Hey, Siri! How do I get up to speed with this amazing watch?

If you’re a proud owner of an Apple Watch, you’re in luck. These handy little devices can change the way you keep track of your health, stay in touch with friends and family, and even get around. It’s got apps for just about everything you can think of!

But how do you go about getting acquainted with such a powerful tool? With Apple Watch For Seniors For Dummies, of course. This book will walk you through the aspects of owning and using an Apple Watch you’ll apply in your daily life, from taking it out of the box for the very first time to counting the calories you burned on your latest walk.

This super-simple guide shows you how to:

Connect your Apple Watch to your other devices, like a Mac computer or an iPhone
Send messages to—and receive messages from—friends and relatives by email, text, or voice
Make your watch look exactly the way you want it to with custom Apple Watch faces

Whether you just got an Apple Watch as a gift or you’ve had one for a while and you’re looking to unlock even more cool features and capabilities, Apple Watch For Seniors For Dummies is your from-scratch guide to getting the most out of one of the most functional smartwatches on the market today.

Dwight Spivey is a long-time author who’s written iPhone For Seniors For Dummies, iPad For Seniors For Dummies, and AppleOne For Dummies. He’s also an educational technology specialist for Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 1

Icons Used in This Book 2

Beyond the Book 3

Where to Go from Here 3

Part 1: Getting to Know Your Apple Watch 5

Chapter 1: Buying Your Apple Watch 7

Discover the Newest Apple Watch Models and watchOS 8 8

Choose the Right Apple Watch for You 12

Understand What You Need to Use Your Apple Watch 15

Find Out Where to Buy Your Apple Watch 16

See What’s in the Box 16

Take a First Look at Apple Watch 18

Get Further Help for Your Apple Watch 21

Chapter 2: Setting Up 23

Set Up a New Apple Watch 24

Put on your Apple Watch 24

Turn on and pair your Watch 24

Navigating your Apple Watch 26

Keep Your Apple Watch Running 28

Charge your Apple Watch 29

Keep tabs on the battery power 30

What to do when your battery is low on power 31

Optimize battery charging 33

Connecting Apple Watch to Wi-Fi 34

Connect Bluetooth Devices to Apple Watch 36

Pair a Bluetooth device 36

Select an audio output source 37

Meet the Apple Watch App 38

The My Watch tab 39

The Face Gallery tab 43

The Discover tab 44

Wake Up and Turn Off Apple Watch 45

Wake up, Apple Watch! 45

Turn it off 45

Chapter 3: Getting Going 47

Update the Operating System 48

Update with iPhone 48

Update directly from your Apple Watch 50

Check Out the Apps 51

Activity 52

Alarms, Stopwatch, Timer, and World Clock 52

Audiobooks 52

Blood Oxygen 52

Calculator 52

Calendar 52

Camera Remote 53

Compass 53

Cycle Tracking 53

ECG 53

Find People 53

Heart Rate 53

Home 54

Mail 54

Maps 54

Memoji 54

Messages 54

Mindfulness 54

Music 55

News 55

Noise 55

Now Playing 55

Phone 55

Photos 55

Podcasts 56

Radio 56

Reminders 56

Remote 56

Sleep 56

Stocks 57

Voice Memos 57

Walkie-Talkie 57

Wallet and Apple Pay 57

Weather 57

Workout 57

Organize Apps and Install New Ones 58

Organize apps on your Home screen 58

Install new apps 60

Know Your Status 63

Discover Control Center 64

Learn All about the Dock 67

Get In Touch with Haptics 69

Chapter 4: Making Your Apple Watch Accessible 71

Brighter and Bigger 72

Let’s Get Visual 73

Zoom Zoom 74

Get Your Motor Runnin’ 76

Touch Accommodations 76

Adjust the click speed 77

Tap Out 78

You Speak to Me, Apple Watch! 79

Set VoiceOver options 80

Enable VoiceOver 82

Navigate with VoiceOver 83

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! 85

Mono audio 86

Adjust AirPods options 87

Finally, the Accessibility Shortcut 88

Part 2: Beginning to Use Your Apple Watch 89

Chapter 5: What Time Is It? 91

Face-to-Face 92

Choose and Customize Faces 94

Change your watch face 94

