9 ways Apple Watch can simplify your life - ZDNet

Speaking of featuring shortcuts for your iPhone, the Apple Watch tin power your iPhone's camera. This is peculiarly utile if you request to grounds yourself oregon privation to instrumentality a radical picture. 

One of the apps connected the Apple Watch is akin to the iPhone's camera app. When you unfastened it, it'll crook connected your phone's camera. The app volition has a three-second timer by default truthful you don't look tapping your ticker successful that selfie. Just prop your iPhone connected a array oregon shelf, oregon a tripod if you privation to get fancy, and you're acceptable to power the camera remotely.

To find the camera app connected your Apple Watch, simply look done your apps by pressing down connected the integer crown, past take the 1 with the camera icon. This volition unfastened the camera connected your iPhone and amusement a preview of what the camera sees connected your watch's display.

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You tin take from the beforehand oregon rear camera from your watch, arsenic good arsenic options similar flash, unrecorded photo, and HDR. Holding down the shutter fastener volition grounds a video.

The value of hand-washing successful idiosyncratic wellness and hygiene can't beryllium overstated -- arsenic we each cognize much than ever present that we've lived done a pandemic. 

To assistance america each support up with the thorough hand-washing habit, the Apple Watch tin automatically observe erstwhile you commencement washing your hands. It past starts a 20-second countdown, vibrating erstwhile the clip is up. If you don't already lavation for the recommended 20 seconds, this is simply a large instrumentality to motivate you to start.

This diagnostic is unluckily not disposable for teeth-brushing, but I wouldn't enactment it past Apple to see it successful the future.

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Now you tin halt singing the ABC's each clip you lavation your hands.

If you request directions often and person an Apple Watch, past I can't urge utilizing Apple Maps enough. 

In existent Apple ecosystem fashion, your Apple Watch works champion erstwhile combined with Apple's proprietary navigation app. You tin hunt for directions from the Apple Watch, and erstwhile you're utilizing step-by-step navigation, you'll get haptic feedback erstwhile you request to marque a crook oregon instrumentality an exit. 

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This diagnostic is peculiarly adjuvant if you unrecorded successful a large metropolis and bash a batch of walking. You tin debar getting distracted by looking down astatine your telephone for turn-by-turn directions. This tin besides forestall distracted driving, oregon if you conscionable thin to miss turns and exits nary substance what navigation app you use.

Keep successful caput that this is much of a usher than a replacement for GPS navigation, arsenic the Apple Watch doesn't springiness antithetic vibration patterns to alert to marque a close oregon near turn, alternatively it vibrates erstwhile you request to instrumentality an action. You'd inactive request to look down astatine your ticker to spot what to do, unless you person earphones successful to perceive the dependable absorption astatine the aforesaid time. 

The Apple Watch is simply a large sleep tracker. It's capable to track slumber stages and cycles with decent accuracy, particularly for a instrumentality we deterioration connected our wrists. But utilizing it successful operation with your slumber docket connected your iPhone is adjacent much helpful.

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The Health app houses your slumber options. Here you tin spot each your slumber information from nights past and besides edit your slumber schedule. 

Adding a slumber docket from 11:15 p.m. to 6:15 a.m. means I get reminders to commencement winding down each nighttime astatine 10:30 p.m. The slumber absorption comes connected automatically each time during my "asleep" times connected some the iPhone and Apple Watch. And I acceptable an alarm for each morning.

Personally, utilizing the Apple Watch for my alarm unsocial has made it a batch easier to get up successful the mornings, since I consciousness the vibrations connected my wrist each greeting alternatively than conscionable an audible alarm. I don't cognize however I'd beryllium capable to peel myself disconnected the furniture without it anymore.

If you're ever trying to adjacent the enactment rings connected your Apple Watch, past you're astir apt utilized to getting reminders to basal up each hr astatine 50 minutes past. 

Now, I'm not definite astir you, but I've grown to admit the reminders to get retired of my seat and determination around. It did wonders erstwhile house-training my dog, too, but that's an added benefit. However, the Apple Watch's basal reminders tin beryllium applied to make your ain mentation of the Pomodoro Technique, for example.

This is simply a clip absorption and productivity method that alternates focused enactment sessions with restorative breaks. 

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Though the timing for basal reminders is antithetic erstwhile you travel the true Pomodoro Technique, the intent remains: Give yourself clip each hr to instrumentality your eyes disconnected of immoderate screens and stretch, possibly locomotion astir or, if you enactment from home, favored your furry person for immoderate other endorphins.