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Seminars@Hadley
iFocus 10: It’s All About the Watch
Presented by
Douglas Walker
Moderated by
Larry Muffett
May 28, 2015
Larry Muffett
Welcome to Seminars at Hadley. My name is Larry
Muffett, I’m a member of Hadley’s Seminars team, and I
also work in curricular affairs. Today’s seminar topic is the
tenth in our quarterly iFocus series entitiled, It’s All About
the Watch. Our presenter today, as usual, is Hadley
access technology instruction specialist and idevice trainer
Douglas Walker.
Today Douglas will be exploring the accessibility features
that are built right into the new Apple Watch. I also want to
make this audience note, portions of today’s seminar have
been prerecorded but Douglas is here online live to
answer what I’m sure will be a host of questions. So
without any further ado, let me welcome Douglas and we’ll
get underway. Welcome, Douglas.
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Douglas Walker
All right. Here we are with out tenth quarterly iFocus
seminar. And the big news, of course, is a certain new
product release from a certain California-based company.
Okay. Today is, of course, all about the Apple Watch.
Even though it’s been out for about a month, it’s still a very
new device and people are still very curious as to exactly
what it can do, so today we plan to discover all of the
accessibility features that are built right into our watch.
And then we’ll actually end up navigating through our
watch and checking out exactly what it can do for us. Now,
some of the gestures are very similar to how we typically
navigate through our other idevices, so if you’re fairly
proficient at using Zoom or Voiceover on your iPhone or
your iPad, then the learning curve shouldn’t really be that
big a deal to you.
Okay, so how about let’s get started. Now the Apple
Watch is made to be a companion to our iPhone and with
the update to iOS 8.3, we were given the Apple Watch app
on our iPhone. Now we use our Apple Watch app to
control a lot of our watch’s settings. And our setting menu
in our Apple Watch app look very familiar to the menus in
our iPhone settings app. Now the reason we’re discussing
our apple Watch app is because that’s where we’ll go turn
on and off many of our accessibility features.
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Now some of our accessibility features can be controlled
from our settings menu right on our Apple Watch.
However, not all of them can be accessed right from our
watch, and we’ll need to use our Apple Watch app on our
iPhone to control them. We can also use our Apple Watch
app to search for and download for new apps for our
watch. At this point, we have about 3500 Apple Watch
apps that are available for download. Now we’re going to
run into the same issues on our watches, with our watch
apps that we do on our iPhone because not all of the apps
in the app store are going to be completely accessible.
However Apple has done a really good job at making all of
the apps that come pre-installed on our Apple Watch
accessible for us. And that’s pretty great. Now the settings
menu aren’t going to appear in our Apple Watch app until
we actually have an Apple Watch paired with our iPhone.
However, we’re going to flip through them today and see
exactly what they look like as we discuss our accessibility
features.
Now, today’s seminar will be divided into two segments. In
our first segment, we’ll be exploring our Apple watch app
on our iPhone. And then we’ll stop to take a few questions
and then in our second segment, we will totally explore
how to navigate through our Apple Watch.
All right, so how about we go ahead and launch our Apple
Watch app on our iPhone. And to do that we’ll just flip to it.
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Voiceover
Apple watch. Double tap to open.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and we’ll just single finger double tap to open it.
Voiceover
Apple watch. My watch. Heading.
Douglas Walker
All right, here we are in our Apple Watch app on our
iPhone and we have been placed on our My Watch
heading at the top center of our watch’s menu here. Again,
this menu is going to look very similar to our iPhone
settings menu and we’ll find our watch’s accessibility
settings, you guessed it, under our general button. So how
about we just right flick until we find our general button?
We’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
App layout. Button.
Douglas Walker
Okay. Here’s our app layout button. Now activating this
will give us the ability to control exactly how our apps will
appear on our watch. And so that’s pretty great. But we’re
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headed to our accessibility settings, so we will just right
flick.
Voiceover
Airplane mode. Button.
Douglas Walker
And here is our Airplane mode button. Now we’re able to
turn our watch, or put our watch in Airplane mode right
here. However, we can also choose to have our watch’s
airplane mode sync with our iPhone, so if we place our
iPhone in airplane mode, then our watch automatically
goes into airplane mode, as well. And I really like that
feature. Okay, so let’s just right flick.
Voiceover
Apple watch button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our Apple Watch button. And this is where
we can unpair our watch if we need to, and so we’re not
going to do that, so how about we just right flick?
Voiceover
Notifications button.
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Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our notifications button. Now this is where
we’ll be able to control the types of notifications that we
receive on our watch. So we have the ability to turn on and
off notifications such as calendar alerts, text message
alerts, email alerts, and maybe our reminders. I mean, we
really do have a lot of control over the types of alerts that
we get here. All right, so let’s just right flick. We’ll just right
flick.
Voiceover
Glances button.
Douglas Walker
All right, here’s our glances button. Now, we’ll be checking
out exactly what glances are in just a bit, when we’re using
our watch. So let’s just right flick past this for now. So we
just right flick.
Voiceover
Do not disturb button.
Douglas Walker
All right, and here is our do not disturb button and you
guessed it, we have the ability to mute all of our watch’s
notifications. Of course just like our airplane mode feature,
we have the ability to have our do not disturb feature
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mirror our iPhone settings as well. And that can be really
handy for us. Okay, so let’s just right flick again, so we’ll
just right flick.
Voiceover
General button.
Douglas Walker
All right. Here we are on our general button and this is
exactly where we want to be, because this is where we’ll
find our accessibility settings, but before we activate our
general button, let’s look at just one more button on this
screen, so we’ll just right flick one more time, so we’ll right
flick.
Voiceover
Brightness and text size button.
Douglas Walker
Great. Here’s our brightness and text size button, and if
we were to activate this, we really do have a lot of control
over the text size on our watch, and so that is really nice.
Okay, so how about we head back to our general button
so let’s just left flick again. So we’ll just left flick.
Voiceover
General button.
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Douglas Walker
Great, and we’ll just single finger double tap to open our
general settings here, so we’ll just single finger double tap.
Voiceover
General. My watch. Back button.
Douglas Walker
All right, so we’re getting there. Our general settings have
opened and we’ve been placed on our back button in the
top left corner of our screen, so we would just right flick
until we find our accessibility settings on the screen. And
we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
General heading.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our heading, so we would just right flick again.
Voiceover
About button.
Douglas Walker
Okay. Here we find our about button, and this is where we
will find all of the details regarding our watch, so we’ll just
right flick again.
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Voiceover
Software update button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here’s where we will have the ability to update
our watch’s software. So just like updating our iPhone, it
should be easy to keep our watch updated as well to its
latest software. Okay, so we’ll right flick a couple more
times, so let’s just right flick.
Voiceover
Automatic downloads button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here we find our automatic downloads button,
now this feature gives us the option for having our apps
automatically download to our watch. Now I prefer to have
a bit more control over my apps that are synced. So I have
this feature turned off at the moment. All right, so we’ll just
right flick.
Voiceover
Watch orientation. Left wrist. Button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our watch orientation and here we’ll be
able to choose the wrist on which we are going to be
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wearing our watch. And this will be really handy for our
left-handed users, as well. Oaky, and finally, if we right
flick one more time, we will find our accessibility button, so
we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Accessibility button.
Douglas Walker
And here we are, so we’ll just single finger double tap to
open up all of our accessibility setting here, so we’ll just
single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Accessibility. General. Back button.
Douglas Walker
Great. And here we are on our back button in the top left
corner of our screen so we’ll just start right flicking through
our accessibility settings to see what we have here and
we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Accessibility. Heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay here’s our heading in the top center of our screen
here, so we will just right flick.
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Voiceover
Vision heading.
Douglas Walker
All right, so here’s our vision heading. So we know that
everything listed here will be related specifically to our
vision accessibility settings, so we’ll just right flick. We’re
going to right flick.
Voiceover
Voiceover. On button.
Douglas Walker
Great. Here, we find our voiceover settings and as
voiceover just announced, voiceover is of course turned
on on our watch. So how about we just single finger
double tap to open our voiceover settings and we’ll do
that. We’ll just single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Voiceover accessibility. Back button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here we are on our back button, so let’s just right
flick to explore all of our voiceover settings here for our
watch and so we’ll just right flick.
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Voiceover
Voiceover. Heading.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our heading in the top center of our screen
again, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Voiceover on. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
And of course, here is where we would single finger
double tap to toggle our watch’s voiceover on and off and
we want to leave it on, so we’ll just right flick from here. So
we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Voiceover speaks items on the screen.
Douglas Walker
Great. Now just like our iPhone’s settings menu, we’re
given just a few voiceover gestures here. And these will
help us hopefully get up and running. So we’ll just flick
through these. So we’ll just flick.
Voiceover
Tap once to select an item.
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Douglas Walker
Oaky, so we tap once or touch the screen to select an
item here. We’ll just flick again.
Voiceover
Double tap to activate the selected item.
Douglas Walker
And just like our iPhone, we’ll single finger double tap to
activate whatever item is selected. Let’s right flick again.
Voiceover
Swipe two fingers to scroll.
Douglas Walker
And here we swipe with two fingers to scroll. Now it’s a
little bit different on our iPhone. You swipe or flick up and
down with three fingers to scroll, so that gesture has been
changed, of course, because our screen size is so much
smaller. On our Apple Watch. Let’s flick again, see what
we have here.
Voiceover
Speaking rate heading.
Douglas Walker
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All right, so that’s it for our little hints that you get here.
