If the Magi have given you an Apple Watch, the first thing you should know is that they could not give you a better gift. The Apple smart watch is capable of performing many tasks and some of them automatically, such as detecting falls or reading your heart rate. Although so that you can perform all those operations You must first configure the Apple Watch to suit you. We teach you how to take the first steps with the clock and configure it to your liking.
Set up the health rings
For many, the Apple Watch it is quite a portable device focused on fitness. The key to this is a trio of rings, by the way we already have a new one for new year, each represented by a different color: red for movement (calories), green for exercising, and blue for moments when we are active. Each of them will progress as you carry out certain tasks. If you sit for long hours, an alarm will remind you to stand up and walk for at least a minute. When you get to 12 hours, it will be completed.
The movement ring will be completed when you reach a calorie minimum that you have previously chosen. And the exercise ring will close within 30 minutes of a sports activity or a brisk walk. You can modify any of them. The exercise ring can be lowered or raised in intervals of five, up to a minimum of 10 minutes or a maximum of 60 minutes. The blue ring it can be changed in hourly intervals, up to a minimum of 6 hours (no more than 12).
- Open the Activity app
- Scroll down and find the button «Change objectives». Use the + or - buttons to adjust your lenses or use the digital crown.
- Touch «Accept» to confirm your changes.
Choose the screen sphere you like the most
It is one of the first elements that you are going to configure to your liking. It is the centerpiece of the Apple Watch. On your watch face, you can add information parameters known as complications, including things like weather, activity data, heart rate information, and much more. The easiest way to build an Apple Watch face It is with the Apple Watch application on iPhone.
You can find the entire watch face library in the app's "Face Gallery" tab, and as you create them, you can add them to your personal collection. Once you've created multiple watch faces, you can slide them from your Apple Watch from left to right, making it easy to adjust on the fly for different scenarios. Depending on the sphere you can add more or less information to it.
Configure the watch's health functions
Fall detection
This function is very useful. Think of the elderly but also of all those who move around the city by bicycle or like to go out to do sports. This function uses the gyroscope and accelerometer to detect if we fall and, more importantly, if when we fall we cannot get back up. By default, fall detection is disabled for users under 65, but you can enable it manually:
- Apple Watch app on your iPhone> SOS emergency> Fall detection
Apple warns that more physically active users can activate this function Even when you haven't fallen For example, when high-impact activities are carried out that can resemble falls.
Heart
We can enable a set of features that will allow the Apple Watch to help take care of the heart. Within the Apple Watch application of the iPhone we look for the Heart category. From there we can:
- Install and enable electro cardiogram app (ECG) to take muscle readings from your Apple Watch as long as it is a series 4 and up.
- Set cardiovascular fitness levels and notifications, which are a strong indicator of your overall health
- Receive notifications irregular rhythm, high or low heart rate
Oxygen in blood
If you are using an Apple Watch Series 6, we can also take blood oxygen readings. We just have to open the application from the iPhone and enable it. This function was introduced by Apple as a novelty and related to one of the symptoms of COVID-19.
With these tips, we hope that at least the most basic is covered. Now you just have to enjoy your gift and continue "tinkering" with other features that you see.