First up is a way to get access to apps a little bit faster and that's with this side button every
Apple Watch has the side button normally when you tap it it's going to show your most recent
apps but you can actually customize this list with a list of apps that you choose
you choose the order and everything for it so let's go ahead and get to that but to do this
you're going to actually need your iPhone so in the iPhone you're going to want to Launch
The Watch app and then in here you actually have the doc option so on this dock as you can
see once you go into that menu you have recents and favorites so if you tap on the favorites now
you have a list now the Apple picks a bunch of apps for you by default but you can hit the edit
up top and then you can just remove anyone that you don't need access to now I can go down and
I can pick the ones that I want so I like to have access to my weather so I'm going to choose Carrot
Weather you can organize these any way you want once you're done hit done and now on your watch
you hit that side button and now you're gonna have these apps listed out in the order that you just
chose and I think this is such a killer feature because it gives you quick access to these apps
and you don't have to waste complication space for them next on the list is how to stop the now
playing screen from automatically popping up now this can be actually useful if you're listening to
audio and you want to control it from your watch it's pretty nice but in most cases like it pops up
when you're watching a YouTube video sometimes it connects to my Apple TV and then like it's showing
it on there when I don't want this access on my watch I have the controller or I have whatever to
control it it just drives me crazy when I go to look at a complication and then I'm seeing this
now playing instead and I can't get to the data that I actually want to see so I like to always
just turn this off and this one you can actually do on the watch itself so all you have to do is
hit the crown go into the settings app scroll down to General and then scroll again to Auto
launch now the very first one up here is auto launch audio apps just turn that off and then
that now playing will no longer pop up and it's just like a little piece of Mind thing for me like
like I said it's an awesome feature but for most cases it's more annoying than helpful next on the
list is fast app switching a way to get between two apps really fast on your Apple Watch I use
this at the grocery store there's a few other cases that I used to use it I used to use it a
lot with Fitness and then activity to see my ring status really quick they've kind of improved that
but it still works great at the grocery store and there's still many many use cases that you
could probably find to use this so the way this one works is you go into the app that you want
so let's say I'm at the grocery so I'm going to open up my grocery list App this is the AnyList
app it's a great app I'll link it down below for just keeping track of your grocery list but then
I also want to go ahead and close that and open up the messages app so maybe I want to text my wife
or maybe she texts me to add something to the grocery list so I want to have quick and easy
access to go back and forth between these apps now since they have both been open all I have to do is
double tap the crown and it will go back and forth between the two apps which is that double tap and
it's just a great way to kind of multitask on the Apple Watch sometimes apps just don't behave and
you need to just fully close them out now on the Apple Watch it's not as intuitive as it should be
and I'm going to show you how to do that so all you have to do is just launch the app app and
then hold the side button until you see like the emergency info so don't hold it too long because
if you keep holding it's going to call 9-1-1 so as soon as you see that info let go of the side
button now you can hit the digital crown and hold it now hold it for a little bit and you'll notice
it will go back to your watch face and doing all this it has completely closed that app so now you
can relaunch it and it's going to give you fresh information so if the app is locked up or just
isn't communicating with the phone the right way this is the way to make sure you can close it and
just get back to how it should act another great tip is the control center so that's what this
is called if you swipe up on the Apple Watch you have all this list of different items that you can
access but you can actually customize the way this list is laid out and you can even remove items so
if you scroll all the way down on this list you can click the edit button now that you've done
that everything's kind of like jiggling or shaking and you can actually just like the walkie-talkie
I never use that so I'm just going to go ahead and remove it and what it does is it puts it all
at the bottom you have this more section so if you ever remove something that you want to re-add you
can just scroll all the way down here and then hit the plus but I also want the flashlight to be up
top so I can just click and hold it and drag it up to the top move it around just a little
bit and now it is right at the top and just easy access because I constantly have a need for this
flashlight app I'm always walking around at night and I'm just like I can't see hit that flashlight
go like this and then you just get around pretty easy it's pretty great and the bonus tip for all
you Apple Watch Ultra users is how to turbo charge your action button I have a video right here that
goes into all the detail on how I turn that one button into doing multiple things and it
works so well and I love it so I hope you like it as well I'll see you over there God bless