And just like our iPhone, it’s pretty much given just enough
to be dangerous, but that’s actually just enough to move
around, so let’s move on from here. All right. Here we find
an adjustable bar for changing our speaking rate, so let’s
flick to that. We’ll right flick one more time.
Voiceover
Speaking rate. 50%. Adjustable. Swipe up or down with
one finger to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
All right, and we currently have ours at 50% here, which is
the default for our watch. So we’ll just leave it at that and
let’s right flick again. And you know, we could right flick or
flick up or down to change that speaking rate there, so
let’s just right flick.
Voiceover
Voiceover volume. Heading.
Douglas Walker
All right, and here we are able to adjust voiceover and
volume on our watch. And we’ll flick to that.
Voiceover
Voiceover volume, 80% adjustable.
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Douglas Walker
There it is.
Voiceover
Swipe up or down with one finger to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
And as we heard, we can swipe up or down to adjust the
value there. That’s pretty great. All right. We’re also able
to use a two finger double tap and hold on our watch. And
then we can slide our fingers up or down our screen to
adjust our watch’s value, and we might actually take a look
at that how that works in just a bit if we have time when
we’re actually navigating through our watch. But for now,
we’ll just right flick from here, and check our the rest of our
voiceover settings, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Hints on. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
All right. And here’s our hints toggle switch. Now I have
found that it is really handy to have our hints turned on
when we first begin using our watch because many of our
gestures are the same as they are on our iPhone.
However there are some that are just a bit different, so it’s
kind of nice to hear these hints when we’re first learning
how to navigate our watch. And we’ll hear these in action
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in just a bit when we’re using our watch. So we’ll just right
flick.
Voiceover
Screen curtain. Off. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our screen curtain button, and just like our
iPhone, we have the ability to have our screen blacked out
or completely dark, and you know, this is really great if we
need a little bit more privacy when we’re using our watch.
All right, we have one more voiceover setting, so we will
just right flick.
Voiceover
Speak on wrist raise. Off. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
All right, here we have our speak on wrist raise button.
Now, mine is currently turned off because I don’t want
voiceover to announce the time every time I raise my arm
up or lift my arm. That can be, can kind of get to be quite
annoying after a little while. I just prefer to have the ability
to just touch my watch’s face to wake my watch up and
have the time announced. Anyway, the option to speak on
wrist raise is here and it’s available if we need it.
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All right, so that’s all our voiceover settings. So let's go
ahead and move back to our accessibility settings to
check out the rest of our accessibility settings here. So
we’ll just find our back button in the top left corner of our
screen, so we’ll just touch.
Voiceover
Accessibility. Back button.
Douglas Walker
That right there. And we’ll just single finger double tap to
move back to our previous page here. Single finger double
tap.
Voiceover
Accessibility. General. Back button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, here we are, back in our accessibility list, so we’ll
just right flick until we get past our voiceover button. And
so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Accessibility. Heading.
Douglas Walker
Accessibility heading.
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Voiceover
Vision heading.
Douglas Walker
That’s our vision heading again.
Voiceover
Voiceover on.
Douglas Walker
We’ll flick again.
Voiceover
Zoom off button.
Douglas Walker
Okay. Here we have our Zoom, or magnification feature.
And as voiceover just announced, it’s currently turned off,
so how about we just single finger double tap to open our
zoom feature here so we’ll just single feature double tap.
Voiceover
Zoom accessibility. Back button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, here we are on our back button in the top left corner
of our screen, so we’ll just right flick to explore all of our
Zoom settings here. And so we’ll just right flick.
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Voiceover
Zoom heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay, there’s our Zoom heading on the top center of our
screen, so we will just right flick again.
Voiceover
Zoom off. Double tap to toggle settings.
Douglas Walker
All right. Again, Zoom is currently turned off, but here we
have a toggle switch for turning it on and off right here.
Okay, so just like our voiceover settings, we’re going to be
given some hints or beginning Zoom gestures here, so
let’s just flick through these to see what we have here, so
we’ll just flick through these hints.
Voiceover
Zoom magnifies the entire screen.
Douglas Walker
And it’s just a descriptor for what zoom does there, so
we’ll right flick again.
Voiceover
Double tap two fingers to zoom.
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Douglas Walker
All right. So instead of double tapping with three fingers to
zoom our iPhone when we’re on our watch, we just double
tap with two fingers there to turn our magnification on, so
let’s just right flick, see what the rest of these hints give us.
Voiceover
Drag two fingers to move around the screen.
Douglas Walker
All right, and since our screen is a little smaller, we don’t
drag with three fingers, like we do on our iPhone, we just
drag with two fingers around our screen to be able to
move around on our screen when we’re magnified there
so lets, let’s flick again.
Voiceover
Double tap two fingers and drag to change zoom.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so we double tap with two fingers and hold and then
we push up to increase our magnification on our watch,
and we’ll pull down to decrease our magnification, so
those are the gestures that can quickly get us up and
running when using Zoom. All right, so let’s flick again, see
what we have here.
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Voiceover
Maximum zoom level. Heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay. We have, this is our last zoom setting on the page
here, so and this is our adjustable bar that gives us the
ability to set our maximum zoom level. Now, this can be a
huge help, because on the watch, if we get our screen
size too large, it can really be very difficult at times to
determine exactly where we are on our screen, so having
the ability to set a maximum zoom level can really help to
keep us from getting everything just way too large. All
right, so that does it for our zoom feature, so let’s just back
out of this screen and get back to our accessibility list here
so that we can check out the rest of our accessibility
settings, so we just touch our back button in the top left
corner.
Voiceover
Back bar accessibility. Back button.
Douglas Walker
And we’ll just single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Accessibility. General. Back button.
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Douglas Walker
All right, we’re back in our accessibility list here, so let’s
just right flick past zoom and check out what else we have
here, so we’ll just rick flick.
Voiceover
Accessibility. Heading.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our heading there.
Voiceover
Vision heading.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our vision heading.
Voiceover
Voiceover on button.
Douglas Walker
Voiceover.
Voiceover
Zoom. Off button.
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Douglas Walker
There’s our zoom button that we just explored, so let’s flick
one more time.
Voiceover
Grayscale off. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
Here we have our grayscale button. Now this could be
really handy for people that might have issues with seeing
or viewing color. This does a great job to strip out all the
colors and just gives our screen different shades of gray
here. All right. And we’ll just right flick from here. Let’s just
right flick.
Voiceover
Bold text. Off. double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
Here we have our bold text button. Now we know that
Apple loves to use fonts with really thin lines. Well,
activating our bold text button will give our text a much
bolder look. It’s really going to help to make the text on our
watch much easier to see, so that should really help to
reduce our eye fatigue. All right so let’s just right flick.
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Voiceover
Reduced motion. Off button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our reduced motion button. Now another
thing that we know about Apple is that’ they’re all about
animation and they love to make objects fly in and fly out
of our screen. Now for someone with low vision, this can
be, it can really make items really difficult to follow at
times. Well, activating our reduced motion button can help
to keep items more stationary on our screen and again,
this could really help to cut down on some possible eye
fatigue for us, so that’s a great feature there. Okay, so let’s
go ahead and just right flick again, so we’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Reduced transparency. Off button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here’s our reduced transparency button. And
another thing that Apple likes to do is to make some of our
backgrounds kind of transparent. This means that we’re
able to see kind of a blurred out image of what’s beneath
what we actually want to see. So this really helps to
activate, this really helps to turn on our background into
one solid color for us. And it makes our primary screen a
lot easier to see. Okay, so we only have just a few more
accessibility features here, so we’ll just right flick.
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Voiceover
On slash off labels. Off. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here we have our on-off labels button here. Now
this is something that is very subtle. However, it really
helps low vision users to more easily determine if a button
is toggled on or toggled off. And it does this by placing a
small zero by the button if it’s turned off or it places the
number one on our button if it’s turned on, so it really is
kind of nice to have that extra little visual cue there.
Okay, that pretty much does it for our vision accessibility
settings. However, we do have just a couple of hearing
settings here, so we’ll take just a minute to kind of flick
through these, and we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Hearing heading.
Douglas Walker
Okay. Here’s our mono audio settings coming up here, so
we’ll just flick through that.
Voiceover
Mono audio. Off. Double tap to toggle setting.
Douglas Walker
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Okay, so activating this toggle switch will turn off our
stereo audio for us, and it will fore all of the audio into one
or both of our earpieces. And that can be really handy. All
right, so let’s right flick here.
Voiceover
Adjust the audio volume balance between left and right
channels.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and here we have a left-right stereo. Hang on, let
me flick back to it.
Voiceover
Mono audio. Off. Adjust the audio volume balance
between left and right. Left-right stereo balance.
Douglas Walker
Ah, there it is.
Voiceover
50% adjustable. Swipe up or down with one finger to
adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
I jumped right over that for some reason. All right. Here we
have a left-right stereo balance adjustable bar here. Now
this gives us the ability to move our audio to either our left
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or our right speaker if we might happen to have some
hearing loss in either one of our ears here. And okay. So I
think we heard it, but if we flick again, we’ll get a
description of this, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Adjust the audio volume balance between left and right
channels.
Douglas Walker
And there you go, so that’s our descriptor for that. So let’s
go ahead and right flick to our last accessibility setting
here, so we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Accessibility shortcut voiceover button.
Douglas Walker
Great. And here is our accessibility shortcut button. Now,
this is very similar to having the ability to triple click our
iPhone’s home button. To turn so that we can turn on and
off our accessibility settings, you know, like voiceover or
zoom. Now, our watch doesn’t have a home button.
