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Do you know how to Ping iPhone from Apple Watch? We use the ping button in the control center of the Apple Watch a lot to find our iPhone. This is one of the best features of the Apple Watch. We often forget where we put our iPhone, but since our Apple Watch is always on our wrist, it can ring loudly and let us know where it is.
But we just found out that there’s another way to use your Apple Watch to find your iPhone. This is especially helpful at night or in dark places. The Apple Watch can not only ping an iPhone that is paired with it, but it can also make the iPhone’s flashlight blink. We found out about this hidden Apple Watch feature by chance the first time.
While we were looking for our iPhone, we accidentally held down the ping button on our Apple Watch. The phone was face down on our couch, and we saw a flashing light in our otherwise dark living room. Pinging makes your watch make a loud noise to help you find it in places like the crack in the couch, the hole behind your bed, or the pocket of the coat you just put in the laundry.
How to Ping iPhone from Apple Watch
If you’ve discovered that you can’t ping your phone from your Watch, it’s easy to fix. Note that these tips will only work if you have access to both devices. You can also go to the official Apple support site to know more information about this. Here are some ideas:
- Check whether the connection on both devices is proper. If not, resync your Watch and your iPhone.
- Switch off the Airplane Mode if activated
- Then Reboot both devices as it not only fixes the connectivity issues but also a lot of common ones.
- Update the software on both your iPhone and Apple Watch.
What’s the Ping Button on Apple Watch?
If you lose your iPhone, you can use your Apple Watch to find it. In the Control Center of the Apple Watch, there is a Ping button that makes your iPhone ring and flash so you can find it more quickly. You can even set up your Apple Watch Control Center so that the Ping button is always there when you need it. This function is on every model of Apple Watch, and you can use it as long as your iPhone and Apple Watch are connected.
About Apple Watch
Apple Watch is a smartwatch that you can wear. It lets you do a lot of things, like make phone calls, send text messages, and check your email. The Apple Watch came out on April 24, 2015. For the Apple Watch to work, it needs to be linked to an iPhone 5 or later running iOS 8.2 or higher and be within 33 feet of it. The watch can connect to an iPhone if both devices are on the same Wi-Fi network or if Bluetooth is used.
With the Apple Watch iPhone app, users can change settings, move apps around, choose which alerts they want, and download new apps right from their iPhone. The interface of the Apple Watch was made to fit the wrist, and you can move around by swiping and clicking. It has a real dial on the side of the watch called the “Digital Crown” that lets you zoom in, scroll, and enter data.
The Handoff feature of the watch lets users start doing something on the watch and finish it on their iPhone. For example, users can’t write an email on the watch, but they can ask Siri to write an email for them, and it will do so on their iPhone. Glances is another useful feature for business users. It gives quick bursts of information from apps on the user’s iPhone. Users can modify Glances and access them by swiping up on the watch face.