Mirroring an Apple Watch to your iPhone may at first sound redundant. What are you able to do on an iPhone which you can’t on an Apple Watch? The function, out there in Settings > Accessibility > Apple Watch Mirroring in iOS, is designed primarily for folks with bodily or motor disabilities, Apple says, extending the utility of the Apple Watch’s vitals monitoring, voice-activated choices, and different options and not using a requirement of getting to at all times work together with the watchOS faucet, rotate, and press interface. Activating mirroring permits you to use Voice Management, head monitoring, and different assistive options solely out there by an iPhone.
Nevertheless, most accessibility options lengthen their utility far past their core viewers. Many individuals could discover it helpful to generally or commonly entry their Apple Watch through mirroring on an iPhone to regulate settings or carry out actions which are fiddly, seem with very small kind, or require extra precision than we are able to pull off at a given time.
Examine necessities and set standby choices
To make use of Apple Watch Mirroring, that you must have an Apple Watch Collection 6 or later (excluding the Apple Watch SE) operating watchOS 9 or later and paired with an iPhone 8 mannequin or later with iOS 16 or later put in. Your Apple Watch and iPhone have to be on the identical Wi-Fi community, and each should even have Bluetooth enabled and be close to one another.
Mirroring works over AirPlay and is an actual duplicate of the Apple Watch display. In consequence, in case your watch goes to sleep, the mirror on the iPhone does, too, and you’ll solely wake it from the Apple Watch. To keep away from this, you could need to set your Apple Watch to stay energetic, not less than whereas utilizing mirroring: go to the Watch app in your iPhone and allow Show & Brightness > All the time On.
Your iPhone may additionally go into standby whereas mirroring the Apple Watch display, which ends the session. To make sure it doesn’t go to Settings > Show & Brightness > Auto-Lock and set it to an extended interval or to By no means.
You could need to maintain your Apple Watch and iPhone plugged in and charging whereas utilizing mirroring to keep away from draining their respective batteries.
Use Apple Watch Mirroring
The Apple Watch Mirroring function is exclusive amongst all display sharing and mirroring choices Apple gives and amongst practically all Settings switches. The change to allow it acts extra like a “launcher” for the service.
- In your iPhone, go to Settings > Accessibility > Apple Watch Mirroring.
- Faucet to allow the function.
- Mirroring begins instantly in your iPhone. The decrease portion of your iPhone display now reveals the Apple Watch show with a label beneath it that reads AirPlay Mirroring.
You possibly can faucet the Digital Crown, aspect button, or Motion button (Apple Watch Extremely) to simulate a press. Dragging simulates scrolling, whereas swiping left and proper capabilities the identical as swiping on the Apple Watch display. You possibly can even contact and maintain the Digital Crown’s picture to activate Siri on the Apple Watch.
You might also see delays in reactions, because the responsiveness is kind of low in comparison with different types of sharing and mirroring due to its use of AirPlay.
Whenever you’re performed along with your session, faucet the X within the higher proper nook of the mirrored show. If you happen to return to Settings > Accessibility > Apple Watch Mirroring, you will note that the change is about to the off place. Faucet it once more to renew mirroring.
Arrange mirroring shortcut faucets or presses
If you happen to plan to make use of mirroring commonly, you may arrange one or two motion shortcuts in your iPhone in Settings > Accessibility:
- In Accessibility Shortcut, you may set or add Apple Watch Mirroring. This shortcut is triggered by a triple-click of the aspect button or triple-tap of the Residence button and cycles by chosen choices.
- In Contact > Again Faucet, you may set Double Faucet or Triple Faucet to Apple Watch Mirroring. Then faucet the again of your iPhone twice or 3 times to begin mirroring.
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