Apple Watch For Dummies 5th Edition

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

How to Use This Book 2

Foolish Assumptions 3

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond This Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part 1: Getting to Know Apple Watch 5

Chapter 1: Watch This: Introducing Apple Watch 7

Exploring the Apple Watch Collections 8

Figuring Out What Apple Watch Can Do 11

Watch faces 11

Timers and alarms 11

Caller ID or even calls 12

Walkie-Talkie 12

Health and wellness 12

Emergency SOS 12

Text messages and instant messages 13

Email 13

Wrist-to-wrist communication 13

Dock 13

Calendars 15

Maps 15

Siri 15

Fitness 15

Music connectivity and more 17

Apple Pay 17

Other apps 17

Other functions 17

Bonus tips 17

Determining What You Need for Your Apple Watch 18

Getting to Know Apple Watch’s Home Screen 19

Learning about Apple Watch’s Parts 23

Watch face 23

Digital Crown button 23

Side button 24

Back sensors/charger 24

Watch band 25

Using Apple Watch’s Touchscreen 25

Understanding Apple Watch’s Wireless Functions and Internal Sensors 27

Bluetooth 5.0 27

Wi-Fi 27

Cellular 28

NFC 28

GPS 28

Ultra Wideband (Apple Watch Series 7 only) 29

Accelerometer, gyroscope, barometric altimeter, and compass 29

Heart-rate sensor 30

Electrocardiogram 30

Blood-oxygen monitor (pulse oximeter) 30

Ambient light sensor 31

Tapping with Apple Watch’s Haptic Feedback 31

Chapter 2: Time Out: Setting Up Your Apple Watch 33

Setting Up Apple Watch 34

Pairing Apple Watch with the iPhone 34

Choosing a passcode for Apple Watch 39

Setting up cellular connectivity on Apple Watch 40

Family Setup: Setting up Apple Watch for family members 43

Enabling Schooltime on a family member’s Apple Watch 45

Monitoring the Apple Watch battery 46

Understanding the Home Screen 50

Maintaining Your Apple Watch 52

Avoiding water (original Apple Watch) 53

Avoiding extreme temps 53

Doubting its durability 54

Considering a bumper 54

Using Apple Watch responsibly 54

Taking Advantage of Accessibility Features 57

Chapter 3: Control Freak: Mastering Apple Watch’s Interface and Apps 61

Handling Apple Watch’s Controls 62

Tap 62

Double-tap 63

Press (Force Touch) 63

Two-finger press (time or heartbeat) 64

Swipe 64

Sketch 65

Type 65

Digital Crown button 65

Side/power button 67

Going Hands-Free with Siri 68

Vibrating Along with Apple Watch’s Tactile Feedback 69

Using Control Center, Dock, and Notifications 69

Control Center 70

Dock 71

Notifications 72

Looking at Apple Watch’s Built-In Apps 73

Phone 74

Messages 74

Mail 75

Memoji 75

Calendar 76

Alarm 76

Stopwatch 76

Timer 76

World Clock 76

Siri 77

Weather 77

Stocks 78

Activity 78

Workout 78

Maps 78

Photos 80

Camera Remote 80

Music 80

Remote 80

Wallet and Apple Pay 81

Mindfulness 81

Sleep 82

Walkie-Talkie 82

Heart Rate 83

ECG 83

Blood Oxygen 83

Find People 83

Find Devices 83

Podcasts 84

Audiobooks .84

App Store 85

Noise 86

Cycle Tracking 86

Home 87

Calculator 87

Voice Memos 87

Settings 87

Compass 89

Shortcut .89

Apple News 89

Contacts 89

Part 2: Just the Tasks, Ma’am! 91

Chapter 4: It’s About Time: Setting Watch Faces, Alarms, Timers, and More 93

Looking At the Built-In Watch Faces 94

Activity (analog and digital) 94

Artist 95

Astronomy 96

Breathe 96

California 98

Chronograph and Chronograph Pro 98

Color 99

Contour 100

Count Up 101

Explorer 101

Fire and Water 103

GMT 104

Gradient 105

Infograph, Infograph Modular 106

Kaleidoscope 107

Liquid Metal 108

Memoji 109

Meridian 109

Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse 110

Modular/Modular Compact/Modular Duo 111

Motion 112

Numerals, Numerals Duo/Numerals Mono 113

Photos 115

Portraits 115

Pride Analog, Pride Digital, Pride Woven 116

Simple 117

Siri 118

Solar Dial and Solar Graph 119

Stripes 120

TimeLapse .121

Toy Story 122

Typograph 122

Unity 123