However, it does have a digital crown. And our digital
crown really doesn’t act much like our home button, so we
would just triple click our digital crown instead to turn, to
toggle on and off our accessibility setting. Now, we’ll go
over the orientation of our watch in just a bit, and we’ll see
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exactly where our digital crown is located, and we’ll check
out how it works, as well.
You know, it’s really nice to know, though, that we have
the ability here in our accessibility shortcut settings to
decide how exactly how we want to use that triple click
feature there.
All right, so that pretty much does it for our watch’s
accessibility features. So before we actually begin
navigating our watch, how about we open things up to see
if we have any questions on anything that’s been covered
so far. So I will just go ahead and hand the microphone
back over.
Larry Muffett
Yeah, Douglas. We do have some questions in the text
box. Let’s jump on these first and then I’ll turn the
microphone over to the people in the audience. Number
one, JJ says which iPhone will he need to have in order to
use the Apple Watch?
Douglas Walker
Okay, now the Apple Watch, that’s a great question. The
Apple Watch does seem to work in conjunction, like we
said, with your iPhone, so you’re going to need the iPhone
5 or up, so that’s the iPhone 5, I believe it’s the 5S, the
5C, the 6 or the 6+ in order to be able to have your Apple
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Watch be able to sync with your iPhone and have it work
properly.
Larry Muffett
Elizabeth has the question I think so many of us are
thinking right now, how much does one of these cost?
Douglas Walker
One of these things cost, they’re not cheap. Especially
some of the higher-end ones. The sports edition, which is
the one that I have, I wanted one that was really light on
my wrist because I don’t want a lot of weight on my wrist,
and it happens to be the less expensive one, so they
begin at $349 for the 38-milimeter size watch. They have
two different sizes: the 38-millimeter and the 42-millimeter
which is just a little larger watch face. I opted for the 42millimeter watch face because I wanted, I have low vision.
I tell people just enough vision to be dangerous. But I do
have a little bit of vision and so I thought that perhaps the
larger screen would make a bit of a difference, and it does.
But it’s just, it’s not, I have a kind of small wrist. So it’s not
unusually large on my wrist, it works just fine.
So it starts at $349 and then you can move, there are
varying costs there, depending upon which band you get
and stuff. And then it walks up to the, I think it starts at
§549 for the Apple Watch, which is the stainless steel on,
which is a little weightier and some people prefer a little
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more weight on their wrist, so and I think you can work a
couple of hundred dollars up from that point. And then if
you have a little pocket change, or just some money laying
around, you might want to go for the watch edition, which
starts at $10,000 and that’s the gold watch and it jumps
form there up to as much as $17,000. So didn’t happen to
have that laying around, so I opted for the sports edition
and it started at $399.
Larry Muffett
Another question. Erica wants to know does it come with
the male voice or the lady voice or does it have a feature
so you can change the voice that you’re hearing?
Douglas Walker
Right now it only comes with what we know as Samantha,
you know, everybody’s familiar with the older iPhone
voice, an I think that’s probably because there’s a limited
amount of memory within the watch, so it doesn’t have
Alex that we’ve come to know on the newer iPhone so it
has Samantha, but it’s a really robust Samantha, so and
I’ve been using the iPhone for quite a long time, so we’re
used to Samantha, so hopefully in the future, you never
know. They might add a male voice, but for now, we have
the female voice.
Larry Muffett
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Jessica’s got a bunch of questions here. She said what,
what size do you recommend for someone like her who
has low vision and she says she’ll be wearing it on her
right wrist and how will this affect navigation?
Douglas Walker
When we looked at the accessibility setting on the Apple
Watch app, it did have the option for swapping the wrist,
and so you would simply just flip the side, the watchband,
you do have an array of different types of watchbands and
I would really recommend going into the Apple Store and
trying all these different watchbands. I’m happy with the
sports watchband that came with mine. But you might
want to go check it out. But you just flip the watchbands
over It’s pretty easy to do, they would actually do that for
you in the Apple Store and you switch the orientation from
wearing it on your left wrist to your right wrist within your
Apple Watch app, and it would take care of it. You would
have no problems with your gestures, they should all work
as expected.
Larry Muffett
All right, I’m going to turn the microphone loose here, so
let’s queue up and see if we have any questions from the
audience.
Caller
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Yes, this is Elizabeth speaking. I actually got a few.
Number one, I’ve got an iPad mini, and will it be able to
work with that? Number two, what exactly, what types of
bands are there for this one?
Douglas Walker
First one, no, it will only pair with the iPhones that I
mentioned earlier, so it’s not going to pair with any of the
iPads, unfortunately, so for now, it’s only pairing with the
iPhone. I don’t know if they’re going to change that or
Apple will change that in the future or not. But just the
iPhones mentioned earlier, for the iPhones 5 and up, the
newer iPhones, and so far as watchbands, oh my
goodness, there are metal bands that you can get. There
are also leather bands. Just a wide array and like I said
earlier I would really, really recommend if you’re interested
going into the Apple store and actually trying them on
because you want to get the one that works for you. So
there’s just a ton of bands to pick from, and I imagine that
in the near future, you’ll see all sorts of third-party bands
coming along, too. So keep an eye out for those, as well.
Caller
How is the sharing options for somebody’s who’s low,
who’s hearing impaired?
Douglas Walker
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I mentioned a couple in the, you know, when I was going
through the Apple Watch app settings there, so there is
the mono audio, which is really great, because it knocks
all the stereo to both speakers, which is pretty, pretty cool
for somebody with a hearing loss and also you have the
ability to balance all the sound to either your left or your
right ear so there’s not a wide, wide array.
But I think that, keep in mind, this is a very, very new
product and if we remember way back to the first iPhones,
oh, my goodness, they added so many features from the
very first one, and actually we’ve had, we’ve had a
software update on the Apple Watch just this past week
that fixed several of the bugs and changed one of the
features on there, so they’re already looking at it within a
month, we have, now we have software 1.0.1, so Apple’s
really looking and really going to make those changed for
us, so hopefully they’ll add even more accessibility
features. However, the ones that are there are pretty
fantastic, so they learned a lot from the iPhone and
they’ve really carried them over to the Apple Watch
already.
Caller
Yes, I’ve got one more thing. This is Elizabeth speaking
again. When you see your cell phone ring, and will that be
able to come through both things- the telephone and the
thing itself?
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Douglas Walker
You have the option to either answer it on your Apple
Watch, or your iPhone. So if you actually answer it on your
Apple Watch, as soon as you pick up your iPhone and
your start, and you activate your, you know, you stick it to
your ear, it automatically transfers it over to your iPhone,
which is pretty nice. And you also have the ability to you
know, say, initiate the I’ll call you back later feature and
stuff like that. So pretty great, pretty cool to be able to talk
right from your watch and I can’t wait to talk about that
more this next segment coming up.
Larry Muffett
Well, that’s a great segue. We got time for just one more
question before we need to move on. We’ll have another
question period later on in the seminar, but one more
question from the audience.
Caller
Hi, this is Anne, and my question is two parts. Do you
have to have the iPhone with you to use the iWatch? And
also when answering a call, does the two-finger double tap
answer and hang up a call on the watch? Does it conflict
with some of the three finger gestures that we’re now
using for two fingers on the watch? Thank you.
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Douglas Walker
Great question. A lot of great questions. Actually all these
questions are fantastic today. You know, that was
something that I was really worried about in the second
part of your question. I’m going to jump on that to begin
with was the two-finger answer, because I was like, oh my
goodness, am I really going to have to flick to that button
and try to answer that? So yes, it works, it works. You just
tap with two fingers and you can answer and then you can
hang up your call as well, so the two finger gesture doesn’t
conflict with any of the other, you notice that you have
more two finger gestures now than three fingers. It doesn’t
seem to conflict with any of the other gestures and
unfortunately, I answered your second one first and forgot
your first one, so can you please repeat that first question?
Caller
Yes, gladly. Do you have to have the iPhone with you for
the iWatch to work? Can you be out like for a run and just
have the watch and leave the phone and home?
Douglas Walker
Yes and no. Not all the features are going to work, but you
can sync and you know, when I’m out for exercise and my
run, there’s a great feature. I like to use it just, I know that
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I’m just going to use the watch. The watch, of course,
works. And then I was worried about my music. I wanted
to take my music with me, and I use the Bluetooth
earpiece and you can sync a playlist. Of course, you’re
limited on the size of the amount of music that you can put
on there, I think it’s anywhere to a couple of gig of music
that you can put on there. It may not be that much, but
that’s enough for a good run, and so you can sync,
develop a playlist on your iPhone and then sync that
playlist and take it with you. Of course, your text message
in your phone and all that stuff, you can leave the phone
part at home. It’s pretty much just a watch and your, an
iPod at that point, so but yeah, those two features work
and like I said, when I’m out on a run, that’s pretty much
all I use, anyway.
Larry Muffett
Douglas, why don’t we go ahead and move on to the next
section and then we’ll take some more questions later.
Douglas Walker
All right. So now let’s let the real fun begin, right? Now that
we know how the Apple Watch and our iPhone all work
together, let’s take a look at how our watch is laid out, and
at the same time, we will navigate through our watch to
see how everything works. Okay, first of all, and probably
the most obvious is of course, our watch’s face. Now,
when we stop interacting with our watch, and after about
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15 seconds, we’ll hear a little chirp audio cue, and our
watch, that means our watch has fallen asleep. So to
wake it up, all we need to do is just tap or touch our
watch’s face. Okay, so how about we try that? We’ll just
touch our watch’s screen here and we’ll just touch.