Add a face to the selection list 94

Remove a face from the selection list 94

Customize your watch face 96

Meet the Face Gallery 97

Share a watch face 98

Discover Clock Options and Settings 100

Use Stopwatch and Timer 103

Stopwatch 103

Timer 104

Sound the Alarm(s)! 105

What Time Do You Have, Mate? Or Amigo? Or Vinur? 107

Chapter 6: Communicating with Apple Watch 109

Calling All Apple Watch Users! 110

Call with Wi-Fi? Oh, my! 110

Answer a call 112

Listen to voicemail 115

Make a call 116

Emergency calls with Apple Watch 119

Get Your Message Across 120

Create a message 121

Read and reply to messages 124

Yes, Virginia, You Can Email from Your Watch 125

Compose an email 125

Read and reply to emails 128

Put a Little Walkie in Your Talkie 129

Chapter 7: Staying on Top of Things 131

Keep On Schedule with Calendar 132

View Calendar events 132

Add and delete events 134

Customize Calendar event notifications 134

Notifications Aplenty 135

Work with a notification 135

View notifications you’ve missed 136

Customize notifications 137

View and Create Reminders 138

Voice Memos 101 139

Keep On Course with Compass 141

Check Your Math with Calculator 143

Stay Frosty with Weather 144

Get more weather information 144

Add or remove cities 145

On the Go with Maps 147

Explore your current location 147

Search Maps 148

Get directions 150

Find Folks 152

First, add a friend 152

Second, find a friend 153

Finally, get notified 153

Chapter 8: Meeting Siri 155

Who Is This “Siri” You Speak Of? 156

Set Up Siri for Apple Watch 156

Understand What Siri Can Do on Apple Watch 160

Call contacts 162

Create reminders and alerts 162

Add tasks to your calendar 163

Play music 164

Get directions 164

Ask for facts 166

Send messages 167

Chapter 9: It’s a Wallet, Too? 169

Discover Apple Wallet and Apple Pay 170

Apple Wallet overview 170

Apple Pay overview 171

Set Up Apple Wallet 172

Add cards to Wallet 172

Set up Apple Wallet for Apple Watch 174

Use Apple Watch for purchases 176

Add passes and other items to Wallet 178

Part 3: Just for the Health of It 181

Chapter 10: Tracking Your Health 183

Set Up a Medical ID 184

Check Out Your iPhone’s Health App 186

Summary tab 187

Sharing tab 190

Browse tab 191

Just Breathe and Focus 193

Heartbeat City 195

Check your heart rate 196

Receive heart health notifications 196

Measure Blood Oxygen Levels 198

Electrocardio-what? 200

Measure Noise Levels 203

Catch Some Z’s 204

Fall Detection 207

Chapter 11: Get Moving! 211

The Lord of the (Activity) Rings 212

Move 213

Exercise 213

Stand 214

Keep up with Daily Activity 214

Everything’s Gonna Workout Just Fine 223

Start a workout 224

Monitor a workout 225

Pause or end a workout 226

Check your workout history 227

Part 4: A Media Extravaganza 231

Chapter 12: Shutterbugging 233

Take Pictures Remotely 234

Capture the photos 234

Configure options 236

Review photos you take with Camera Remote 237

Take Screenshots of Your Apple Watch Display 239

Work with Photos on Your Apple Watch 240

Select a photo album and adjust storage 240

View photos 242

Chapter 13: Reading Listening to Books 245

Peruse the Apple Book Store 245

Shop for audiobooks 246

Try before you buy 248

Buy Books 249

Sync Audiobooks to Your Apple Watch 251

Listen to audiobooks without syncing 253

Delete audiobooks from Apple Watch 254

Play Your Audiobooks 255

Chapter 14: Groovin’ on a Sunday (or Any Other) Afternoon 261

Music for the Masses 262

How to listen 262

Music sources 262

Remove music from Apple Watch 264

Play Your Music 268

Raised on Radio 272

Listen to Apple Music radio 272

Listen to broadcast radio 274

Podcast People 275

Subscribe to podcasts 275

Play podcasts 277

Chapter 15: Getting Things Under Control 281

Remotely Control Your Apple TV 282

Pair your Watch with Apple TV 283

Take control 286

Unpair your Watch and Apple TV 287

Control Music on Your Computer 287

Index 291

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