Update: Apple just uploaded the four new guided tours to its YouTube channel, as well. They are embedded below.
Apple has now updated its Apple Watch Guided Tour page with four more videos, featuring Phone Calls, Siri interactions, Maps navigation and the Music app. Apple began this series earlier in the month.
The videos demonstrate different Apple Watch features, such as taking a phone call, asking Siri for directions, getting navigation turn-by-turn directions in Maps or controlling music playback in the Music app.
What is interesting is that Apple offers users the option to intermingle features in the different videos. For instance, Apple demonstrates using Siri to make a phone call as part of the Phone Calls guided tour video. Reflecting the many different input mechanisms, Apple clearly expects users to interact with Apple Watch in a variety of ways.
Regarding the Music app, the video shows that users can choose a synced playlist in the Apple Watch companion app on the iPhone. The iPhone will then send those songs over to the watch, when it is charging, so they can be stored independently of the phone. As we previously reported, Apple Watch has 2 GB of onboard storage available for songs.
The company is still teasing that guided tour videos for Apple Pay, the Activity app and Workout app are still ‘coming soon’. As the Apple Watch is available to customers from April 24th, in about two weeks time, they are assumedly imminent. Apple should upload these to its YouTube channel shortly. For now, check the videos out on Apple.com. The videos are also featured inside the Apple Watch app on the iPhone itself.
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If you were to mute an incoming call on your apple watch will that also silence the iPhone or would that still ring?
Good question, I hear that notifications don’t ever appear on both, they will go to your watch if you’re wearing it. Might not be the same with a call though.
I tried Apple Watch on and used the interface for a while. Very cool. But it feels like the Apple Watch does a subset of things the iPhone does, only slower, more tediously and requiring two hands instead of one.
The phone feature may be what tips me into getting one sooner than later. Using the watch in a car to talk on the phone looks great to me. Not sure it will be legal in places where the iPhone is illegal in cars but if it is legal, wow.
A lot of places have “hands-free” laws regarding cellphones, and the Watch seems like it would be just fine…there’s nothing in your hand, nothing to drop, and it can be operated entirely by verbal commands.
And as long as you can use it while keeping your hands on the wheel, the cops obviously won’t see you doing anything cellphone related, anyway.
Two weeks time? You mean 1 week 1 day.
Don’t watch the Siri demo with your iPhone plugged in nearby. You will end up calling your mom.
The device seems easy enough, i don’t know what reviewers are talking about. And for those same reviewers who are also perplexed as to the utility of it, it’s obvious.
There is such a small eco chamber in the tech blogosphere that they all seem to smell each other’s farts. Reminds of of who they all lock-step mocked larger phones as ridiculous. Remember that? The guffaw each let out over larger phones..
..and the iPad. iPhone. MacBook Air.
These new videos kind of confirm my suspicions that Apple doesn’t really expect people to use the home screen much. “you can always get to _ on the home screen, but…” and then they say the easier ways like through contextual glances, i.e. music and maps, notifications, or by using siri. I think they stuck with the home screen because it’s familiar and grounds your sense of where apps “live.” If you ever get confused or lost, all you do is press the digital crown and you are back to the familiar launch-app-from-icon paradigm.
I can’t see myself launching apps often, if ever. I have a pebble with some apps installed but I never go into them. I think i’ll mostly use notifications, then glances, and for everything else I’ll get my phone out.
Really sad Apple maps still sucks and looks like it will suck here too. One of the best use cases would be walking in a city. I just got out of the subway – Maps says “walk to 20th st.” That doesn’t help me if I don’t know which direction I’m facing! The watch doesn’t have a compass!? Apple really needs to take some cues from Google maps. The direction you are facing should always be shown with and without orienting the map to that direction. Sometimes orienting the map is confusing and if you try to pan to look ahead, it takes you out of that mode.
I also don’t get why no map apps have taken a cue from video game mini maps. When my target location doesn’t fit in the view wouldn’t it be nice to show you the direction it is in with an out of screen marker.
Thanks for embedding the video’s, as Apple doesn’t have them ATM