes and the technology behind smartwatches
improves, it is likely that the Apple Watch will one day be able to
2 Previews
deal with as many emails as your iPhone can currently manage, You can opt to display one- or
which could go even further towards lessening the amount of time two-line previews or none at all.
you spend with your phone. For now, though, we’re content to use
the Apple Watch as an effective point of reference on the go.

Just enough detail

3 What to see?
Tap Custom>Include Mail to set
which emails show on the Watch.

1 The original 2 Another original 4 Threads and colours

You’ll know how simply the iPhone The Watch Mail app manages to You can tweak the flag colours
Mail app presents emails already. recreate emails in near perfect detail. and how each thread is organised.

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Calendar
Carry your important calendar events everywhere
with you, on your wrist

You’ll use it to… Creative views

When you first use the Apple Watch Calendar app, it is not
See what’s
happening tomorrow immediately obvious as to how the various views work; however,
Check your appointments for the
days ahead with some practice, it should all fall into place nicely. The standard
Never miss a moment list view enables you to scroll through each day and see a basic
Receive alerts for important events
view of each event, but if you Force Touch you then have the
Benefit from the month view
Check where you are in the current month option to see a single day, which will feel familiar because it looks
Glance at the latest event very much like the iPhone Calendar view. Of course, this view is not
Use Glances to see your next appointment
ideal for such a small screen unless you have a very busy day ahead,
at which point it suddenly all falls into place and you will be able to
familiarise yourself with what you need to do in seconds. The
month view also offers a surprising
number of benefits, such as
letting you know how long
until a project is due,
when you will get
paid, and so many
other small
considerations we
all face in everyday
life. Apple has
deliberately scaled
down the abilities
and complexities
of the Calendar
app on the Apple
Watch to suit the
smaller form factor,
but it still offers
Fig 1 (above) A surprising amount of detail everything you will need
is included
within a minimalist and
Fig 2 (right) The calendar view is logical and
easy to read practical interface.
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A mirror image Use the calendar

If you open the Calendar app on your
iPhone, you will see that the Apple
Watch equivalent is in fact a mirror
image of your main phone calendar. It
is designed to ensure that you do not
miss any appointments when the ‘Mirror
my iPhone’ option is ticked in the Apple
Watch app on the iPhone and it works
exactly as you would want it to. If you 1 View your events
Open the Calendar app and scroll
select the Custom option, you then through all of your current events.
have the ability to deal with invitations,
shared calendar alerts and whether or
not to show upcoming events. However, if you are happy with how
your iPhone calendar is set up, it may be best to stick to mirroring
it on your Apple Watch. Once set up, you can then be assured of
never missing an appointment again because alerts will appear
on your phone and through your Watch, which is reassuring on so
many levels.
2 See the detail
Tap any event to see all the
A one-way street? relevant info you need to act on it.
The Apple Watch Calendar app is very much designed for you to
view information and not to directly input new appointments and
events into it, but there is actually a way that you can do this. Press
and hold the Digital Crown and Siri will appear, at which point you
can say, “Add a new calendar event at…” and then include a time
and description. The event will appear in your default calendar
immediately and also in your iPhone calendar app, so you really
can be productive anywhere provided you are wearing your Apple 3 Jump between views
Watch. Through Glances and directly on the app, you will now have Force Touch anywhere to jump
between Day and Today views.
access to everything you need to do over the coming days, and all it
takes is a couple of taps to see your immediate future.

Tap the Today option at the

top of the Calendar app to
see a grid view of the current
month. It’s very useful 4 Handy alerts
You’ll see and feel an alert when
an event or appointment is due.

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Activity
Get inspired to do some exercise with the Apple
Watch Activity app

You’ll use it to… Apps in combination

Three apps are used to gauge your overall fitness and activity levels,
Monitor your walking
The Activity app will count every step and together they form an extremely powerful combination. The
Get a complete picture of you Activity app will count your steps and work out how many calories
Use with other apps for fitness inspiration
you have burned, and it will also measure how often you are
Count calories in and out
Are you burning more calories than you eat? standing up. The Workout app will measure your heartbeat during
Keep the blood flowing exercise and then populate the Activity data with your overall
Receive alerts to make you stand up
every hour burned calories. Finally, the Health app on the iPhone can bring all
of this together to offer a general assessment of how your heart is
beating throughout the day, how far you have travelled and by how
much you are improving. It is likely
that you will use the Activity
app the most during the day,
but all three are needed
to offer truly powerful
measurements of
what you are up to.

Every relative
number
The Activity app
will offer all of the
data you need
to understand
how lethargic
you are and how
much you need
to improve. It will
cover the distance you
Fig 1 (above) The amount of data recorded have moved and also the
is truly comprehensive
number of steps you have
Fig 2 (right) You can quickly check your
progress with a glance taken, with the calories being
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one of the most effective measurements

Understand the rings
of your fitness. The calorie counts take
account of your overall movement and
also the types of activities you are doing
during the day, which means that you
do not have to worry about calculating
your success. It could be that 10 minutes
of one activity is equivalent to 2 hours
of another, so let the app do the work
for you and use the data provided as inspiration to move more the 1 A colourful display
Are you wondering what each
next day, and the next. Eventually you will be able to look back at visual indicator really means?
your historic results and see just how much you have improved,
thanks to your Apple Watch and one app.

Measuring progress
If you want to view your progress over extended periods, we
would advise you to look at the Activity app on your iPhone (Fig
1), because it displays all of your data in a visually colourful way
which is easy to monitor with just a glance. The Activity app on the
2 Calories
Apple Watch is fine for checking progress during the day (Fig 2) The red ring shows calories burnt.
and it does look similar to the iPhone equivalent, but for long-term This is the main activity tracker.
monitoring, use the iPhone app.

Near perfect accuracy

Don’t expect the Apple Watch to provide 100 per cent accuracy
when tracking your movements. No smart fitness device is capable
of such accuracy and if you wore five different fitness bands at the
same time, each would provide different measurements to some
degree. The good news is that in tests of the Apple Watch, it has 3 Exercising wins
been proven to be very accurate and you will only be missing a The green ring shows exercise
levels, via the Workout app.
few steps each day. The heartbeat sensor has also been tested
and so you need not worry about accuracy at all. The idea of the

You can change your goal any

time by Force Touching within
the Activity app. You should
aim to make it higher 4 Stand up!
You must stand up at least every
hour. Make sure you don’t hit zero.

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Activity app is to help you improve your fitness and health and if
the numbers go up each day, you will be on the right track. Just
remember to increase your activity by reasonable amounts so as
not to strain yourself too much.

Set your goals

You can set your fitness goals in the
Activity app on the iPhone or directly on
the Watch. However, we would suggest
using the iPhone app because it offers
Fig 3 After a workout, the Activity app
will give you a breakdown of your results, more granularity in what you can set,
including steps taken and calories burned
such as stand reminders, the frequency
of progress updates and how you deal
with achievements and Glances. Once
happy with your setup, you are free to go about your day and leave
the app to monitor and remind you as you reach your targets, and
you’ll find that the reminders really do have an effect in inspiring

Tap to access At a glance Simple tasks

You can access the Activity The rings let you The Activity app will
app via the home screen see your general remind you to stand
icon or immediately activity at a glance up at regular intervals
through Glances and will inspire you to help keep the
to try even harder blood flowing

Detailed information
Graphs and numbers are used
throughout to give you all of the
activity information you require

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Use with Health

The heart rate monitor is
useful for tracking your
effort levels during normal
daily activities
you to do more each day. At the very least, they’ll make you think
about what you are doing and this subconscious observation is 1 It’s connected
When the Watch is linked to an
often enough to keep your mind on your general daily activity. iPhone, the Health app will use it.

Standing is important
You may wonder why the ‘Stand’ feature is given such a prominent
place in the Activity app, but it is a key feature. You will receive
regular reminders to stand throughout the day and for those of you
who have a sedentary job which involves sitting at a desk, this is
vitally important. It has been shown that not standing much during
the day can lead to all sorts of health problems and also that some
2 Quiet tracking
small movements will have a dramatic effect on your overall health. Your heart rate data from the
If the company you work for does not provide a standing desk, this Watch is stored in the Health app.
is the next best thing because there is no better way to keep your
blood flowing than by standing up and walking around.

Gain achievements

3 Every detail
The Apple Watch tracks your
heart rate in great detail.

1 Simple rewards 2 Easy and hard 4 Dual tracking

There is a selection of awards to gain Some are easily won while others will The Watch and iPhone are used
in the Activity app. They will motivate. require much more sustained effort. together to track your daily steps.

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Workout
Track your workouts in detail and be inspired

Achieving your goals

You’ll use it to… The main focus of the Workout app is not just to track your activity,
but to inspire you and give you some motivation to improve every
Gain some inspiration
The data recorded motivates day. The fact that you need to manually set your goal before each
you continually
workout will inevitably push you to increase the number of calories
Vary your exercise regime
Use the app to get ideas for future workouts or distance every day, and if you make incremental additions
Check your heart health each time you use it, you should be able to improve your fitness
See your heart rate before and
after exercise and lose weight without harming your health in any way. Like all
Use the detailed statistics exercise regimes, please ensure that you start off with goals that are
Analyse every single aspect of
your workouts achievable, because if you don’t, you can lose motivation quickly or
harm yourself in the process.

Every possible
data point
The iPhone Activity app
is obviously the best
way to see exactly
how beneficial
your workout has
been, but you
will also see a
summary after you
have completed
a workout on the
Watch. It shows
you the type of
workout, the exact
date and time
of the workout,
plus the overall
Fig 1 (above) Your heart rate is crucial to
tracking your success duration and weather
conditions. The detail is
Fig 2 (right) Track your workout progress in
real-time as you exercise just enough to understand
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what has happened, and it also saves

Start a workout
you from having to pick up and open
the associated iPhone app if you are in
a hurry. Most Apple Watch apps leave
the heavy lifting to the iPhone sister
software, but it is nice to see some
duplication here, because it gives you
more options as to how you want to use
the apps.
1 Choose a workout
Open the Workout app and tap
Accuracy is key an option.
Many tests have been undertaken to ascertain the accuracy of the
Apple Watch sensors, and it would appear that they are as accurate
as many dedicated fitness bands. Add to this the heart-rate sensor
and advanced software, and you will be in possession of a tool that
will help you get fit without ever intruding on your daily activities.
Recording your steps and movement is very useful, but to get fit
quickly, the Workout app will offer the most immediate benefits.
2 Set a target
Follow the green circle Consider how many calories you
You will notice in the Activity app that your progress is displayed want to burn, then tap ‘Start’.
using a circular icon with different colours within and surrounding it.
The red circle indicates your movement, the green circle represents
exercise and the blue circle shows standing progress. When you
work out, you will see the greatest improvement in the green circle,
which is arguably the most important area for getting fit. If you take
long walks and move around a lot during the day, the green circle
will remain low, so try to make it bigger every single day if you can.
3 Track your progress
Manage workout power As you work out, lift you wrist to
check your progress at any time.
Using the Apple Watch during a workout can use a lot more battery
power than using it for standard activities. The Watch is having to

At the end of the workout,

check your heart rate to
ensure you have made a
genuine effort 4 End and pause
Swipe left for options. You can
end/pause at any time.

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use the heart rate sensor, as well as track

your movements and present all of the
relevant data on screen for when you
lift your wrist. The tracking is very useful,
and works exactly as it was intended
to, but you should remember that the
Apple Watch battery is understandably
small and a very long workout could
lessen the remaining power significantly.
Apple has, however, come up with a solution that may help
Fig 3 Depending on your workout, the
Watch screen may display the number of you use your Watch for workouts and still get you through a day
reps you have left to complete
without the need to charge it. Go to the Apple Watch app on your
iPhone, and scroll down until you see the Workout app listed. Tap
it, and you will see two options listed: the first lets you enable the
‘Show Goal Metric’, which will only display text indicators of your
progress and remove the fancy graphical icon. The second will be
more beneficial, because it puts the Apple Watch into ‘Power Saving

Success over time In the detail

The iPhone Activity app is The amount of specific
designed to quickly show detail available to you
your workout progress after a workout or a
over long periods of time walk is quite amazing

Visual
indicators
Once you have
completed a
workout, you can
quickly check your
success by viewing
this icon

An active day
Aim for long periods of
active time throughout
the day and not just
during workouts

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Analyse the results

The Workout app is
separate to the Activity
app, but the health data is
shared throughout
Mode’ during a workout by disabling the heart-rate sensor. You will
need to decide if you really need this sensor during the workout, 1 An overview
Open the Activity app on
and if you choose to disable it, you can still check your heart rate your iPhone.
before and after the workout manually.

Use the achievements

The achievements on offer are fairly basic, but they are easy to
understand, and can be used as motivational tools. You will receive
them for achieving goals multiple times and for beating a daily goal
by multiple factors. It is, as we said, a very simple setup, but the
visual nature of the system does make you want to complete the
2 The workout section
board and view what physical benefits each has given you. Despite Scroll down until you see the
all of the advanced complexity working behind the scenes in the ‘Workouts’ section, and tap one.
Workout and Activity apps, simplicity is obvious throughout
the software.

