### Apple Watch Tips: Features and Tricks for New Users

The Apple Watch empowers users to maximize features like music playback and health tracking effortlessly.

### Unlocking Your Apple Watch: Essential Tips and Features
* ⌚ ️ Welcome to your guide on **maximizing your Apple Watch experience**, applicable for models from **Series 6 and later** running **watchOS 8 or higher**.
* 🎶 With the Apple Watch Series 10 and Ultra 2, you can **play music directly through the speaker**, allowing **seamless listening** while using other apps.
* 😴 The Series 10, Series 9, and Ultra 2 can notify you about **sleep apnea**; just set it up in the Health app on your iPhone and wear your watch to bed to **track disturbances**.
* 🏊 The new depth app measures water temperature and depth, automatically activating when you swim, but won’t trigger in **shallow water like showers**.
* 🏌 For golf and tennis enthusiasts, the motion sensors in recent models can **track your swing metrics** using the Golf Shot app.
* 📵 You can now **pause your activity rings** in watchOS 11 to silence move notifications for a day, week, or custom period, making **rest days easier**.
* 🔔 Additionally, you can **customize your watch ringtone** and enhance **haptic feedback for notifications** through the settings.
* 📍 Lastly, the Check-In feature allows you to **send your location to friends and family via Messages**, ensuring **safety during workouts or travels**.

You have a brand new Apple Watch and you want to make the most out of it? I've put together some tips, secret and not so secret features, just for you. I'm Lexi, welcome to your weekly dose of all things mobile. Whether you have a Series

10, an Ultra 2, or even an earlier Apple Watch, most of these will apply as long as your watch is compatible with watchOS 8. That's any model from the Series 6 and later. Let's [Music] go. The Apple Watch Series 10 and Ultra 2

let you play music through the speaker. Open up your favorite music app, find the track or podcast that you want to listen to, and hit play. If you don't have Bluetooth earbuds or headphones connected, it should automatically play through the speaker. But in some apps you

might need to change a setting or two. In Spotify, for example, this icon lets you route the audio through your watch rather than the phone. And the great thing is you can keep the music playing even when you open other apps. So if you're jamming out to your favorite

tunes, you can switch out of the music app, go into say your workout app, start your workout, and the music will keep playing in the background. The Series 10, Series 9, and Ultra 2 support sleep apnea notifications. Here's how to turn it on: Go to the Health app on the

iPhone, then tap browse, scroll down to set up sleep apnea notifications. You'll go through a quick setup process, then wear the watch to sleep. After each night, you'll see the breathing disturbances metric show up in the Health app, listed either as elevated or not elevated after

30 days you may or may not get a sleep app near notification if it detects signs of moderate to severe sleep apnea the new depth app shows both depth and water temperature when you submerge your wrist in water you can scroll the crown

to see a demo before you go for a swim and when you do swim it should automatically turn on when it detects your in water now it does need to be deep enough so it won't turn on if you're just in the shower or washing

your hands if golf or tennis is your jam the motion sensors in the Series 8, 9, 10 and Ultra 1 and 2 can detect rapid changes in velocity and acceleration there's an app called golf shot that automatically tracks each shot you take

on the course but it also identifies and analyzes your swing metrics like wrist rotation impact plane closure rate and more are all there need to take a rest day and want to silence all those move notifications you can now pause your activity rings in watchOS 11 open the

activity app then tap your rings hit pause rings and you can select just for the day the rest of the week the month or a custom range you've been able to change your phone ringtone since forever but now in watchOS 11 you can change

the watch ringtone as well go to the settings app then sounds and haptics and then select a new ringtone you can also do this on the iPhone from the Watch app as well while you're here if you find that the default notification bars is

not quite strong enough you can change it under haptics choose prominent it gives you a little preview so you can feel how it compares to the default option if your Apple Watch is paired to an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence you can try a new Focus

Mode called reduce interruptions it's exactly as it sounds by automatically deciding what notifications should come through and hiding everything else while this Focus mode is turned on open up your control center by pressing the side button then tap the Focus mode icon and find reduce interruptions like other

Focus modes you can also set the duration as well give it a try and let me know how it works for you there's a technology called LTPO in the Series 8 display that lets certain watch faces show a ticking second hand even when the

watch is not actively being used at the time of recording this video there's only three watch faces this is applicable for Reflections and Flux with the analog ticking second hand and Activity Digital with a digital second counter double tap is the gesture that controls the Series 10 Series 9 and

Ultra 2 it works with first party apps like messages timers and music but it also works with some third party messaging apps such as Slack so you can raise your wrist double tap to bring up the same voice to text dictation as the first party messages app but in watchOS

11 double tap now lets you scroll through apps without touching the screen which is helpful for me to look at my post-workout screens because my fingers might be wet or sweaty and get this double tap also works when the water lock is on double tap is customizable as

Well, go to Settings > Gestures > Double Tap, and you can switch the playback option here to Skip so it will skip a track rather than playing or pausing it in the Music app. Now, this only works in Apple Music and the Podcast app, though, not Spotify unfortunately. You've been able

to record quick voice memos from your watch for a while, but now you can dictate your great American novel into your wrist, and iOS 18 will automatically transcribe it for you on your phone. Once you've recorded your voice memo into the watch, open the Voice Memo app on your

iPhone and look for the quotation marks icon. It might take a minute to transcribe if it's a particularly long novel. Tap it, and then you can cut and paste this text anywhere you like. If you have a Series 8 or later with a temperature sensor, you can see the exact

wrist temperature by going to Settings > Health > Health Data > Body Measurements and choosing Wrist Temperature. And one final safety tip, watchOS 11 now sends a check-in to your friends and family with your location in two different ways. First, open up the Messages app and then

the plus icon, then select Check-In, and you can set it to be based on a timer or when you arrive at a certain location. Second, you can start a workout, scroll over, and then find the Check-In option. Know that this will only work if your recipient also uses iMessage. It

will not work for SMS or RCS messages. There are so many more cool things you can do on the Apple Watch, and this just scratches the surface. If you want extra tips, leave me a comment down below. And if you knew all these, you get a gold

Star and may your watch be blessed with extra battery life. See you

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Introduction and Apple Watch Music Playback

Introduction to Apple Watch tips and features.

Compatibility with watchOS 8 (Series 6 and later).

Playing music through the speaker on Series 10 and Ultra 2.

Music continues playing in the background while using other apps.

Sleep apnea notifications on Series 10, 9, and Ultra 2.

Depth app showing depth and water temperature.

LTPO display and ticking second hand on certain watch faces.

Double tap controls for apps and voice-to-text.

Customizable double tap action for skipping tracks.

Viewing wrist temperature on Series 8 and later.

Location check-in feature for friends and family.