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Apple Watch Basics: Getting Started - Basic Operations, Phone Calls, Messages and More!

Feb 27, 2020
Once you've set up your Apple Watch with your iPhone, you may be wondering where to start. Here are some of the

basic

s to get

started

with your Apple Watch. To turn off your Apple Watch, press and hold the site button for a few seconds until Options appear here. You can turn off your Apple Watch or call emergency services to turn it off. Just drag the slider and that will turn off your Apple Watch. To turn on your present Apple Watch, press and hold the site button for a few seconds until the Apple logo appears. In situations like when your Apple Watch is not responding to force restart your Apple Watch, press the digital crown and the site button together for at least 10 seconds until the Apple Watch logo appears and that will restart your Apple Watch.
apple watch basics getting started   basic operations phone calls messages and more
Your Apple Watch comes with some

watch

es. The faces are first tapped on the screen, where you will now be able to swipe between the different

watch

faces available, simply select the one you want to have as your watch face and that will set the watch face as your current face on your Apple. look Siri is also available on your Apple Watch. You can press and hold the Digital Crown to talk to Siri directly about the weather today, or you can say hello Siri when it displays Hello Siri, what's the time in Bangkok? Now time in Bangkok, Thailand.
apple watch basics getting started   basic operations phone calls messages and more

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It's 237 a.m. m. One thing to note is that the history command will not work if your Apple Watch screen is off. You will need to have your screen on for the Hey Siri command to work. Now there are many things you can do. with three it's the same as you would use your

phone

for example turn on airplane mode let's say no you can also find how far away is the nearest

apple

store how far away is the nearest

apple

store your apple watch also comes with a control center to bring up the control center swipe up from the bottom and you will see the control center with all the shortcuts available now.
apple watch basics getting started   basic operations phone calls messages and more
Some of the notable shortcuts here are the battery person light so you can directly see how much battery is left in your Apple Watch. You can also Turn on your flashlight and then this button here will help you locate where your iPhone is, so as soon as you touch it, it will make a sound to let you know about your iPhone. You can also enable theater mode, so if you are in a movie theater and you don't want your Apple watch to interrupt you, you can activate theater mode and you can also change your sound profile with this bell button and you can also walk with your Apple Watch by setting a passcode and locking it.
apple watch basics getting started   basic operations phone calls messages and more
You can immediately tap this lock button in the control center and that will be indicated by the lock icon on your watch face on the Apple Watch at the top left. The icon indicates whether your Apple Watch is connected to your iPhone or your Wi-Fi. Fi network, if you are connected to a Wi-Fi network, you will see a Wi-Fi icon instead of this

phone

icon on the top right, you will see the location icon in the control center to see all your apps, simply press the digital crown which will take you to the list of apps here you will find the

basic

apps like calendar phone

messages

and

more

to interact with your apple watch once your apple watch is not working properly with your iphone you can make and receive phone

calls

using your Watch When you receive a call your Apple Watch will notify you about the call to quickly silence it.
Place your palm on the screen for three seconds and that will silence the call on your Apple Watch. You can also double-tap the Digital Crown to quickly reject the call and see

more

options. You can rotate the digital crown or you can simply swipe up to reject the call and send the message. Tap the Send a message button. You can then choose to compose your message or you can select one of the default responses to put the call on hold. Tap the button. answer on iPhone, however, now you have to answer the call on your iPhone, if you are not sure where you left your iPhone, tap the ping button and that will allow you to find where your iPhone is and at any time calm it down if you want. to increase or decrease the volume you can press the minus and plus buttons on your screen or just rotate the digital crown to increase or decrease the volume and open the keypad when you are on the call just swipe up and that will give you the option to open the keyboard to transfer the call from your Apple Watch to your iPhone on your iPhone tap the green bar on the top left and that will basically now transfer the call to your iPhone if you receive a voicemail notification you will receive the notification on your Apple Watch and tapping that notification will allow you to listen to your voicemail or just look at the transcription service if it's available.
You can also call back or dismiss this notification right from your Apple Watch. You can also make

