Apple posts Apple Watch 'Guided Tours' for Phone Calls, Siri, Maps and Music [updated with video]
Apple on Wednesday added four more videos to its Apple Watch Guided Tours webpage covering Phone Calls, Siri interaction, Maps navigation and Music playback.
The latest releases follow three virtual tutorials discussing watch faces, messaging features and Digital Touch posted to Apple's webpage earlier this month. With its Guided Tours webpage, the company is offering early explainer guides while at the same time drumming up interest in Watch before preorders arrive on April 24.
Today's videos concentrate on more advanced device features like placing and receiving voice calls using Watch's built-in speaker and microphone. Users can access phone functions by tapping on the dedicated app, accessing friends via the device's side button or invoking Siri. On-screen user interface controls include handing off calls to iPhone, ending calls, muting Watch's microphone and more.
Apple says Siri may be fastest way to interact with Apple Watch. Activating Siri is as easy as raising Apple Watch and saying, "Hey Siri." It appears Siri is as full-featured as its iPhone counterpart and is able to open apps, set alarms and access information from the Internet.
Apple notes users can access turn-by-turn navigation directly on their wrist using Maps. The app will load when a user taps on detected addresses from Messages or other text, finding Maps in Glances or navigating to the home screen app icon. In Maps, a Force Touch brings up recent search options, including recent queries and button to search via dictation. Results return with location data, contact information, reviews and a selector for walking or driving directions. Navigating on iPhone automatically pushes the same data to Watch, which can provide haptic taps for upcoming turns.
Finally, Apple highlights Music capabilities like streaming over Bluetooth, both from iPhone and to Bluetooth or AirPlay speakers, playing loaded songs and browsing music libraries. The video is one of the first to explore Glances, which in this case involves swiping up to see the Now Playing screen. Here, music playing on an iPhone will automatically appear on Apple Watch.
The video A Force Touch gesture brings up a settings screen where users can select audio sources. Storing music on Apple Watch entails connecting the wearable to its charger, opening the Apple Watch app on iPhone and creating a synced playlist under Music settings.
Apple's Guided Tours webpage shows three tutorials covering Apple Pay, Activity and Workout as coming soon. The videos should be up by next week, as the first Apple Watch orders are expected for fulfillment on April 24.
The latest releases follow three virtual tutorials discussing watch faces, messaging features and Digital Touch posted to Apple's webpage earlier this month. With its Guided Tours webpage, the company is offering early explainer guides while at the same time drumming up interest in Watch before preorders arrive on April 24.
Today's videos concentrate on more advanced device features like placing and receiving voice calls using Watch's built-in speaker and microphone. Users can access phone functions by tapping on the dedicated app, accessing friends via the device's side button or invoking Siri. On-screen user interface controls include handing off calls to iPhone, ending calls, muting Watch's microphone and more.
Apple says Siri may be fastest way to interact with Apple Watch. Activating Siri is as easy as raising Apple Watch and saying, "Hey Siri." It appears Siri is as full-featured as its iPhone counterpart and is able to open apps, set alarms and access information from the Internet.
Apple notes users can access turn-by-turn navigation directly on their wrist using Maps. The app will load when a user taps on detected addresses from Messages or other text, finding Maps in Glances or navigating to the home screen app icon. In Maps, a Force Touch brings up recent search options, including recent queries and button to search via dictation. Results return with location data, contact information, reviews and a selector for walking or driving directions. Navigating on iPhone automatically pushes the same data to Watch, which can provide haptic taps for upcoming turns.
Finally, Apple highlights Music capabilities like streaming over Bluetooth, both from iPhone and to Bluetooth or AirPlay speakers, playing loaded songs and browsing music libraries. The video is one of the first to explore Glances, which in this case involves swiping up to see the Now Playing screen. Here, music playing on an iPhone will automatically appear on Apple Watch.
The video A Force Touch gesture brings up a settings screen where users can select audio sources. Storing music on Apple Watch entails connecting the wearable to its charger, opening the Apple Watch app on iPhone and creating a synced playlist under Music settings.
Apple's Guided Tours webpage shows three tutorials covering Apple Pay, Activity and Workout as coming soon. The videos should be up by next week, as the first Apple Watch orders are expected for fulfillment on April 24.
Comments
Unless I'm stupid, this article doesn't give any actual link to the tours. WTF?
Be bold, be a rebel, think outside the multiple choice options, be a crazy one --- try clicking on the link 'virtual tours' in the story (I know the wording is a bit out of context). Are those the droids you are looking for?
