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How to play music on iPhone via Apple Watch on watchOS 4?
Correct, with watchOS 3.x it was possible to use Apple Watch as a kind of remote for iPhone's Music.app:
Browse all available music by artist/album/genre
Start/stop playback on your iPhone with Apple ...
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What is the Apple Watch to iphone pairing animation called?
I don't think it has a public, catchy "name" as such. Apple seems to refer to it is as an "optical label", but that is a very generic term.
The technology can be thought of very much like an animated ...
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Prevent the Siri Watch Face from displaying Photo Memories
Photo Memories, along with other "Data Sources" for the Siri Watch Face, can be turned off in the Watch app on iOS.
Watch app > My Watch > My Faces > Siri (Watch Face) > Data Sources
You can also ...
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Can I delete the Watch app without unpairing Apple Watch?
The apple watch app on your iPhone will not let you remove itself unless you unpair the watch first.
So technically, no. As it is essential for the operation of the watch. What I did was just make a ...
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How to play music on iPhone via Apple Watch on watchOS 4?
I believe you are referring to the Music complication. Which is separated from the Now Playing in watchOS 4.
The solution is to use a dedicated Now Playing from now on. It can be also set as a ...
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Can I prevent music through an AirPod from pausing when a single pod is removed?
Head into Settings > Bluetooth > AirPods > Turn Off Automatic Ear Detection feature
When the automatic ear detection feature is turned off, audio will continue to play even fi you take the AirPods ...
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Why Apple watch Nike+ is in same price as normal watch?
The Apple Watch Series 3 and Nike+ Edition are exactly the same hardware, just different bands and some preloaded software (which you can manually install on a plain Apple Watch). It's the same price ...
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Does the Apple Watch Series 8 track sleep without setting a schedule?
Yes - the watch generates all the data you need to track multiple naps or sleep intervals without setting a schedule or manually marking the start of sleep.
The app I use to track sleep automatically ...
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Which are the ways to access "Now Playing" in WatchOS 3?
As of watchOS 4, you have a few options for accessing the Now Playing screen:
Set the Dock Ordering setting for the Dock (Watch App on iPhone > Dock) to Favorites and choose the Now Playing "app" as ...
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Disable Apple Watch Screen Capture
In watchOS 3, go to the Watch App -> General there is a toggle called Enable Screenshots that should be disabled by default (you have to scroll down a bit). When the switch is disabled, you can't take ...
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Apple Watch shows only new message from whats app user but not the message itself
Check your WhatsApp settings (within WhatsApp app itself), and under Notifications, ensure to turn on the 'Show Preview' option (or equivalent, since I don't know how it is spelt in your language).
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Prevent the Siri Watch Face from displaying Photo Memories
The location seems to have changed in later versions of iOS. You need to change the Data Sources for the Siri Watch Face. It can be changed in the Watch App on your iPhone.
Watch app > My Watch > ...
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Config AppleWatch what to dial during "Fall Detection"?
Source:
Fall detection on your Apple Watch Series 4 is off by default unless you are age 65 or older. There's no way to get Fall Detection to do what you want, it's not configurable that way. I ...
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Custom 24-hour single-hand watch face for Apple Watch
When it comes to Apple Watch faces, one is limited to customizations as per what Apple allows.
App Store Review Guidelines restrict app developers from creating custom watch faces.
https://developer....
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Apple Watch no longer displays heart rate after watchOS update
1. The first thing to do is make sure that Background App Refresh is still enabled, and if so, enabled for Heart Rate.
To do this:
On your iPhone open the Watch app
Swipe up and tap on General
Tap ...
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My iPad's MAC address seems to have changed with the iPadOS 14 update. Is this normal?
Shortly after posting the question, I found out that there is a new feature in iOS/iPadOS/WatchOS that changes the MAC address to an individual private one for every wifi network. I think I will be ...
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Apple Watch Series 3 "Cannot Install Update" due to available storage
The alert on my watch links to this Apple knowledge base article:
If you don’t have enough space to update your Apple Watch
https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211283
At the top, there is a note ...
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How to not show birthdays from Contacts on Apple Watch?
Contacts.app in macOS 11 Big Sur (and the underlaying iCloud) now offers more differentiated date fields which address use cases like yours and more.
Preparation:
Open Contacts.app > Preferences &...
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Debugging Apple Watch Wifi
Unfortunately watchOS 3.x can't connect to a Wi-Fi secured by WPA2-Enterprise.
I have experienced the same behavior in the past with watchOS 2.x as well.
This assumes:
Your university's Wi-Fi is ...
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Does updating iOS force you to update watchOS?
No, it won't force you to update your Apple Watch. You can use an Apple Watch with older versions of watchOS while using iOS 10 on your iPhone.
You won't be able to use any features that are ...
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How long can an Apple Watch stay without an iPhone?
There's no artificial limit imposed on how long the Apple Watch can remain away. When the Apple Watch reconnects to the iPhone, it will sync any data which is not on the iPhone as usual.
The Apple ...
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How to get Apple Watch 2 to calculate VO2 Max data?
I went for a 2:30:00 run yesterday with my iPhone (6s) in my bag and my watch running strava. VO2max was recorded once per hour in three hours (10-11/11-12/12-13). I’ve tried to get VO2max off of ...
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watchOS 4: Can you display complications on the photo albums watch face?
Yes, the 'Photos' watch face supports complications including Activity.
It's not possible to display the complication Activity as rings, just as a text.
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Apple Watch Series 3 ski tracking
There's still no ski tracking capabilities in any of the Apple Watch series.
But, all the data inputs needed are there. Barometer, motion tracking, heart rate tracking, location via GPS and cell ...
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How does HealthKit calculate activeEnergyBurned and other variables?
Apple doesn't disclose the algorithms is uses to calculate these so you're going to need to reverse engineer it or hopefully find someone else who has reverse engineered it.
What is publicly known is ...
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Apple Watch Fall detection requirements
What does an Apple Series 4 Watch require to have Fall Detection +
Emergency 911 calling fully operational? Does the watch need to be paired with a certain iPhone Model/iOS release?
You only need to ...
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What is this icon with a square and a waveform in Apple Watch Control Center?
I was able to determine the button’s purpose through VoiceOver, which reads this button as “announce messages”.
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How do Apple Watch and iPhone communicate with one another in airplane mode?
By default Bluetooth is left on and that’s how the devices communicate.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204234
When you turn on Airplane Mode, it turns off all radios except for Bluetooth. If you ...
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