calls

directly from your Apple Watch you can open the phone app or you can simply use Siri to make a call. Hello Siri, Call John Appleseed, Call John Appleseed to use the phone app to make calls. First you will have to open the phone app on your Apple Watch. Simply choose a list and from there you can tap a contact to call the contact directly from your Apple Watch or simply use the keypad to dial a phone number. You can also access your voicemail from here when you receive a message, your Apple Watch will vibrate. to notify about the message here you will be able to read your message and if you swipe up you will get options to compose a reply to your message and if you continue scrolling up you will see some of the default responses available which you can choose from the pre-composed responses so you don't have to type or say anything to respond, simply choose one of the options you want to send as a response.
You can also choose all of these other options to compose your response. You can tap the microphone button to dictate your response or you can also choose to respond to an emoji by tapping the emoji button which will take you to the emojis available on your Apple Watch, which will be the same emojis that are available on your iPhone if you are choosing a people emoji like this, thumbs up, you can force touch to select the skin tone variation you want. There's also a new set of emojis called animation emojis that have a little bit of animation to them to see the different animation emojis available that we just made. digital crown and if you also want to select a different color you can just stretch the animation emoji and that will change the color if you keep swiping you will see other animation emojis here too and some have the option to change the color like We saw that if we force the touch, they will actually change the color, but some like this don't have the option to change the color.
You can also compose something called digital touch where you can draw or write and it will be sent as an animation. recipient type your message, instead tap the scribble button and start typing your response to see the various options available. You can also scroll the digital crown and see all the available text options if you didn't get the correct text or if you just want to make an order fill in the text now to send a message you have few options you can use Siri to send a message send a message to John Appleseed saying I'm late to the party or you can use the

messages

app just tap on the messages list and you will get the new message option, tap there where you can now choose your contact, create the message and then send it directly from your messages app .
The calendar app on your Apple Watch shows you upcoming events. You can simply scroll through the digital screen. crown to see all upcoming events or just swipe up to see upcoming events if you want to change the upcoming events view to a different view just force tap on the screen and you will get the options to choose from the day from the list and today's views, however, you can't add new events from your calendar app. You would have to use Siri to create new events from your Apple Watch. Create calendar event title. Lunch for tomorrow at 12 p.m. yes, your event is scheduled for 12 p.m. tomorrow, using the reminders app in your app, whoever watches you can manage all your reminders from your Apple watch, just tap the reminders app to open and there you will see all your reminders whether they are set on your iPhone on your watch Apple here in this reminders app here again with the reminders app, you cannot create new reminders on the Apple Watch, there is simply no option to create a new reminder, however, you can again use Siri to create a new reminder from your Apple Watch, remind me to call John.
Appleseed tomorrow night with the Maps app on your Apple Watch you will be able to search for all your recent places and also get directions to nearby places, just tap on the maps app and you will have the option to search or just scroll through the recent locations that you have. You've been scrolling the digital crown now if you want to search for nearby places to stop searching and that will basically give you the option to dictate a doodle or choose a contact so you can go directly to the location where you or your contact is.
You can search by category of nearby places, so if you select shopping, you can see all nearby shopping places and directly get directions to a nearby shopping place by tapping that location on your Apple Watch. You can also use Siri to get directions. Directions to the nearest Apple Store Apple Watch helps you stay fit with the Activity app. You can track your steps, calories, and more on your Apple Watch. Make sure you set it to the desired goals when you launch the activity app for the first time. You will then see the progress in the form of rings and your goal is to close all these rings Most of the time your Apple Watch will track your workout, but sometimes you want to enter your workout manually or stop a workout or just set desired goals. for the respective workouts, you can use your Apple watch workout to access the workouts app and there you will see the various workouts available to you and each of these workouts, which you call training session, has some desired goals, simply touch the three points. and that will give you the option to set the goal with each of these training sessions and if you want to start this training right away just tap on the training and now it will give you a countdown and start the training session now once you have Yes you are in the training session, if you go to your watch face you will see the work or icon at the top in the middle and by tapping on it you will return to the training session and if you want to end this training you will see other options just swipe and you will see the option to get a playlist so you can listen to music while doing the workout or basically you can know in your workout session by tapping the end button on your iPhone, tap the watch app to open and Look at all the available settings where you can basically set a watch face or create a new watch face.
You can also review all the other settings available for your Apple Watch along with these settings for the individual apps installed on your Apple Watch to see all the available watch faces, simply tap on the watch face gallery at the bottom and then you will see all the watch faces available with their categorization so you can choose the different variations in each of the categories to set as your watch face and search and install watch apps just enter the app store which will take you to the app store with all Apple watch apps where you can now download them directly to your Apple watch from your iPhone to set the watch orientation, tap on general and then Tap watch orientation and you will be able to choose which wrist you are wearing your Apple watch on and Where is the Acronis digital.
For example, here I'm using my digital crown on the right side and if you want, you can also rotate the Apple. look upside down so your digital crown is here on the left side and that's what this option tells you which side the digital crown is on your watch so check out these available settings and familiarize yourself with all the options available for your watch Manzana. I'll also post a link to my best Apple Watch tips and tricks videos, where you can go a step further and customize your Apple Watch to your liking for more tips and tricks videos.
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