If you use Safari, you cannot see them! Open Chrome or Firefox.. they show up..
wow.. opps.. rofl!
No, it's Apple's Website.. LOL
If you use Safari, you cannot see them! Open Chrome or Firefox.. they show up..
wow.. opps.. rofl!
Apple--- those pranksters!
Interesting, so you cannot transfer music to the watch unless its on its charger. Maybe it's a battery saving measure considering transferring 2GB of music might take a while? I wonder if that will be a restriction for any other file transfers in and out of the device?
I bet if you ask her to search the web for something she can't do it (no safari). Either that or she shows you the results on your iPhone.
Finally!
On edit: LOL! Of course the Siri tour alerted my iPhone 6 Plus with 'Hey Siri.'
Extremely well conceived, and educational. I've already shared them with a few people I know considering the watch. Really demystifies the OS and makes the watch super accessible. Actually, almost every aspect of the Apple Watch's launch and lead-up has been close to genius. IMO they've handled everything extremely well, and obviously a ton of thought and consideration has gone through the entire process, from the store setup, to the marketing, to the SKUs.
What kind of files would you want to transfer to a watch? Why?
Interesting, so you cannot transfer music to the watch unless its on its charger. Maybe it's a battery saving measure considering transferring 2GB of music might take a while? I wonder if that will be a restriction for any other file transfers in and out of the device?
I'm thinking your right. You probably could transfer it while on your wrists, but you'll kill the battery.
What kind of files would you want to transfer to a watch? Why?
Also, the watch does not have a user-exposed file system, you cannot sideload apps, it does not have an SD slot, removable battery or stylus support. It is not "open", and it doesn't come infested with adware. For these reasons, it will obviously fail.
I mean for crying out loud, an entirely new OS for this. Not just a simple Monochrome LCD with some functions hardwired on to a circuit board, if you know what I getting at.
This thing is sick! And yeah they came out a little late, but a whole OS takes a little bit of time like say 2-3 years minimum? sheesh.... Don't get me wrong because they have resources but we are talking about Apple can now almost make independent devices in the future and just crank out OSes for them, like Windows used to do for simple machines. And then they all can just interface with iPhone? wow, it's possible. I mean this watch could be any type of device.
Not only all of this they had to get the style worked out. This is really cool.
Siri and the Digital Crown are the main user interface for the ? watch.
The videos confirm this:
1. From the phone call video: "You can press the contact button, BUT an easier way is to ... "
2. From the music video: "You can use the homescreen, BUT an easier way is to ... "
It is as Apple already know themselves what offers the best user experience. The dedicated contact button and (bubbly) homescreen are cluttering the user experience. They shouldn't be on the watch.
That said, I'm with you on the button. The digital crown seems like a completely elegant solution that should have been able to handle most everything, along with the touch screen. And the "contacts" button is twice as big as the digital crown but only does one thing. And again, I'm not sure how useful that one thing is, considering that to use your contacts it's probably gonna require Siri unless it's to send a heartbeat or a custom drawn smiley face. And I don't care how cool that is, it's not why anybody is buying this thing. So why devote and entire button to it? My guess is, it's a "panic button", for Apple. It gives them a way to solve a future problem, or add additional features down the road.possibly used for harwdware resets. But why does it have to be so large?
As for the bubbly home screen, well, you kind of have to have a home screen, the only other alternative is a scrolling list of apps. And frankly, I'd prefer to have some other way to interface with the watch than Siri.
And that's to say nothing of what third party apps may allow. Apple doesn't allow video as far as I know, but will that restriction apply to a third party app? And what about PDF documents? I have to wonder also about e-mail ... Is anything stored locally on the watch, or is it just a remote display for what's on the phone? I'm imagining some situations where you might head out for a jog, without your phone, and while out think of something, or want to respond to an email -- will it be on the watch to draft a response to be sent when you return to your phone? Will attachments be included if any email is stored on the watch? I suppose worst case you could dictate your thoughts to a note and then access that on your phone when everything synchs again.
To your point, most time it takes see how others do something completely wrong before you figure out how it should be done. Apple has a great track record of looking around and seeing all the poor conceive ideas or products and realizing how it should be done. Trust me I was one who first did not get the whole watch things and could not see how people would want a watch like this. However, I am also smart enough to realize I am not the norm and just because I can not see the immediate value does not mean others would see it an buy it. I chose this time not wait and put my full faith in Apple and buy with just the Apple Hype machine in full swing and bet on they got it right.