Smartwatches are becoming increasingly popular. They now offer numerous practical functions that turn the watch into a fitness bracelet, nutrition coach or mini smartphone.
With more than 9 million smartwatches sold in the past year alone, Samsung’s Galaxy Watches are among the most popular watches on the market.
We’ll show you below which cool functions you can use with the smartwatches.
Galaxy Watch Tips and Tricks: These 3 Features You Should Know
1. Select a new watch face
You can customize the design of your smartwatch to suit your taste. You can find various clock faces either pre-installed on your watch or you can download new designs from the Galaxy Store.
If you want to change the look of your watch, you can do this in two ways:
- Change your watch face using the Galaxy Wearable app: Download the
Galaxy Wearable Companion App on your smartphone to connect the watch to your mobile phone.Then tap the “Explore” tab in the wearable app, open the Galaxy Store and go to “Recommended watch faces and more”.
Once you have found a suitable watch face, tap My watch faces> Customizeto change the watch’s interface. Here you can change the design and the background color as well as add or remove widgets.
- Customize the watch face directly from the smartwatch:
Touch and hold your finger on the watch face to enter edit mode. Then swipe left, tap Galaxy Store, then tap Watch Faces. Once you find a design you like, install it and apply it through the settings.
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2. Reply to messages with Quick Response
If you want to respond quickly to a message but don’t have your cell phone at hand, you can use your watch to do a “Quick Responese”. Possible replies will appear at the bottom of incoming messages as soon as you open them on your watch. To choose one of the reply, just swipe up or down, then choose a quick reply, then tap the arrow to send it.
If you don’t like any of the given quick responses, you can simply adapt them:
- Open the Galaxy Wearable app on your phone and tap “Quick Response”. Then go to the plus symbol and enter your answer that you like and then tap on “Save”.
3. Automatic fall detection and “SOS messages”
In order to be able to reach someone in the event of a fall or other emergency, even if the mobile phone is not within range, you can activate the automatic fall detection. Your watch will then recognize that the person wearing the watch has fallen and may need help. If the option is active, an alarm sounds and vibrates for 60 seconds, while a popup appears for 60 seconds.
You can either cancel the alarm or send an SOS immediately with a swipe movement. If you do not respond for 60 seconds, an SOS message is automatically sent to your emergency contacts.
Start the Galaxy Wearable app and go to the “SOS” menu item. Then activate the fall detection and set up an emergency contact to be contacted under “Create contact” or “Select from contacts”. notice: Make sure that the phone numbers of your contacts are always up to date so that they can be reached in the event of an emergency.