[Apple Watch How-To] Find The Heart Rate Monitor and How to Use it

If you are a new owner of Apple Watch, I guess one of the many features you would like to give it a try is the heart rate monitor. At least that's what I was looking for when I first open and use my Apple Watch.

Based on my own experience, the Apple Watch with WatchOS 1.0 is not so simple and not so easy to use. Took some time for me to really acknowledge, oh that's how this works.
The heart rate monitor is one of the feature that is somehow "hidden" for me, because there is no icon, no settings, no tutorial, simply there is nothing that showing the heart rate monitor existence except the fact that the bottom part of my watch has the sensors.

So for those of you who like to use the heart rate monitor, here is how you can use it:
1. Turn on the Apple Watch and unlock it if it's locked
2. Slide up (from bottom to up), to open the watch glances

3. Depends on your setting, but by default Heart Rate monitor is located on the 3rd glance, so when you open glances and you are on the very left most position, slide to the left 2 times to open the 3rd glance: the heart rate monitor.

Now you find the heart rate monitor, here is how to use them:
1. Simply put the watch on your wrist, either left or right hand
2. Open the heart rate monitor and let it work for you. It will light the green bright light to check your heart rate and return the result in BPM.

And if you don't know yet, Apple Watch is monitoring your heart rate every hour while you are using the watch.


So, how many BPM your heart rate is?
Mine is quite small, only 61 BPM - measures taken at night before sleep.

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[Apple Watch How-To] How to get screenshot from your Apple Watch

Wondering how to capture or snap a screenshot from your Apple Watch?

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Turn out the way to snap a screenshot on Apple Watch is similar with iPhone.

Here's how:
1. Apple Watch only has 2 physical buttons: the digital crown and the side button
2. Press and hold the digital crown, while at the same time press the side button
3. Your Apple Watch screen will be captured and saved directly to your iPhone.
4. Done!

Did it already?
Well you just learned something new from your Apple Watch!

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[Apple Watch] Apple Watch Faces with all the features explained

Did you know that the Apple Watch with WatchOS 1.0 is coming with 10 default watch faces you can choose on?

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Here they are:
1. Chronograph
Main feature: as its name suggested, chronograph. show time with great accuracy.
What you can change: timescale, background color from black to grey to white, and gadgets.
You can have up to max 3 gadgets using this watch face.

2. Utility
Main feature: showing long information via gadget at the bottom.
What you can change: detail - adding or removing the seconds, second arm color, and gadgets.
You can have up to max 3 gadgets using this watch face. 2 small gadgets on both top left and right of the screen and 1 long gadget at the bottom of the screen.
The gadget at the bottom will show you the long version of the information you chose. Best is to be set as calendar.

3. Modular
Main feature: showing time and gadget like a pile of stacks. The gadgets shown are also quite big compared to other watch faces.
What you can change: color and the gadgets.
You can have up to max 5 gadgets using this watch face. 4 medium size gadgets on top and bottom of the screen and 1 long size gadget on the middle of the screen.

4. Simple
Main feature: similar to Utility watch face, the main difference is the watch does not shown any number to make it looks simple.
What you can change: detail - adding or removing the seconds, second arm color, and gadget.
You can have up to max 4 gadgets using this watch face.

5. Motion
Main feature: show animations, from butterfly to flower to jellyfish.
What you can change: animation, and date gadget.
You can have up to max 1 gadgets using this watch face and it has to show date.

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6. Astronomy
Main feature: show your current location on the earth, show the earth phase and moon phase.
What you can change: nothing. Astronomy is not customizable.
However, there are 3 gadgets on this watch face: calendar, solar system and earth/moon phase.

7. Color
Main feature: color customization - change to any color you like.
What you can change: color and gadgets.
You can have up to max 5 gadgets using this watch face.

8. Solar
Main feature: similar to Astronomy watch face, this watch face can't be customized. Solar is to show you where is the sun/moon phase right now using a curve.
What you can change: nothing.
However there is 1 gadget that shows date.

9. Mickey
Main feature: Mickey from Disney. If you have ever owned a iPod Nano 6th gen, the Mickey watch face is almost identical.
What you can change: gadgets.
You can have up to max 3 gadgets using this watch face. 2 small gadgets at both top left and right of the screen and 1 long gadget at the bottom of the screen.

10. X-Large
Main feature: shows you the clock in a very large size. If you owned Pebble before, this watch face is similar to one of Pebble watch face.
What you can change: font color.
Unfortunately there is no gadgets on this watch face.

So, have you figured out which one you like most?
Personally I like Chronograph because it looks masculine on my hand when wearing the Apple Watch.

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Finally I got my hands on my own Apple Watch!

Yesterday was 30th June 2015, the day I got my own Apple Watch!

For those who are wondering why it take so long, because I live in Singapore. And I don't know why Singapore was not on the first batch country list - where Singapore usually is in the list of first batch country.

Went to Japan last time to try grab the Apple Watch because the fact at that time, Singapore hasn't launched the Apple Watch yet, I found some models sold there but not the one I wanted to. So in the end, I end up with nothing. 

But never mind, now I got my Apple Watch already, hopefully in the next few days I can share with you guys my experience with it, all the tricks, all the apps and games.

To be honest from my personal experience, Apple Watch is not as simple as when I got my hands first time using iPod and iPhone.
Even as of now, I still don't know how to change the watch faces. Just managed to figure out how to check heart rate using the heart rate sensor.