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Make your Apple Watch your new best friend! From accessing messages to getting quick directions, the latest smart watches do a whole lot more than just tell time. And the latest version of the Apple Watch is one of the most powerful iterations of these handy devices you can own. In Apple Watch For Dummies, you'll get step-by-step guidance on how to use all the best features of the Apple Watch. You'll learn how to make payments with a flick of your wrist using Apple Pay, keep track of your activity and sleep, monitor your heart health in real time, and even turn your watch into a digital walkie-talkie. This easy-to-read guide will also show you how to: Stay in touch by sending and receiving text messages and emails with your Apple Watch Track your fitness and sleep with Apple Watch, and have it monitor your health and even detect a sudden fall Learn how to stream Apple Music playlists and podcasts to wireless headphones Customize your watch face to look exactly the way you want it to look, from retro-chic to futuristic fun Apple Watch For Dummies is a must-read resource for Apple enthusiasts everywhere. Whether you're an Apple Watch newbie or you've been using one since they first came out and just need a refresher, this book has everything you need to get the most out of one of the coolest pieces of wearable tech on the market today.

Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 About This Book 1 How to Use This Book 2 Foolish Assumptions 3 Icons Used in This Book 3 Beyond This Book 4 Where to Go from Here 4 Part 1: Getting To Know Apple Watch 5 Chapter 1: Watch This: Introducing Apple Watch 7 Exploring the Apple Watch Collections 8 Figuring Out What Apple Watch Can Do 11 Watch faces 11 Timers and alarms 11 Caller ID or even calls 12 Walkie-Talkie 12 Health and wellness 12 Emergency SOS 12 Text messages and instant messages 13 Email 13 Wrist-to-wrist communication 13 Dock 13 Calendars 15 Maps 15 Siri 15 Fitness 15 Music connectivity and more 17 Apple Pay 17 Other apps 17 Other functions 17 Bonus tips 17 Determining What You Need for Your Apple Watch 18 Getting to Know Apple Watch’s Home Screen 19 Learning about Apple Watch’s Parts 23 Watch face 23 Digital Crown button 23 Side button 24 Back sensors/charger 24 Watch band 25 Using Apple Watch’s Touchscreen 25 Understanding Apple Watch’s Wireless Functions and Internal Sensors 27 Bluetooth 5.0 27 Wi-Fi 27 Cellular 28 NFC 28 GPS 28 Ultra Wideband (Apple Watch Series 7 only) 29 Accelerometer, gyroscope, barometric altimeter, and compass 29 Heart-rate sensor 30 Electrocardiogram 30 Blood-oxygen monitor (pulse oximeter) 30 Ambient light sensor 31 Tapping with Apple Watch’s Haptic Feedback 31 Chapter 2: Time Out: Setting Up Your Apple Watch 33 Setting Up Apple Watch 34 Pairing Apple Watch with the iPhone 34 Choosing a passcode for Apple Watch 39 Setting up cellular connectivity on Apple Watch 40 Family Setup: Setting up Apple Watch for family members 43 Enabling Schooltime on a family member’s Apple Watch 45 Monitoring the Apple Watch battery 46 Understanding the Home Screen 50 Maintaining Your Apple Watch 52 Avoiding water (original Apple Watch) 53 Avoiding extreme temps 53 Doubting its durability 54 Considering a bumper 54 Using Apple Watch responsibly 54 Taking Advantage of Accessibility Features 57 Chapter 3: Control Freak: Mastering Apple Watch’s Interface and Apps 61 Handling Apple Watch’s Controls 62 Tap 62 Double-tap 63 Press (Force Touch) 63 Two-finger press (time or heartbeat) 64 Swipe 64 Sketch 65 Type 65 Digital Crown button 65 Side/power button 67 Going Hands-Free with Siri 68 Vibrating Along with Apple Watch’s Tactile Feedback 69 Using Control Center, Dock, and Notifications 69 Control Center 70 Dock 71 Notifications 72 Looking at Apple Watch’s Built-In Apps 73 Phone 74 Messages 74 Mail 75 Memoji 75 Calendar 76 Alarm 76 Stopwatch 76 Timer 76 World Clock 76 Siri 77 Weather 77 Stocks 78 Activity 78 Workout 78 Maps 78 Photos 80 Camera Remote 80 Music 80 Remote 80 Wallet and Apple Pay 81 Mindfulness 81 Sleep 82 Walkie-Talkie 82 Heart Rate 83 ECG 83 Blood Oxygen 83 Find People 83 Find Devices 83 Podcasts 84 Audiobooks 84 App Store 85 Noise 86 Cycle Tracking 86 Home 87 Calculator 87 Voice Memos 87 Settings 87 Compass 89 Shortcut 89 Apple News 89 Contacts 89 Part 2: Just The Tasks, Ma’am! 91 Chapter 4: It’s About Time: Setting Watch Faces, Alarms, Timers, and More 93 Looking At the Built-In