Marc Saltzman

Apple Vision Pro is a mixed-reality headset that fuses augmented reality (where you can see digital information overlaid on top of the real world around you) with virtual reality (realistic imagery that fully envelops your field of vision). You don’t need a mouse and keyboard with Apple Vision Pro — you can control everything with your eyes, voice, and hands in the air.

Over the last couple of years, Apple added a handy Dock feature for Apple Watch wearers. You activate Apple Watch Dock by pressing in on the side button. Quite simply, Dock lets you quickly open your favorite apps or move from one app to another.Here’s how to get going: Choose which apps you want to appear in Dock.

Apple Watch comes in a few sizes and configurations. For Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3 watches, you have a choice of a screen that’s either 38 millimeters (about 1.5 inches) or 42 millimeters (roughly 1.65 inches).For Apple Watch Series 6 and Apple Watch SE (a less expensive model introduced in 2020), sizes measure 40 mm (1.

Your Apple Watch works with — or, depending on what version you have, independently of — your iPhone, and you can do myriad things with your Apple Watch, all by using your finger or voice. Apple Watch can help you keep in contact with close friends; achieve your fitness and health goals with the Activity app; pay for items at retail with the wave of your wrist; and find directions to any destination you choose.

If you’re like most people, you won’t have time to go over everything Apple Watch has to offer. It’s estimated that most people only use about 10 percent of what their gadgets can do — until someone shows them what they’re missing. You can be in the know by learning about these Apple Watch features. Activity Many smartwatches and fitness bands can report on your performance while working out, but Apple Watch is always calculating what you’re doing — or not doing.

Apple Watch previously required you to have an iPhone to set up and use the wristwatch (even with the cellular model). This isn’t the case any longer, with the introduction of watchOS 7, the operating system that debuted in the fall of 2020. Also new with watchOS 7 are a couple of features specific for families.

Why be stuck with only one watch face when you can have several to choose from? That’s one of the reasons people like a smartwatch like the Apple Watch. Because you’ve got a screen that can show virtually anything on it, you can go with a classic analog face (yes, with moving hands!), a digital watch face (just numbers), a hybrid of the two, or even one with animation on it.