05/29/2015
Cool things you can do with an apple watch! ...
You probably haven’t had a ton of time with your Apple Watch, but even if you have, there are some features you might not know about yet.1. Ask Siri to fetch pictures of anything you can think of.Pull up Siri, and say “Show me pictures of puppies” or whatever else you’re looking for, and she’ll pull up some quick results from Bing.2. If you’ve misplaced your phone, you can send a ping from your Apple Watch so your phone makes a loud sound.Just swipe up on the watch display, and find the control panel screen all the way to the left of your “Glances” screens. Tapping the big button on the bottom will make your phone ping, and holding that button will make your phone both ping and light up.3. You can clear all the notifications at once by pushing down hard on the notifications screen.The little red dot on your watch face screen indicates that you have missed notifications. If you swipe down and see that you’ve got more notifications than you can handle, you can push down hard to pull up the option to clear all your notifications at once.4. You can quickly put your Apple Watch to sleep and send it back to the watch face screen by covering the screen with your palm for a moment.5. And if you hold your palm over the screen for several seconds, it will put your Apple Watch into silent mode.Just hold your palm over the screen until you feel your watch buzz. Now your Apple Watch won’t make any sounds when it sends you notifications.6. Enable Handoff to make transitioning from your watch to your phone seamless.Enable Handoff in the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. When you’re doing something on your Apple Watch, and decide it’d be easier on your phone, you’ll see a small icon on the lower left of your lock screen on your phone. Swipe up from that icon, and you’ll pick up right where you left off7. You can take screenshots of your Apple Watch display by pressing down on the digital crown and other button at the same time.8. You can access Siri just by saying “Hey Siri” or “Hi Siri” into your Apple Watch.It also sometimes triggers Siri on other Apple Watches nearby too, so be careful. (Or not.)9. You can change the default quick responses using the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.Just open the Apple Watch app, choose “Messages,” and click “Default Replies” to edit or add messages.10. You can send your current location to someone by pressing down hard on the messages screen, and selecting “Send Location.”11. If you like the look of an analog watch face, but want to see …