I never tire of repeating it, but practically everything they do in Cupertino is extremely easy to use, and Maps on Apple Watch it could not be less.
Your Apple Watch will take you anywhere
While Google thinks about whether or not to create the app Google Maps for Apple Watch (I still consider that it is more effective, for the moment, than Apple Maps but I of them would quickly put the batteries), this attitude has allowed many of us to discover more and better the apple maps app that, due to those errors that we still all remember, we had it a bit remote. And with this we have discovered how well it works on the Apple watch, how easy it is to use it and the pleasure of going somewhere receiving the instructions from the watch.
As I was saying, use Maps on your Apple Watch it is extremely simple, and above all, useful.
The first thing, obviously, will be to open the app Maps on your Apple Watch. You can do it in two ways:
- Pressing the application icon
- Using Siri: press and hold the button on the digital crown and tell Siri, for example, "Siri, open Maps"
Until now I have not told you anything new because in these same two ways is how you can open Maps on your iPhone, that's why it's so easy to start using it on your watch too.
The first thing you will see is your own location, marked with a little blue circle. You can scroll the map using your fingers, double tap zoom or zoom in / out using the Digital Crown. And when you want to return to your current location, simply touch the little blue arrow that you have in the lower left margin of the screen.
Do you want to mark a specific location? Well, simply keep your finger on that location until a pin appears that will leave it marked. And if you're wrong, nothing happens. Press the pin for a couple of seconds and you can move it to the correct location.
Do you want to search for a specific address? If so, press hard on the screen and you will then use Force Touch, which will open a new screen with two options: search for an exact address or use the address of one of our contacts.
If you click on contacts, you must scroll through all the contacts that you have stored using the Digital Crown of your Apple Watch. You will not be able to search by groups or a specific contact, something that we hope will improve with watchOS 2. If you decide to search for an address, simply enter it into your watch or choose it from those you have already visited. Press Start and your watch will guide you to the desired location.
However use Maps on your Apple Watch It can be even easier if you already know, for example, the address or place you want to be guided to. From anywhere on your watch, press and hold the digital crown and say to Siri, "Siri, take me to that address," and Maps will automatically go to work.
As you see, apple watch is very easy to use, just like Maps. Now he only has incorporate public transport information, something that is already planned with iOS 9, and be somewhat more precise according to which areas.