Voiceover
It’s 1:18 PM.
Douglas Walker
All right, and there we hear our time. Now I am currently
using the Mickey Mouse watch face. I know, right? I finally
have a Mickey Mouse watch that is accessible and I can
actually use. This is amazing, right?
All right, now we’re not going to get into how to change our
watch’s face in today’s seminar. However, it’s great to
know that we have ten different watch faces in which we
can choose from. Now I know that I currently have my
Mickey Mouse watch face selected. However, there is a
really great large print watch face for those of us with low
vision, as well. Now I’ve been talking for a bit and we
probably heard that little chirp audio cue there, so we
know that our watch has fallen asleep again, so we’ll just
need to tap our screen to wake it back up when we need
to. Now when we do wake it up, we’ll just right and left flick
through our screen, or our watch face, to check out the
other types of elements that we have on our watch face
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here, so let’s do that. We’ll just touch our watch face. We’ll
do that here.
Voiceover
It’s 1:19 PM.
Douglas Walker
Hear Mickey talking, it’s a higher voice there. And there’s
our time again, so let’s just left flick to see what we have.
We’ll just left flick.
Voiceover
55 degrees. Double tap to open weather.
Douglas Walker
So there we have our weather in the top right hand corner
of our screen or our watch face, and as voiceover
announced, if we single finger double tap here, our
watch’s weather app is going to open. And there we can
be given our complete local weather, so that’s pretty great,
to be able to access it from right there.
Okay, so my watch is going to keep falling asleep, and
that’s fine. All we have to do is just tap our screen, so we’ll
just tap our screen to wake it back up here.
Voiceover
It’s 1:20 PM.
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Douglas Walker
And so there’s our time. So let’s just left flick a couple of
times, and we’ll just left flick.
Voiceover
55 degrees. Double tap to open weather.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our temperature again. So we’ll just flick again
here.
Voiceover
64% battery power.
Douglas Walker
Great, and here we find our battery indicator in the top left
corner of our screen. And that’s kind of nice to know how
much battery life we have there. All right, so I believe
we’re at the top of our screen, but we’ll just left flick again
to see there. Did it again. Just to make sure. Okay, we
heard that top of list audio cue, so we know for sure that
we’ve reached the top of our screen now. However, I know
that we have one more item at the very bottom of our
screen here, so let’s just right flick a few times to find it,
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and we’ll just right flick it, fell asleep again so we’ll wake it
up here.
Voiceover
It’s 1:21 PM.
Douglas Walker
We’ll probably only have to right flick one more time so
we’ll right flick again.
Voiceover
Next event. No more events.
Douglas Walker
Okay.
Voiceover
Double tap to view your calendar.
Douglas Walker
So yeah, that’s great because here we find today’s next
calendar event, and I don’t have another calendar event
after this seminar today, so that’s pretty good. And we
heard voiceover announce that if we just single finger
double tap, we can open our watch’s calendar app to view
all of our events that are coming up, so that’s pretty great.
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Okay, so I believe that’s the last element on our watch’s
ace. However let’s just right flick a couple more times to
see what we have here, so we’ll just right flick to make
sure. We’ll wake up our watch.
Voiceover
It’s 1:21 PM.
Douglas Walker
And right flick a couple of times.
Voiceover
Next event.
Douglas Walker
Yeah, that was it after our events there, and I’ll flick again
just to hear it. Yeah, we heard our end of list audio cue
there again. Or, you know, in this case, our end of face,
watch face audio cue.
All right. I think that, you know, we really are already
beginning to see how navigating our watch is very similar
to how we navigate, you know, like through our iPhone or
our iPad. We can actually accomplish quite a bit with just a
few gestures here. Okay, so that pretty much covers
navigating it on our watch face. So how about we look at a
couple of other really useful features that our watch face
can give us here.
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Now we know that we can find our notification center on
our iPhone by performing a three-finger flick down on our
screen. Well, it’s very similar on our watch, only we will
perform a two-finger flick down instead of our three-finger
flick down, so how about we try that? We’ll first need to
wake up our watch, of course, for the tap, and then we’ll
flick down our screen or watch face here with two fingers.
So let’s do that. We’ll just wake our watch.
Voiceover
It’s 1:23 PM.
Douglas Walker
And then we will flick down our screen with two fingers
here.
Voiceover
Notification center. Mail. CNET Daily News. Apple Watch
sales to reach 36 million in its first year. Analysts predict.
Douglas Walker
Pause it there. You can pause it with a single finger, two
finger single tap there, so that’s pretty cool. All right, so we
heard our notification center open, and how about we just
right flick through it to see what we have here? So there
we first we heard an email. So I’ll right flick through the
rest of this.
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Voiceover
Messages. Kim Walker. I will pick up mail. 1:09 PM.
Douglas Walker
All right, that good to know.
Voiceover
Swipe up or down to select a custom action. Then double
tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
My wife is actually going to pick up the mail and that’s
nice. Let me flick again, see what else I have here.
Voiceover
Messages. Marvin W. Crosby. 1:15 PM. Attachment. One
image.
Douglas Walker
Oaky, so he sent me a text—
Voiceover
Swipe up or down to select a custom action. Then double
tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
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Oaky, that’s good to know. I can double tap and open that,
but I can just flick down, this is kind of neat.
Voiceover
Clear.
Douglas Walker
And I can clear that notification out of my list here, so I will
just single finger double tap, and I’ve cleared that list and
back to that Kim Walker is going to pick up the mail again.
All right, so that’s pretty cool. Let me flick one more time,
and there’s our end of list audio cue again. So we know
that that that’s the end of our list.
All right. That is pretty cool. Now we can close our
notifications by either tapping our digital crown, which we’ll
explore in just a bit, or we can perform our scrub gesture
to close it. Now, we perform a scrub gesture by swiping
two fingers back and forth across our screen. It’ very
similar to forming a print letter Z on our screen.
Now, this scrub gesture for us can really be handy
because it’s also used to take us back to previous screens
in certain places. Such as our settings menu and stuff like
that if we’re on the music menu and we want to back up,
that scrub gesture’s really nice to know there. Now it’s also
important to know that we have the ability to control
exactly the types of notification that we will receive by
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setting them up in our watch app settings that we explored
earlier.
Okay, so how about we move on and check out our
glances? But first we’ll need to close our notification
center. So let’s wake up our watch and scrub away our
notification center. Now, it may have closed itself. It has a
tendency to do that, but we’ll just see.
Voiceover
It’s 1:25 PM.
Douglas Walker
And it did. But if it were still open we could just do that
scrub gesture that we mentioned earlier and scrub it away
there. Okay. So we’re back on our watch face. Now, on
our iPhone, we can flick up our screen with three fingers. If
we want to launch our control center. And our control
center as we know gives us quick access to some of our
most frequently used settings. Well, glances on our watch
is kind of similar to our control center on our iPhone. Our
glances give quick access to small snippets or cut down
versions of our most frequently used apps, like maybe
your settings very similar to the control enter there, or our
controls for our music player, which is really handy, or
maybe our watch’s battery life that we saw earlier in one of
the elements on our watch face there. And maybe even
just today’s weather. Like I said, these are very short
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summaries, so how about we open our glances to see
how they all work?
Now to do this, we will just tap our watch’s face, first we
have to wake up our watch and then flick up with two
fingers. So how about we give it a try? We’ll just touch our
watch’s face and then we’ll flick up with two fingers here.
Voiceover
It’s 1:27 PM.
Douglas Walker
We’ll flick up now with two fingers.
Voiceover
Settings. Connected.
Douglas Walker
All right, super. So the first screen that we have in our
settings here in our glances, this is our settings, which is
really handy to have. Now each one of our glances will
have its own screen, and there are actually three different
ways that we’re able to move between these glances. One
way to move between our glances or these different pages
that we have is by using a two-finger flick to the left or to
the right. Now, this should be kind of familiar to us,
because on our iPhone, we use a three-finger left and
right flick to mean, to move between different screens or
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different pages, so we can sort of think of this in the same
way, because we’ll just use two fingers to flick back and
forth.
All right, now we’ll also hear our hints announce our
second way that we’re able to move between our glances.
And we’ll actually discuss that as we flick through our first
glance. We’ll also discuss our third way, three ways, of
moving through our glances as we explore this first
glance, so how about we check out our glances here?
We’ll just wake our watch again and just flick through our
glances here. So let’s go ahead and wake our watch. I’ll
touch its screen here.
Voiceover
It’s 1:28 PM.
Douglas Walker
And I’ll flick up our screen with two fingers into our
settings.
Voiceover
Settings. Connected.
Douglas Walker
Okay, the first glance that we encounter of course, like we
said, is going to be our settings glance here, and this
glance will have some of our most frequently used
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settings. Now the first item in our settings glance is a
notification. That let’s us know if our Apple Watch is
connected with our iPhone and as we heard, voiceover
announced our watch is currently connected to our
iPhone, so let’s just right flick through the settings glance
to see the types of settings that we actually have control of
here. Okay, so we’ll get back up and we’ll right flick again.
Voiceover
Connected.
Douglas Walker
And we’ll just right flick.
Voiceover
Airplane mode. Switch button. Off. Double tap to toggle
setting. Swipe up or down to select a custom action, then
double tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
Okay. Now this should look very familiar, because we’ll
see the same airplane mode button in our control enter on
our iPhone, and we could actually just single finger double
tap to turn it on right here, and that’s pretty great.