Calibrate your calories

3 See the detail

You will be able to analyse every
aspect of your workout.

1 Set your stats 2 Get accurate results 4 Enjoy the rewards

To get the most accurate results, you’ll With the right info, Workout can even Awards are given for undertaking
need to enter your details in Activity. provide accurate estimates when off. new exercises.

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 Built-in apps Maps

Maps
Use your Apple Watch to navigate the streets
without having to rely on the screen

You’ll use it to… Consider your usage

Like many Apple Watch apps, the intention of Maps is not to
Keep safe when navigating
Never take your eyes off the road replicate or replace the Maps app on the iPhone, but to act as a
Find locations in an instant useful extension that you can use alongside your phone. It offers
Use Siri to quickly find a destination
a more personal way to get directions using audio, which makes it
Get to favourites in minutes
Store your favourites for quick navigation perfect for when running or undertaking specific exercise routes.
Keep to a specific route The simple fact that you no longer need to look at your screen adds
Keep fit by keeping to a defined route
a huge amount of convenience and much more flexibility to the
task, and it should quickly become second nature in use. Indeed,
the experience is so inherently human thanks to the personal
nature of the device that standard navigation will feel less personal
and harder to manage in the
future. We may have just
discovered a whole
new way to interact
with portable
computers, and
it is a method
that works
beautifully.

Mirrored
navigation
The Maps app
on the Apple
Watch does
not technically
navigate on its
Fig 1 (above) Directions are given both
visually and through audible alerts own because the
hardware does not
Fig 2 (right) The Maps app offers a include GPS. This means
surprisingly detailed view
that it has to rely on the
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iPhone for location services, and as such, it mirrors exactly what is

Navigate with Maps
happening on the iPhone during a trip. If you look at your iPhone
screen during the journey you will see the turns displayed identically
to the Apple Watch, meaning that you can use both devices in
concert for the best possible navigation experience. You could, for
example, occasionally look at the iPhone screen when driving or if
you need more information and then use the audible cues on the
Watch at all other times.
This gives you the best of both worlds, which is ultimately safer
and far more likely to get you to your destination safely. It is also 1 Tap and hold
Press and hold on the main Maps
yet another use for the Apple Watch, making it stand out in a very screen to show location options.
saturated market.

Finding new places

Siri is the main tool on your Apple Watch
to find locations and places to visit,
but you can also use the Maps app for
discovery. If you offer a vague location to
Siri while in Maps, it will present back a
2 Speak your destination
variety of options to choose from, which The Siri screen will appear. Speak
you can randomly select depending on the road and town to proceed.
how adventurous you are.
Even if you do not want to do this, you can also choose any
contact within the Maps app and navigate straight to them. You will
need to ensure that their current address is listed in the Contacts
app, but with some careful setting up, you will have all of the
information you need to start your journeys in style. Also, if you list
your favourites in the order that you are most likely to visit, you will
be able to start a journey off with just a couple of taps. When you 3 Choose a location
are busy and need to get somewhere in a hurry, the Apple Watch Destinations will appear. Choose
one and scroll down the screen.
Maps app is the ideal solution. The Maps app is a versatile tool, and
you’ll soon find it essential in your day-to-day life.

The Apple Watch will chirp

three times to turn right and
ring to turn left so you can
ignore the screen 4 Every single turn
Once you have chosen driving or
walking, each turn will show.

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 Built-in apps Passbook

Passbook
Keep yourself safe and secure with the powerful
Passbook app on the Apple Watch

You’ll use it to… Security is key

One aspect of Passbook that is rarely talked about is the inherent
Say goodbye to paper tickets
Passbook lets you carry tickets anywhere security that the system includes. The fact that you do not have to
Benefit from extra security carry around paper tickets or plastic loyalty cards means that you
Passbook passes are more secure than
paper tickets will be much less likely to lose them . Even if you do lose your Watch
Save lots of valuable space and your iPhone, the passes will be backed up on iCloud, ready to
You can carry as many passes as you need to
restore to your new device. The barcodes alone are very secure and
Pay for products instantly
Some Passbook apps let you make in theory you should experience fewer instances where you need
payments directly
to share your data with someone else, which only increases the
security that Passbook offers. Our advice would be to use Passbook
if the company or service you are dealing with offers it because the
benefits are clear.

Unlimited uses
The Passbook app is
for much more than
just tickets thanks
to the variety of
services who
have jumped on
board. You can
use Passbook
loyalty cards,
pay with
vouchers and
even buy
products using
just the app and
Fig 1 (above) Simply hold up your Watch to
gain access to an event the secure passes
that are included.
Fig 2 (right) Passbook on the Apple Watch Each will be presented
is very similar to the iPhone app
with an original design and
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even on the small Apple Watch screen, the passes should be very
Use a Passbook pass
easy to locate and select. All you have to do is open the Passbook
app manually from the home screen or hold down the Digital
Crown and say ‘Passbook’.
You can then check all of the passes that you have loaded on
your Watch and they should always be identical to the ones that
are stored on your iPhone. With so many potential uses, you should
be able to carry much less with you and your wallet could become
a lot slimmer instantly. Take some time to see what Passbook is
capable of and you may be surprised at the advantages it offers, 1 Buy a ticket
When you buy from a supporting
especially on the Apple Watch. service, you will see an ‘Add’ icon.

Save some time

Digital tickets and cards are a fantastic
idea and one that feels ultra-modern,
but there would be no point in using
them if there were not clear advantages.
Besides the security and flexibility of the
Passbook feature, you are also likely to
2 Add the pass
save a lot of time when using it. You’ll see a barcode in the screen,
From the moment you make a but tap ‘Add’ to start using it.
booking, the pass will be safely stored in the Passbook app and you
will be reminded just before an event occurs if that is relevant. Add
to this the fact that the pass will be displayed on screen ready to use
when you need it and much of the administration you usually have
to undertake disappears in an instant.
The dream of a paperless world is one that has been alive for
many years and to date it has not fully taken hold, but Passbook is
a very good example of a solution that removes lots of hassle and 3 It’s on the Watch
paper from your life, and which makes everything it touches work a In the Passbook app, the new
pass will be populated instantly.
little smoother. It is hard to see why anyone would not want to take
advantage of such a cleverly created service.

The Passbook pass will be

shown on your lock screen if
you choose, which is handy
when you’re on the move 4 It’s ready to use
You can now lift your Watch to
use the pass at the required time.

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 Built-in apps Music

Music
Synchronise your playlists and listen to your library
of music straight from your Apple Watch

You’ll use it to… One library, two devices

It will make a lot of sense to consider carefully how your want to
Leave your iPhone at home
Play music on your Watch when exercising use your Apple Watch in combination with an iPhone for playing
Carry your favourite music music, but you should find that the iPhone is the best option unless
Your Watch can play your entire library
absolutely necessary. The Apple Watch is a brilliant solution to
A handy music remote control
Control playback directly on your iPhone remotely control music playback, but you have to jump through
More than just music some hoops to enable a music library to be played direct from the
You can also pause and play podcasts
device itself. If you think about what you are doing, you will be able
to quickly judge which device to use at the right time.

Visual cues
Apple has obviously spent time considering how the graphical
elements of the Apple Watch
Music app are made up
and we have been left
with an interface
that somehow
manages to
convey all
that we need
to know, but
within a small
space. Even
better, album
art is fully visible
throughout,
which is ideal
for when quickly
Fig 1 (above) The controls are logically laid
out and easy to use navigating through
your music library –
Fig 2 (right) Everything you want to play is and the list of interface
just a tap away
benefits continues.
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Albums are neatly held together, and a scroll downwards enables

Sync music playlists
you to quickly select any album track to play, with the album art at
the top of the screen to add a sense of depth to the experience.
We think back to the iPod with its revolutionary click wheel and
this feels similar; a software and hardware combination that works
perfectly together to let you achieve more than would reasonably
appear to be possible.

One big playlist

The Apple Watch only allocates a certain 1 The iPhone app
Go to the iPhone Apple Watch
amount of memory to music, so we app’s Music. Tap Synced Playlist.
would suggest creating one playlist that
includes all of your favourite songs. As
with all playlists, some consideration
should be given to ensuring that you
are including your genuine favourites
so that you do not need to waste time
continually swapping tracks. The Watch is capable of holding more
than enough songs for anyone to enjoy and if you feel that you
2 Choose a playlist
need more, you are probably trying to include more than just your Select a playlist. Put your Watch
favourites into this playlist! on charge to sync the music.

Battery performance
One other aspect to remember when using the Apple Watch to
play music natively is that it will use more battery power when
doing so. The Apple Watch is more than capable of lasting a whole
day, thus only requiring a charge at night, but extended music
playback can impact that significantly.
If you want to listen to some music on a 30-minute run or at 3 Time to step away
lunchtime you should be fine, but to do so as a matter of course It can take a while to sync, so
leave it and come back later.
would be wasteful if you have your iPhone with you anyway. It
makes sense to use the bigger battery on the iPhone for longer

Tap Playlist Limit in the Apple

Watch app to set a music track
limit from a meagre 100MB all
the way up to 2GB 4 The sync is complete
When done, check and the songs
will be loaded for you.

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periods of music playback because it will still get you through the
day without needing an extra charge.

Easy playback
The main controls within the Music app adjust automatically when a
song is playing or not, but you are always presented with the exact
amount of information you need. On the main playback screen you
will see the traditional pause and rewind buttons, plus a volume
slider. If you scroll the digital crown, you’ll be able to change the
volume and throughout there are always visual indicators to let you
Fig 3 Adjusting the playback volume is as
simple as twisting the Digital Crown know exactly what is happening. The name of the artist and song
are displayed on the screen with the elapsed time top-left and the
current time top-right.

Bluetooth sound quality

Despite the fact that wireless headphones have been available for a
few years, there is still usually a difference in quality between them

Scroll Categorised
through tracks music
Use the digital crown to Your music library
scroll through tracks to is separated into
play them back in seconds. Albums, Artists,
It really works Songs and Playlists
for easy navigation
In the detail
Despite the small Your entire
Apple Watch screen, library
album art has been You can play any
included for much song that is stored
easier recognition on your iPhone
via the Watch with
just a tap

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Connect to Bluetooth
When an album is selected,
you can simply scroll down to
see every track and play each
as required
and wired alternatives. You can buy very cheap headphones and
others, from high-end manufacturers for lots of money, but it is 1 The settings
In Settings tap Bluetooth. The
possible that you will notice a degradation in sound no matter how device must be in pairing mode.
much you spend and so we would advise testing a pair before you
buy if this is possible.
If you regularly watch films and want to try Bluetooth
headphones, you should be aware that lag can occur which is to
be avoided when possible. In tests, the price of a pair of Bluetooth
headphones does not have a direct effect on lag because it seems
that it is caused by the software setup of the accessory itself.
Despite these potential problems, the Apple Watch adds many
2 Time to pair
benefits to a pair of Bluetooth headphones and being able to go When your device is discovered,
for a run with just your Watch and headphones – no wires at all – is follow the instructions to pair it.
a huge bonus. It is possible that the success of the Apple Watch will
drive manufacturers to improve Bluetooth audio in the near future.

Navigate your library

3 It’s now connected

The Watch will advise you when
the device is connected.

1 Pick a category 2 Browse the results 4 Listen in style

It’s scaled down, but you can access Select a category to see all your artists, Press on the main music screen
your entire library on the Apple Watch. albums and playlists listed. and choose Apple Watch to listen.

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 Built-in apps Camera Remote

Camera
Remote
The Camera Remote for your Apple Watch is a
You’ll use it to… handy tool for tricky photographic situations
Take group selfies in style
Get together, tap the timer icon and smile

Snap a much steadier photo A true extension

Secure the iPhone and snap on the Watch
The Camera Remote app is merely an extension of the iPhone
Take a sneaky photo
You can take a photograph without anyone Camera app, but it is one that is very useful in the right
knowing it
circumstances. Any photos that you take will still be saved on the
Focus without moving
Set your own focus positions without iPhone, and the actual iPhone hardware is used throughout, with
moving the iPhone
the Apple Watch being able to control it from afar.
At the time of writing, it is only capable of controlling the Camera
app when it is taking still photos because videos are not supported,
but we honestly cannot think of many occasions where using the
Remote app will be beneficial when capturing videos so it makes
sense to limit the functionality if
only for the sake of preserving
battery power. Like so
many of the Apple
Watch apps, it does
not offer direct
capabilities, but
rather the ability
to interact more
naturally with
your iPhone and
to take time out
of manual tasks.

