Apple Watch For Dummies, 2022nd Edition

Chapter 13

Ten Cool Things to Do with Your Apple Watch

IN THIS CHAPTER

Covering ten must-try features of Apple Watch

Diving deeper with additional tips and tricks

Impressing your friends with your new wrist-mounted gadget

Apple Watch has hundreds of use-case scenarios — many of which are provided by Apple and its built-in features — while third-party apps extend the functionality of this smartwatch even further (as evidenced in Chapters 11 and 12). But if you’re like most people, you won’t have time to go over everything Apple Watch has to offer. As I mention earlier in this book, it’s estimated we only use about 10 percent of what our gadgets can do — until someone shows you what you’re missing.

So in this final chapter of Apple Watch For Dummies, I isolate ten must-try features of Apple Watch. Consider it a purely subjective list of my favorite things about the device.

Activity

Many smartwatches and fitness bands can report on your performance while working out, but Apple Watch is always calculating what you’re doing — or not doing. The innovative Activity app and its three rings — for Move, Exercise, and Stand — does a stellar job of giving you an idea of your overall physical ...