Okay. We also heard voiceover announce to swipe up or
down to select a custom action, and then we could just
single finger double tap to activate it. Well, this is actually
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our second way that we have to move between our
glances. If we were to flick down with one finger,
Voiceover would announce next glance, and then we
would just be able to single finger double tap to our next
glance, and of course if we flicked up, Voiceover would
say previous glance and you guessed it, we would just
single finger double tap to move to our previous glance.
Now, I kind of prefer using my two-finger flick to the left
and right, but it’s always nice to have choices here.
All right, so let’s continue through our settings glance. And
then we’ll move through a couple of our glances to check
out exactly how all of this works. Okay, so our watch has
fallen asleep again, so how about we just wake it up and
get back to our glances? So we’ll just tap our screen here.
Voiceover
It’s 1:30 PM.
Douglas Walker
Flick up to get back to our settings glance. And we’ll move
on past our airplane mode here.
Voiceover
Do not disturb. Switch button. Off.
Douglas Walker
Okay, there’s our airplane mode.
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Voiceover
Toggle setting. Swipe up or down to select a custom
action, then double tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and there is our do not disturb, which is really great.
Now, in our Apple Watch app settings, we have the ability
to set our Apple Watch to mirror our iPhone, so this means
that when we turn on our do not disturb on, our watch that
it automatically turns it on on our iPhone, so you know,
you can see what a great feature that would be if you
wanted a mute or turn that do not disturb on at the same
time. Okay, so let’s just right flick from here, so we’ll wake
it back up here.
Voiceover
Connected. Airplane mode.
Douglas Walker
We’ll pass through our do not disturb here.
Voiceover
Mute. Switch button. Off.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so here.
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Voiceover
Double tap to toggle setting. Swipe up or down to select a
custom action, then double tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
Siri loves, I mean, our watch loves to give all those hints.
Okay, so here is our mute button. Now this is kind of nice
if we wanted to mute all of our watch’s sounds. You know,
this might be handy if we’re maybe in a meeting or maybe
we’re at the movies. Now we’re all still, we’re going to feel
all of our vibrations, or what Apple likes to call those tactic,
or haptic feedback on our wrists. But all of our sounds, of
course, are going to be muted. All right, so let’s check out
our next item in our settings glance. So we will just right
flick to it, of course, after we wake everything up again.
Voiceover
Connected.
Douglas Walker
We’ll flick past our mute button here.
Voiceover
Ping iPhone. Switch button. Off. Double tap to toggle
setting. Swipe up or down to select a custom action, then
double tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
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Those hints always make me smile to hear, okay. So here
we have our ping iPhone button, and I have actually used
this feature a few times lately. If we activate this button,
our iPhone will make a pinging sound. So maybe if it’s
misplaced itself somewhere, we can actually find it. How
great is that, right? And useful. All right. Okay, so how
about we see how this works? We’ll just wake it up and
we’ll single finger double tap to activate that ping button,
so.
Voiceover
Connected.
Douglas Walker
Let me find the ping button here. There it is. And I’ll single
finger double tap on it.
Voiceover
Double tap to tog—on.
Douglas Walker
And we’ll wake up the—[pinging noise] there you go. And
got the iPhone pinging there. That’s pretty great. And it’s
really useful, too, right? Okay, so we have one more item
in our settings glance, and this is actually our third way of
moving through our glances. This last item is an
adjustable bar. So how about we just right flick to it to
check it out, so we’ll wake our watch up here.
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Voiceover
Connected.
Douglas Walker
And we’ll flick to it real quick. At the very bottom of our
screen. Oh, that was it, actually, hang on.
Voiceover
Page 1 of 8
Douglas Walker
There it is.
Voiceover
Adjustable. Swipe up or down with one finger to adjust the
value.
Douglas Walker
Okay, sorry about all that flicking, but here we are finally,
on the adjustable bar at the bottom of our screen, and we
heard voiceover announce that we’re on page 1 of 8. So
we know that we have eight pages or glances that we
need to move between or that we can move between. We
also heard that we’re able to swipe up or down with one
finger to be able to adjust the value. This means that if we
flicked up with one finger, we’ll move forward through our
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glances, and if we flick down, of course, we will move
backwards through our glances or our pages here.
Okay, so let’s, now that we know all the different ways of
moving through this, and we flicked to our first glance, how
about we check out how to move by using all these
different gestures here? In order to move between these
glances. Now, we’ll first use our two-finger flick to the left
to move to our second glance here, so let’s give it a try.
We’ll just wake up our watch and flick to the left. We have
two fingers here, so we’ll just touch.
Voiceover
It’s 1:35 PM.
Douglas Walker
And there’s Mickey, so we’ll just flick up to open our
glance settings.
Voiceover
Connected.
Douglas Walker
And then we’ll just flick to the left with two fingers to move
to our next glance here. All right.
Voiceover
Eighteen seconds.
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Douglas Walker
Okay. And now we’re on our now playing glance, and that’
18 seconds is actually how far I am into this song,
because this is actually our player, and we also heard
voiceover announce page two of eight there. Now, our
now playing glance, like I said is actually a glance that
we’ll use to control our music player on our iPhone, and
I’ve actually used this quite a bit, as well. Because for the
sake of time, we aren’t going to flick through all these
screens of all of our glances here, but all we would have to
do to get through them is just to right flick through them or
left flick through them to completely check them out. All
right, so how abut we move to our next glance? We’ll just
touch our screen again, and we’re going to listen for this
hint this time, and then we’ll just touch here, so we’ll just…
Voiceover
It’s 1:36 PM.
Douglas Walker
Back to our glances by flicking up.
Voiceover
Now playing.
Douglas Walker
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It’s also good to know that it takes us to the last glance
that we were in, too. So I’m going to touch here in the
center.
Voiceover
Play button.
Douglas Walker
Got the play button there.
Voiceover
Swipe up or down to select a custom action, then double
tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so voiceover told us that we can swipe up or down,
and we can just perform a single finger double tap. So let’s
do that. We’ll just flick down here.
Voiceover
Next glance.
Douglas Walker
Okay. So voiceover announced next glance, so to move to
our next glance, all we need to do is do a single finger
double tap, so we’ll do just that, we’ll just single finger
double tap.
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Voiceover
60% battery remaining.
Douglas Walker
Oaky. So here we are on our battery level indicator
glance. Now if we had wanted to move to our previous
glance, we would’ve just flicked up and to hear voiceover
announce previous glance. And then of course, we would
have just done another single finger double tap to move to
our previous glance there. All right, so let’s check out our
third and final gesture for moving between glances. So
we’ll just wake up our watch here and then we’ll just flick
to the right to get to the bottom of our battery indicator
glance here, and we’ll find this adjustable bar, so we’ll just
wake up our watch.
Voiceover
60% battery remaining.
Douglas Walker
And we’ll just right flick down to this adjustable bar at the
bottom. And we’ll flick again.
Voiceover
Page 3 of 8. Adjustable. Swipe up or down with one finger
to adjust the value.
Douglas Walker
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Okay. And as we heard, we can just flick up or down to
move between our glances, so how about we just flick up
to move to our next glance, and we’ll just flick up.
Voiceover
Page 4 of 8.
Douglas Walker
All right, super, and here we are on our weather glance.
Let me touch it to make sure here.
Voiceover
55 degrees. Swipe up or down to select a custom action,
then double tap to activate.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and as you can see, we are on our weather glance,
and we can start getting those hints again if we touch the
screen. You know, it really is great that we are given so
many choices for being able to move between all of our
gestures here. Now, like I said earlier, I tend to use the
two-finger flick to the left or to the right to move through all
of these glances. Just simply because it seems to be what
works fastest for me. However, hey, I am all about some
choices here, right?
Oaky, so it’s pretty easy to see how our glances will be
something that we check out pretty often. Now, it’s
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important to know that we’re able to control exactly which
of our glances that we want to appear on our watch, and
plus, we also have the ability to control the order in which
these glances are presented on our watch, as well, and
we can do this right from within our Apple Watch app on
our iPhone. So that is really great.
Okay, so that pretty much covers how to interact with all
aspects of our watch’s face here. So how about we check
out a couple of the buttons on our watch? And we’ll see
exactly what they can do for us, as well. Okay, so we’ve
mentioned our digital crown several times in today’s
seminar. Now we’ll find our digital crown on the right hand
side of our watch and towards the top of our screen here.
Okay, our digital crown looks very much like a stem on a
standard watch. It’s one like we would use maybe to
adjust the watch’s time and as we mentioned earlier, our
digital crown functions very much like our home button
does on our iPhone, so how about we take a look at the
different ways that we’re able to actually use our digital
crown?
Okay, as we mentioned earlier in today’s seminar,
pressing our digital crown once will wake up our watch, or
if we happen to have it awake already, and happen to
have an application open, it will lose it and it’ll take us
back to our home screen here. Now, if our watch is
already awake again and we press our digital crown, we
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will be taken to our app home screen. Now, this is very
much like the home screen on our iPhone. All of our app
icons will all be laid out and presented to us there. And we
have the ability, just like our iPhone to left and right flick
through the screen to move between our apps.
All right, and also just like our iPhone, once we find the
app we want, of course, all we got to do is single finger
double tap to open it, so how about we take a look at how
that works. We have to wake our watch and then we’ll just
press our digital crown once. So we’ll just touch our watch
face here, wake it up.
Voiceover
It’s 1:41 PM.
Douglas Walker
And then we’ll just tap our digital crown once.
Voiceover
Home. Clock.
