“Get the Most Out of Your Apple Watch with These Essential Settings”
Whether you recently unwrapped an Apple Watch for the holidays or have been a longtime user, making a few tweaks to your settings can significantly enhance your experience. These changes can include setting up Siri activation, switching app views from grid to list, and using your iPhone’s Portrait Mode photos as your watch’s background. The latest WatchOS 10 comes with new shortcuts and widgets for viewing activity progress and checking the weather.
Part of the ongoing 12 Days of Tips series, this article focuses on helping you utilize your Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch SE, or any other current watch model to its full potential.
One essential setting to adjust is your Activity goals, which enables you to customize exercise and standing time targets to match your daily routine accurately. This means you can personalize your exercise and standing hours to make it more achievable, especially if you need to charge your watch frequently in the morning, giving you control over hitting your activity goals.
Customizing widgets on your watch is another vital setting. You can swipe up from the clock face to access your widget stack, where you can customize and remove widgets that don’t interest you, making it easier to view important information at a glance.
To preserve battery life when your watch’s battery is low, you can use the Low Power Mode on Apple Watch Series 4 and later, which can help extend your battery life by turning off certain features and sensors. You can also turn off the ability to take random screenshots by toggling off the Enable Screenshots option in the settings.
Setting up Portrait mode photos as the watch’s background and extending the period for which your watch’s screen stays active can also improve your user experience. Additionally, stopping automatic app installations and silencing notifications can help declutter your watch and make it less noisy.
These settings, as well as personalizing Siri and adjusting font sizes, are easy to implement and can greatly enhance your Apple Watch experience. So why not give them a try and make the most of your high-tech watch!
