If you own an Apple Watch, you're probably used to using it to make calls, track your iPhone when you can't find it, track your workouts, and check notifications right on your watch while your phone is on the hunt. . But the Apple Watch is much more than a tiny iPhone. If you can benefit from it in several ways, we will name the most important ones as follows:
1- Control the iPhone camera:
You can control the iPhone camera using the Apple Watch, which is especially useful when you need to take a selfie without setting a timer or pressing the shutter button on the iPhone camera.
Open the Camera app on your Apple Watch. This will also open the camera app on your phone. The app runs a three-second timer by default, so if you tap on the clock, it won't come into the picture.
To find the Camera app on your Apple Watch, just press the Digital Crown to browse the apps on your watch, then select the app with the camera icon. This will open the camera on your iPhone and a preview of what the camera sees will appear on the watch screen.
You can select the front or back camera directly from the watch and enable other options such as: flash, HDR before recording. Press and hold the camera button to record a video.
2- Wash your hands with an automatic timer:
Proper hand washing is one of the basics of maintaining personal health and hygiene. In order to wash your hands properly, the washing time should be 20 seconds. You can use the Apple Watch smart watch by turning on the hand wash timer function. And when you start hand-washing timer, your Apple Watch can automatically detect when you start washing your hands and then start a 20-second countdown, and the watch will vibrate when the time is up.
3- Launch the Apple Maps application on the watch:
The Apple Watch works great with the Apple Maps app. You can follow directions directly from your Apple Watch without holding your iPhone, and receive haptic alerts in the form of vibrations on your wrist when you need to turn or change direction.
This feature helps avoid distractions by looking at your phone while you are walking or driving. However, it should be noted that the Apple Watch does not offer different vibration modes to show the direction from the right or the left, but it does not matter if the next direction is right or left, it will vibrate in the same way, which means that when you move it if you do not have headphones, you Need to look at the watch to get your directions to hear the direction of the sound as the watch vibrates.
4- Sleep tracking:
Many Apple Watch owners use the watch to track sleep because it tracks sleep stages and cycles very accurately, and it becomes even more useful when used with the Health app on the iPhone.
The Health app has all the data on how much sleep you slept last night, with the ability to adjust your sleep schedule within the app. For example, adding a sleep schedule from 11:15 PM to 6:15 AM means that you will be reminded to get ready for bed at 10:30 PM every night. Focused sleep mode automatically activates on your iPhone and Apple Watch every day during the (sleep) hours you set earlier.
5- Payment:
Using Apple Pay on iPhone is a great way to get rid of cards and cash and just pay from your phone. You can also use the service on your Apple Watch, pay without having to take your iPhone out of your pocket and use the service time on your watch even if you don't have your iPhone with you.