Choose what
Fig 1 (above) The app even detects
landscape and portrait shots settings to use
The Camera Remote
Fig 2 (right) The Apple Watch sees app is exceptionally handy
everything your iPhone does
in a variety of circumstances,
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but you should try to avoid the temptation of using it all of the time
Snap a remote photo
just because it is available. For most photo opportunities, the iPhone
camera will work better because it enables you to look more closely
at what you are snapping thanks to the larger screen, but there
will be specific moments where the Camera Remote on the Apple
Watch can actually help you capture a better quality photo.
For example, if you are trying to capture an object that is close
by and need the camera to stay as steady as possible, you can
focus on the Watch itself and also tap the capture button without
ever moving the phone, which is ideal for obtaining clarity in poor 1 Turn it on
Ensure the iPhone camera app is
lighting conditions. So, use the Camera Remote for what it was open for the Remote app to work.
designed for and you will grow to love it, but just remember that
the iPhone is still a practical snapper in most circumstances.

Selfies without the stick

Everyone loves a selfie, and one of the
most underrated features of the Camera
Remote app is its ability to take this
photographic phenomenon to the next
2 Focus with a tap
level. While usually users are limited by The Camera Remote app lets you
the length of their arms – or potentially tap the Watch screen to focus.
their selfie sticks – as to how much of
a scene they can capture, the ability to
remotely trigger the camera shutter using your Apple Watch opens
up all manner of creative possibilities.
It goes without saying that you should be careful when leaving
your phone unattended to line up the perfect shot, as depending
on where you are there may be people around willing to scoop it
up and scarper. But under most circumstances, the Camera Remote 3 Use the timer
merely offers the opportunity to take brilliant photos that simply Tap the bottom-right icon to start
the timer for easier shooting.
wouldn’t be possible with an iPhone alone. Take your Watch out for
a spin and see what you can come up with!

Despite the lower-resolution

screen, the Apple Watch does
display the camera screen
with perfect clarity 4 The end result
The photo will be captured using
the high-quality iPhone camera.

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 Built-in apps Remote

Remote
Your Apple Watch is the perfect companion for
controlling your Apple TV from a distance

You’ll use it to… Finding your TV

Apple has put a lot of work into the software that powers the Apple
Navigate around the Apple TV
Use the Menu icon to jump back through Watch and in particular with regards to the initial setup experience.
the menus
If you already have your iPhone paired with an Apple TV, you should
Swipe to change position
Swipe on the screen to jump through hopefully find it available on your Watch in the Remote app as soon
various menus
as you open it. This means that you can start navigating the Apple
Leave the remotes alone
You will never need a remote control again TV menus and deal with playback as soon as you first strap the
Watch to your wrist.
In fact, it’s possible that you will never use any other device to
control your Apple TV and you will soon start to wonder why you
have to control your normal TV
with an old-fashioned remote
control! With your Watch at
hand, a remote for your
Apple TV will be with
you whenever you
need it.

Dealing with
the controls
The controls on
the main Apple
Watch Remote
app interface are
extremely easy to
understand. All
you will see when
you launch it, after
Fig 1 (above) Look for the triangle icon in
the home screen to use it you have completed
the setup process, are
Fig 2 (right) The Remote app on the Apple icons for the Apple TV and
Watch is extremely easy to use
a shared library. Simply tap the
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Apple TV icon to see a blank main screen, which you can use to
Set up your Remote
swipe through menus and a play/pause icon bottom-right. The all-
important Menu icon is bottom-left, which lets you jump back to
the previous screen and finally there is the top-left icon to take you
back to choose whether you want to control the Apple TV or access
a library. You will see larger controls on the screen when a show or
film is playing and you can also use the digital crown to adjust the
volume from your Watch.
With the time always displayed top-right, there really is nothing
missing from the Remote interface, but it still remains minimalist 1 iPhone set up
Open the Remote app on your
and easy to use at all times. You will also notice that the touch iPhone and enable Home Sharing.
points work better than expected on such a small screen thanks to
some clever software engineering, which makes the entire process
feel as natural as can be.

The ultimate convenience

When you consider what the Apple
Watch is designed to do, controlling
a TV is an obvious feature to include.
2 The Apple TV icon
However, it becomes much more than You should see the Apple TV icon
just a theoretical convenience when appear, meaning it’s connected.
you use it because you will no longer
be searching for the tiny official Apple
remote or your iPhone to choose what
you want to watch. You can simply push and hold the digital crown,
say ‘Remote’ and Siri will launch the app.
At this point you are ready to start controlling your Apple TV
without the need to pick up any other device. It feels like a science-
fiction idea from the future, but it is here today and it works 3 Access a library
splendidly. The potential for this kind of feature is unknown at this Tap Add Device and enter the Pin
on your computer.
time, but we can look forward to doing much more with future
Apple TVs and controlling them all from our wrists.

The Remote app is not

listed in the Watch app on
an iPhone because extra
settings are not needed 4 Set up is complete
You will see the Apple TV icon on
your Watch. Tap it to take control.

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 Built-in apps Weather

Weather
Look no further than your wrist to discover the
weather forecast for the week ahead thanks to your
intelligent Apple Watch

You’ll use it to…

Tap to change
What should you do next?
Check to see if it’s likely to rain soon When viewing the current conditions for a city, you will see
Plan ahead with Weather the temperature in the centre of the screen surrounded by the
Use the forecast to make future plans
expected weather conditions for each hour of the day. This is very
Help to plan a dream holiday
View the weather in many worldwide cities useful and it is extremely easy to view different aspects of the days
weather with just a tap.
When you tap on the screen, it will change to show the expected
temperatures for each hour and a further tap will display the
percentage chance of precipitation for each hour. Every time you go
back to the app, you will see one of these familiar screens displayed
so you will always know what to do to access the information you
require. When you think about what is happening here, a lot of
information is available by
simply opening the app
and tapping twice,
which should give
you all of the
detail you need
to plan the
day ahead.

See far
ahead
On an Apple
Watch, the
Weather app
is most useful
Fig 1 (above) Catch up on the weather with
a quick glance. for checking the
current conditions
Fig 2 (right) The Weather app packs a lot of or for seeing what the
information in
weather is likely to do in the
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next few hours, but it also caters for greater detail over extended
Edit your city list
periods of time. When you open the app you will be presented
with your default city and all you need to do is swipe upwards
to see the ten-day forecast. Each day will be listed with an icon
indicating the predominant weather alongside the highest and
lowest expected temperatures.
This can be very useful for planning events, but please remember
that the further away the forecast is, the more likely that changes
will occur in the meantime. Apple has cleverly given you all of
the information you need on the Apple Watch Weather app, but 1 Delete a city
Open the Weather app on your
managed to maintain a simplistic interface, which is always easy to iPhone and slide to remove cities.
understand with just a quick glance.

At a glance
If you have a requirement to check the
weather regularly, the Glances option
will come in very handy. You can open
the Apple Watch app on your iPhone
and then select Glances. You will see a
2 Add a new city
list of enabled glances with Delete icons Tap the ‘+’ icon and type a name
to the left and arrangement icons to to add a new city to your list.
the right. We would suggest to move
the Weather app close to the top so that you can check the current
conditions as efficiently as possible.
When you then swipe up from the bottom of the screen it will
be displayed and you can tap once to be taken to the full app. It
represents a very clever compromise between gaining information
quickly and accessing all of the detail that you need with one
further tap. It would appear that a lot of thought has gone into 3 The city is added
minimising the interface and only presenting the data that you You will be able to see the city in
your list and check the conditions.
really do need, which is of course a hallmark of Apple, and in the
case of the Weather app it works very well indeed.

In the Apple Watch app’s

Weather settings you can
choose which default city
displays in Glances 4 On the watch
The city will now be visible on
your Apple Watch straight away.

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 Built-in apps Stocks

Stocks
Keep track of all of your investments when you’re
on the move with your Apple Watch

You’ll use it to… Make it your own

There are no real limits to how many companies you can track in
See real-time changes in
an instant the Apple Watch Stocks app and some careful planning will make it
You can keep a close eye on market changes
work exactly as you want it to. It is very easy to simply accept what
Check the daily highs
and lows is included when you first open it, but to do this would be to lose
Tap a stock to see the daily tracking range
much of the potential it offers. The app itself is quite basic in what
Understand historic trends
See historic trends from one day to it is intended to deliver, but for the majority of people it offers just
six months
the right amount of information in an easy-to-read format, which
Add new
investments instantly will prove to be efficient every time the app is launched. Moving
Add new investments to your wrist
in seconds stocks around the listing is easy and so is sorting them dependant
Beat the market when mobile upon current conditions, so take
Beat the market by simply lifting your wrist
some time exploring how the
Compare stocks to see trends
Understand markets by checking app looks on your Apple
multiple stocks
Watch and then do the
same in the iPhone
app, where you
can make changes
instantly. Every
change you make
will immediately
be mirrored on
the Watch and you
can then dispense
with your phone
and still keep track
of the markets.

Everything at
Fig 1 (above) Historic trends are available
with one tap a glance
Throughout the Stocks
app, you will be able to
Fig 2 (right) Multiple stocks can be viewed
in one screen see everything you need to
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at a quick glance, which makes sense – after all, this is what the
Edit your stock list
Apple Watch is designed to allow! When you tap on an individual
stock you will be shown a simple text-based screen that details the
current price, the movement for the day and also the high and low
for the past 24 hours.
As you scroll down, you are presented with graphing options
that range from one day to six months followed by a longer list,
which includes the yearly high, market cap and volume. All of this
information can be utilised to decide if it is time to buy or sell, and in
the stock market world, a few seconds can make a huge difference. 1 The iPhone app
Open the Stocks app on your
The simplistic interface is not only ideal for the size of the Apple iPhone to see company indexes.
Watch screen, but also for making snap judgements. It is perfectly
possible that you will be able to get back the cost of the Watch
thanks to this app alone.

Making changes
All of the changes to the Apple Watch
Stocks app are done within the
associated iPhone app because the
2 Time to edit
Watch app is purely for information only. Tap the bottom-right icon. The
As it is a default iOS app, any changes screen will go into editing mode.
made will appear instantly on the watch
and it still runs very fast with no slow
downs at all.
We will take you through the process of adding and removing
stocks from your list, but you can also deal with how the stocks
are ordered on your watch within the iPhone app and see much
greater detail such as the latest financial news, plus up to two years
of market history. 3 Delete a stock
Used together, they cover all of the bases from making sure you Tap a red icon to delete. Changes
will appear on the Watch instantly.
have all of the detail you require in real-time to quickly glancing at
your Watch to see any major changes instantly.

You can choose the default

view for Stocks in the Apple
Watch app on an iPhone –
simply tap Stocks to explore 4 Add a stock
Tap the ‘+’ icon and search for a
company to add it to your list.

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Photos
Keep your special photos close to hand with the
essential Photos app on your Apple Watch

You’ll use it to… Emotional and practical

The Photos app on an Apple Watch is effectively a mirror of what
Keep your family close to you
Always carry your absolute favourite photos you can see on your iPhone, but it has some disadvantages that will
Share images when mobile be clear from the start. The screen is obviously much smaller, and
You can show off your images at any time
as such, you will not be able to see quite as much detail. It is limited
Work-related screenshots
Display screenshots when in meetings in how many photos it can carry, but there is one advantage that
Change your library any time stands out above all others.
You can change the images every single day
When you are out and about, and even if you do not have your
iPhone with you, the ability to quickly view your favourite photos
is beneficial in so many ways. It reminds us of the favourite photo
in your wallet, but with the ability to carry many hundreds of them
and to keep them private if you
so wish to.

Near-perfect
usability
It can be quite
daunting when
you first open
the Photos app
on your Apple
Watch and
see a huge
number of tiny
thumbnails
that can be
hard to identify,
but you need not
Fig 1 (above) As with other apps, the
Photos icon will be familiar worry at all.
All you have to
do is scroll the Digital
Fig 2 (right) You can view a lot of detail on
the Apple Watch screen Crown and it will zoom
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in to the photos so that you can see them in greater detail. You can Add favourite photos
then tap any image to view it full screen and swipe left and right
to jump through the images. The Digital Crown is used purely for
zooming and the screen for navigation so once you have worked
that out, you should be able to view all of your favourite photos
whenever you want to.
It may seem crazy to even attempt to include a photos app on a
Watch, but the blend of the interface and ease of use makes it much
more usable than you may expect. We suspect that this could be an
app that you will use and enjoy every day. 1 Select a photo
On an iPhone, open a photo and
go to the icons at the bottom.
There are limits
When you open the Apple Watch app
on your iPhone and then navigate to
Photos, you will see that you can adjust
how many photos can be stored directly
on the Watch.
These photos are physically held on
the Watch and so you do not need to
2 Tap the heart
have the iPhone near to open them, Tap the heart icon and it will be
which is why some limits have been imposed. You can select from saved as a favourite photo.
5MB (25 photos) to 75MB (500 photos), which should be more than
enough for most people. This means that you will need to consider
which album you want to synchronise with your Watch, but you
can do that easily by selecting Synced Album and then checking
the number of photos displayed in each.
Fortunately, Apple has provided just enough detail in every part
of the Photos app for you to make informed decisions and in our
view, it makes sense to limit yourself to 100 photos because there 3 Favourites everywhere
will be little value in adding more. For most of us that should be a Any photo on your favourites list
will be shown on your Watch.
reasonable limit for the images we really want to keep close all of
the time.

