How to control innovation Apple Watch with hand gestures

The Apple Watch: a masterly smartwatch that can serve as an excellent extension of the Apple ecosystem. But did you know that the smart clock can also be controlled with just a few hand gestures? OMT editor Mark Hofman explains it to you.

To be fair, I needed my girlfriend to find out. After receiving a notification, the best lady squeezed her fist, making the notification suddenly disappear. According to her general knowledge, for me an eye opener that you say to yourself. This article is for the people who, like me, had no idea.

Apple Watch easy to control with gestures

Although accessibility options are primarily intended for people with disabilities, the general consumer can also benefit from the settings. For example, it is possible on your iPhone to activate a kind of secret button. By the function Tap on back it is possible to operate your smartphone on the back. In the article below we tell you more:

As an extension of this, it is also possible to operate your Apple Watch with your hand. Sounds like something you do every day, but by this I really mean something different. Squeezing your fist or touching your fingertips can make the smartwatch perform certain tasks. Think of closing certain applications or returning to the previous screen.

This is how you set it up

Very handy and setting the gestures is not that difficult. You don’t do this on your Apple Watch itself, but via the watchapp on your iPhone.

• Go to the watchapp on your iPhone
• Select the tab My Watch
• Choose the option Accessibility
• Select AssistiveTouch and turn on the function with the slider

In the section hand gestures, within the same screen, you can control which functionalities are linked to which actions. By default it is set to:

• squeeze | Forward
• Pinch twice | Backwards
• make a fist | Tap
• Make a fist twice | Job menu

There are countless functions that you can associate with an action on your Apple Watch. For example, it is also possible to Press Digital Crown, Notification Center and dock to select.