Utility 123

Vapor 124

World Time 125

X-Large 126

Choosing Among the Various Watch Faces 127

Differentiating Between Customizations and Complications 130

Customizations 130

Complications 130

Adding Complications 132

Accessing Time on Apple Watch 133

Accessing World Time 135

Taking Control: Alarms, Stopwatches, and Timers, Oh My! 136

Alarms 137

Stopwatches 137

Timers 140

Shortcuts 142

Chapter 5: Keep in Touch: Using Apple Watch for Calls, Texts, and More 145

Accepting and Placing a Call on Apple Watch 146

Incoming calls 146

Outgoing calls 148

Outgoing calls with FaceTime audio 151

Handing Off a Call to Your iPhone or via Bluetooth 152

Making Apple Watch Calls over Wi-Fi 153

Receiving and Sending Messages 155

Receiving and responding to messages 155

Sending a message 163

Creating custom replies 166

Sharing your location from Apple Watch 166

Sending Taps, Kisses, Heartbeats, and More 168

Tap 168

Heartbeat 170

A few more Digital Touch options 171

Enabling and Using the Walkie-Talkie Feature 171

Adding and removing Walkie-Talkie friends 172

Having a Walkie-Talkie conversation 173

Sending, Receiving, and Managing Emails on Apple Watch 174

Reading and acting on an email 175

Replying to an email 175

Composing an email 177

Chapter 6: In the Know: Staying Informed with Apple Watch 181

Accessing Real-Time Weather, UV Index, and Wind Speed 182

Following Stock Information and Much More 187

Using Dock on Apple Watch 190

Launching Dock and more 190

Customizing Dock 191

Mastering Notifications on Apple Watch 191

Seeing how notifications work 192

Accessing the notification settings 193

Viewing notifications 194

Changing how you get notifications on your Apple Watch 195

Accessing Your Calendar on Apple Watch 196

Navigating the Calendar app 196

Responding to a calendar/appointment request 198

Accepting a calendar request through notifications 200

Setting Reminders on Apple Watch 201

Accessing Apple Watch’s Integrated Calculator 202

Creating and Listening to Voice Memos 203

Navigating the Maps App 205

Drop, move, and remove map pins 209

Getting Directions on Apple Maps 210

Using the Compass 211

Using the Find People App 214

Adding a friend to the Find People app 214

Finding out where your friends are 215

Notifying a friend of your departure or arrival 216

Getting a notification about a friend’s location 216

Locating Your Stuff with the Find Items App 217

Seeing the location of an item 218

Marking an AirTag as lost 219

Making an AirTag play a sound 220

Getting directions to an item 220

Receiving a notification when you’ve left an item behind 220

Finding misplaced devices via the Find Devices app 221

Part 3: It’s All in the Wrist 225

Chapter 7: Siri Supersized: Gaining the Most from Your Personal Assistant 227

Setting Up Siri on Your Apple Watch 228

Selecting a language 229

Ready to rock?: Connecting and talking to Siri on iPhone 231

Talking to Siri on Apple Watch 232

What Are Siri Shortcuts? 233

Using the Siri watch face and Siri Shortcuts 234

Using Siri effectively on Apple Watch 235

Trying Other Tasks with Siri 243

Setting reminders by location 243

Reading your texts 243

Calculating numbers 244

Finding your friends 244

Extending the Fun (and Silly) Ways to Interact with Siri 245

Say “What’s the best smartwatch?” 245

Say “I love you, Siri.” 245

Say “Siri, I’m bored.” 245

Say “Who’s your daddy?” 245

Say “What’s the meaning of life?” 246

Say “Will you marry me?” 246

Chapter 8: Apple Watch As Your Workout Buddy and Digital Doctor 247

Tracking Your Fitness with Apple Watch 248

Getting Up and Running with the Activity App 249

Move 252

Exercise 254

Stand 255

Understanding the Workout App 256

Personalizing Reminders, Feedback, and Achievements 263

Reminders 263

Summary 264

Achievements 264

Using the Fitness App on Your iPhone 266

Checking Activity Trends 268

Using (and Loving) the Mindfulness App 269

