watchOS
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How to Stop Turning Your Apple Watch’s Alarm Off in Your Sleep
To me, a smartwatch is the ideal alarm clock. It can be silent, so you don’t need to wake sleeping partners, and also connected to your wrist, so you’re likely to feel the taps gently rise you from the most interesting of dreams. It’s nearly perfect. And yet, the Apple Watch had a fatal flaw…
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How Life Is Better Without Notifications
Notifications have gotten out of control. What started as a necessary means to keep tabs on important updates from apps and services has spiraled into a tangled mess of spam and unnecessary alerts, by default. We can’t do anything on our smartphones without being interrupted by notification after notification, with the same being true on…
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How to Make Your Apple Watch Last for Days on a Single Charge
When it comes to the Apple Watch, “all-day battery life” is Apple’s party line — but what that really means is an 18-hour battery cycle. If you want to push it over a day, you need to stick to light use (and not wear it to bed). But now, with watchOS 9, Apple is introducing a new…
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Why You Shouldn’t Install Apple’s Betas Without a Developer Account (Yet)
Every year at WWDC, Apple announces new versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS. But this is just a taste: The software doesn’t actually ship until fall, three months after the event.