In the Apple Watch app you

can select Photos and choose
a different folder to sync with
your Apple Watch 4 Time to view
Use the digital crown to zoom in
to view any photo in full detail.

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Alarms
The Alarms app on your Apple Watch enables you
to quickly set a wake up time

You’ll use it to… Tap once

The main screen in the Alarms app simply lists all of your current
Get to work on time each day
Set alarms to repeat on specific work days alarms and will let you edit or cancel an alarm at any time. Our
Set a quick labelled reminder advice would be to delete the ones that you are not likely to use
You can add a label to cover a future event
again, and to keep only those that are used for regular events such
Create a silent alarm alert
The Watch will tap your wrist to alert you as waking up for work. You can make the app as complex or as
simple as you require, but you will soon find a method that works
best for your lifestyle.

Detailed alarms
You can, of course, simply create a new alarm and leave it for the
desired time, but there are many other options available to you.
When you tap any created alarm, you can tap the second panel to
choose on which days it will repeat – for example work days – and
then add a label in the third
panel. This is particularly useful
for creating alarms to remind
you of simple things during
the day. With some careful
usage, the app can actually
be used to help keep you
organised all of the time.
You can also choose
whether the Snooze option
is available for each alarm,
which will depend on how
important it is for you to react
to it in good time. The Alarms
Fig 1 (above) Use the digital crown to set
exact times app sits in the background all
of the time until you need it,
but it is very important and
Fig 2 (right) You can set multiple alarms in a
matter of seconds extremely useful.
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Stopwatch
Use the Stopwatch app right from your Apple
Watch in order to time a series of events

Time anything immediately You’ll use it to…

The main focus of the Stopwatch app is obviously to let you time
Accurately time a single event
an event with great accuracy the moment it starts. Whether you Tap the green icon to start timing instantly

need to monitor the progress of cars, people or anything else, you Time multiple laps with ease
Tap the white icon to time a lap at any time
can open the app in seconds and then tap one icon to begin the
Quickly analyse the results
timing process. You will see the progress on the analogue clock and View a graph detailing each individual lap

throughout every part of the process, the screen remains obvious Dealing with new
timed events
from the clear markings to the coloured hands. Simply tap the ‘Reset’ option to start over

Even better, you can then tap the white icon to start timing a lap
and when you tap it again, it will immediately jump back to zero
and start timing the next lap. This app is a near-perfect example of
complexity made simple within the smallest of available screens
because it truly is a joy to use.

Analyse your timings

While you are timing each
lap, the software will work in
the background to capture
everything that is happening.
You can also force tap the
main screen to be taken to a
menu where you can choose
the ‘Hybrid’ view. Once
selected, it will show you in
real-time the main timing
at the top and the laps on a
clever graph. You will see each
lap detailed and you can then
Fig 1 (above) There are a variety of useful
use the same process to jump views included

to the ‘Graph’ view for more

detailed analysis. It’s a highly
Fig 2 (left) The Stopwatch app mimics the
accurate way to measure time. real thing very well

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Timer
Time anything in an instant right from your wrist

In the background
You’ll use it to… The Timer app is not designed to be used for long periods of time,
but rather to let you perform a task while getting on with other
Create a perfect meal
any time things you need to do. You can open Timer by simply saying ‘Hey
Make sure your food is cooked to perfection
Siri’ followed by ‘Timer’, then choose the duration, start it and exit
Time your daily exercises
You can time workouts to stay super fit from the app. At this point it will run in the background and you can
Do something else continue with something else.
while timing
Set a timer and do something else until The fact that the interface offers visual and textual indicators
it taps
means that you will immediately understand what it does and how
Focus on what needs doing
Spend exact time periods revising or to use it, and no doubt it’ll be an app you use often in the future.
working away

Use the crown

The Timer interface is obvious in the way it looks, but it is also one
of the standard apps that relies heavily on the Digital Crown. As you
move the crown backwards and forwards, you can set the timer
duration, which can be a
little fiddly, and once you are
finished you can then tap the
Start icon to set it running.
To move between the
hour and minute durations,
simply tap each and then
your movement of the
Digital Crown will adjust each
accordingly. If you need to
stop it at any moment, just
tap the Pause icon and then
Resume to continue it.
If you need to, at any point
Fig 1 (above) You can pause a current timer
at any moment you can tap the Reset indicator
to take the timer back to zero
ready for you to set a new one
Fig 2 (right) Use the Digital Crown to set the
timer duration at any time.
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World Clock
You needn’t rely on your own maths skills to find
out the time in other countries – simply head to the
World Clock app on your Apple Watch

You’ll use it to…

Make your own list
Check sunrise and
The World Clock app is very much a reactive experience, which is sunset times
Tap your home city to check the
designed for you to view and gain information from. You cannot suns movement

actually tweak the list of cities or do anything else on the Apple View useful time differences
Tap a listed city to see the time difference
Watch, but you can change things on your connected iPhone.
Check a variety of locations
Simply open the Clock app, tap the World Clock icon at the bottom Add new cities to your iPhone to track them

and then use the ‘+’ and ‘Edit’ icons at the top of the screen to add Check the visual indicators
See the location of each city on the map
and remove cities. These will immediately be displayed within the
World Clock app on your Apple Watch.

Understand the data

A quick glance at the main screens in World Clock will highlight
just how much information has been packed in to a small space.
For example, when you look
at the city list, you will see the
name of the city, the current
time, and indicator that shows
whether it is today, yesterday
or tomorrow and the time
difference against your home
city. On top of this, you can
see where it is on the globe
within the listing and also see
if it is daytime or night-time.
The amount of data included is
amazing, but it is still somehow
easy to read and never looks
Fig 1 (above) The information you need is
cluttered. We genuinely cannot included for each city

think of a more efficient way to

display so much data in such a
Fig 2 (left) The level of visual detail is
small space. astonishing in World Clock app

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 Built-in apps Siri

Siri
Siri is possibly the most important Watch feature

Stay natural
You’ll use it to… If we had to offer any advice regarding using Siri on an Apple Watch,
and also on an iPhone, it would be to not try too hard to make it
Open apps instantly
Say the name of an app to open it understand you. You can speak at a natural pace and you don’t
Ask for directions have to hide your accent because it is capable of understanding
Get directions by saying “Take me to...”
you almost all of the time, no matter how you speak. There is also
Ask any question
Ask any question you need an answer to no reason to move the Watch right next to your mouth to speak to
Translate your words it because the microphone is powerful enough to hear you, even
Quickly send text messages with your voice
when the Watch is a few feet away. The microphone and software
Start app-related tasks
Set timers, alarms and reminders work very well on the Apple Watch to offer a natural and easy-to-
use experience every single time.

Unbelievably accurate recognition

When Siri was first added to the
iPhone, it would be fair to
say that there were some
problems in regards
to recognition
and the way it
handled basic
questions,
but that has
changed
a lot over
time. Gradual
improvements
have meant
that for almost
all questions
Fig 1 (above) Jumping between apps is
made lightning quick thanks to Siri, with no you will receive
dragging or tapping necessary
the answers you need
Fig 2 (right) You may have to wait for a and even better, the voice
couple of seconds for Siri to come up with
an answer, but the process is very speedy recognition has become
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almost 100 per cent accurate. All of this is great, but on the Apple
Ask Siri a question
Watch, Siri’s voice recognition has reached new levels and users are
reporting that it works even better on the Watch than it does on an
iPhone, which is great news for Watch owners.
In our tests we tend to agree with this assessment because the
recognition is frighteningly consistent and accurate, and only in
very noisy conditions did we experience any problems. If you stick
with Siri, you should benefit even more as it learns your voice. We
can confidently say that it may become your dominant form of text
entry on both your iPhone and Apple Watch. 1 Whatever you need to know
Hold down the Digital Crown, ask
a question and Siri will answer.
How to invoke Siri
There are many different ways to
invoke Siri on your Apple Watch and
each one will be preferable depending
on what you are doing. You can hold
down the Digital Crown at any point
to immediately make the Siri screen
appear and all you then need to do is
2 Avoid using apps
start talking. Even better, lift your wrist Questions will save you from
and when the Watch face appears, say “Hey Siri…’ followed by having to open many apps.
a question or instruction. Finally, tapping the microphone in the
Messaging app will start the Siri dictation feature for you to send a
personal message to a friend. When you need Siri, there is always a
convenient way to access it.

Siri is necessary
If you try not to use Siri for a day, you will soon realise just how
useful it is and by extension how compromised the Apple Watch 3 When in a hurry
is without it. In theory you can get by without accessing it, but Checking details takes seconds
using the Siri option on a Watch.
Siri gives you access to information that is not otherwise available
because there is no browser on the Watch.

Siri is almost always faster than

any other feature, but using a
range of emojis can save you
even more time 4 Exceptional detail
Some answers include images to
add depth to the experience.

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It also lets you input text into a new message and speeds up the
opening of apps. Siri is not just there for convenience; it actually fills
some of the holes that would otherwise make the Apple Watch an
inconvenient product to use every day.

Make contact with Siri

Siri does not just answer questions and open apps on an Apple
Watch. It can actually perform many tasks that would otherwise
require the opening of apps and then many taps to navigate to the
exact function you need.
Fig 3 Siri won’t actually talk back to you as it
does on the iPhone, so you’ll have to keep The trick is to believe that Siri can do anything and to then ask
an eye on the screen for your answers
it to undertake tasks for you. If you say “Call...” followed by a name,
the Phone app will immediately open and make the call for you.
The same is true if you say “Send a message to...” at which point
you will be presented with the screen to either dictate a message
or use emojis your get your point across. The Apple Watch gives
us a glimpse of the future and one in which voice takes over from
tapping screens as the predominant way to interact with a portable

Say anything Useful media

You really can ask Siri Maps and images are
anything and expect often used in order
to receive a relevant to help offer more
answer. It works very insightful answers to
well now your questions

“Hey Siri”
Say “Hey Siri” when
the Watch is being
worn and it will
immediately be
waiting for you to
speak to it

Personal
messages
Siri is the only way on
the Apple Watch to
send personal text in
messages. It is very
accurate though

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Who needs apps?

In Messages, tap the
microphone to dictate a
message using the advanced
Siri voice recognition
computer. Apple has made great strides in voice recognition and
the Apple Watch is the perfect platform to make it feel more 1 Bypass apps
Say “Set a timer” and the screen
personal than ever. will show without pressing icons.

Siri is silent
One aspect of Siri that has greatly contributed to its success has
been the personal interaction that it offers, but on the Apple
Watch it is completely silent. When you ask a question or instruct it
to do something, you will never hear a reply, but on a Watch that
makes perfect sense. In public, you are likely to want to make any
interaction with your Watch as quick and silent as possible and so
2 Reminders are included
you will not want it to speak back to you. Battery considerations are You can create Reminders even if
likely a part of this decision too, but no matter what the reason, to the app isn’t on the Watch
us it does make sense that Siri, and by extension the Watch for most
purposes, remains silent.

Get timely answers

3 Go anywhere
Siri interacts with the Maps app
on your iPhone and Apple Watch.

1 Ask a current question 2 Receive your answer 4 Open any app

Even if an event has just happened, Siri is smart enough to bring you the Say the name of an app and it will
you can still ask Siri about it. latest, most relevant results. open in an instant on the Watch.

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 Built-in apps Digital Touch

Digital Touch
Messages just became personal on the
Apple Watch

You’ll use it to… A brave new world

The ability to send your heartbeat to someone is revolutionary in
Send a quick sketch
Draw a personal image and send it to many ways, and not just because of the clever technology involved.
a friend
It has the potential to completely change the way we deal with
Share your heartbeat
A gesture lets you share your heartbeat others remotely, because it can say so much more than simple text
Are you there? alone. It may also allow us to express ourselves in more intimate
Tap on the screen to alert a contact
ways with friends and lose the inhibitions that are present in
Received with feeling
Feel the incoming messages traditional communication methods like emails and text messaging.
What seems like a novelty today could in fact herald the start of
a whole new way of communicating with friends and loved ones,
and this is just the start.

Dealing with
contacts
Selecting and
managing contacts
to use Digital
Touch actions with
can be slightly
bewildering at
first, because the
process works
very differently
to how you
manage contacts
on an iPhone. For
example, if you
add a new contact
to your favourites
Fig 1 (above) A sketch or a heartbeat could
on the iPhone, they may
be hiding behind the red circle
only be allowed to be set as
Fig 2 (right) Say it all with a simple sketch FaceTime contacts if no phone
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number is included in the contact

Send and receive taps
listing. This is not a bug, but a curiosity
in how iOS works, and so you may
be wondering how to add all of your
closest friends for quick digital touching.
The most efficient way is to head to
the Apple Watch app on your iPhone
and select ‘Friends’ from the list. This
will show the favourites on your iPhone,
and consequently the ones who are shown in your Friends list on 1 Choose a contact
Select a contact in the Friends
the Watch. However, if you amend this list in the app, no changes wheel and look for the hand icon.
will be made to your favourites on the iPhone, which is actually an
advantage. You can add any contact you like, and if they also have
an Apple Watch associated with their account, you will see the third
icon, which allows you to send sketches to them.