Watch Faces 94 Activity (analog and digital) 94 Artist 95 Astronomy 96 Breathe 96 California 98 Chronograph and Chronograph Pro 98 Color 99 Contour 100 Count Up 101 Explorer 101 Fire and Water 103 GMT 104 Gradient 105 Infograph, Infograph Modular 106 Kaleidoscope 107 Liquid Metal 108 Memoji 109 Meridian 109 Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse 110 Modular/Modular Compact/Modular Duo 111 Motion 112 Numerals, Numerals Duo/Numerals Mono 113 Photos 115 Portraits 115 Pride Analog, Pride Digital, Pride Woven 116 Simple 117 Siri 118 Solar Dial and Solar Graph 119 Stripes 120 TimeLapse 121 Toy Story 122 Typograph 122 Unity 123 Utility 123 Vapor 124 World Time 125 X-Large 126 Choosing Among the Various Watch Faces 127 Differentiating Between Customizations and Complications 130 Customizations 130 Complications 130 Adding Complications 132 Accessing Time on Apple Watch 133 Accessing World Time 135 Taking Control: Alarms, Stopwatches, and Timers, Oh My! 136 Alarms 137 Stopwatches 137 Timers 140 Shortcuts 142 Chapter 5: Keep in Touch: Using Apple Watch for Calls, Texts, and More 145 Accepting and Placing a Call on Apple Watch 146 Incoming calls 146 Outgoing calls 148 Outgoing calls with FaceTime audio 151 Handing Off a Call to Your iPhone or via Bluetooth 152 Making Apple Watch Calls over Wi-Fi 153 Receiving and Sending Messages 155 Receiving and responding to messages 155 Sending a message 163 Creating custom replies 166 Sharing your location from Apple Watch 166 Sending Taps, Kisses, Heartbeats, and More 168 Tap 168 Heartbeat 170 A few more Digital Touch options 171 Enabling and Using the Walkie-Talkie Feature 171 Adding and removing Walkie-Talkie friends 172 Having a Walkie-Talkie conversation 173 Sending, Receiving, and Managing Emails on Apple Watch 174 Reading and acting on an email 175 Replying to an email 175 Composing an email 177 Chapter 6: In the Know: Staying Informed with Apple Watch 181 Accessing Real-Time Weather, UV Index, and Wind Speed 182 Following Stock Information and Much More 187 Using Dock on Apple Watch 190 Launching Dock and more 190 Customizing Dock 191 Mastering Notifications on Apple Watch 191 Seeing how notifications work 192 Accessing the notification settings 193 Viewing notifications 194 Changing how you get notifications on your Apple Watch 195 Accessing Your Calendar on Apple Watch 196 Navigating the Calendar app 196 Responding to a calendar/appointment request 198 Accepting a calendar request through notifications 200 Setting Reminders on Apple Watch 201 Accessing Apple Watch’s Integrated Calculator 202 Creating and Listening to Voice Memos 203 Navigating the Maps App 205 Drop, move, and remove map pins 209 Getting Directions on Apple Maps 210 Using the Compass 211 Using the Find People App 214 Adding a friend to the Find People app 214 Finding out where your friends are 215 Notifying a friend of your departure or arrival 216 Getting a notification about a friend’s location 216 Locating Your Stuff with the Find Items App 217 Seeing the location of an item 218 Marking an AirTag as lost 219 Making an AirTag play a sound 220 Getting directions to an item 220 Receiving a notification when you’ve left an item behind 220 Finding misplaced devices via the Find Devices app 221 Part 3: It’s All In The Wrist 225 Chapter 7: Siri Supersized: Gaining the Most from Your Personal Assistant 227 Setting Up Siri on Your Apple Watch 228 Selecting a language 229 Ready to rock?: Connecting and talking to Siri on iPhone 231 Talking to Siri on Apple Watch 232 What Are Siri Shortcuts? 233 Using the Siri watch face and Siri Shortcuts 234 Using Siri effectively on Apple Watch 235 Trying Other Tasks with Siri 243 Setting reminders by location 243 Reading your texts 243 Calculating numbers 244 Finding your friends 244 Extending the Fun (and Silly) Ways to Interact with Siri 245 Say “What’s the best smartwatch?” 245 Say “I love you, Siri.” 245 Say “Siri, I’m bored.” 245 Say “Who’s your daddy?” 