You can display the time in several ways on the Apple Watch. In this tip, we explain how to set tactile time, chimes and spoken time on your Apple Watch and your iPhone.
Audible and tactile time
From the beginning of the Apple Watch, the Taptic Engine has provided a new way to interact with Apple's smart watch. You can feel every notification coming in with a subtle tap on your wrist. But you can also feel the time thanks to the tactile time function. You can also have your Apple Watch speak the time thanks to audible time. Handy if you actually find the screen just too small for your eyes. We explain how to set tactile and audible time on the Apple Watch.
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- Tunisal bells
Tactile time: these are your options
Tactile time works with the built-in Taptic Engine of your Apple Watch. It can not only be useful if you have a (slight) visual impairment. Tactile time also comes in handy if you just want to know the time quickly without looking at your Apple Watch. This also works in silent mode.
Every full hour you get a tangible vibration signal. In addition, you can request the time at any time by placing two fingers on the dial. The time can then be tangibly reported in three different ways:
Numbers
The Apple Watch ticks long for every 10 hours and short for every hour after that. After that, the Apple Watch taps long for every ten minutes and short for every minute after that. See the example below.
Short
The Apple Watch ticks long for every 5 hours and short for the other hours. Then the Apple Watch taps long for every quarter hour.
Morse code
The Apple Watch taps each digit of the time in Morse code.
Apple uses the above descriptions to explain the function. But maybe it's still not completely clear how it works. That's why we're giving an example.
Example
When it is 23:17, the Apple Watch at the ‘Numbers’ successively give the following taps:
- 2 long taps (2 x 10 hours) = 20 hours
- 3 short taps (3 x 1 hour) = 3 hours
- 1 long tap (1 x 10 minutes) = 10 minutes
- 7 short taps (7 x 1 minute) = 7 minutes
So a total of 23 hours and 17 minutes.
Set tactile time on Apple Watch
You can set tactile time on your iPhone, but also on your Apple Watch. Here's how to set up tactile time on your iPhone:
- Open the Watch app.
- Navigate to the Clock menu.
- Tap Tactile time.
- Toggle the switch to green and choose how you want the Apple Watch to vibrate.
You can always do this this way, of course change how the Apple Watch should vibrate. You can also turn it off if you don't like it.
Here's how to set up tactile time on your Apple Watch:
- Open the Settings.
- Scroll down and open the Clock menu.
- Tap Tactile time.
- Switch the switch to green and choose how you want the Apple Watch to vibrate.
Audible time set up and use on Apple Watch
Do you think the hands on the Apple Watch are too small, but do you not like the digital clock? Perhaps audible time is a godsend. To do this, you hold down two fingers at the same time on your watch face. Then you will hear a voice saying the time. You decide whether the Apple Watch also speaks the time when it is in silent mode or not. You can do this on both your iPhone and your Apple Watch. Here's how to set audible time on your iPhone:
- Open the Watch app.
- Navigate to the Clock menu.
- Set Speak time off on.
- Choose whether you always want the time to be spoken or only when silent mode is off.
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On the Apple Watch you can set the audible time as follows:
- Open the Settings.
- Scroll down and open the Clock menu.< /li>
- Turn on Speak time.
- Choose whether you want the time always spoken or only when silent mode is off.
Note: if your audible time is so have set the time to always be spoken (regardless of silent mode), you cannot use tactile time!
Tunes
Another nice option is Bell Bells. With this you get clock chimes or the sound of birds every hour. You can find this option on the Apple Watch under Settings > Clock > Tubular Bells. Then choose church bells or the chirping of birds.
You can set whether the chimes should sound every 15, 30 or 60 minutes via Settings > Accessibility > Tubular Bells. There you have the option to choose the correct value at Schema. In English this function is called Chime.
We hope this tip helps you about tactile and audible time on your Apple Watch in a better way for you to keep track of time. Finally, there is another way to hear the time, namely with the Mickey and Minnie Mouse clock face. The famous Disney characters can speak the time in their own voice, with a nice greeting. You can read how that works in our tip.
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