You can read and reply to emails that are received
while you are using your Mobvoi TicWatch Pro 5.
When you receive a new email your watch will notify you by making
a sound and also vibrating depending on your settings.
If you tilt your watch shortly after the notification is received,
the phone will switch to the AMOLED display
and show the email so that you can read it.
You can reply to the email by talking to the watch.
In my experience, the speech to text works really well
and it also allows you to include punctuation and text emojis.
“Thanks for your email.
Full stop.
I will see you later.
Smiley Face”.
To end voice input press the microphone button.
You can now review what you voice typed
and press the send button to send the email.
I will do a separate video on all the special characters and emojis
and add link in the top right corner when it is ready.
Alternatively, if you want to start again, tap the loopback symbol
and this allows you to delete what you've already voice typed and start again.
“This is the second draft of my reply.
Full stop.”
Another option is to edit what you have voice typed
with the on screen keyboard.
I thought the keyboard would be unusable on such a small screen,
but I am very pleasantly surprised by how usable
it is.
The suggestion
strip is really useful on such a small screen.
On a bigger screen I often think it's quicker
to keep typing than to keep an eye on the suggestion strip
and if the correct word appears stop typing and tap the suggestion.
But on such a small screen, it's actually faster to keep an eye
on the suggestion strip.
OK as a sentence that makes no sense but that is the edits
I made using the watch keyboard.
When you first receive an email
instead of voice typing, you can use the onscreen keyboard.
The button on the left is for the emoji keyboard
and the button on the right is for the alphanumeric keyboard.
These are actually the same keyboard,
so if you use either button to select the on screen keyboard,
you can then switch between the alpha keyboard,
the numeric keyboard,
special characters keyboard,
voice typing
and emoji keyboards as required.
As you can see from this quick scroll,
there are a lot of emojis to choose from.
If you do not want to reply to the email, you can scroll down
and you also have the option to Archive or Delete.
Alternatively, you can tap “Open on phone” and your watch
will open the email on your phone's screen, which may be useful
if you want to read a longer email or to send a longer email reply.
In order for email functionality to work correctly on your watch,
it's important that your phone's Gmail or other email
app is set up to notify you when each new email is received.
To set up Gmail correctly, tap on the menu
hamburger button and at the bottom tap on the Settings.
Then general settings.
Then Manage Notifications.
Check that you have enabled Allow Notifications.
Go back twice and tap on your email address.
Now you can check that you have got All selected for Notifications.
Also tap on Inbox Notifications and check that you have got both Label
Notifications and Notify For Every Message ticked.
Your phone should not be set up to send a notification for every email
that you receive.
However, in my experience, Gmail can take several minutes after
the email has been received to send a notification.
So if you think your watch is taking a few minutes to get new emails,
I am pretty sure that its Gmail app problem on your phone
and not a problem with your watch.