Knock knock
You may be wondering what the real benefits of the tap feature
are. Think of a tap as a way of getting someone’s attention without
2 Time to tap
other people knowing. For example, you can quietly send someone When you tap on the screen, you
a tap during a meeting, and no one else will be aware except the will see coloured circles.
person you are sending it to. It’s similar to a knowing nod or an icy
stare, or whatever you want it to be. Ultimately, it is all about getting
someone’s attention and awaiting a response that is subtle, private
and very clever at the same time.

Know your limits

The Apple Watch is relatively small, so don’t expect to send
complicated drawings or lots of text through digital touch. There is 3 Receiving taps
simply no way around this limitation given the size of the screen, so You will see a red dot showing a
new alert. Scroll from the top.
you will need to limit your ambitions to ensure the message gets
over clearly. A simple heart or a couple of words will usually suffice.

Digital Touch works in a much

more efficient manner for
extra quick sending from the
Friends wheel 4 A visual feast
The taps will be displayed. You
will feel them at the same time.

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If you do need to send a longer message, the text message

facility is there for you to use alongside Siri. Sketching is an extra
feature that has a place, but be careful to only use it when the
message you want to send will be understood with a picture.

Multiple messages
It is likely that when someone sends you a
message via Digital Touch, more than one
could arrive at the same time. Whether
this is because they were not happy with
Fig 3 Taps will show up as solid rings
initially, then fade out and disintegrate after the sketch they drew or simply because
a couple of seconds
they are having fun taking advantages
of the various features, it can initially be
confusing. You will see a notification advising that the contact has
sent multiple messages, and if you tap the alert they will start to
play. You can then scroll through the messages by tapping the
top-right icon. This means that what was initially confusing actually

A perfect message
Nothing expresses your
love better than sending
your actual heartbeat to
a friend or relative

A helping hand
You need to see the
third ‘hand’ icon when
selecting a contact to
send digital touches
Tap tap tap
Tap on your screen, and
the recipient will feel
the exact same pattern Simple sketches
on their wrist Simple sketches work
well on the Apple
Watch. Small hand-
drawn images are
the best option

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Send a quick sketch

Tap the top-right circle to
bring up the colour palette
and to select one for your taps
and sketches
becomes a very efficient method of dealing with multiple messages
in quick succession. 1 A blank screen
When you tap the hand icon, you
The real beauty of Digital Touch is that messages are ‘of the will see a blank screen.
moment’, and take no time at all to view and understand. The more
you send, the more you receive and you will likely find that you are
receiving fewer text messages as a result.

Watch only
At this time, the digital touch features are confined to just Apple
Watches, and will not work with iPhones. This is understandable
given the screen technology used on the phones, but the animated
2 Digital drawing
emojis will still be displayed in all their glory when sent to an iPhone. Draw something simple. It will
Potentially, we could be able to force-touch via iPhone and send send automatically.
sketches the way we can now on the Watch. This will likely open up
many new avenues for communicating in a more personal way.

From the heart

3 Don’t overdo it
If you try to add too much to the
sketch, it will be hard to read.

1 Two fingers 2 See and feel 4 Receiving sketches

Rest two fingers on the screen to send The incoming heartbeats pulse to Sketches will be drawn exactly as
a heartbeat. show the heartbeat of the sender. they were by the sender.

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 The next step Third-party applications

Third-party
applications
Discover some of the best additional Apple Watch
apps available from the App Store
Fig 1, Instagram Browse your feed

Instagram As one of the fastest growing social networks on the planet,

Instagram made sure to have an Apple Watch app ready at launch. Now
you can check your Feed and Activity instantly. See page 102.

BBC News Providing convenient notifications when there’s a breaking

news story, the BBC News app ensures that you can stay informed of
current events at all hours of the day.

Twitter This app feels right at home on the Apple Watch, and allows
you to view recent tweets, as well as check out the hottest trending
topics in your network right now. See page 104.
Fig 2, Twitter Glance the latest trends
Amazon If you thought that shopping on Amazon couldn’t get any
easier, then think again. The Amazon Apple Watch app uses voice
dictation to search and buy products, or add them to your Wish List.

Skype Now you can keep up with your Skype notifications all the time,
thanks to the service’s Apple Watch app. While you can’t make calls yet,
it helps you keep on top your messages. See page 106.

ESPN American sports fans take note: the ESPN app for Apple Watch is
the quickest way to keep track of how your favourite NFL, NBA and MLB
teams are getting on.

Slack The work messaging service has its very own Apple Watch app,
Fig 3, Skype Don’t miss out on messages
allowing you to keep up with conversations across various projects
thanks to subtle notifications. See page 108.

Nike+ Running For running fanatics, the Nike+ app has long been a
must-have, and its Apple Watch sibling adds a wealth of new data to
your records, keeping you more motivated than ever before.

Evernote The wildly popular note-taking app is now on Apple Watch,

allowing you to dictate notes, check off tasks and search for keywords
with just a few taps and your voice. See page 110.

Uber Calling an Uber taxi is already a slick and simple process, and the
Uber app for Apple Watch makes it even more so. Users can now get
Fig 4, Evernote Take notes on the go driver details and arrival times sent straight to their Watch.

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 Third-party applications The next step

Wunderlist Comprehensive and brilliantly designed, the Wunderlist

app for Apple Watch is a fantastic tool for people looking to get things
done, or simply for noting down your shopping list. See page 112.

Shazam If anything, Shazam seems more at home on the Apple Watch

than anywhere else. The music recognition service is ideally suited to
quick bursts of use, and having it on your wrist helps significantly.

Just A Score A new app that lets you score anything – yes, anything –
Just A Score is a fun and addictive social network that’s right at home on
the Apple Watch. Follow your friends and start scoring! See page 114. Fig 5, Wunderlist Keep on top of tasks

Rules! One of the few games that really translates well on the Apple
Watch, Rules! provides short, sharp daily workouts for your brain, with a
bright and intuitive interface that makes the most of the small screen.

Peak Designed to help improve memory, focus, problem solving ability

and much more besides, Peak provides a variety of miniature games
and tasks that feel right at home on the Apple Watch. See page 116.

Strava The go-to fitness app for cyclists, Strava has now added Apple
Watch support to its service. Providing real-time statistics on everything
from elevation to average speed, it’s a must for cycling enthusiasts.
Fig 6, Just A Score Score whatever you like
Onefootball When it comes to checking your favourite team’s result, or
getting live score updates straight to your wrist, Onefootball provides
the Apple Watch’s best solution. See page 118.

Babbel Learning a language probably isn’t something you associate

with the Apple Watch, but that’s exactly what the Babbel app brings to
the device. It works surprisingly well, too.

Citymapper If you’re living in a city that supports it then Citymapper is

an essential addition to your Apple Watch arsenal, getting you from A to
B via public transport with minimal fuss. See page 120.

The Guardian The award-winning newspaper made its Apple Watch

Fig 7, Onefootball Get the latest scores
app available on day one, and it does a great job of condensing stories
on to the small screen. You can save articles to read later as well.

Flipboard The personal magazine service is a brilliant addition to

the Apple Watch, allowing you to browse a feed of your favourite
publications and share articles with just a tap. See page 122.

TripAdvisor Having access to over 150 million reviews on your wrist

sounds too good to be true, but it’s exactly what TripAdvisor provides,
for everything from hotels, to restaurants, to local attractions.

National Rail Enquiries A sleek but incredibly useful bit of software,

the National Rail app for Apple Watch is an essential tool for anyone
who frequently travels by train. See page 124. Fig 8, Citymapper Navigate in style

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 The next step Download apps

Download apps
There are thousands of apps available, so go ahead and personalise your Watch

The Apple Watch is new, but that has not stopped developers jumping on board and creating a huge
variety of apps that you can use on your new wrist-worn baby. From apps that show you the weather in
detail to those that can be used for entertainment, there is a large selection to choose from, and Apple
has done a lot of work to ensure that the discovery process is as easy as can be. The most efficient way
to download new apps is via your iPhone, but it is possible to do so on a Mac or Windows PC if that is
your preferred method, and we will try to cover all of the possibilities that are available to you. An Apple
Watch is extremely powerful out of the box, but when you add some clever apps to the mix it becomes
even more useful. No Apple device is as good as it can possibly be without apps.

Curated
categories
Apple has spent
a lot of time
ensuring that the
most popular app
categories are
available up front Quality
throughout
Many of the Apple
Watch apps have
been carefully
created to offer
the best possible
user experience

A quick
search
You can search for
apps using this
icon and you may
be surprised at the
In the app variety available
In your Apple
Watch app on your
iPhone, simply
tap Explore to see
the apps that are
available to use

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Download a new app

Choose an app to install A new listed Watch app The app is now installing

01 Search for an app in the Explore

section of the Apple Watch
iPhone app and when you have found
02 Scroll down the screen until
you reach the list of third-party
apps. The one you downloaded
03 Tap the app listing to view
more information. You will see
‘Installing...’ below the top option and
one, all you need to do is press on the should be included in alphabetical if you decide that you no longer want
price/Get icon to install it. Once the order. By default the Apple Watch the app, just tap the green icon to stop
installation process has finished, you section of the app will begin installing the installation. The presumption is
will need to tap the My Watch icon to it without you needing to tap that you will want to install new apps
proceed with synchronising. anything or change any settings. on your iPhone and Apple Watch.

“An Apple Watch

is extremely
powerful out
of the box, but
when you add
some clever
apps to the mix
Time to enjoy the app Download apps on a PC it becomes even
04 You will see the app displayed
in the home screen on your 05 You can also download apps
from iTunes on a Mac or
more useful. No
Apple Watch ready to use. There will
be a slight delay when third-party
PC – once they have been manually
transferred to the iPhone, they will
Apple device is as
apps load, but the experience that
most of them offer will make the wait
be displayed in the Apple Watch
app ready for the final installation.
good as it can be
worthwhile. Feel free to experiment
with new apps at any time.
Downloading new apps to the iPhone
is, however, much more convenient.
without apps”
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Instagram
Keep up to date with friends’ Instagram feeds

It’s all about sharing

You’ll use it to… Instagram built its name on two things: filters and social
networking. It’s the latter on which the Watch app is focused, since
View photos
You can view photos posted by friends taking photos and applying photos to them is beyond the Apple
Like photos Watch’s capabilities. When you launch the app, you have only two
Tap a button to ‘like’ a photo in your feed
choices: you can view your feed – a stream of photos shared by
Read comments
Read comments made by others on your friends – or check ‘activity.’
your photos
The Activity stream shows you who has followed you recently,
Receive notifications
Be notified when a friend likes or comments who has ‘liked’ your photos, and who has commented on them. It
on something
also allows you to read comments. When you choose to view your
Send replies
Send an emoji to a friend when they post feed, you’ll see a list of thumbnail photos posted by your friends.
a photo
Below each photo is a button for
View profiles
View the profile of one of your friends liking and one for getting
more details.
Tap on the ‘More
Details’ button, and
you are taken to
the Details screen,
which shows you
how many likes
and comments
the photo has, and
allows you to view
the profile of the
friend who posted
it. You can also
post your own
comment in the
form of an emoji.
Fig 1 (above) View photos posted
by friends

Get notified
The Watch does notifications
Fig 2 (right) Follow activity on your
friends’ feeds better than any other device.
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Whether its a ping or just a subtle

Comment on a photo
vibration, you can hear or feel it
and quickly turn your wrist to find
out what you’re being alerted to.
It’s much easier and quicker than
fishing a phone out of your pocket.
The Instagram app can alert
you whenever a friend or follower
posts a new photo. To set it up,
you need to open Instagram 1 Launch Instagram
On your Watch, tap the Instagram
on the iPhone paired with your app icon to launch the app.
Watch. You then scroll through your feed until you find an image
posted by someone from who you want notifications. Tap on their
name to go to their profile page, then tap the three dots next to
their name at the top of the screen, and from the menu choose
Turn on Post Notifications. You’ll now be notified when they post
an image.

Instagram Glances 2 View your Feed

Glances are one of the best features of the Watch, allowing you to Tap the Feed button to display
quickly see snippets of information from an app. In Instagram’s case, photos in your Instagram feed.
when you swipe up from a Watch face and then swipe along to the
Instagram Glance, you’ll see the three most recent photos in your
feed. The most recent one is large (relatively), while the other two
are next to it and smaller. If you tap on the screen, you’ll be taken to
the full Instagram app.
To enable Glances in Instagram, open the Watch app on your
iPhone, tap My Watch, then Instagram, and set the Show in Glances
slider to the on position. 3 Find a photo
It’s useful if all you want to do is have a quick look at the most Swipe up to scroll through photos
in your feed. Tap one you want.
recent photo in your feed, but for anything else, you’ll need to open
the app.

