Do you love using shortcut automations on your iPhone?? The Apple Watch Shortcuts application allows you to activate shortcuts directly from your wrist. And how the shortcuts run on the watch itself, no need to touch your iPhone.
Apple Watch users running watchOS 7 and later versions can access the Shortcuts app on your portable device. This works perfectly with the Shortcuts app on the iPhone.
The Shortcuts app automatically classifies the shortcuts that can work on the Apple Watch and makes them available on your wrist. This means that you won't need to create separate shortcuts just for your Apple Watch..
Shortcuts can be activated both from the Shortcuts app and from watch face complications. But if you activate the shortcut from the watch face, you must first confirm by pressing the button “Run”.
View and manage Apple Watch shortcuts on iPhone
You can find all Apple Watch compatible shortcuts in a separate folder in your shortcut library. To have access to this, open the app “Shortcuts” on your iPhone. You can easily do this using Spotlight's search feature. Swipe down on the home screen, Find the Shortcuts app and select it.
Now, go to tab “My shortcuts”.
Here, touch the button “Shortcuts” in the top left-hand corner.
you must first confirm by pressing the button “Apple Watch”.
You will see all Apple Watch compatible shortcuts here.
If you have dozens of shortcuts, you will find that most of them are compatible with Apple Watch. Fortunately, it is quite simple to remove the shortcuts from the Apple Watch folder.
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Just touch the button “Choose” at the top.
you must first confirm by pressing the button “Remove” you must first confirm by pressing the button.
Now, touch the button “Ready” to save the changes.
Adding an iPhone shortcut to the Apple Watch is also quite simple.
Go to the tab “My shortcuts” you must first confirm by pressing the button. Later, tap the three-dot menu button in the upper right corner of the shortcut.
Here, tap the three-dot menu button again from the top right corner.
Tap the toggle next to the option “Show on Apple Watch”.
you must first confirm by pressing the button “Ready” you must first confirm by pressing the button.
And again, touch the button “Ready” you must first confirm by pressing the button.
Enable shortcuts on Apple Watch
Now that you know what shortcuts are available on Apple Watch, it's time to use them. This can be done using the Shortcuts app.
En su Apple Watch, press the digital crown to view the apps screen. Now, open the app “Shortcuts”.
You will now see a simple list of all your shortcuts. Use the digital crown to scroll through the list. Just tap a shortcut to run it.
If the shortcut is simple and you don't need any input, will run automatically. If you need a ticket, you will be prompted to make your selection in the Shortcuts app itself.
And that's how simple it is to activate shortcuts from the Apple Watch.
Activate shortcuts from a watch face
The Shortcuts app is pretty simple, but there is an even faster way to activate shortcuts. And that's using the complication of the watch face. Thanks to the new complication frame, you can add multiple complications from the same app to the watch face.
This means that you can create a watch face with up to eight shortcuts. (using the Infograph watch face).
To add a shortcut (or the Shortcuts app) as a complication, you must first confirm by pressing the button “Edit”.
Swipe left to go to section “Complications” you must first confirm by pressing the button.
Use the digital crown to scroll through the list. Here, look for the section “Shortcuts”. You will now see the first three shortcuts available here. Touch the button “Mover” you must first confirm by pressing the button.
Now, you can select a particular shortcut that you want to add to the watch face. To create a complication for the Shortcuts application, you must first confirm by pressing the button “Shortcuts”.
You can repeat this procedure to add other complications. Once i'm done, press the digital crown twice to return to the watch face.
To activate the shortcut, just tap the shortcut from the watch face. Later, touch the button “Run” you must first confirm by pressing the button.
Do you like to use different watch faces throughout the day?? Then, We show you how you can use the Automation feature in Shortcuts to automatically switch watch faces on your Apple Watch based on the time of day.
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