Whether you have just bought the best Apple Watch on the market that the Apple Watch Ultra 2, or you got your hands on the budget Apple Watch see the 2 model, it is a pretty good experience to open your Apple Watch and put it on for the first time.
You may have an idea of what your Apple Watch can DoOr how you want to use it, but what about some of the settings and adjustments you can use to really customize your Apple Watch experience?
As long as I’ve been a technical user, I’ve been captivated by customizing gadgets, whether it’s the theme of Windows XP or the color of the menus on my Sony Ericsson K850i.
After wearing an Apple Watch for 10 years, I know one thing or two about settings you should definitely fine -tune on the first day. Here are my go-toos.
1. Your Apple Watch -Face
If you are new to Apple Watch, the very first thing you need to do on your new one is changing the watch surface. You will not find third-party options that you might be on Wear OS or Garmin, but there are plenty of good Apple opportunities to choose from and they are very adaptable.
To change your watch surface, just long press the center of your Apple Watch screen until it vibrates. Then simply iron through the settings until you see one you like.
If you press Edit You can fine -tune aspects of the face including the colors and the complications (small nuggets with glancable information) that appear.
2. Quiet state
Your Apple Watch is designed to sit pretty discreet on your wrist, and one of the joys of using one is that you can get messages without too much disturbance, neither for yourself nor others.
Of course, if you need accessibility, you might let the Apple Watch notification sounds turned on. For me, however, this is the first shift I turn off. The clock vibrates gently when I get a review (if i have turned on at all) and I certainly don’t need that piercing ding Tells everyone in the vicinity of the fact that I just got a review.
Simply press your Apple Watch’s page button and select the bell icon to the left to dim your Apple Watch.
3. Return to the clock
The Apple Watch is pretty easy to navigate and move between apps and the face of the clock is pretty straightforward. Another setting that I like to finpowed, however, is the return to the watch setting. This takes your Apple Watch back to the crushing clock surface you just customized automatically when you put your wrist down.
By default it is set to a delay of two minutes but I like to choose AlwaysSo I can drop my wrist anytime and know that my Apple Watch is showing time, rather than sensitive information or an app where I accidentally put a workout or change something unconscious.
Simply press the digital crown, scroll to SettingsSelect Generaland then Return to the clock To change this.
4. Siri
Siri is not very helpful these days, hanging behind rival virtual assistants from Google and Android, not to mention more advanced AI offers that overshadow the delayed upgrading of Apple Intelligence it badly needs.
For this purpose, I always turn off Siri on my Apple Watch to some extent. IN Siri Section of the setting app on your Apple Watch, you can fine -tune how and when Siri responds to your inputs.
I actually prefer to choose Listen To “Hey Siri”, in that way it is much more difficult to trigger accidentally. I also have a tendency to leave Raise to talk On and turn off Press Digital Crown.
I can’t count the amount of times I used to activate Siri during training during training by pressing the digital crown so this works well for me. I can access Siri by very consciously raising my wrist, but never triggers it accidentally with a button.
However, you may consider the opposite, leave the crown on and turn off to speak to speak. Or you can turn off Siri on your watch completely to avoid it getting in your way.
5. Screenshots
A newer addition to my settings repertoire is screenshots. You can take a screen shot on Apple Watch, like iPhone, by pressing both buttons on the page at the same time.
I can’t think of any scenario whereby it would be necessary to take a screen shot on the Apple Watch. However, as with Siri on the digital crown, it is very easy to do by accident, especially during exercise. As such, I turn off screens in the general section of settings to prevent my photo library being clocked up with random snaps of my watch surface.
