How to manage Glances on the Apple Watch
From customizable clock faces to notifications, quickly referencing important information without having to dive into an app is a key feature of the Apple Watch. Dubbed Glances, users can access these bits of information with just a single swipe.
From the clock face of your Apple Watch, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to access any enabled Glances. Swipe left and right to scroll through all the Glances activated on your Watch, like the built-in Now Playing Glance.
Users can add, remove and rearrange Glances using the Apple Watch app on their iPhone.
From the main screen of the Apple Watch app, scroll down to the list of apps. Tap on the name of an app to see if there is an available Glance.
To install the app on your Watch, toggle the Show App on Apple Watch option to the "ON" position. To enable the accompanying Glance, turn on the Show in Glances option.
To rearrange your Glances, return to the main screen of the Apple Watch app and tap Glances towards the top.
Here you will see currently enabled Glances in the upper list, while those configured not to show up on Watch reside in the Do Not Include.
Tap and hold on the three horizontal line symbol to drag and rearrange your Glances. To quickly remove a Glance from the Watch, tap the red minus (-) button or to add, tap the green plus (+) icon to the left of each app. The Settings Glance cannot be removed.
From the clock face of your Apple Watch, swipe up from the bottom of the screen to access any enabled Glances. Swipe left and right to scroll through all the Glances activated on your Watch, like the built-in Now Playing Glance.
Users can add, remove and rearrange Glances using the Apple Watch app on their iPhone.
From the main screen of the Apple Watch app, scroll down to the list of apps. Tap on the name of an app to see if there is an available Glance.
To install the app on your Watch, toggle the Show App on Apple Watch option to the "ON" position. To enable the accompanying Glance, turn on the Show in Glances option.
To rearrange your Glances, return to the main screen of the Apple Watch app and tap Glances towards the top.
Here you will see currently enabled Glances in the upper list, while those configured not to show up on Watch reside in the Do Not Include.
Tap and hold on the three horizontal line symbol to drag and rearrange your Glances. To quickly remove a Glance from the Watch, tap the red minus (-) button or to add, tap the green plus (+) icon to the left of each app. The Settings Glance cannot be removed.
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It's no more complex than what you'd do on an iPhone.
However, I can understand your preference for the simplicity of the more basic Pebbles watch. That's why more than one company can exist in the market place.
Only quibble about Glances I have is that they are not directly available when using the Workout app. Hope they fix this in 1.1 update.
This is a bit fiddly but I think it needs to be and I also think it needs to be a bit more fiddly. I certainly have learned quite quickly how to set this up and have spent much of the week working on identifying the apps that have info I want to glance and sorting them properly on the watch.
My impression is that some apps developers have worked out how to use the glance feature and others have not (no surprise the NYT is the in the latter category in my view). I also think that some apps should allow choice on different glances for their app that you would select in the iPhone app. For example, maybe you want to glance at a favourite players stats, or the results of a favourite team, or a set of divisional standings. The glance metaphor needs you to be able to choose between these depending on your personal preference
Apple want to make a very "personal" piece of kit. There is a world of information out there and the information that different people will want to glance at quickly on their wrist will vary greatly. The flexibility and fiddliness is needed to allow people to set up a watch that shows just what they want.
Way too much complexity for most people. This is over the top. Whatever turns some people on. There is always the pebble.
It's amazing how you persistent anti Apple Watch trolls are always the first to jump in and comment in these threads, with a blatantly predictable and useless comment. You've been shitting on the Apple watch since day 1, and everyone already knows exactly what you're gonna say, about every single aspect of the device. Yeah, swiping from the bottom of the screen is insanely "complex". And Apple included options to customize these- the horror. cause you know, it's not like people are always bitching about Apple not giving enough customization options, right? Those that don't want to delve into this can leave everything at the defaults. Those that want to customize will, just like every other Apple device.
I owned the pebble, and sold it. I know it inside and out. It was fine for notifications, but otherwise useless. Comparing the Apple Watch to the pebble is ridiculous. It has a trash, low resolution screen, is ugly, and ridiculously limited. For basic functions like what you would use on the pebble, I don't see how the Apple Watch is any more "complex". But feel free to use and enjoy the pebble, if that will stop you on shitting in every thread of this nature. You know what makes trolls like you so obvious? Is that you hate on EVERY single hardware/software aspect of this product, all the marketing, and every single thing to do with it. If you didn't have an agenda, you would inevitably like SOME aspect of it, even if you criticized others. But nope, everything about it is a disaster- of course.
He certainly hasn't got the subtlety of Gatorguy when doing that, that's for sure.
Way too much complexity for most people. This is over the top. Whatever turns some people on. There is always the pebble.
If your not smart enough to own a smart watch then perhaps a Timex® would be more to your liking?
Way too much complexity for most people. This is over the top. Whatever turns some people on. There is always the pebble.
So, you're saying that setting up the iPhone is too complex for most people?
Well, that presents difficulty, since you need a working an iPhone for 95% of the Watch's functionality to work.
People shouldn't have to be smart to own complex devices. Apple made a decision to try and dissuade people using the watch for too long because your arm would get tired and software configuration will come into this. However, it means having to juggle a lot between the phone and the watch. You have to see what a Glance is showing to know it's going to be useful so you have to take out the phone, enable the Glance, let the watch update, check out the Glance on the Watch and either leave it or go back to the phone to rearrange it or remove it and then back to the watch to check the change.
