Using Force Touch With Notifications
If the notifications are piling up on your Apple Watch, Force Touch can easily help you clear them all at once.
Manage Apple Watch Faces
Force Touch can also help you give your Apple Watch a new, customized look, or delete the watch faces you no longer want to use.
Create and Customize Apple Watch Faces
Create a Watch Face From a Photo
Create your own watch face using any photo in your library.
Delete Apple Watch Faces
If you have old faces on your Apple Watch you don’t want to use anymore, Force Touch will help you get rid of them.
Change the App Display Options
By default, Apple Watch apps appear in a honeycomb-like pattern that you can customize through the Watch app on your iPhone, but it isn’t always easy to find things this way. If you’d rather have an alphabetical list of your apps, Force Touch can help.
Change Settings in Activity
Force Touch works in the Activity app to help you check your progress and change some settings.
Using Force Touch in Calendar
Your Apple Watch’s Calendar app contains several options that become available with Force Touch. Here’s how to use Force Touch to manage your events.
Choosing the View in Calendar
Calendar lets you look at your upcoming events and appointments in four different ways: List, Up Next, Day, and Today. When you have one view open, use Force Touch to open a menu that lets you choose one of the other three.
Getting Directions to an Event
Force Touch can help you easily find directions to an event from your Calendar.
Using Force Touch with Maps
The Apple Watch Maps app also has some Force Touch options:
From the Map screen, switch between the Standard Map and the Transit Map with a touch.Use the Search option to browse nearby businesses and search for specific places using either dictation or Scribble.Look up your contacts’ addresses if they’re saved in your phone.If you’re in the middle of going somewhere and decide you don’t need help anymore, Force Touch in the middle of navigating, then tap End to stop the step-by-step instructions.
How to Use Force Touch With Camera
The Apple Watch can serve as a remote for the camera on its paired iPhone. The smaller screen doesn’t provide enough space for all the controls you might need, but Force Touch can bring up the rest. Use it to flip between the iPhone’s forward and rear-facing modes, turn the flash on or off, use HDR Mode, and toggle Live Photos on and off.
Changing the Language in Mail and Messages
The iPhone and Apple Watch support dozens of languages for both text and dictation, and if you’re multilingual, it’s quick to switch between them.
Other Uses in Mail and Messages
If you’re reading your emails and messages on your Apple Watch, Force Touch gives you some options:
Press the screen with a message open to choose to reply, flag, trash, archive, or mark as unread.Create a new email from your inbox with Force Touch by pressing the screen and then taping New Message.With a Messages thread open, use Force Touch to reply, see the details of the contact, and send your location to your friend.
Using Force Touch in Stocks
If you use Stocks on your Apple Watch to keep an eye on your investment portfolio, Force Touch will help you manage the info from your wrist.
Changing Homes in Home
The Home app is a central hub that lets you control all the smart devices in your house. It even lets you set up multiple locations. From the main screen, use Force Touch, tap Change Home, then tap the location you want to start controlling.
Show or Hide Completed Tasks in Reminders
If you keep a to-do list in the iPhone’s Reminders app, you can look at everything on it from your Apple Watch. Using Force Touch, select whether to show or hide the items you’ve crossed off. Press the screen, then tap either Hide or Show Reminders to change the setting.
How to Use Force Touch with Remote
Remote lets you control your Apple TV or iTunes Library from your wrist. Press the watch screen to add another device or manage the ones you already have set up.
Remove a Card From Apple Pay
If you have any credit or debit cards saved to use with Apple Pay, you’ll find them stored in the Wallet app. To remove ones that have expired, or just ones you don’t want to be saved anymore, tap the card, press the screen, and then tap Remove Card.
How to Use Force Touch With Weather
The Weather app gives you a quick idea of what the conditions are like in your location and other areas you monitor. Force Touch can bring up more options.
How to Use Force Touch With the Clock App
The Apple Watch breaks the iOS Clock app into four iterations: World Clock, Timer, Alarm, and Stopwatch. Force Touch has special applications in most of them.
