Apple Watch Tips

Apple Watch tips every user should know. Learn how to get the most out of your Apple Watch by reading these simples tips and tricks.

How to see friends on your Apple Watch

The Apple Watch allows you to quickly access up to 12 different contacts designated as friends. Persons on your list of friends should be contacts that you wish to stay in touch with most frequently.

Only friends have the privilege of receiving Digital Touch inputs—taps, sketches and heartbeats. You can also text, send emoji, or call friends quicker than you can with other general contacts.

How to add friends to your Apple Watch

One of the primary features of the Apple Watch is the quick way in which it allows you to get in touch with friends. Only friends are allowed to use the Digital Touch feature on Apple Watch, and those added to your list of friends can also be quickly called or messaged using handy shortcuts.

On initial Apple Watch setup, up to 12 of your favorite contacts from your paired iPhone will automatically be added to your list of friends. If you don’t have any favorite contacts, or if you wish to change, remove or add contacts to your Friends list, then this Apple Watch tutorial is for you.

How to customize the color palette for Digital Touch on Apple Watch

Are you finding the seven colors on the Digital Touch color palette a little restrictive? Wouldn't it be cool if you could customize the color palette?

Although you can only use one color at any given time for a sketch or a tap, it is possible to customize the color that you use outside of the six stock colors. Check out our tutorial to see how.

How to back up your Apple Watch

Apple Watch Ultra, Series 7, and SE 2nd generation

In this post, we'll explain how to back up your Apple Watch and restore it from a backup after erasing the device, unpairing it from the connected iPhone, or use the previous watch backup while setting up a new Apple Watch.

Apple Watch and water: what you need to know

There seems to be a lot of confusion, misunderstanding, and maybe a bit of misinformation when it comes to the water resistance aspect of Apple Watch. Apple itself hasn't been very helpful as the company has been providing contradicting information when explaining what you can and cannot do with your watch. Add those misleading videos of guys jumping in the pool with their Apple Watch, and you can easily understand why one might be puzzled at whether or not it is acceptable to dunk Apple Watch in water. In this post, we'll try to put an end to the speculation about Apple Watch and water.

How to complete various actions hands-free on Apple Watch

You may have noticed that while using Siri, the Apple Watch interface presents on screen buttons that you have to tap with your finger to confirm commands. While this is doable in a lot of circumstances, it takes away from the hands-free element that's necessary in many situations.

At times, it's simply impossible to physically tap a button on the Apple Watch to confirm a command, and that's where using the Hey Siri hands-free assistant to its full potential can come in handy. In fact, it's totally possible to send text messages, establish calendar events, set reminders, and more without touching your Apple Watch.

Yes, despite what the Apple Watch interface may lead you to think, you can use Siri completely hands-free in quite a few scenarios. Watch our hands-on video for the details.