We’ve found that when we’ve used Siri to dictate replies to texts, it isn’t quite sure when to stop listening to us and will start to transcribe somebody speaking close to you. But Siri on the Apple Watch is still young, and has a lot to learn – like when to stop listening to your dictation. It’s also an integral part of the messages app, being used to dictate your reply before converting it to text ready to send. The use of Siri on the Apple Watch makes laborious tasks like setting alarms much easier to accomplish, simply by telling Siri to set the alarm for you. But I’ve found that when padding round the house in socks or slippers (especially on carpet), it sometimes fails to pick up the steps, or struggles to pick it up for a while. Walking down to the kitchen and making a cup of tea ought to be enough. You need to move around a little in order for the watch to notice. Jogging on the spot, provided it’s fairly vigorous jogging on the spot, is currently our go-to method of topping up unburned calories at the end of the day.įor the Stand total, bear in mind that just standing for a minute isn’t enough to hit the mark for any given hour. Conversely, doing the baseball mini game on Wii Sports seems far less effective, presumably because our feet hardly move. Above all, don’t assume you need to do a full-on workout or even go outside.Ĭomparatively static activities can work quite efficiently, as long as you’ve moving around a little and getting your heart going – we find practising forward-defensives with a child’s cricket bat curiously effective (if embarrassing), presumably because it involves steps forward and back and exercises lots of body parts. Change volume on AirPodsīut if you desperately want to hit today’s target without cheating – sorry, I mean adjusting your goals – there are plenty of ways to burn through those last few calories (and earn the Exercise minutes while you’re at it) before you run out of time.

In fact, we’ve never encountered rain sufficiently heavy to activate the watch’s screen, but we do often use this feature when we run while wearing a jacket it stops the sleeve from accidentally pausing the workout, changing app or worse. The workout will continue, but the touchscreen will be desensitised, so you’ll need to rotate the dial before using any onscreen functions. Swipe in from the left and you’ll see the usual options to pause or stop the workout, but there will also be a droplet icon to turn on Water Lock. But if you start another workout – a run, say – and then it starts to rain heavily, it’s easy to activate the feature from within the Workout app.

This video shows what that looks and sounds like.Īs we said, Water Lock is turned on automatically if you start a swimming workout. Water Lock will be deactivated, and you’ll hear a noise – that’s the speaker vibrating to clear OUT any remaining water.

To turn Water Lock off again, rotate the Digital Crown dial.

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