245 Say “What’s the meaning of life?” 246 Say “Will you marry me?” 246 Chapter 8: Apple Watch As Your Workout Buddy and Digital Doctor 247 Tracking Your Fitness with Apple Watch 248 Getting Up and Running with the Activity App 249 Move 252 Exercise 254 Stand 255 Understanding the Workout App 256 Personalizing Reminders, Feedback, and Achievements 263 Reminders 263 Summary 264 Achievements 264 Using the Fitness App on Your iPhone 266 Checking Activity Trends 268 Using (and Loving) the Mindfulness App 269 Starting a Mindfulness session: Breathe 269 Using the Apple Watch app on iPhone to make Mindfulness changes 270 Starting a Mindfulness session: Reflect 270 Adjusting Mindfulness settings 272 Cycle Tracking 274 Hearing Health: Using the Noise App 276 Advanced Health Help: Heart-Rate, ECG, and Blood Oxygen Monitoring 277 How the heart-rate sensor works 278 How the ECG monitor works 279 Blood-oxygen monitor 280 Enabling handwashing detection 284 Advanced Health Help: Medical ID, Fall Detection, and SOS Calling 285 Setting up or editing your Medical ID information 286 Checking your heart rate 288 Receiving heart-rate notifications 289 Turning on Fall Detection 290 What to do after a fall 290 Using Emergency SOS 291 Tracking Your Sleep with Apple Watch 292 Setting up sleep tracking 294 Setting the wake-up alarm 294 Changing your sleep schedule and options 295 Viewing your sleep history 296 Reviewing your sleeping respiratory rate 297 Using Apple Fitness+ on Apple Watch 297 Chapter 9: Mucho Media: Managing Your Music, Movies, Apple TV, and More 301 Using Apple Watch to Control Songs Stored on an iPhone 302 Now Playing 304 Artists 305 Albums 305 Songs 305 Playlists 307 Having Siri Play Your Music 308 Pairing a Bluetooth Device with Apple Watch 309 Streaming Apple Music to Your Apple Watch 310 Syncing and Playing Music from Your Apple Watch 311 Removing Music from Your Apple Watch 313 Streaming Radio to Your Apple Watch 314 Sharing content from the Music app 316 Playing Podcasts, Audiobooks, and Radio Plays 317 Podcasts 317 Audiobooks 320 Radio plays 323 Controlling Apple TV and Apple Music (or iTunes) 324 Setting up Home Sharing 324 Controlling Apple TV remotely 325 Controlling iTunes remotely 326 Chapter 10: Making Mobile Payments with Apple Watch Controlling Your Smart Home 327 Apple Watch and Security 328 Setting Up Apple Pay on iPhone 329 Setting Up Apple Pay on Apple Watch 331 Using Apple Pay with Your Apple Watch 332 Paying without a Nearby iPhone 334 Looking at the Wallet App 335 Adding passes to Wallet 337 Using passes on Apple Watch, including the Car Key feature 338 Storing a digital Home key to Wallet 340 Adding COVID-19 vaccination proof in Apple Wallet 341 Seeing notifications for passes on Apple Watch 344 Using Apple Pay Cash on Apple Watch 344 Apple Pay Cash requirements 345 Setting up Apple Pay Cash in Wallet 345 Using Apple Watch to send cash to friends 346 Using Apple Watch for Other Deals and Rewards 348 Mastering the Home App to Monitor and Control Your Smart Home 349 View your home status 350 Control smart home accessories and scenes 351 Part 4: More Apple Watch Tips And Tricks 353 Chapter 11: App It Up: Customizing Apple Watch with Awesome Apps and More 355 Downloading Apps for Apple Watch 356 From your iPhone 357 Directly to your Apple Watch 358 Deleting apps 360 Adjusting Settings in the Companion Apple Watch App on Your iPhone 361 Settings and personalization 361 General options 362 Accessibility options 364 Security options 365 First-party app options 366 Twenty Recommended Third-Party Apple Watch Apps 367 Chapter 12: Extra! Extra! Having Fun with Apple Watch 371 Copying Photos to Apple Watch 372 Launching Photos on Apple Watch 374 Choosing a Photo for Your Portraits Watch Face 376 Discovering the Camera App 378 Examining a Batch of Apple Watch Games 381 Lifeline 2 381 Trivia Crack 382 Pocket Bandit 382 Best Fiends 382 Snappy Word 382 Watch Quest! Heroes of Time 383 Spy_Watch 383 Rules! 383 Wordie 384 Cosmos Rings 384 Part 5: The Part Of Tens 385 Chapter 13: Ten Cool Things to Do with Your Apple Watch 387 Activity 387 Apple Pay 388 Hotel Key 389 Walkie-Talkie 389 Music Playback 390 Maps 391 Digital Touch 392 Siri 393 Gaming 395 Mute Alerts with Your Palm 395 Index 397

About the Author :
Marc Saltzman is a freelance journalist, author, lecturer, consultant, and radio and TV personality. He’s written for CNN.com and USAToday.com and appeared on “The Today Show,” “CBS Early Show,” “Access Hollywood,” and “Entertainment Tonight.” He is the host of “Tech Talk With Marc Saltzman.”


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781119846451
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Standards Information Network
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • No of Pages: 432
  • ISBN-10: 1119846455
  • Publisher Date: 23 Nov 2021
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English


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