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Smartwatches are the new deal for fitness, and mobility and are a part of essential connectivity when connected to a mobile phone or earing devices. It’s a no-brainer that Apple Inc. manufactures the best and most frequently upgraded smartwatches. Aside from the fact smartwatches can do most things the iPhone can do (but with a smaller and more mobile mode), there are still some hidden features you might not have thought of. These tips and tricks are aimed to make such a special feature of your apple smartwatch visible to you especially if you just got a new apple watch or thinking of switching to an updated series. Some, you’ve known but you don’t know they could be for other things, some are new and stunning.

What can you do with smartwatches in 2023?

Most people buy smartwatches because of their fitness assistance features (You can check out our top 12 Smartwatches for 2023). Other smartwatches have features that include call/messages/media or specified specs. Apple watches, however, are combinations of health, fitness, cellular, entertainment, and standard reports. Talks about its top-notch connectivity and how it synchronizes with other apple devices (iPhones and air pods) to give more interconnected abilities.

Along with each series, it advances through many of these features to offer more convenience, tracking, and reports. In this post, We’ll look into some productive tricks and tricks on the apple smartwatches from Series 3 to the newly released series 7.  Theater mode for silence/Do not disturb, Swiping up and down the digital crown to reduce the brightness, Covering the watch face with your palm for 3sec to put in silence, waterlock (activate on control center with “droplet” icon) for swimming

8 Tips and Tricks for Apple Watch Series 3

1. Locating your phone with the apple watch: Swipe up the control center and long-press the “phone icon” which will flash the backlight of your iPhone and make a searching sound.
2. Power Reserve Mode: On the control center, you click on the battery life icon which will show all connected device battery life and you can swipe “Power Reserve”. This will put your watch in clock time mode. To exit the power reserve mode, restart your watch.
3. Double tapping the Digital crown: This will enable switching between previous apps opened. You can also use the digital crown to change the volume when listening to music by turning it up or down.
4. Edit and share your Watch Face: You can simply do this by long-pressing your home screen which will bring the “share logo” and “Edit: underneath. Click on the share icon and you select the contact you want to send the watch face theme to. To change your watch face directly, just swipe to the right after you long press.
5. Visiting website/ Quick search: Activate Siri by tapping the Siri button on the screen or by raising your wrist and saying “Hey Siri” then followed by what you want to search for online or the website you want to visit.
6. Siri Offline dictation: There are still some time/weather commands Siri could activate even if you are not connected to the internet
7. Set Fitness goals: Click on the fitness activity app, and scroll down to the activity goal where you can set your calorie target, exercise goals, sleep goal, and stand goal.
8. Screenshots Tricks: Apple watches series Press down both the digital crown and side button at the same time. To activate it, go to your settings and scroll down to the screenshot part and toggle it on.

7 Productive Tips and Tricks on Apple Watch Series 4

This comprises all features on series 3 and the listed below.

1. Emergency and fall detect: where you can set up contacts to call in your watch app. Go to “Emergency SOS” and click on “Edit emergency contact” to add or edit contacts. You can also enable fall detection on the SOS menu which will call your emergency number when it dectect falls. It will work effectively if you update your medical ID on your iPhone health app.
2. Open recent apps: This is simply done by pressing the power button once and close them by sliding left.
3. Custom message replies: You can add custom message replies for quick relies on when you’re busy or working out. Go to your phone watch app, click on “messages” then select the “default replies” option which you can then scroll down to click on “add replies” (series 4)
4. Heart rate notifications: Go to your watch app and scroll down to “Heart rate” and click on “high heart rate” to set up notifications to come up if your heart rate goes to/exceeds a certain beat per minute. (series 4)
5. Force press to change the app view on your watch: Instead of going to settings to do this like in series. You just have to long-press the home screen and then the list view will show up which you can shift from “grid” to “list” views on series 4.
6. Set a picture as a watch face: You can easily do this by long-pressing the picture and selecting “create watch face” which could be in form of wallpaper or Kaleidoscope
7. Change Watch orientation: This is done by going to general settings, then scroll down to orientation to indicate the wrist you are wearing it on. (this works for all series including previous ones)

8 Tips and Tricks for Productivity on Apple Watch Series 5 and 6 and 7

1. Compass: Series 5 comes with the navigation compass which can be seen on the app list from your watch menu. This can also tell you the angle at which an object is placed by putting your wrist close/on top of it.
2. Tip Calculation: You can now calculate tips on your apple watch calculator at a certain percentage for a number of people. This can be done when you’re done calculating which you can then click on the “Tip” option right on the calculator.
3. Memoji: Memoji activation on series 6 and can be used to create emoji (using its app on the watch) and can be saved as an animated watch face
4. Shortcuts: You can create shortcuts for the apple watch series 6. To create them, go to “shortcuts” on your iPhone and add new ones on the apple watch session.
5. Handwashing App Handwashing timer can now be set from your watch app for accurate handwashing time (quite useful for healthy wash)
6. New keyboard feature: QWERTY Keyboard now available for series 7 to reply to and text your messages (if you’re thinking of upgrading)
7. Assistive Touch on S7: This can be activated on watch settings, then scroll down to accessibility and toggle on “assistive touch” This enables you to operate your watch without having to touch it, or just by finger Clinch and Pinch gestures. (shown in the video below)
8. Unlock your iPhone and Macs with the S7: You can set this up on the face ID settings on your phone, then scroll down to activate unlocking with your connected watch. (This is very cool if you are on a facemask and want to unlock your phone). On other apple devices like the macbook, you can set it up via your security and password settings.