Take Control of Apple Watch, 5th Edition

Interact with Your Apple Watch

When Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, he explained that the ideal tool to use it was not a stylus or physical buttons, but our fingers. The responsiveness of the touchscreen made finger gestures—tapping, swiping, and pinching—the new language of interaction with technology. But fingers are usually too big to do the same with a watch, so Apple incorporated additional interaction methods.

The Digital Crown

Let’s start with the watch’s signature controller, the knob on the side called the Digital Crown. A crown is a staple of mechanical watch design, used to set the time and, on some models, to wind the mechanism that keeps it running.

Turning the Crown

Turning the Digital Crown scrolls content on the screen, zooms ...