Douglas Walker
Okay. We’ve been placed on our clock app, and activating
this, of course, would just take us right back to our clock or
our watch face, so let’s just right flick a few times to check
out this home screen, and we’ll just right flick.
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Voiceover
Settings.
Douglas Walker
There’s our settings app.
Voiceover
Passbook.
Douglas Walker
Right flick again, there’s passbook, so I’ll right flick again.
Voiceover
Yelp.
Douglas Walker
Yelp.
Voiceover
Zillow.
Douglas Walker
There’s Zillow, so let’s right flick.
Voiceover
Workout.
Douglas Walker
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That’s my workout app, so let’s left flick back to settings
here. Good one to look at here.
Voiceover
Passbook. Settings.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our settings app. And so how about we just
single finger double tap and open up our watch’s settings,
and so we’ll do just that. We’ll single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Mute. Switch button. Off.
Douglas Walker
All right. So there we are. Hang on, let me make sure
we’re in settings.
Voiceover
Settings.
Douglas Walker
And single finger double tap on it again here.
Voiceover
Settings. Sounds and haptics. Back button.
Douglas Walker
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Okay, so we’re actually in one of the areas within our app,
within our settings here. So this is kind of cool, ‘cause our
settings app is open, so this is, we could, this is a good
place that we would use our scrub gesture maybe to move
back. There’s always going to be a back button in the top
left hand corner there. We could interact with that scrub
gesture, and then we wake it back up here.
Voiceover
Sounds and haptics. Back button.
Douglas Walker
I could just scrub and that would move me as you’ve
heard back to our settings list here. So that’s really handy.
All right, now we could just like our iPhone settings, we
could just right flick, I’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Time.
Douglas Walker
There’s our time.
Voiceover
Airplane mode.
Douglas Walker
There’s airplane mode in our settings on our watch.
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Voiceover
Bluetooth.
Douglas Walker
There’s our Bluetooth settings, and that’s actually how I’m
going through my mixer, I’m going through a Bluetooth
device there to run us through the mixer so you can hear
the watch. All right, so right here on our watch, all right, it’s
really just, a right and left flick through this to peruse
through this. All right, so you can see our digital crown
really does function much like the home button on our
iPhone. Right, so pressing our digital crown twice will take
us back to our last open application, and goodness, since
our watch has fallen asleep, when we wake it again, we’ll
no longer be in our settings app, so we can simply just
double press our digital crown and since our settings was
our last open application, we’ll be taken right back to it, so
how about we try that? We just wake our watch, and then
we’ll just press our digital crown twice. So let’s do that.
We’ll just wake our watch here.
Voiceover
4 PM.
Douglas Walker
And then we’ll just press our digital crown twice.
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Voiceover
Settings.
Douglas Walker
And there we go. Now pressing the digital crown twice is
something I use a lot. I really do like the way it takes us
right back to our last open application, so if we were in our
weather app or any of our apps, it would take us right back
to it, just like our iPhone. All right, so just like our iPhone,
triple tapping our digital crown will toggle on or off
whatever we set for our accessibility shortcut settings in
our Apple Watch app. So this is really a quick way to be
able to toggle on and off either voiceover or zoom. Okay,
so let’s see how that works. We will just wake our watch
and then we’ll triple press our digital crown, it’s like triple
tapping our home button. We’ll triple press our digital
crown here, so let me go ahead and wake our watch.
Voiceover
45 PM.
Douglas Walker
All right, and then we’ll triple tap our digital crown here.
Voiceover
Voiceover off.
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Douglas Walker
And voiceover is now gone, right? You know, it really is
nice to have all of our gestures, and the way all of our
buttons function, it’s great having them kept so consistent
across our iPhone and our Apple Watch. That really is
nice. Okay, so let’s move on. First things first. It’s probably
a good idea that we turn voiceover back on, right, so let’s
do that. We’ll just triple press our digital crown.
Voiceover
Voiceover on.
Douglas Walker
All right.
Voiceover
Clock face. It’s 1:46 PM.
Douglas Walker
All right. Ah, we’re back in action now. All right, so well,
let’s move on. Our digital crown has one more feature, and
aside from allowing us to get to all of our apps, this is the
feature I tend to use my digital crown for the most, and if
we press and hold our digital crown, we activate our old
friend Siri. Yes, we love Siri. Well, most of the time
anyway, right? I actually love having access to Siri right
from my watch. I am constantly using Siri to set up things
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like reminders or calendar events or timers and I have
even used Siri to place a phone call, which is really great.
You know, I’ve always used, also used it to give walking
directions right from my watch, which is really nice. I am
just a huge fan of Siri here.
Now, the last way that we’re able to use our digital crown
is to use what Apple calls crown navigation. Now we’ll
need to turn on crown navigation by performing a two
finger triple tap on our watch face, so first how about we
turn on crown navigation? And then we’ll see how it all
works, so we’ll just wake our screen and we’ll just tap our
screen with the twice with three fingers here, or three
times with two fingers here, so I just got a notification
there, so we’ll have to dismiss that.
Voiceover
Leo Bissenet.
Douglas Walker
I actually got an email right there, thanks Leo. I’ll look at
that later. All right, so let’s turn on Crown navigation by
doing a two-finger triple tap here.
Voiceover
Crown navigation on.
Douglas Walker
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Okay, great. Now that our crown navigation is turned on,
we’re able to simply just turn our digital crown to move
between the items on our screen here, and we can do this.
Now, instead of having to left and right flick between them,
all we have to do is turn this crown navigation here. So
how about let’s give it a try?
Now I have found that the easiest way to use my digital
crown is just to place my index finger on top of it and sort
of roll it and put it up and pull it down here. It really does
have a really nice smooth action here, and it’s very, very
easy to turn. All right, so we have our digital crown turned
on, so how about we just wake our watch, and use our
digital crown to move through our watch face items. So
we’ll do just that. We’ll wake our watch by touching it.
Voiceover
49 PM.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and we’ll push up with our finger just make sure it’s
on the top.
Voiceover
It’s 1:49 PM.
Douglas Walker
So we’ll just push our digital crown up.
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Voiceover
55 degrees.
Douglas Walker
Okay.
Voiceover
Double tap to open weather.
Douglas Walker
And there’s our weather that we saw earlier, so I’ll push
the digital crown up again.
Voiceover
Unread notifications.
Douglas Walker
Roll it up.
Voiceover
Status bar item.
Douglas Walker
Notifications, now we have notifications, and we have a
little indicator there. So I’ll roll it up again. Ooh. A little too
far.
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Voiceover
Unread notifications. Status bar. 57% battery power.
Douglas Walker
Okay, and if I push it up again, I get that top of list
indicator that you just heard and I’ll push it again even, just
so I can roll it towards me now and towards the bottom of
the screen.
Voiceover
Next event. No more events.
Douglas Walker
Oaky, I don’t have any more events, like you saw earlier.
So I’ll just roll it a little further and you see there’s the
bottom of the screen there. You know, it really is as easy
as that. Now, I have found using crown navigation to be
very useful, especially when moving through a list of
items, like maybe an email list or maybe our settings list
that we saw earlier. Or even though moving through the
apps that we were flicking through on our home screen
earlier. Just remember that we’re able to toggle off our
crown navigation again by using that same two-finger
triple tap gesture tht we did earlier to turn it on.
Okay, so that’s pretty much covers all the functions of our
digital crown. So how about we take a look at a very last
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way that we’re able to interact with our watch? And this is
through the use of our communications button. Now, on
the right hand side of our watch and just below our digital
crown, we will find our communications button here.
Okay, it’s shaped a bit like an oval, and just like our digital
crown, our communications button will perform several
different functions and it all depends on the number of
times, of curse, we press it. If we press our
communications button once or tap it once there, we’ll
bring up our friends menu. Now, initially, our friends that
are listed in our friends menu will be imported from our
favorites list in our iPhone’s phone app. Now we’re only to
have able to have like 12 friends here, and of course we
can change who appears on our phone list by using our
Apple Watch app again on our iPhones. So how about we
take a look at how our friends feature works here. We’ll
just wake our watch and we’ll just push our communication
button once. So we’ll wake our watch here by touching the
screen.
Voiceover
It’s 1:52 PM.
Douglas Walker
And we’ll just press our communications button once here.
Voiceover
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Friends. Kim.
Douglas Walker
And there’s Kim again. All right, so now that we’re in our
friends list, were able to just right or left flick to move
through our friends, so let’s just right and left flick a few
times to see what this looks like. So we’ll right flick.
Voiceover
Kim button. Carla. Button.
Douglas Walker
Carla.
Voiceover
Caitlin button. Beth button.
Douglas Walker
Jeff. Jacob.
Voiceover
Nick button.
Douglas Walker
Just a left flick now it Kim.
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Voiceover
Beth button. Caitlin button. Carla button. Kim button.
Douglas Walker
All right, and—
Voiceover
Double tap to interact with friend.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so we heard voiceover announce that we could just
single finger double tap to interact with Kim from our
friends list, so how about we do just that? We will just
single finger double tap.
Voiceover
Kim.
Douglas Walker
Okay. We have selected Kim, and now we have several
ways that we’re able to actually interact with Kim, so
before we do that, let’s talk about what’s on our screen
here. Before we actually flick all through it. Okay, so in the
top left corner of our screen, we have a back button. And
we can activate this back button and we’ll take us back to
that friends list that we were just in. We also have a button
that we can right flick to right in the middle of our screen
here that’s called Kim right now because she’s, the person
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that’s selected our friend, and if Kim had an Apple Watch,
we would be able to use this button to either send her a
series of taps. It’s almost like Morse code, you could have
a secret code that you talk back and forth with or I could
actually send her my heartbeat right here. I guess that
would let her know I’m still alive, I guess right? Or I could
send her an actual drawing that I created on my little
screen here. I tell you, with my abilities as an artist, well, I
wouldn’t want to think about how that would turn out.
