Apple watches have many important features related to calls, sports activities, and receiving special notifications, but there are five features of these watches that can never be dispensed with.
According to the “Arab Gate for Technical News” website, these characteristics are:
1- Control the iPhone camera:
You can control your iPhone’s camera with your Apple Watch, and this is especially useful if you need to take a selfie without having to set a timer on your iPhone’s camera or tap the shutter button.
Open the Camera app on your Apple Watch. This will also open the Camera app on your phone. The app has a three-second timer enabled by default so you don’t appear in the photo when you tap your watch.
To find the Camera app on the Apple Watch, just browse your apps on the watch by clicking the Digital Crown, then selecting 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 your watch screen.
You can choose the front or back camera directly from your watch, in addition to the ability to activate other options before shooting, such as: flash, HDR. Holding down the camera button will record a video.
2- Use the automatic hand-washing timer:
Washing hands well is one of the basics of maintaining health and personal hygiene, and to ensure that you wash your hands in the correct way, which should last for 20 seconds, you can use the Apple smart watch by activating the hand-washing timer feature in the watch. And when you start washing your hands, the Apple Watch can automatically detect when you start washing your hands, then it starts a 20-second countdown, and the watch vibrates when the time is up.
3- Run the Apple Maps application on the watch:
The Apple Watch works well with the Apple Maps application. You can track directions directly from your Apple Watch without having to hold your iPhone, and you’ll also get tactile alerts in the form of a vibration on your wrist when you need to turn or change direction.
This feature is useful to avoid being distracted while walking or driving by looking at your phone to check directions. But it is important to know that the Apple Watch does not offer different vibration patterns to alert the direction to the right or the left, but rather vibrates in the same way whether the next direction is towards the right or the left, which means that you need to look at your watch to confirm the direction if you do not have earphones to hear The direction of the sound at the same time that the watch is vibrating.
4- Sleep tracking:
Many Apple Watch owners use this watch to track sleep, as it is able to track sleep stages and cycles with good accuracy, and when used with the Health app on the iPhone, it becomes more useful.
The Health app contains all the data about your sleep hours from past nights, with the ability to adjust your sleep schedule within the app. And if you add a sleep schedule from 11:15 PM to 6:15 AM for example, that means you’ll get reminders to start getting ready for bed each night at 10:30 PM. Focused sleep mode will be activated automatically on the iPhone and Apple Watch every day during the (sleep) hours you specified earlier.
5- Make Payments:
Using Apple Pay on your iPhone is a good way to get rid of carrying cards and cash, and easily pay with your phone. And you can take advantage of this service in the Apple Watch as well, which allows payment without having to take the iPhone out of your bag or pocket, and you can use the service from the watch even if the iPhone is not with you at the time.