Use Maps and Directions

Instead of staring at your phone while you follow directions in the Maps app (which I can’t recommend, from a safety perspective), the Apple Watch can guide you from your wrist. Is that really better? Perhaps not, but it’s better to glance quickly at one prominent piece of information on your wrist than parse everything on your phone screen.

Find a Location Using Siri

It’s easy to ask for directions when you’re doing it to your wrist:

  1. Raise the watch and say, “Hey Siri,” or press and hold the Digital Crown, and ask to find a location: a specific landmark or business, one of your contacts, or a query like, “Where’s good coffee near here?”

  2. From the results (Figure 114), tap a location to view more details.

    Figure 114: ...

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