Anyway, the bottom left corner of our screen, we have a
phone button. And we can use this to actually call Kim
right from our watch here. I think that is just beyond cool
right there, and the bottom right hand corner of our screen,
we have a message button. Now, we can use this
message button to dictate a text message for sending, and
now once we single finger double tap and activate that
dictate button or message button down there, we would
also be presented with a list of prewritten texts that we’re
able to single finger double tap on and quickly send any of
those as well.
Okay, so how about we wake our watch and quickly flick
through the screen, just to check out how it looks. So we’ll
just wake our watch.
Voiceover
It’s 1:55 PM.
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Douglas Walker
Press that communications button again once, because
it’s closed on here.
Voiceover
Friends. Kim.
Douglas Walker
We’ll pick Kim here. We’ll select her again.
Voiceover
Use crown to select friend.
Douglas Walker
See, I could’ve used the crown to go through that list as
well. So here we are on our Kim list here. We’ve selected
her.
Voiceover
Kim. Kim. Button.
Douglas Walker
All right.
Voiceover
Triple tap to send tap or double tap to digital touch.
Douglas Walker
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And that’s where it gets in the haptic taps or our heartbeat
or a draw an image there in the center of our screen, so
we’ll right flick past that.
Voiceover
Phone. Button.
Douglas Walker
And here we are in the bottom left corner of our screen
and voiceover just told us that we could single finger
double tap to call Kim right here, so I’ll right flick again.
Voiceover
Message button. Double tap to message.
Douglas Walker
Of course I could single finger double tap there and
message Kim and the top left corner, don’t forget, there’s
a back button if we need to get back to our friends list
there. You know, I tell you, it is just so cool that we’re able
to place phone calls right from our wrist here. Hey, the
future’s here, right? All right, so the ability to use the,
moving along here, so the ability to use Apple Pay to
make purchases right from our iPhone was added with
iOS 8.2 and the Apple Watch also has this ability. So that
brings us to our next feature. Because pressing our
communications button twice will bring up our Apple Pay
feature. So how about we try it? We’ll just wake our watch
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and then we’ll press our communications button twice. So
let’s try it. So we’ll wake our watch here.
Voiceover
It’s 1:57 PM.
Douglas Walker
Mickey sounds so happy, so we’ll press that
communications button twice there.
Voiceover
Ready. Ready.
Douglas Walker
And what happens is it brings up our debit card here and it
says ready, which is really nice. So if we were standing at
a cash register, and we were ready to pay for our
purchase, well, of course our merchant will need to accept
Apple Pay as a payment method, right? We would just
hold our Apple Watch close to the terminal there and when
our purchase is confirmed, our watch will vibrate or tap us
a couple of times and we’ll be given a little ding audio cue,
and that would let us know that our purchase has been
approved. And that really is all there is to it. I really love
the ability to use Apple Pay. It is really, I tell you, it really is
a fast, accessible way to pay for products.
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All right, our communications button has just one more
feature, and that is a press and hold to turn our watch on
and off.
Voiceover
It’s 1:58 PM.
Douglas Walker
Actually, my Apple Pay feature just closed itself, which is
probably a good idea. You know, actually we’re presented
with three options when we press and hold our
communications button. We are of course able to turn off
our watch there. We’re able to put our watch into what’s
called power reserve mode. Now if our Apple Watch’s
battery gets really low, it will automatically go into what’s
called power reserve mode, and when we’re in power
reserve mode, our watch will only have the ability to tell us
the time and none of our other watch features are going to
be available to us at that point. Well, at least until we
charge our watch back up again.
All right, and last but not least, we’ll also be presented with
a lock button. Now if we activate this lock button, we’ll be
forced to or made to enter our passcode before we’re able
to use our Apple Watch again. All right, so let’s quickly
look at how this works before we open the room back up
for questions, so we’ll wake our watch and then we’ll just
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press and hold our communications button here, so we’ll
wake our watch.
Voiceover
It’s 1:59 PM.
Douglas Walker
And then we’ll just press and hold our communications
button.
Voiceover
Cancel button.
Douglas Walker
Okay, so at the very top of our list here is a cancel button
so we can just single finger double tap to cancel out of the
screen, it goes back to our watch face or we could right
flick. Just did that. And that’s how we would power down
our watch. It’s just single finger double tap on that power
slider button there. I could flick to our next option here in
this list.
Voiceover
Power reserve button.
Douglas Walker
And there’s power reserve.
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Voiceover
Slide or double tap.
Douglas Walker
So we could single finger double tap on our power reserve
but now if we did that, it’s important to know that we’re
going to have to restart our watch again before it will be
available for use, so just a heads up on that. Okay, I’m
going to right flick one more time in this list, whoop, it fell
asleep on me. Too much of a talker here. Okay, I’ll press
and hold our communications button. We’ll flick through
this.
Voiceover
Power reserve button.
Douglas Walker
One more button in this list.
Voiceover
Lock device button.
Douglas Walker
And it’s lock device, so if we wanted to put, to lock our
device here, make it unavailable to anyone else, we could
just single finger double tap and lock it there, so. All right.
So that pretty much covers most of what our Apple Watch
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can do for us. And of course we didn’t even get a chance
to discuss all of our watch’s apps. I tell you, there’s just too
much to cover. But hopefully, today’s seminar will give you
a jump-start on how to navigate the Apple Watch and to
be able to explore all of these great features on your own.
Larry Muffett
Hi. Douglas. We’ve got a bunch of questions in the text
box here. I want to jump on some of these before I turn the
microphone loose, so if everyone could sort of hold loose
on the microphone until Douglas answers some of these
questions in the text box and then we’ll have an audience
question and answer period. We’ve got a number of
questions here and all sort of revolve around the thing that
people have noticed that their watch goes to sleep or locks
out after a while and they want to know if the time period
can be adjusted or set to be on all the time, so that’s
question number one.
Douglas Walker
Yes. I know you noticed that. That was a big issue with
actually doing today’s seminar, and I contacted Apple to
try to find a way around it. There’s nothing in settings.
Hopefully that’s something they’ll add in the future, but you
know, it’s really, I really give this a lot of thought and it’s
really not that big a deal, unless you’re doing something
like this where you have a live seminar where you’re
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wanting the watch to stay awake and not keep falling
asleep.
So the watch is really designed not to – I mean, you’re not
going to be doing like web browsing where you keep it
awake all the time and you sit there browsing or you keep
your watch opened to do one particular event. It’s to do
really quick things, like you have an email pop in and you
just want to see who that email is or see who that text
message is, so you’re really interacting with it enough
where you’re touching it and you’re keeping it awake. So
this is sort of an unusual situation of wanting it to stay
awake, so you know, maybe they’ll give us in the future
the ability to keep it awake, but honestly, it’s not that big a
deal unless of course you’re doing a live seminar or
something like this, so but it would be nice to give us the
option of maybe just a little more time on that.
Larry Muffett
Another question. A couple of people anted to know that
you mentioned Bluetooth and how exactly does Bluetooth
play into this between the iPhone and the iWatch.
Douglas Walker
Of course you use the Bluetooth that, you know, it’s to talk
to each other. And if you’re not familiar with what
Bluetooth is, it’s very similar to like your Wi-Fi in your
home so that your computers can take to the internet or
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talk to other computers out there. Bluetooth is very similar,
except it allows devices to talk to each other when they’re
within range of each other, maybe within 30 feet or so, so
that’s what gives the ability for the watch to actually talk to
or communicate with your iPhone.
The thing that I love about the Bluetooth ability is the
Bluetooth earpiece or headset that I use when I use my
watch. That way I can listen to my voiceover through my
Bluetooth earpiece and it pairs right with my watch, so that
I don’t have to worry about other people in the room being
able to hear my voiceover as it’s speaking so that’s what
Bluetooth does, and the fact that it has the ability to pair
with other Bluetooth headsets makes it really, really nice
especially if you’re jogging or walking. Of course, you want
to be careful because you want to be ble to hear all those
environmental cues and clues as well, so you might want
to go with just a single earpiece.
Larry Muffett
Another question. Do you have any feeling about battery
life, is there any indication? I know this is a pretty new
product, but any indication on battery life?
Douglas Walker
And I tend to be sort of a power user. I use it all day until I
can figure out exactly what it does, so I’d been running
through the battery, but it usually lasts for standard use,
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checking it, you know, periodically when you have a text
message or an email come through. Of course if you sit
there and talk on the phone, it’s going to wear it out pretty
fast, but usually lasts a good day, just like your iPhone.
You just charge it at night, so I just, when I plug my iPhone
in, I put my battery in.
Now, if you want to go to power reserve mode and just
have the ability to use the clock, I will be traveling to
Europe in a couple of weeks here and so I want to be able
to last all the way over there an so I’m going to put it in
power reserve and just use the clock as I fly and it’s
supposed to last several days on just power reserve. But
remember, when you put it in power reserve, you’re going
to have to power off your Apple Watch so that all the
features will come back on. Power it off and then you’ll
have to power it back on again so that everything will
function properly after that.