You can’t post images of your

own or remotely control your
iPhone’s camera. This is purely
a social networking app 4 Comment on the photo
Tap Comment, Quick Reply, then
choose an emoji and tap Post.

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Twitter
The Twitter app allows you to quickly see tweets

Composing Tweets
You’ll use it to… Like every app on the Watch, Twitter is limited in several ways, not
least because there’s no way to type a tweet. You can, however,
View your timeline
You can read the most recent tweets in tweet by dictating what you want to say, checking that it’s correct
your timeline
when it’s displayed on-screen, then tweeting it. You can’t, however,
Look at trends
The app lists the current top Twitter trends tweet images or links. And there’s no character count, meaning that
Compose tweets there’s no way of telling if your tweet is too long. If it is too long, it
Tweet from the Watch by dictating
won’t be tweeted.
Retweet others
Retweet others’ tweets at the tap of However, you can choose whether or not to tweet your location.
a button
And you can tweet emojis as well as dictate text to be tweeted.
Favourite tweets
Tap the star to favourite others’ tweets

Reply to tweets Monitoring trends

Press reply to respond to tweets
Trending topics, identified
by hashtags, are a key part
of the Twittersphere,
and are increasingly
used by all sorts
of organisations
to identify who
and what is being
talked about
most on Twitter.
Companies
use them for
marketing
campaigns, and
political parties use
them to monitor
how effective
Fig 1 (above) You can view the most recent
tweets in your timeline specific messages and
slogans are.
They’re such a key part
Fig 2 (right) View the top trends on
your Watch of Twitter that, even though
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the Twitter Watch app is very limited, trends have been included as
Reply to a tweet
a feature. When you launch the Twitter Watch app, there are only
two options: your timeline, and top trends. Tap on the latter, and
you’ll see a list of tweets featuring the hashtags of the current most
important trends.

Responding to tweets
There are three ways you can
respond to a tweet. You can reply,
retweet, or favourite the tweet. 1 Open Twitter
Tap the Twitter app and then
All these actions are available in Timeline to see recent tweets.
the Twitter app for the Watch.
When you tap on a tweet to read
it, you’ll see the text and image
included in the tweet, as well as
the text of an link in the tweet. You
can’t click on the link, because the
Watch doesn’t have a browser. Beneath the body of the tweet are
the familiar three buttons; there’s the arrow turning back on itself 2 Read tweets
signifying a reply; the arrows rotating, signifying a retweet, and the Find a tweet by swiping upwards
star for favouriting tweets. on the screen until you see it.

Configuring Glances
Glances are the snippets of information from an app that are
displayed when you swipe upwards over a Watch face. You have
two choices for Glances in the Twitter app: Top Trend or Recent
Tweet. To configure the one you want, go to the Apple Watch
app on your iPhone, then My Watch, and Glances. Tap the ‘+’ next
to Twitter under Do Not Include to add it to the list of included 3 Tap the button to reply
Glances. Then go back to My Watch, scroll down to Twitter and tap To reply to a Tweet, tap the left-
most button underneath it.
on it. Tap to the right of Glance Type, and choose between Top
Trend and Recent Tweet.

The Twitter app only shows

a few of your most recent
tweets. To see more, scroll to
the bottom and tap More 4 Comment on the photo
Tap Comment, then Quick Reply.
Choose an emoji and tap Post.

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Skype
Read and reply to messages with Skype for Watch

No voice calls
You’ll use it to… Having redesigned the iOS Skype app last year, and despite having
wearable computing ambitions of its own, it’s great that Microsoft
Read new messages
Skype immediately shows unread messages has made many of its apps available on the Apple Watch.
when it launches
Sadly, like every other Watch app, Skype is hampered by the
See your favourite contacts
Contacts marked as Favourites are listed on current limitations on Watch developers, including the need to run
the Apple Watch app
everything on the iPhone. For Skype, that means that while you
View contact history
You can see recent conversations with can read and reply to messages from contacts, you can only do so
contacts in the app
by sending a pre-formatted written reply, an emoji, or text that you
Send a text reply
Dictate a reply to messages from contacts dictate to the Watch. You can’t have voice conversations, and, as the
Send an emoji reply Watch doesn’t have a camera, video calls are out too.
For a quick reply, send an emoji
The lack of voice calls is a particular disappointment, though
Send a pre-written message
The third option is to send a pre-written may actually be an Apple limitation rather than a decision on
message to your contacts
Microsoft’s part. With no sign of
the walkie-talkie feature for
the iPhone, the phone’s
app remains the only
way to have voice
conversations still.

It’s good for

notifications
If you use
Skype a lot, you
probably spend
a great deal of
time fishing
your iPhone
out of a bag
Fig 1 (above) Scroll through and message or pocket to find
your favourite contacts
out what the message
you’ve just been alerted
Fig 2 (right) See unread messages simply
by opening the app to says.
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As is the case with other apps, the Skype Watch app makes
Message in Skype
checking and responding to notifications much quicker and easier
than it is on any other platform.
Also, because alerts on the Watch vibrate as well as play a sound,
you’re unlikely to miss that important Skype message. Notifications
can be switched on or off in the My Watch>Notifications section of
the Apple Watch app, by scrolling down to Skype and setting the
switch as appropriate.
Sadly, there are no Glances options for Skype. So you can’t,
for example, swipe upwards from a Watch face to see the latest 1 Launch the app
Tap the Skype app. If you have
message you received, or any unread messages. To do that, you unread messages, they’ll show.
have to open the app itself.

The contacts list

The contacts list in Skype is at the
heart of the app. Whether you
want to send a message, talk, or
make a video call, you’re starting
point will usually be the contacts 2 Choose a contact to message
list. In the Watch app, there’s no Tap Favourites to see a list of the
contacts list as such. The only contacts you can message.
contacts you’ll see in the app are
those you’ve marked as Favourites
in the iPhone app. These aren’t
necessarily the same contacts you’ve marked as Favourites on the
Mac or Windows app; it’s the iPhone app that counts.
So, to be able to view a contact on the Watch app, you need
to open Skype on the iPhone paired with your Watch, tap the
Favourites menu at the top of the screen, then tap Add Favourites at 3 Send an emoji message
the bottom-left of the screen. You can now scroll through the list of Tap the emoji symbol and choose
an emoji to send in a message.
contacts and tap the circle next to the ones you want to Favourite.
These will then show up in the Watch app.

When you tap a favourite, it

should show the last message
you sent or received, but it’s
not always up to date 4 Or dictate a reply
Choose a pre-written reply or tap
the microphone to dictate one.

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Slack
The collaborative business tool is now on the Watch

It’s pretty basic

You’ll use it to… Like most other Apple Watch apps, the fact that you need to
use it in conjunction with its iPhone counterpart means that this
View tagged messages
You can see any messages in your network app is a simple one. Perhaps in the future Apple will give you the
which include you as an ‘@’
opportunity to run a standalone app, but for now the Watch relies
View direct messages
Read all the messages you’ve received on the iPhone’s equivalent to work.
Swap networks Frustratingly, Slack doesn’t allow you to follow the stream of a
If you use Slack with more than one group,
you can switch between them running conversation, restricting you to those comments which
Send a pre-written reply specifically tag you. It’s intended as a way of alerting you when
Reply to a direct message with a
pre-written response your attention may be required, rather than as a way of letting you
Send an emoji reply contribute to full flowing discussions. That’s a sensible decision,
Reply to a direct message with an emoji
given that alerts and snippets of key information are where the
Dictate a reply
Speak a reply to a direct message Apple Watch really excels.
Trawling through a long
discussion to see if there’s
anything you need to
respond to would
be completely
impractical on
the Watch’s
small screen
– given that
you can’t
type replies,
it wouldn’t
serve any real
purpose in
any case.

Fig 1 (above) You can also seen messages

in which you’ve been tagged Keep up with
multiple teams
While there are many
Fig 2 (right) Slack allows you to see and
reply to direct messages limitations on the Slack
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Watch app, it does support the multiple teams feature. When you
Reply to a message
launch the app, it displays the team you’re currently logged into on
your iPhone by default. This is arguably one of the best features of
the Slack app for the Apple Watch. For example, if you’re a freelance
consultant, you can have different teams for each client. If you
Force Touch the screen, and you have other teams set up on your
account, you can easily log out of that team and into another one.
Unfortunately, another great feature of Slack, the ability to run
multiple ‘channels’ or conversations simultaneously hasn’t made
it to the Watch. Instead, every comment in which your tagged is 1 Launch Slack
Tap the Slack icon to launch the
displayed in one stream. Any comments in which you’re not tagged app and see your team details.
don’t appear at all.

Room for improvement

Technology limitations notwithstanding,
there are areas where the Slack Watch
app could be improved. When you
launch the app, you’re shown the first
screen for the team that you’re logged
2 View direct messages
into. Here it tells you how many people Tap the speech bubble to go to
are in the team and how many of them the screen listing your messages.
are online, but there’s no way to find
out which team members are online,
or even see the names of your fellow team members. It would be a
welcome inclusion to be able to tap on the screen in order to find
out who these team members are, with a list of team members,
plus a small icon to indicate whether they’re online.
It would also be good to be able to see not just unread messages
that mention you, but all your recent mentions. This would be a 3 Read the direct message
particularly useful refresher for conversations before, for example, Tap the message to read it, and
scroll to the bottom of the screen.
going to a real-life meeting. Nevertheless, the Slack Watch app
shows plenty of promise and is useful if you’re a regular Slacker.

To create a new direct

message, just tap a team
member’s name in the
Direct Message screen 4 Reply to the message
Tap Reply and pick from emoji,
dictation, or a pre-written reply.

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Evernote
Evernote is a Watch version of the hugely popular
note-taking app

You’ll use it to… Get reminders

The Evernote Watch app allows you to create notes with alarms to
View recent notes
Evernote displays your most recently remind you to do something. When you create a new note, you
viewed notes
tap the alarm clock item at the bottom of the screen to create a
Search for notes using Siri
You can search for notes in any notebook reminder, which gives you five time options: this afternoon, this
Dictate new notes to Evernote evening, tomorrow, next week, and next month. Tap the one you
Create new notes by dictating to Siri
want and then save the note.
Check off completed tasks
Tasks in notes can be checked off from
the app
Check off tasks
Set a reminder
Add alarms to notes using Siri Evernote allows you to create a variety of different note types.
Do a voice search One of those is a list of tasks. When you create the note, say on a
Voice-search the notes on your Watch
Mac or PC, each item on the list has
a check box next to it, and
when you complete the
task, you click the box
to check it off.
You can check
the tasks off
on the Watch
app too. In
this case, tasks
in the note
are listed on
screen in their
own box. To
check off a
task, simply
tap it, and it
Fig 1 (above) You can add new notes too,
thanks to Siri will be marked
as completed
when Evernote syncs
Fig 2 (right) Evernote displays a list of your
most recently viewed notes between your devices.
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Dictate notes Set a reminder note

Voice recognition is a crucial part
of the Watch’s user interface. It has
no keyboard, meaning there’s no
other way of inputting text. There
are two ways to create a new note
in the Evernote Watch app. You
either open the app and tap the ‘+’
symbol at the top of the screen, or
1 Launch Evernote
open the app and force-touch the Tap the Evernote app on your
screen, then press the ‘+’ symbol. Watch’s app screen to launch it.
This duplication is one of the areas where the app could have been
better executed. For example, instead of offering the same options,
a force touch would skip straight to creating a new note.
Once you’ve pressed the ‘+’, you will see the familiar dictation
screen with its coloured sound waves at the bottom, at which point
you can start speaking. Press Done when you’re finished.

Search for notes 2 Create a new note

Press the magnifying glass symbol, either from the Evernote app Tap the ‘+’. Dictate the note and
wait for the text to appear.
main screen or by force-touching then tapping the magnifying
glass. When you do that, you’ll see a list of keywords on the screen.
These keywords are taken from the recently viewed apps held in the
Evernote Watch app. If you see one that relates to the note you’re
looking for, tap it to go to the note. If not, tap the microphone at the
bottom of the screen to go to the voice-search screen.
Here, you will see the standard Watch dictation screen with
coloured soundwaves at the bottom. Speak your specific search
term, and then press Done. Sadly, it can occur that while the term 3 Save the note
If the text is correct, tap Done. Tap
is recognised and printed correctly on screen, and despite the fact the alarm clock.
that there are notes on the Watch with the term, the search turns up
no results.

Evernote is limited to
displaying and searching only
a few of your most recent
notes, but it can be useful 4 Choose a time
Tap one of the options on screen
to choose a time, then tap Save.