People might only do this once but this could hamper the use of Glances. For every new app, people would have to do this process.
There could have been a mode on the Watch like Force Touch the home screen and choose an option to configure Glances. You'd then just tap an icon on the homescreen, which would open its Glance and if you liked it, swiping right would let you position it among other Glances using a Coverflow view. Swipe any other direction could dismiss it and swipe up on Glances view could remove a Glance with confirmation. No jumping back and forth.
Having the option to do setup on the phone makes it more comfortable and saves the Watch battery but they could do it both ways in the same way you can arrange iPhone icons using iTunes on the Mac as well as on the phone. It wouldn't be very good if using iTunes was the only way to rearrange icons.
Pebble has asked its fans to spread the word about the Pebble watch on social media, online, by word of mouth, etc, and this guy gets in a mention and now we're all talking about the Pebble instead of the Apple Watch, which was the topic of the article. See what he did there? Pebble scored some free advertising. No, he's not subtle.
If your not smart enough to own a smart watch then perhaps a Timex® would be more to your liking?
Well, indeed I do own a Timex. How did you know? I paid $25 for it and it works great.
Complexity and being smart are two different things.
Remember how simple the iPad is? One button to go home. A computer that is intuitive from the moment a person of any age picks it up? Well, the "iWatch" has way too many steps and instructions. Was it Gruber (or someone else) who said it took them 3 painful days to learn their watch.
Just talking for me: if I was running Apple, I'd make everything (all apps) pretty much the same (limiting functionality) and three buttons or touches deep to get to something. This watch is OUT OF CONTROL.
just my opinion and wants. I'll get a Pebble if it comes to that. Keep it simple. That is what Jobs was about.
Remember the iPod? Steve J. said 3 buttons to get to any song you wanted. Drove the designers crazy. Well, they did it. Very simple. Very simple (but not easy). Now the watch is complex (and not easy).
I stand by my words. Just my opinion. I want a watch and APPS I can pick up and use immediately without a lot or little learning curve. like an iPod. Will it be limited? You bet your butt it will. Will it be easy to use? I'd think so!!! Sue me. Go ahead. The iWatch will be super-niche. Only for diehard tech people who like that sort of thing. Pebble has legs to stand on. They know that their way is to keep it simple. Good for them.
You know what? There is WAYYYYYYYYYYYY too much to remember about the Apple Watch - when you have a bunch of apps. And don't forget, in the history of hundreds of years of watches, people are having issues with the (digital) crown being sticking due to sweat. Really?
So using an iPhone to configure an accessory to the iPhone is too confusing? how strange. I would expect people using an iPhone to be able to use an iPhone. Since they're, you know, using an iPhone in the first place.
Good thing I can set them both in my lap as I do this. Has not been a problem.
That you call it an iwatch is proof that you're just trolling.
I suspect you've never used the watch, and I know you don't own one. I do and it's absolutely no big deal.
A Mac has more than one button -- how's that working out for them? pretty well. Different tools work differently.
Tho in practice the watch only has one button - pushing the crown, which toggles between apps home and watch face home, the two main modes of the device.* Turning it is just scrolling and not a button. The contacts button is a second button, but you only ever use it to send a tap or drawing to somebody else, which is uncommon enough to not be worrying whether you need to use that button for normal operation.
Just not a big deal.
*I find apps of limited use and suspect they will be downplayed. Apps like Yelp or Amazon suck on a small screen. To me the glances of relevant bites of info are more the point.
That you call it an iwatch is proof that you're just trolling.
I suspect you've never used the watch, and I know you don't own one. I do and it's absolutely no big deal.
A Mac has more than one button -- how's that working out for them? pretty well. Different tools work differently.
Tho in practice the watch only has one button - pushing the crown, which toggles between apps home and watch face home, the two main modes of the device.* Turning it is just scrolling and not a button. The contacts button is a second button, but you only ever use it to send a tap or drawing to somebody else, which is uncommon enough to not be worrying whether you need to use that button for normal operation.
Just not a big deal.
*I find apps of limited use and suspect they will be downplayed. Apps like Yelp or Amazon suck on a small screen. To me the glances of relevant bites of info are more the point.
The second button is very useful, press it twice and pay!
That's it. That's all! Fully configured and ready to use!!!
Sure - the options are there to let me rearrange the icons and the glances if I so desire - and I did do it - not because they needed reorganizing - mostly just to try out the feature. The process for doing this may sound complex, even completely unfathomable to you when you read it - but in real life, it is extremely simple, straightforward and also 100% optional!
LOL! You would limit features and functionality in favor of simplicity? That's moronic! Just because *you* don't have the mental capacity to understand a simple interface shouldn't require that the rest of suffer with a lesser product just so that you don't feel bad about your own mental capacity and limitations.... Just go ahead and ignore those extra options and I'm sure you'll find that in real life, the watch self-configures to a state that even *YOU* are able to operate regardless of the fact that you struggle to understand the written description of the features.
I love this watch more and more every day I own it! I originally thought it would be more of a novelty than a productivity aid - but in only 4 days, it has already proven itself much more capable than I had originally thought and is making my life slightly better and slightly easier in many unanticipated ways!
So, here's how I came to knock off the ones I don't need:
I use the Modular watchface, and with it, I've added all the necessary pieces of information I want to see when I lift my Watch:
Calendar Summary
Specific World Clock
Temperature
Activity Summary
Now, because I can tap on each one of those to go to the app, the Glance for that app is no longer necessary.