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Just got my first Apple Watch ...
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... what should I do first?!
Idk. I don’t even find the watch interesting the most boring tech I own but one of the most important for me. It’s there for utility
Whisper ‘sweet nothings’ into Siri with the raise to speak feature. It excites her to know people want to speak with her. If you are good enough, you might get a date.
Does saying “hey Siri” work? i believe there’sa setting to enable raise for siri
Just raise your wrist so it is facing you from 4 inches away and speak normally when your watch wakes up. It works four times out of five for me.
If you struggle with that then just raise your wrist and say hey Siri and then issue the command
Just tested it and it worked. Hey Siri, “at 6 pm remind me to get up”. Siri put it on the default list and set the reminder time to 6 pm.
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The first thing I do everytime I get a new watch band/new watch or new Watch OS is start designing a bunch of different watch faces. I then start looking through the watch App Store at all of the cool apps I can use. Oh, when Walkie Talkie was released, I added and then subsequently annoyed my friends/family before I realised they can do the same to me
Also, add pictures to your watch, podcasts/audio books and then go for a walk (or run) without your phone (even if you don’t have the cellular model) - it feels really liberating to be able to ’untether’ from your phone for a bit.
There’s tons you can do, have a play with it and customise it for you. It’s a game changer!
Also, add pictures to your watch, podcasts/audio books and then go for a walk (or run) without your phone (even if you don’t have the cellular model) - it feels really liberating to be able to ’untether’ from your phone for a bit.
There’s tons you can do, have a play with it and customise it for you. It’s a game changer!
Honestly, pair with your iPhone and name your Watch. After that don't really expect anything for a couple days. Don't really even do any requests. Let the watch "warm up" for those two days.
By the 2nd or 3rd day, that thing will do most things without flaw. Siri will work good, txt to speech will be lightning etc.
There's a thing about freshly installed OSes on the Watch, they take a few days heck even sometimes a week before things are ALL active.
Also these things are not even close to the 1st Gen Watches, by the time my friend comes around to getting say an Apple Watch Series 8, he's gonna be like "this is SO fast", like these are they are insanely fast...
By the 2nd or 3rd day, that thing will do most things without flaw. Siri will work good, txt to speech will be lightning etc.
There's a thing about freshly installed OSes on the Watch, they take a few days heck even sometimes a week before things are ALL active.
Also these things are not even close to the 1st Gen Watches, by the time my friend comes around to getting say an Apple Watch Series 8, he's gonna be like "this is SO fast", like these are they are insanely fast...
Honestly seeing how convenient it was to pay for things with Apple Pay was what made me start to love mine.
The first thing you should do is go through every single setting so you know where to find stuff, as well as what they do.
Apple has a pretty decent owner’s handbook on the book store:
Watch User Guide
It has extensive descriptions of all settings.