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Wunderlist
Wunderlist allows you to quickly see tasks in each of
your lists

You’ll use it to… The main screen

The main screen on Wunderlist looks very different to most other
Read your inbox
View all the tasks in your Wunderlist inbox apps. While most apps have options arranged vertically, on top
See today’s tasks of the other, Wunderlist displays four sections in a 2x2 grid. It’s an
View all the tasks due to be done today
effective use of the Watch’s square screen.
Assign your priorities
View all the tasks you’ve set as a priority In the centre of the screen is the profile picture for the
Review assigned tasks account user. This will be whichever user is logged in to Wunderlist
Look at all the tasks assigned to you
by others on the iPhone paired with your Watch. There’s no option to
View all your lists log out of that account or into another one, either on the
Scroll down to see all the lists you created
in Wunderlist Watch itself or in the Wunderlist section of the Watch app
Check off tasks on the iPhone.
Tap a task to put a tick in its check box
The icons on the main screen
represent your inbox, today’s
tasks, the tasks you’ve
starred as priorities,
and tasks that have
been assigned
to you by others,
if you use
Wunderlist as part
of a team.

Task lists
The Wunderlist
iOS and Mac
apps allow you
to create different
lists for projects or
Fig 1 (above) Tap the calendar to see
today’s tasks parts of your life that
you want to
keep separate. When
Fig 2 (right) Choose which section you
want to view by tapping it you create a task, you assign
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it to a list, and you can then see all the tasks in a list by tapping on
Check off a task
the list. Like everything else in Wunderlist, when you’re logged in,
lists are synchronised immediately on all the devices on which you
have the app installed, including the Watch. If you swipe upwards
on the main screen to scroll down, you will see all the lists you
have created in the iOS or OS X version. Tap a list to see the notes
allocated to it.
You can’t create lists on the Watch version, so you’re limited
to viewing them. If you want to create a new list, you’ll need to
1 Launch Wunderlist
do it on another device, such as the iPhone paired with your Watch.
On the apps screen on your
Watch, tap the Wunderlist icon.
Viewing tasks
To view a task, either tap on
one of the four sections on the
main part of the screen (inbox,
today, starred, and those assigned
to you) or scroll down and find
the list to which you’ve
allocated the task. Tap on the 2 Open Today list
list, and you will see the tasks There are four icons. Tap the one
on it listed on the screen. Swipe at the top right with a date on it.
upwards to scroll down to the
one you want to view. Each task is displayed as a snippet of the
task headline. Also displayed are a check box and, underneath the
snippet, the due date for the task. There’s no way to read notes
associated with the task, nor can you create new tasks or search
for tasks using dictation or voice search, unlike in Evernote, which
allows you to do both.
For the moment, the Wunderlist Watch app represents a useful 3 Find the task
Swipe upwards to scroll through
way of checking which of your tasks are due and marking them off
the list of tasks you have.
when you’ve completed them, but nothing more. Here’s hoping
that more features are added in the future.

Wunderlist displays a graphic

animation of a beach when
there are no tasks in a list. It’s a
4 Check off the task
fun idea When you’ve found a task, tap the
check box to tick it.

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 Third-party apps Just A Score

Just A Score
Rate and share absolutely everything with this
addictive new app

You’ll use it to… Rate anything

We have looked at hundreds of the third-party apps that are
Leave a rating
Use the bar to customise your overall score available for the Apple Watch, but we have to say that Just A Score
See what’s currently trending is truly unique in what it does. In essence, the app enables you rate
Check the Trending page to see what’s
popular at the moment anything – and we mean absolutely anything – on a scale of one
Share your scores to ten. When you first open the app, you’re greeted with just two
Send your scores to Facebook or Twitter
minimal icons that will guide you to different sections. The bottom
Take a closer look
Press on any image to take a closer look icon represents the Trending section of the app, but we will cover
Make edits to scores this in greater detail later in this tutorial.
Adjust your scores whenever you need to
The part you will want to initially access is the Activity section
See who else is rating
Check the Activity page to see who else is that’s represented at the top of the app. When you first open
rating stuff
this section, it might be empty and you will need to use the
accompanying Just A Score iPhone
app to follow your friends and
family. Once this is done,
you’ll find that the
Activity section is
packed with the
ratings of anyone
you follow and
that by selecting
one of the
listings, you’ll
be able to see
how your score
compares
to theirs.

Fig 1 (above) See what the trending topics

are at the moment Leave
your scores
Fig 2 (right) Submit your score for Now that you have found
absolutely anything
all your Just A Score friends,
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it’s time to go ahead and start rating stuff. Use the Activity section
Leave your score
to find things that you can rate by selecting one from the list. A
new screen will appear with a simple toolbar where you can set the
score you want to give that product, company or person. Trust us
when we say it’s as easy as that.
Whenever you leave a score, you will be shown a confirmation
screen, before being taken back to the Activity menu. What you
should now find, however, is that your rating for the item will be
added to the top-right of the listing. It’s an easy way to monitor the
items that you’ve already reviewed, as well as those you haven’t 1 Open Trending section
Select Trending from the main
rated yet. By subsequently opening up the accompanying iPhone screen of the Just A Score app.
app, you can go ahead and share a score.

What’s on trend?
The second area of the Just A Score
Apple Watch app that you will want to
visit is the Trending section. Although
you will find it nearly identical to the
Activity section in terms of its design,
2 Take a closer look
its actual function is different. Through Choose an item to rate and tap
this menu you’ll be able to see the most the image to open it in full-screen.
popular things that have been rated by
other users of the app. The most popular item will be listed at the
top of the app and the less popular items will be nearer the bottom.
These entries update daily, however, so make sure you check back
regularly to see what’s popular.
Similarly to in the Activity section, you can select any one of these
listings and leave your own rating, if you so wish. What makes this
even cooler, is that you may find that your rating could potentially 3 Add your score
move that item up the list. So if you like rating things, and also want Use the bar to increase or
decrease the score shown above.
a new way to keep in contact with friends and family, Just A Score is
perfect for you.

If you change your mind

about a rating, you can revisit
the item page and adjust your
score accordingly 4 Submit the score
Tap on Submit Score to see a
confirmation of your rating.

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Peak
Keep your brain in tiptop shape at all times by
playing stimulating games

You’ll use it to… Peak performance

How do you occupy yourself on your daily commute, or when
Select your game
Choose from one of three built-in games you’ve got 10 minutes to spare? Thanks to the power of our iPhones,
Keep your brain ticking we have plenty of choices whenever this sort of situation arises,
Take on these daily tasks every single day
but you can now get some nifty apps on your Apple Watch that
Accumulate points
Keep chains going to get additional points can also help not only to pass some time, but also to help improve
Share your scores your mind. Peak is a brain-training app that wants you to switch on
Challenge your friends and see who wins
and focus on the various tasks it throws at you. While its main core
Beat high scores
Try to beat your own high scores is the games it offers, what’s more important is that you access the
Play new games app on a daily basis. Playing the games daily can help stimulate
The Peak team will be adding new games
your brain more, to keep you thinking, and you should notice
the improvements in how you can respond to thinking on the
spot as well. Peak is unlike any
other app that’s currently
on the App Store, but
that’s certainly not a
bad thing.

Choice of
games
When you first
open up the
Peak app, you
will be greeted
by a choice
of three very
distinctive
games, with
Fig 1 (above) Count the dots in the fast and
furious Dot Rush game each one aimed
at helping improve
Fig 2 (right) Choose from three different aspects of your brain, such
games to train your brain
as your memory and reaction
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times. Rush Back is the first game you will encounter and it looks
Master Dot Rush
to help improve your memory. Shapes will appear in front of you
to remember, with the next slide showing you a different shape.
You then need to decide whether it’s the same shape as the one
shown before. Sounds simple enough, right? Well, not exactly. The
response time you’re given is very limited and the game certainly
keeps you on your toes.
Similar to Rush Back is the second game, Combiblox. While the
first game shows you shapes, Combiblox asks you to remember
combinations of blocks that appear. It’s noticeably harder than Rush 1 Select the game
In Peak, swipe to the left twice to
Back, but again, it’s all aimed at keeping your brain ticking. reach the Dot Rush game.
The final game of the trio is Dot Rush, which is arguably our
favourite. Your display will fill up with various dots and it’s up to you
to decide whether the screen before had less or more dots on it.
You’ll score more points if you get the correct answer constantly,
thanks to the addition of racking up combination bonuses, so it’s
well worth taking your time with it.

Share your scores 2 Count those dots

Let’s face it, some of us are highly The initial screen shows a number
competitive and fortunately the team of dots that you need to count.
at Peak has taken that on board. No
matter which of the games you play,
you’re always playing to beat your high
score that’s shown at the end of each
level. Where the competitive edge
comes in from this is that users can then
share these scores with their friends and other Apple Watch users,
challenging them to try to do better. If someone does manage to 3 More or less?
beat your score, you will receive a notification letting you know, and A new screen of dots appears,
asking if there are less or more.
then it’s up to you to try to better their effort. This back and forth
ensures you’ll always have a reason to use Peak.

Some games have rounds to

them that you must finish in
one sitting to get your score
at the end 4 Beat your score
At the end, you get a score. Use
the Replay button to start again.

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Onefootball
Get live scores and track your favourite team
wherever you are

You’ll use it to… Follow your team

Apart from sitting next to the radio, or repeatedly refreshing a sports
Add your favourites
Use the iPhone app to add your favourite news webpage, true football fans don’t have many options when it
team to follow
comes to tracking live scores when they’re out and about. Thanks
Get live match information
See up-to-date scores as the matches to the Onefootball iOS app, users now have an easily accessible
take place
way of keeping up to date with last-minute goals no matter where
Get essential cup updates
Check for goals in live cup ties they are. However, the team over at Onefootball have managed to
Receive goal alerts take it one step further with the launch of their Apple Watch app,
Get a buzz every time your team scores
available for free from the App Store. Once you have inputted all
Take a detailed look
Each match report covers goals the necessary data into the iOS version of the app, you’ll find all the
and incidents
added details ready on your Apple Watch – including all the details
Set a schedule
Plan ahead to get reminders of of your favourite team.
upcoming games
Through the Watch app
you will be able to take a
look at any upcoming
fixtures your side
has, as well as a
quick overview of
recent results. If
you then want to
be even closer to
the action, make
sure to delve into
the app’s settings
and toggle the
alerts option to
on. Now every
time your team
Fig 1 (above) Track live updates from
leagues and competitions scores a goal, or
if they unfortunately
Fig 2 (right) See the latest scores from concede, you’ll be given a
around the world
quick vibration by the Watch
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to let you know. You’ll also receive notifications whenever a match

Track world leagues
reaches half and full time.

Widen your search

Now that you have set up the app to track your favourite teams,
it’s time to widen your search a little further. Use the iPhone app to
enter the details of your favourite leagues from around the world.
What we liked about this feature is that there’s even support for
some of the major cups, too. So, for all you Champions League
lovers, this is the tracking app for you. Once you’ve selected the 1 Add competitions
Competitions selected on iPhone
leagues and cups you want to track, you’ll find that a new menu will sync to your Apple Watch.
appears on your Apple Watch. Here you will be able to see the
fixture list for said league or cup tournament, as well as when each
of these games will be played. You can then input these dates
and times into the Calendar app to make sure you never miss any
round of fixtures.

Get extra information

Although getting a rundown of the
2 Score overview
latest scores is great, most of you will After selecting a league, you’ll find
be expecting something a bit extra a results list from recent fixtures.
to really make the Onefootball app an
essential download. Luckily, the team
at Onefootball have done exactly
that, providing users with even more
information in the match reports that
are available through the Apple Watch. You can see the line-ups
for each team, as well details of goals and cards issued during the
game. For those who like the little extras, each goal and card is listed 3 Take a closer look
next to the exact time it happened within the match. Obviously you For a closer look at a match, select
it from the overview screen.
can get more detail by quickly checking your iPhone, but the Apple
Watch rundown will be enough for most people.

Set a reminder on your

iPhone, so that you’ll receive
a notification whenever your
favourite team plays 4 Goal information
Scroll down to see when a goal
was scored, or incident occurred.

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 Third-party apps Citymapper

Citymapper
Get from A to B quickly and easily with the help of
the Citymapper app

You’ll use it to… Set up routes

When the concept of getting turn-by-turn directions on the iPhone
Plan trips in your city
Enter details of where you want to travel to was first released, it caused quite a stir. The technology behind it
Save your favourites was very complicated at the time, but gradually it’s become easier
Make a list of your favourite journeys
and vastly more sophisticated. So sophisticated, in fact, that it’s
Find public transport
Discover the nearest train or bus station now possible to get turn-by-turn notifications through the Apple
Manage all disruptions Watch. One of the few apps that offers this functionality for Apple
Get live updates on roadworks
and accidents Watch is Citymapper. Through the app, users are able to set up
Keep track of notifications journeys within some of the world’s biggest cities. It’s important
Keep track of any updates on your journey
to note that not every city is currently supported, but updates are
Step-by-step directions
Receive a vibration for each new step being added regularly. When
configuring a journey, users
have plenty of options
at their disposal. For
example, if you want
your route to go
past a specific
landmark, or
perhaps you
want to miss a
notoriously busy
road, Citymapper
can take care of
that for you.
It’s then a
case of pressing
the Start button
and following the
Fig 1 (above) See the next trains to arrive at
selected stations steps provided. What
we liked most about
Fig 2 (right) Get live travel information in this feature is that if you
your area
miss a turning, your Watch will
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buzz you and ask you to make a U-turn, which turns out to be a
Set up directions
surprisingly helpful tool.

