After virtually a decade of utilizing the Apple Watch, you may suppose you’d know all the guidelines and tips by coronary heart. However this one could shock you—and I’ve to confess I had by no means heard of this ingenious little trick making the rounds on Reddit.
It includes a primary perform that’s been inbuilt for the reason that first model of watchOS, the one that allows you to ping your iPhone through the Apple Watch’s Management Middle (offered the iPhone is inside Bluetooth vary of the watch). Everyone knows how this easy and helpful perform works—all it’s a must to do is deliver up the Management Middle in your watch by urgent the aspect button. Then faucet the ping icon, which depicts a ringing iPhone, and also you’ll hear a loud ringing on the telephone so you’ll be able to find it.
However right here’s the trick: if you happen to faucet and maintain the icon, you’ll additionally obtain visible suggestions along with the acoustic ping: the LED gentle on the again of the telephone will flash briefly. That is notably helpful in darkish rooms, so you’ll be able to simply see the place your iPhone is hiding.
On appropriate units such because the iPhone 15 and the Apple Watch Sequence 9, the lengthy faucet additionally brings up the Precision Discovering interface, which helps navigate you to the telephone. The iPhone emits an acoustic sign as soon as and the directions on the watch show present you the gap to the smartphone and its approximate course. If the iPhone is within the speedy neighborhood, the Apple Watch show lights up inexperienced and the iPhone rings twice.
Through the search, you’ll be able to ping the iPhone repeatedly; the icon for this seems within the backside right-hand nook of the show. Simply observe that the iPhone should be locked for the LED sign to work when pinging the Apple Watch. If the iPhone is unlocked, you’ll solely get the audio ping.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication Macwelt and was translated and localized from German.