Starting a Mindfulness session: Breathe 269

Using the Apple Watch app on iPhone to make Mindfulness changes 270

Starting a Mindfulness session: Reflect 270

Adjusting Mindfulness settings 272

Cycle Tracking 274

Hearing Health: Using the Noise App 276

Advanced Health Help: Heart-Rate, ECG, and Blood Oxygen Monitoring 277

How the heart-rate sensor works 278

How the ECG monitor works 279

Blood-oxygen monitor 280

Enabling handwashing detection 284

Advanced Health Help: Medical ID, Fall Detection, and SOS Calling 285

Setting up or editing your Medical ID information 286

Checking your heart rate 288

Receiving heart-rate notifications 289

Turning on Fall Detection 290

What to do after a fall 290

Using Emergency SOS 291

Tracking Your Sleep with Apple Watch 292

Setting up sleep tracking 294

Setting the wake-up alarm 294

Changing your sleep schedule and options 295

Viewing your sleep history 296

Reviewing your sleeping respiratory rate 297

Using Apple Fitness+ on Apple Watch 297

Chapter 9: Mucho Media: Managing Your Music, Movies, Apple TV, and More 301

Using Apple Watch to Control Songs Stored on an iPhone 302

Now Playing 304

Artists 305

Albums 305

Songs 305

Playlists 307

Having Siri Play Your Music 308

Pairing a Bluetooth Device with Apple Watch 309

Streaming Apple Music to Your Apple Watch 310

Syncing and Playing Music from Your Apple Watch 311

Removing Music from Your Apple Watch 313

Streaming Radio to Your Apple Watch 314

Sharing content from the Music app 316

Playing Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Radio Plays 317

Podcasts 317

Audiobooks .320

Radio plays 323

Controlling Apple TV and Apple Music (or iTunes) 324

Setting up Home Sharing 324

Controlling Apple TV remotely 325

Controlling iTunes remotely 326

Chapter 10: Making Mobile Payments with Apple Watch Controlling Your Smart Home 327

Apple Watch and Security 328

Setting Up Apple Pay on iPhone 329

Setting Up Apple Pay on Apple Watch 331

Using Apple Pay with Your Apple Watch 332

Paying without a Nearby iPhone 334

Looking at the Wallet App 335

Adding passes to Wallet 337

Using passes on Apple Watch, including the Car Key feature 338

Storing a digital Home key to Wallet 340

Adding COVID-19 vaccination proof in Apple Wallet 341

Seeing notifications for passes on Apple Watch 344

Using Apple Pay Cash on Apple Watch 344

Apple Pay Cash requirements 345

Setting up Apple Pay Cash in Wallet 345

Using Apple Watch to send cash to friends 346

Using Apple Watch for Other Deals and Rewards 348

Mastering the Home App to Monitor and Control Your Smart

Home 349

View your home status 350

Control smart home accessories and scenes 351

Part 4: More Apple Watch Tips and Tricks 353

Chapter 11: App It Up: Customizing Apple Watch with Awesome Apps and More 355

Downloading Apps for Apple Watch 356

From your iPhone 357

Directly to your Apple Watch 358

Deleting apps 360

Adjusting Settings in the Companion Apple Watch App on Your iPhone 361

Settings and personalization 361

General options 362

Accessibility options 364

Security options 365

First-party app options 366

Twenty Recommended Third-Party Apple Watch Apps 367

Chapter 12: Extra! Extra! Having Fun with Apple Watch 371

Copying Photos to Apple Watch 372

Launching Photos on Apple Watch 374

Choosing a Photo for Your Portraits Watch Face 376

Discovering the Camera App 378

Examining a Batch of Apple Watch Games 381

Lifeline 2 381

Trivia Crack 382

Pocket Bandit 382

Best Fiends 382

Snappy Word 382

Watch Quest! Heroes of Time 383

Spy Watch 383

Rules! 383

Wordie 384

Cosmos Rings 384

Part 5: The Part of Tens 385

Chapter 13: Ten Cool Things to Do with Your Apple Watch 387

Activity 387

Apple Pay 388

Hotel Key 389

Walkie-Talkie 389

Music Playback 390

Maps 391

Digital Touch 392

Siri 393

Gaming 395

Mute Alerts with Your Palm 395

Index 397

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