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The default app grid is not always the best.
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the Apple watch is part of a smart watch, giving you the ability to run apps and display notifications from your iPhone. It is also part of a fitness device, measures your heart rate, tracks workouts and, with the launch WatchOS 7 – now you can also control your sleep.
With so many features and capabilities built into Apple Watch, it can be overwhelming trying to understand why your watch has so many apps installed or why Siri keeps talking to you randomly.
If you have had your Apple watch for a while, or just picked up the new Apple Watch Series 6 or Apple Watch SE, you can prevent your camera roll from being invaded by errant screenshots and prevent all apps from installing automatically. This is what you should do.
Adjust all your activity goals
With the launch of WatchOS 7, Apple added the option to change your goals for the amount of time you are standing and exercising. Previously, you could only change your Movements (or calories) goal.
Therefore, instead of using the default values (30 minutes of exercise and a cumulative 12 hours of standing per day), you can change any of them to suit your actual daily routine.
This small change will allow you to achieve your own goals when your day really starts, not when Apple prompts you to. For example, if you use sleep tracking at night and need to charge your watch more often in the morning, you won’t feel like you’ve wasted an hour closing those rings.
Open the Exercise on your watch, scroll to the bottom and tap Edit goals. Make your adjustments for all three metrics and start closing those rings.
You now have full control over what it takes to close your activity rings.
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See you later, random screenshots
To take a screenshot on the Apple Watch, press the digital crown and the side button at the same time. It’s a simple and convenient method, unless you’re like me and you activate it frequently by accident, filling the photos app with random images of your watch face.
To disable the ability to take screenshots completely, open the Settings on your watch or use the Watch app on your phone and go to general and scroll down until you find Enable screenshots. Turn it off and go back to a clutter-free camera roll.
The default app grid looks good and works for some, but for others, it’s easier to navigate through a list of installed apps.
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Prevent all apps from installing automatically
Every time you install an application on your iPhone ($ 699 at Amazon), it will automatically install your Apple Watch counterpart if there is one. This can clutter your watch’s app grid pretty quickly, making it difficult to find the apps you want to use on your watch.
Either in the Watch app on your phone or on the Settings app on the touch of the clock general and then slide the switch next to Automatic installation of applications to the Off position.
In the future, you can install individual apps on your watch by opening the Watch app on your phone and then scrolling to the bottom where you will find a list of available apps.
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Make your apps easy to find
The honeycomb grid of apps looks great in promo photos and at first glance, but it can be difficult to find the app you want to launch, especially if you have a lot of apps installed on your watch. Instead of using the grid, the watch can display all your apps in an alphabetical list.
Either in the Watch app on your phone or on the Settings app on the watch and touch App view > List view. Now when you press the Digital Crown to exit the watch face, you will see a list of apps that you can quickly scroll through and find what you are looking for.
Look, doesn’t the app list look better?
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Control when you’ll see Siri
There are three different ways to activate Siri on your Apple Watch. You can raise your wrist to your mouth and start speaking, press and hold the Digital Crown or use the “Hey Siri” wake phrase.
I’ve found that I often accidentally trigger Siri when trying to check the time or read a notification while talking to someone else (but my watch thinks I’m trying to talk to Siri). It is annoying, but fortunately it can be changed.
Either in the Watch app on your phone or on the Settings app on the watch, select Siri and there you will find three buttons to control when you will see Siri. Slide each button to the Off position for any of the options you don’t want to use.
This is a hidden feature that you should memorize right now.
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Reorganize the control center
Like the Control Center on your iPhone, the Control Center on Apple Watch is the place where you can quickly adjust settings like “do not disturb” and airplane mode, and activate the flashlight.
However, the default list of options in the Control Center may not be the most suitable for the way you wear your watch. For me, that means flipping the Bedtime switch from the bottom of the list to the top. That way, when I want to track my sleep over the weekend when I don’t have sleep goals set, I can swipe up and tap on the icon.
To access Control Center on your watch, swipe up from the bottom of the watch face, or when in an app, you can long press on the bottom of the screen until you see Control Center it starts to slide up, after which you just need to swipe up to access it. The same trick works to view your notifications from anywhere.
Change the order or hide some buttons in the Control Center by tapping the Edit at the bottom of the list. The icons will start to move and show a red minus sign to hide an option. Drag and drop the icons in your preferred order, or tap the red minus button to remove the option entirely.
When you’re done, tap Done or press the digital crown on the side of your watch to return to the watch face.
There are many more Apple Watch features worth checking out. For example, him ECG application can help identify irregularities in the heartbeat, there is a new dance trainingY you can even share your custom watch faces.