Larry Muffett
All right, I’m going to turn the microphone over to the
audience, so start queuing up and we’ll take some
questions where you’ve got a finite amount of time here,
so I don’t know that we’ll get to every single question, but
let’s get through as many a possible.
Caller
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Yes. Hi, guys, it’s Elizabeth speaking again. Number one,
that was extremely cool, I’m thinking of getting one.
Number two, when you, will you have the same ringers
that you use on your telephone and the next thing, the last
thing that I’ll mention is will you be able to set an alarm
clock, an alarm on this as you would a regular digital one
or on your telephone.
Douglas Walker
Number one, yes it is very cool. I am loving my watch. I
had really mixed emotions about it. I didn’t know what it
would do for me, but it really, one thing it’s done is it’s kind
of separated me from my iPhone a bit. I mean, it has to be
there close to me, but I used to get on my iPhone and I
would, you know, if I heard it ding, and then I would go to
another app and I’d go to another, so I wasted a lot of time
wandering around in different apps where I’m actually
using my iPhone less because I look to see what that alert
was, and then I’m right back off of it. So that’s really
helped there.
So far as different ringtones, nope. Unfortunately, you get
the same ringtone. It’s sort of like a chiming ring when it
sounds like an old timey kind of soft telephone that rings
there. But if you’re using voiceover, you do, it does
announce on there who’s calling, so that’s a huge help.
And give me that last question again, if you would.
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Caller
Yes. I was just asking will you be able to set an alarm like
you would on your telephone?
Douglas Walker
Yes, you can, and I’ve used mine for alarms, and that’s
one thing that I really like to use Siri for. I’ll just hold on Siri
and it vibrates a couple of times to let you know on your
wrist to let you know that Siri’s activated, then I just say
set an alarm for 6:00 AM and then when you let it go you
get a couple more vibrations and Siri will announce that
you’ve set an alarm and the same thing with the timer, so
you can set timers or you can say remind me at 3:00 to do
so and so and a little reminder will pop up, so I am using
Siri just tons and tons on my watch. I’m loving Siri there,
so timers, alarms, all that stuff works very much like the
iPhone does.
Caller
Yes, Doug, is there any way to have the watch ding every
hour?
Douglas Walker
You know, I guess you could set, I haven’t really searched
for an app to do that. I have a Westminster chime app on
my phone that I use to sort of chime the hour like an oldfashioned clock, which is nice. But one thing you can do is
there’s a stand feature within the activity part of the Apple
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Watch on the app, the watch on the app, the Apple Watch.
You can set it so that it kind of taps you ten minutes before
the hour to let you know that you need to stand up and
kind of walk around, because my job really does consist a
lot of typing an writing work on a computer, so that’s kind
of nice to have that, but I guess you could set a timer to do
that, too, alert you in an hour. But I haven’t seen or haven’t
really checked into setting an hourly app or alarm yet.
Caller
Thank you.
Larry Muffett
Other questions for Douglas while we have him here?
Caller
It’s my understanding there is no app switcher in the watch
because most things can either be, as far as you’re
looking at stuff for the most part, so that can either be
enabled or disabled from the watch or, you know, from the
watch app from the iPhone, either way.
Douglas Walker
Right, there’s not an app switcher. The same double tap of
the digital crown, just like the double tap of the home
button. The home button of the iPhone of a double tap on
that will be like the app switcher. The double tap of the
digital crown actually opens your last used app. So there’s
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no app switcher where you can move between your
recently opened apps, but you can just get back to your
home screen and sort of flick through those apps.
Caller
Yes, Doug, John again. What is that app that you have on
the watch that’s called Yelp?
Douglas Walker
Yes, and I haven’t checked the accessibility on that yet. It
just synced from my iPhone because I have Yelp on my
iPhone. That’s really a way to search for local restaurants
and entertainment places in your area, wherever you
might be. I’ll have to check that out and see if it’s an
accessible app.
Caller
May I ask if you use ping my iPhone if your iPhone is set
to silent or, you know, you have that little toggle, that little
switch turned down and will it still ping?
Douglas Walker
Yes, it will. And I, as crazy as it sounds, I’m always losing
my iPhone, I’m setting it down somewhere and then I have
to, I was having to call myself and then it was on vibrate
and I still couldn’t find it if it was under something or
underneath a pile of laundry or who knows where it would
be. But yes, the ping feature does work even if your
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iPhone happens to be on vibrate. It’s still going to make
that little, I don’t know it sounds like an underwater sound
like an old submarine or something like that so yeah, it will
still work, which is pretty great.
Caller
I just actually want to bring up something about that. Yes,
that does actually sound like a submarine coming in or
whatever. Pretty neat. I live with a bunch of, I live with
some military folks so I know all about that.
Caller
What is force touch and how do I use it with voiceover?
Douglas Walker
Now force touch isn’t something that we got into today, but
it is a new part on the new trackpad on the new Macs and
it all started with the Apple Watch, we just didn’t have time
to stick it in here, but we’ll take a jump at it. Force touch is
a way to access different or additional options, so say if
you’re in your notification center and you wanted to clear
all of your notifications at one time, you would just touch
the screen and kind of press it just a little bit, and you’re
going to hear it say clear all and then you just single finger
double tap to clear all.
And if you’re within the music app or within your email and
you were on an email and had an email open, you could
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force touch it, and you would get different options that you
could flick between and just press the screen and kind of
hold it down, and several options would pop up to give you
the ability to maybe move it to the trash or move it to a
different folder and stuff like that. So force touch is there.
Just didn’t have much time for that today, but we were just
scratching the surface, basically, today.
Caller
So what is that thing, is that a double tap and hold or a
single tap and hold or what, what gesture would you do to
get force touch to work? Will voiceover tell you what
gesture to do to get force touch to work?
Douglas Walker
No, voiceover’s not going to tell you how to force touch.
It’s just a single tap and hold. One you touch the screen,
you just kind of press your finger down a little bit, and
that’s why they call it force touch. You touch the screen
and you kind of press it down just a little bit, but there’s so
many gestures. I tell you, a great place to get in, the
gestures is Googling maybe Apple Watch users manual,
and that’ll bring up the user’s annual for the Apple Watch.
All the gestures will be there for that. So unfortunately you
know, we only have so much time and I would love to
spend hours in here just going through this stuff. But
hopefully that’ll get you up and going what we’ve had so
far and there you go.
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Larry Muffett
Douglas, they always say in show business, always leave
them wanting more, so that’s not the worst thing in the
world that people have additional questions. I think we
have time for one more question, one more question, and
then unfortunately we’re going to have to start our
closeout procedure.
Caller
Ah, yes, it’s Elizabeth. I just want to say thanks for
everything. Holding the telephone. Sorry. I just want to say
thanks so much for everything. This was extremely cool
and that’s whatever you want to call it, that’s something
I’m going to save up for.
Caller
Can somebody provide the presenter’s email so that if I do
have further questions, I can ask questions?
Douglas Walker
Actually, I am more than happy to give my email. You can
get in touch with me here at Hadley at Walker. W-a-l-k-e-r
at Hadley, h-a-d-l-e-y.edu. So it’s walker@hadley.edu and
I’m more than happy to help in any way.
Larry Muffett
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Douglas, this has been a fantastic seminar and I want to
let the folks know that this seminar, like all of our
seminars, will be archived on our website and available for
your use anytime around the clock. Also each Hadley
seminar is now made available as a podcast which you
can download to your computer and mobile device. If
today’s seminar has you interested in this or related
technology topics, please check out the seminar archives
the Hadley YouTube channel, and Hadley’s course list.
Douglas and I both thank you for your participation, these
were really truly outstanding questions today and the
people that listened to this on the podcast are going to get
a lot of value out of it from these questions. Hadley values
your feedback. Please let us know what you thought about
today’s seminar and please give us suggestions for future
topics. One way you can do that is by dropping us an
email to feedback@hadley.edu. That’s f-e-e-d-b-a-c-k the
at sign H-a-d-l-e-y.edu. Also, we have some, we have an
identify on Twitter, so once you’re done today, at
sometime tonight maybe you can go on Twitter and use
the hashtag #seminarathadley, that spell it all out s-e-m-in-a-r-s-a-t-h-a-d-l-e-y, and you can give us feedback there
or join the discussion about today’s seminar or other
seminars. I’m going to turn the microphone back over to
Douglas for just a second and see if he’s like to make any
closing comments.
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Douglas Walker
Absolutely. First, I’d like to thank you Larry, you always
keep things going and keep all these balls in the air at one
time. I don’t know how it happens, but you do an amazing
job and I want to thank you so much. I would lie to thank
everybody else that’s showed up today without you guys,
of course this would not be possible and I see a lot of my
former students in the room. Guys, thank you so much for
showing up.
Also wanted to let you know that three new videos at
Hadley just went live on YouTube today. One is navigating
the watch face. Another one is navigating the digital crown
and the third one is navigating the communications button.
They’re just, they give you a little bit more than what we
were able to go over in today’s seminar, so you can check
those out on our Hadley YouTube channel at
www.youtube.com/hadleyschool and you want to go to the
instructional playlist, the iFocus instructional videos playlist
there. So thank you so much and take care. I’ll see you
next time.
Caller
Yes, Douglas I just want to—okay.
Larry Muffett
I want to personally thank everybody too for taking the
time to be part of this seminar and being so interactive and
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asking so many excellent questions. Again, I want to thank
you for being a part of this today and for being a part of a
very great seminar. Want to thank Douglas for his
excellent work and we’re so lucky to have him here at
Hadley, and I look forward to our next time out. Thank you.
Goodbye for now.
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