The Best Features to Make Your Apple Watch Faster in Your Daily Tasks
The portability of the Apple Watch is both a blessing and a curse. It’s a great little computer on your wrist, but at the same time, it sometimes takes too long to complete basic tasks like switching between applications. We’re going to show you some hidden Apple Watch tricks to help you speed up some of its standard features.
Find out the time quickly
Not everyone can use the Always-On Display feature on Apple Watch. Some have older Apple Watch models that don’t support it, while others disable Always-On Display to conserve battery power. If you’re among these people, you can slowly turn the digital crown on your Apple Watch to get the time, and turn it back to turn off the display.
This helps you quickly check the time without even twisting your wrist, and is also more efficient on battery power . This is because it wakes the display from sleep mode for a short time at a lower brightness level.
Fastest ways to change the watch face
If you have multiple watch faces, you can use two methods to quickly switch between them. The first is to swipe left or right on the current watch face, and Apple Watch will switch to a different watch face. You can change the order of these watch faces by opening the Watch app on your iPhone and clicking the Change button next to My Faces . This will open a new page with all of your watch faces, and you can drag the three-line icons (on the right) up or down to change the order.
The second way to change watch faces is to use the Apple Shortcuts app to automatically change the watch face of your Apple Watch at certain times of the day or when you’re in a certain location. For example, whenever you walk into a neighborhood park, your Apple Watch can automatically switch to a workout-focused watch face.
The best way to switch between two apps
If you accidentally tap a notification while using another app, it takes one tap to return to the previous app. You can speed up this process by double-tapping the digital crown on your Apple Watch. This action will always take you back to the last open application. The limitation here is that it can only switch between any two apps, so if you want to constantly move between more than two apps, you’re out of luck.
Open notifications and Control Center in other apps
When the watch face is open on Apple Watch, you can swipe up from the bottom to launch Control Center. Similarly, you can swipe down from the top to check your notifications. However, this set of gestures stops working when you open an app on your watch.
There is also a workaround for this problem. With the app open, press and hold the bottom of the screen to bring up the Control Center. Swipe up to open it, or touch and hold the top of the screen to bring up the Notification Center and swipe down to see all notifications.
Control your music while exercising
When you register any workout in the Workout app on Apple Watch, you can easily control your music without leaving the app. Swipe to the left of the workout data screen and you will see music playback controls. We found this method to be much less difficult to access during strenuous workouts than fiddling with a watch to find the Now Playing screen.
While you are doing this, consider changing the stats you see during your workout .
Close the Apple Watch screen to mute or reject calls
Your Apple Watch will hum or ring when you receive a phone call, and if you want to mute or reject the sound, you can use a couple of quick tricks. To mute the ringer, simply cover the Apple Watch screen with your palm for a second. The call will only end when the caller disconnects.
To reject an incoming call, you can close the Apple Watch screen for three seconds. You will feel a couple of strong vibrations and the call will be rejected. If this feature doesn’t work for you, open the Watch app on your iPhone and go to the Sounds & Tactile section . Make sure Cover to Mute is turned on.
Use Apple Watch to unlock iPhone
Apple Watch can also help you unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask . Once you turn this on, it will be difficult to go back to entering passwords to unlock your iPhone. The only annoyance is that if you use Face ID to unlock third-party apps like 1Password or Apollo for Reddit, your Apple Watch won’t be able to unlock them.
Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
You can also use your Apple Watch to unlock your Mac automatically . This feature saves a lot of time when working . (It tends to stop working periodically; when it does, it’s best to restart your Mac and Apple Watch.)
This feature also allows you to grant administrator rights to perform certain actions on a Mac, such as deleting files from system folders. Apps like 1Password on Mac can also be unlocked with Apple Watch instead of a long password.