Manage disruptions
Although this is all great news, what isn’t so great is that you’ll
often run into disruptions while travelling. Whether it’s roadworks,
accidents or delays, there’s usually always something that will block
your path. The app, however, has a cunning way to avoid this
problem. Any time Citymapper has picked up a new disruption,
your Apple Watch will instantly alert you of it through a series of 1 Enable GPS
When you first open the app,
short vibrations on your wrist. Not only this, you’ll be then presented enable the GPS option.
with an alternate route that Citymapper suggests that you take,
although expect it to take you a little longer to get to your desired
destination. If you then want to take a closer look at the disruption
you were diverted from, open up the Glances menu on your Apple
Watch and you can get all the extra details you need, including if
this disruption has now been cleared.

Share your journeys 2 Find a location

If you’ve found a particularly clever Use the Go menu to do a manual
route that you’re proud of, why not search for the destination.
share it your friends? The Apple Watch
app contains a handy sharing function,
which enables you to quickly share the
details of any journeys with anyone
stored within the Friends section of
the Watch. Even if they don’t have the
Citymapper app installed, they’ll be able to get all the information
they need, without needing to download the app to take a closer 3 Let’s go
look. To take it one step further, if you sync the journey to the Tap the Let’s Go option to start
receiving directions on the Watch.
Citymapper iPhone app, the details can then be uploaded to either
your Facebook or Twitter account for others to view.

Citymapper works when

navigating the London
Underground. You can get live
updates for any station 4 Manage directions
Your Watch will buzz when you
need to follow a new step.

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 Third-party apps Flipboard

Flipboard
Collate your very own personalised news magazine
on your Apple Watch

You’ll use it to… Create your news list

Flipboard has long been one of the premier apps when it comes
Add news sources
Choose from hundreds of different to reading the news on your iPhone. Users of the app are able to
news outlets
read and enjoy headlines from around the world with ease, but
Read your stories
Use the Digital Crown to scroll what’s even better is that this is now available for Apple Watch. To
through stories
get the full suite of Flipboard features onto your Apple Watch, you
Receive automatic updates
Get notified when something new is added will first need to go through and select the news feeds you want
Send stories to friends to track. There are hundreds of magazines and websites that can
Share your favourite articles easily
be added here. Whenever you add a new outlet to your feed, it’ll
Increase size of text
Make the font larger and easier to read automatically be synced across to your Apple Watch, but make sure
Add to reading list to check regularly in case one of your outlets didn’t sync properly
Create a list of stories to read at a later date
– it can happen occasionally. Once you have added all your outlets,
you’ll have your very own news
magazine ready to explore
on your wrist, and one that
doesn’t require you to
keep your iPhone to
hand at all times.

Start reading
When you next
open up the
Flipboard app
on your Apple
Watch, you will
be presented
with the latest
headlines from
Fig 1 (above) Send longer stories to your
iPhone to read on it your selected news
outlets. Each story will
Fig 2 (right) Read the latest headlines on have an accompanying
your wrist
lead image for you to enjoy as
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well. Scroll down and you will be able to start reading the selected
Send news to iPhone
story; however, note that for a longer piece, you’ll be prompted to
continue reading it on the iPhone.
What you should find is that the Flipboard app will continually
update itself in the background whenever you’re not using it.
Ultimately this means that whenever you open the app on your
Apple Watch, you should find new stories waiting for you to take
a closer look at. As an added bonus, you can also dismiss certain
stories on the Flipboard iPhone app, which stops them from then
appearing on the Apple Watch – a surprisingly handy feature to 1 Choose a story
Scroll through the stories till you
have available to you. find one of interest to you.

Sync with iPhone

If you’ve gone through all the latest
headlines, you will want to explore
some of the added features within
the Flipboard Apple Watch app. Force
Touch on the display while you read
a story and a new menu will appear.
2 Flip the article
From this menu you’ll want to first select Force Touch the screen and select
the Flip to Magazine option. This will the ‘Flip to magazine’ option.
sync that story to your iPhone, where you’ll be able to read it at a
later date. Using this same method, you can also send the story to
your Read tab, so that the story dismisses itself from your iPhone.
The other option at your disposal here is Send to Friends. As its
name suggests, this option will enable you to send the entire story
to anyone you follows through the Flipboard app. If that user is
another Apple Watch owner, they will then receive a notification
directly to their Watch, letting them know that a new Flipboard 3 Select Read Later
story is ready for them to inspect. It’s well worth playing around On the new menu that appears,
choose the Read Later option.
with the Flipboard app, as there are numerous added extras that
you should really check out.

New articles are added

constantly, so we highly
recommend you frequently
open the app to check 4 Get confirmation
If sent, the article will now be
marked as Flipped into Read.

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 Third-party apps National Rail Enquiries

National Rail
Enquiries
Manage your train journeys around the UK using
You’ll use it to… your Apple Watch
Save well-travelled routes
Keep a log of the routes that you
commonly use
Live information
Sync with iPhone
Link your National Rail accounts together There are hundreds of travel apps to help you get from point A to
Find station information B solely using your Apple Watch. While most of them offer limited
Check opening hours of ticket offices
information on the Watch’s tiny display, the National Rail Enquiries
Track your recent journeys
Store the details of your most recent trips app takes things in an entirely different direction. No matter what
Get extra information destination you’re travelling to, the app will provide up-to-the-
Take a look at platform information
minute information about any train that’s departing from stations
Monitor live departures
See the daily departures from a station around the UK. You can see the exact time the train is expected to
arrive at your designated station, as well as how many carriages are
being used and, most importantly,
if there’s a catering trolley on
board. Once you become
more familiar with the
National Rail app,
or perhaps have
a journey you
regularly make,
you can add that
specified journey
to your favourites
list. The app will
then provide you
with updates
whenever there
are any major
Fig 1 (above) Keep a log of your most
travelled routes announcements
regarding your preferred
Fig 2 (right) Check out your recent journeys journey. You can also view
from within the app
your recent journeys.
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Create a journey log

Station details
If you rely heavily on trains to get around, chances are you’ll have
come across stations of all different sizes. While this may seem
an unimportant point, any well-travelled railway user will know
that levels of facilities vary wildly from one station to the next.
Fortunately, the National Rail Enquiries app has you covered. By
using the app’s search system, you can see an overview of any
station in the UK. While the data shown isn’t comprehensive, it’s just
enough for you to be able to see what basic facilities will be offered 1 Add details
Input favourite journeys in the
at your destination. Another bonus of this feature is the inclusion iPhone app and they’ll sync.
of contact details for each station – perfect if you have accidentally
misplaced something and left it on the train. No matter what station
information you need, the Apple Watch app will provide it for you.

Set up notifications
If you have chosen to use the favourites
feature, you should also set up the
National Rail Enquiries app’s notification
2 Refresh the app
service. Head to the Apple Watch app When you add a new journey,
on iPhone, find the National Rail listing refresh so it shows up in the app.
and toggle the Notification Indicator
option on. With this enabled, you will
find live journey information sent to you
as soon as it happens. So, if there are any delays on the route you
plan to travel on, you’ll get all the necessary information you need
to act accordingly. Similarly, you’ll receive notifications alerting you
of electrical faults in stations that you might be attempting to reach.
However, with notifications enabled, you can find that your Watch is 3 Head to Recents
vibrating a lot more than usual, so use the Apple Watch app to limit Now head to the home screen
and select Recents.
the number you receive. Once all of this has been correctly set up,
you’ll have the help of a powerful navigation tool on your wrist.

Regularly check the National

Rail Enquiries app as departure
times can frequently change
without notice 4 Collate list
Add the details of all your most
recently taken journeys.

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 Reference Glossary

Glossary
Learn the jargon and get to know your Apple Watch
that much better

Accelerometer On the back of the Apple Watch are a range of sensors which
help to expand on certain features. One of these is the accelerometer, a
Use Glances to get live updates any time from
your Apple Watch apps useful tool that helps track your movement while wearing the Apple Watch –
especially handy when using the Activity and Workout apps.

App Launcher You’ll find that the app launcher on the Apple Watch will
be your central hub for getting around the device. Whenever a new app is
installed onto it, you’ll find that a new round icon will be added to one of the
corners of the honeycomb-style app launcher.

Bluetooth No matter whether it’s installing apps, adding a new pair

of headphones or syncing with your iPhone, the Bluetooth function is
arguably the most important aspect of the Apple Watch. It acts as a wireless
connection between the two devices, keeping everything running smoothly
when the devices are near one another.
Enable Power Reserve mode to get more from
your Watch’s battery
Camera Remote One of the exclusive apps on the Apple Watch is Camera
Remote. Through this app, users are able to take a peek at their viewfinder
within the iPhone Camera app. It’s then possible to take a few snaps through
the app’s built-in shutter control and Burst Mode feature.

Digital Crown Above the power button on the Apple Watch sits the
Digital Crown. While you’ll most commonly use it to access the device’s app
launcher, it doubles up as a great tool for scrolling through long passages of
text on the small display. New uses for the Digital Crown will be added in
future updates.

Digital Touch The Digital Touch feature for Apple Watch gives you unique
New icons will be added to your app launcher ways to stay in contact with friends and family who also own an Apple Watch.
when you install them Through Digital Touch you can send a sketch, write a message, tap others on
their wrist, or even send your current heartbeat to them – as long as they’re
wearing their Apple Watch.

Do Not Disturb You’ll receive plenty of notifications through your Apple

Watch, so if you want a temporary hiatus from them, enable the Do Not
Disturb mode. This feature will mute all incoming calls, messages and
notifications from appearing on your Apple Watch until you opt to deactivate
it at a later point.

Force Touch Force Touch is the equivalent of a long press on your iPhone
screen. When you perform a Force Touch on the Apple Watch display, you’ll
Mute incoming calls by enabling Do Not
find that you get a small vibration to let you know it registered. Doing this in
Disturb mode some apps will open up extra and hidden features.

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Friends A single press on the power button will reveal the Friends app. Here
you’ll be able to store the details of your most commonly used contacts. The
app also offers quick links to the messaging and phone functions of your
Apple Watch so you can quickly make contact with friends when needed.

Gestures Gestures explain some of the additional controls you can undertake
when wearing your Apple Watch. For example, one particular gesture
requires you to slowly move your hand over the screen to turn it both off and
on. There are several optional and additional gestures that you can enable
through the Apple Watch iPhone app.
Haptics involve the level of vibrations you receive,
Glances If you’re out and about, the Glances menu should be your first and can be tweaked to your liking
port of call for a rundown on any updates from your apps. You can scroll
through your Glances to see things like live weather updates, the latest stock
information, or to enable some of the Watch’s core settings.

Haptic Haptic describes the vibrations you receive while wearing the Apple
Watch. While its main use will be to alert you to when a new notification is
available to you, it has also been used within a variety of first- and third-party
apps. You can set the Haptics vibration level within the Settings app.

Heart Rate Monitor If you’ve bought the Apple Watch as a fitness tool, then
you’ll find the Heart Rate Monitor highly useful. Thanks to this feature, you’re
able to track your daily heart rate, no matter if you’re working out or asleep. All
this information on your heart can be used within Apple’s Research Kit. Simply say “Hey Siri” to start a voice search on
Apple Watch

Notifications We’re all used to iPhone notifications, but the way they
function on your Apple Watch is a little different. Notifications will provide
you with live updates from particular apps, or if something requires you to
authorise something. Apps like Twitter use notifications to alert you to when
someone’s contacted you.

Passcode The Passcode is a number-based security system for the Apple

Watch. On initial setup, you’ll be presented with the Passcode screen, where
you can assign a code that is required to be entered to unlock the Apple
Watch. This code can be changed, or added at a later date, however.

Power Reserve Whenever you’re running low on battery, the Power Reserve Add an extra layer of security to your Watch by
mode will help drain every last bit of power. To do this, it disables a lot of the setting a Passcode

Apple Watch’s core features and instead leaves you with a digital timepiece.
Open the Glances menu on the Apple Watch to enable Power Reserve mode.

Siri Siri is Apple’s own personal assistant that is built into every iPhone and
Apple Watch. After enabling the feature within the Settings app, you can
perform searches for things on your Apple Watch by saying the phrase “Hey
Siri” into your Watch. It’s a great way of automating and streamlining certain
tasks on your Watch.

Watch OS Watch OS is Apple’s dedicated operating system that has been

specifically built for the Apple Watch, and is ultimately responsible for
everything on your new smartwatch. Its current version is Watch OS 1.0, but Use the heart rate monitor in conjunction with
there are a couple of updates expected to hit by the end of the year. the Activity app

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