i've had this watch for over two years now you guys and i have never done a
what's on my apple watch video and this thing changed my life
hello everybody happy 2022 it's so good to see you again it's been a while i moved which is
why it's taken me a long time to figure out where i'm gonna film this is temporary but what's up so
in today's video i'm showing you guys what is on my apple watch all the apps that i use it's
honestly not that many i keep it pretty minimal i'm gonna show you guys some hacks that you may
or may not have known that are so handy and then i'm gonna end with some customization tips so you
can make your apple watch whatever you want it to be this year so i'm really excited to share this
video with you guys without further ado let's get into it so starting out with the face of my watch
apple has some really cute face options i love that they add a lot of new ones all the time
for me what i have found is every time i switch my face to like a super cute one
i just don't find it as functional and i always end up switching it back so i don't think my face
is necessarily the cutest in the world but it's very functional for what i use it for so here is
my current watch face basically i keep it pretty simple i have my activity in the upper left which
honestly does help me stay active it's telling me to stand up once an hour and even though i usually
don't listen to it it has definitely helped and i love just tracking it right there on the front
in the middle i have my calendar i honestly can't function without my calendar and i'm not always
clicking into it so it is really nice to be able to just glance down and see like what's coming
up in the day and then on the bottom row i have my text messages on the left spotify on the right and
my basecamp app which is the gym that i go to on the right so the base camp app is like the exact
same as the workout app it's just through the gym that i go to so it tracks my fitness there so that
is the face that i have i also have a couple other saved faces that i thought were cute but again
i always end up switching back i'm a creature of habit what can i say all right so now i'm
going to show you the apps that i have and kind of in order of the frequency that i use them in
like i said i like to keep it pretty minimal i only really have on here what is absolutely
necessary i want to be able to put my phone down and know that anything that's an emergency or
something important would come through to my watch but other than that i don't want to just
be bogged down with notifications the way my phone already is so i keep it pretty minimal so starting
off i have the activity app and the basecamp app i literally just told you about those but
those are definitely my most frequently used apps on here every time i work out i click on
basecamp start a workout and what i love is that it obviously connects to your health app on your
phone i can see all of my workout stats here's from today and i just tapped a button on my watch
during class and it worked okay the next thing i use the most on my apple watch is the camera
app now here's a major major trick for you if you guys haven't already heard you can use your watch
as a bluetooth remote to shoot awesome photos for yourself so if you put your phone somewhere on a
window ledge or a tripod and then you just go ahead and open the camera remote app on your
watch and as you can see it literally shows can you see it sort of so it shows exactly what your
phone is showing and then you can literally set it to be either three second or ten second timer
okay for the sake of demonstration that works but obviously i wouldn't be like holding my phone and
doing it okay i honestly do this a lot because i have to shoot a lot of photos at home and often
don't have somebody to help me and even if they do they're not always very good so the
bluetooth remote has been so awesome like honestly life-changing another thing that's super super
handy is that i actually have my watch unlock my macbook so whenever i get close to my macbook and
i just like press the space bar or something if i have my watch on it'll automatically unlock my
computer so i don't have to type in a passcode or use the touch id so in order to set that up
you just want to go jump on your macbook go to apple system preferences and then click on
security and privacy and make sure that the box is checked that says allow apple watch to unlock
your computer the next apps that i use obviously are messages so text messages and the phone app
honestly this is going to sound backwards but having the apple watch has helped me disconnect
so much because let's say i'm at dinner and i want to put my phone away in my purse zip it up i don't
want to touch it i want to be very very present unfortunately we live in the day and age where
if an emergency happened and somebody thought they could reach you and you weren't reachable
like that would suck right and i hate that it's like that i hate that everybody expects you to
be online all the time but unfortunately that's the world we live in so what's super nice is i do
feel that freedom to be able to put my phone away because i know that if there's an emergency i'll
be able to see it on here again that's why i keep my notifications very minimal i also
like that you can quickly respond to something like if you need to they have a lot of custom
replies that are sort of already there and i'll get to creating your own custom replies in a
second so that's really nice next life-changing little pro tip is using apple pay from the watch
god it's like paying for things just becomes easier and easier and easier first you know all
you need is your phone so cool and then all you need is your watch i don't even have to get my
phone out of my purse literally all you have to do to access this is double tap the side button
and then just hold your watch near the reader at the store that you're in so very scary seeing as
it's so easy to pay for things but also super convenient especially like at the airport when
you're holding a million things and you just don't want to get anything out and you can just
do it so the next feature or function that i use a lot is pinging my iphone so if i ever can't
find my phone you just pull up on this screen right here and click on the ping button then
it'll make a noise what you may not have known is that if you tap and hold the ping button on your
watch it'll actually show your iphone flashlight so if you're like in the dark or you can't see
where your phone is but you can hear it because that happens to me sometimes it'll kind of shine
this flashlight let's do it right now haha so that's super nice i never knew you could do that
so it's a little trick for you now i've always wondered what do you do when you can't find your
watch so actually there's a trick for that you can like reverse ping if you ask siri where's my
apple watch it'll ping your watch let's see if my phone will listen and not my watch hey siri
where's my apple watch looking for your apple watch it's nearby pinging your apple watch now
so i thought that was a neat little trick next is honestly in case of emergencies so the watch has
the same emergency sos feature that your phone has but it's even simpler literally all you do
is double tap the crown button you can enable this in your settings if it is not enabled or you can
turn it off if you're worried that you'll like do that accidentally i never have accidentally
set it off but i do think it's super helpful that if you double tap the crown button it'll
call emergency services so if you're ever in a pickle um there you go i actually saw a really
interesting apple commercial for that the other day i almost cried it was like real stories of
people's lives being saved because of their watch anyway marketing it'll get ya all right and then
one of the apps that i do like looking at is sub count so i have my vlog channel hooked into this
app called sub count and it basically just shows me where my subscribers are at um not vain at all
but no really it just helps me kind of track and i think it's really cool so that's kind of my watch
and how i use it and now let's get into a couple customization tips for you so number one like i
briefly mentioned earlier you can create your own custom text replies i think this is great because
again when you're on the go and you want to be able to reply something it's really nice to have
it be a custom reply and not one of the weird ones that they have in there that you probably
never actually say in real life so if you go to your watch app and you just go on down to
messages if you click on default replies you can toggle on the smart replies but then you can also
add a replies so you could say like hang on i'm on my watch i'll reply in a second
done then when you go to reply to a message on your phone it'll show you your answer right
there you can also edit this list so get rid of all the ones that you know you're not gonna
use like sorry i can't talk right now i just feel like nobody actually says that in real life like
ever someone would be like oh my god are you okay like yeah anyway my next little customization tip
is that you can actually change the colors and the complications which are basically
like the apps on your watch from your watch not just from the watch app on your phone
are you confused yet but seriously i thought you always had to go to your phone to change
these things but it's actually not the case if you tap and hold on the face of your watch it'll
pop up this screen that actually kind of shows you your faces but you can actually click on edit and
change the colors right from your watch and then you can also change the complications like that
i never knew you could do that another thing you can do is make your app dock customize so
basically the app dock is when you just push on the side button usually either your most recently
used apps or your favorite apps will show up and to change that you'll just go to your watch app
on your phone and then click on dock and then you can change it to be either recents or favorites if
it's favorites you can choose what those are bam bam sure but yeah my camera died but that is the
end of this video thank you guys so much for watching if you could do me a favor and leave
some video suggestions down below for me to check out that would be so helpful i want to bring you
guys some awesome videos here in 2022 so yeah i'll see you guys in my next video love you so much bye