By Elisabeth Garry
Did you know you can set an Apple Watch alarm to silently wake you via gentle vibrations on your wrist? Making your Apple Watch alarm vibrate instead of waking you with a loud alarm tone is quick and easy, and reduces disturbances to others around you. We'll show you how to set a silent Apple Watch alarm.
By Rhett Intriago
Every Apple Watch has a heart rate monitor built-in. Whether you want to see your heart rate during workouts or have a heart condition and would like to receive alerts when your heartbeat is irregular, this is an incredibly useful feature. Siri can even show you the most up-to-date information on your heart rate if you simply ask! In this article, we’ll go over how to use Siri to view the heart rate monitor on your Apple Watch.
By Rhett Intriago
Using the Maps app on your Apple Watch is surprisingly simple and not that different from navigating on your iPhone. The app interfaces are almost exactly the same on both devices, other than the smaller interface on the watch, which makes getting directions on your Apple Watch incredibly easy.
By Leanne Hays
How do you check Apple Watch battery levels? Here's the easiest way to check your Apple Watch battery percentage, find out how much battery life your Apple Watch has left, and know if you need to charge your Apple Watch.
By Rhett Intriago
The Apple Watch is a versatile device, allowing you to quickly check notifications, respond to messages, or track your workout progress. Depending on the features you use and how frequently you use it, your Apple Watch battery can last all day or it might be depleted rather quickly. So, how long does charging the Apple Watch take? We'll cover this and explain some of the factors that might be affecting your battery life.
By Conner Carey
Here's how to unpair your old Apple Watch and factory reset it so that you can pair your new Apple Watch to your iPhone. Don't worry; all your data will transfer to your new Apple Watch!
By Rhett Intriago
The Apple Watch, being a fitness-focused device, allows you to set your weight and log workouts, which means you can set goals for yourself. As you work out more, your weight might change, so knowing how to change weight on Apple Watch is an excellent skill to have.
By Rhett Intriago
The Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie feature can help you stay in contact with friends or find someone in a crowded area. However, if your Apple Watch Walkie-Talkie isn't working, you'll have difficulty reaching your companions! We've compiled a list of common solutions to help if the Walkie-Talkie app stops functioning properly or if you're having trouble with set up.
By Rhett Intriago
Heart rate recovery refers to the period of time after a workout when your heart rate returns to its average resting rate. During exercise, your heart tends to beat much faster, and when you’re finished, it can take a minute or two for it to lower and return to a normal rate. A faster return to your normal heart rate is one indicator of physical fitness, and a decrease in recovery time over a period of time can indicate an improvement in physical fitness. Because the Apple Watch has a built-in heart rate sensor, it can track this statistic during your workouts and display the information in an easy-to-understand graph. You can access this data through the Heart Rate on your Watch or the Fitness app on your iPhone.
By Rhett Intriago
Assistive Touch on Apple Watch is an innovative feature to help make the device more accessible for those who have difficulty using the touch screen. However, anyone can make use of this gesture-based feature. Read on to learn how to use Assistive Touch on your Apple Watch.
By Leanne Hays
Have you ever needed to add an event to your Calendar app but didn't have your iPhone handy? You can use your Apple Watch to add a Calendar event before you forget. Here's how to create and add events in the Apple Watch Calendar app with watchOS 9; it's quick and easy!
By Rhett Intriago
Customizing and making fun, new watch faces is one of the best parts of owning an Apple Watch, but when you have a bunch of different watch faces, things can get cluttered pretty quickly. That’s why we’re going to show you how to change your Apple Watch face order and remove watch faces you don’t use anymore.
By Leanne Hays
The latest Apple Watch update brings exciting new features to your watch and helps improve existing software and fix known bugs. If you've been wondering how to update your Apple Watch, we’ll cover which Apple Watches are compatible with watchOS 9 and how to get the watchOS 9 download so you can take advantage of the new Apple Watch update!
By Leanne Hays
It's easy to unpair an Apple Watch from an iPhone, but what if your iPhone is broken or missing? Here's how to unpair an Apple Watch without an iPhone, so you can pair it to your new iPhone.
By Rhett Intriago
The Walkie-Talkie app on your Apple Watch can be a fun way to chat with loved ones or as a practical feature to quickly send messages back and forth. (I highly recommend using the Walkie-Talkie app whenever you're trying to find someone in a crowd.) Whatever your purpose for using this app, we'll cover how to set up Walkie-Talkie on your Apple Watch.
If you’re an avid golfer, having the best iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch golf apps can improve your game experience and performance. Our favorite golf apps help you find nearby ranges, track your score, and offer everything from golf tips to full-on golf lessons (say hello to that perfect putt!). Here's our roundup of the best golf apps.
By Hallei Halter
Here's how to turn on and use raise to talk, or Raise to Speak, for Siri voice commands on your Apple Watch. What does Raise to Speak mean on Apple Watch? The Siri Raise to Speak feature lets you give voice commands to your Apple Watch, just like Siri for iPhone!
By Conner Carey
While the Apple Watch keeps getting bigger and bigger (see the new Apple Watch Ultra), the tiny keyboard may feel a bit unruly and difficult to maneuver, especially if you have clumsy fingers like me. Instead, you can send Apple Watch messages with Scribble. The Scribble feature allows you to use your finger to write each individual letter of your response. It’s easy, but best for shorter messages. You wouldn’t want to write a novel with Scribble messages on an Apple Watch, but you might use it to say, “OK,” or “omw” (on my way). Here’s how to type on your Apple Watch with Scribble.
By Rhett Intriago
One of the Apple Watch’s many workout features is that it will notify you at every mile interval you reach while on a walk or a run. This can be annoying as you might be expecting a notification from another app, but it’s just the Workout app letting you know you’ve reached a mile. So how do you stop Apple Watch notifications during a workout? We’ll go over the best ways to prevent alerts while working out.
Previously, if your Apple Watch firmware ever became corrupted, restoring an Apple Watch from a backup used to require a visit to the Apple store. The new software updates make it possible to restore Apple Watch firmware directly from an iPhone! We’ll teach you when to restore your Apple Watch and how to do it from your iPhone!
We've been busy at iPhone Life creating new guides and updating our existing ones. With all the ongoing changes to the latest iPhone operating system, we've been updating our guides with fresh steps, videos, and screenshots! The Messages Apps is integral to iPhone users, and the Guide updates is available to help you stay in touch with loved ones like never before. This updated in-depth guide is available exclusively to iPhone Life Subscribers later this month.
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