How to ping iPhone from Apple Watch

Well, Apple does explain it in 2 places→What’s new in Apple Watch and watchOS 10 - Apple Support, see “New way to open Control Center…”, which also states the advantage. And also→watchOS 10 - Apple

LWalket wrote:

What app I find on my watch to ping my phone

Read the following link:

How to ping iPhone from Apple Watch - Apple Community

Hi shrinivasan18,

If your side button is broken, you can use a gesture to open Control Center and ping your iPhone. Follow these steps:

open Watch app > Accessibility > scroll down and tap AssistiveTouch > enable AssistiveTouch > tap Hand Gestures > enable Hand Gestures

You can choose which gesture should open Control Center by tapping one of the four available gestures, then choosing "Control Center". If you want to ensure you don't enable other gestures by mistake, you can set the other gestures to "None".

abed124 wrote:

Yes Apple please get us back to ping our phone from the Apple Watch

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. You are not talking to Apple.

Please send your feedback to Apple at:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch

Sarahbikerbabe wrote:

Why couldn’t they just leave well alone, if it ain’t broken why fix it - and make it harder!!!!!

No one here in this user-to-user forum can answer "why" Apple does or does not do what they do.

You can let them know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Vandermommy wrote:

THANK YOU!!!! Not having the “ping option” was driving me crazy. It is found (with a side button I don’t even realize I had 😂)!

You may find this useful as well

What’s new in Apple Watch and watchOS 10 - Apple Support

JenW_309 wrote:

…Stop changing and ‘fixing’ things that aren’t broken Apple! It causes more confusion using your devices than anything else.

Apple does not read this user-to-user technical support forum for feedback.

But you can send Apple feedback via:

Feedback - Watch - Apple

If enough users send feedback, it is more likely a decision maker will see it, and maybe take action.

Wow!! Thanks so much!!!

Hi Timdifferent,

the side button on my watch is not working for a while now is there any other way to access the ping button other than the side button?

thanks in advance

Thanks so much! I've been trying to figure this out for days!

Thanks! A heads up from Apple would’ve been helpful.

How do I change it back to swipe up to get to the control center.

I finally read some of the suggestions and then asked Siri to open the Control Center. What a pain!

this is much needed for me to learn how to fix this asap, as i use it several times a day!

why did it even change?

Hey Apple, please give us back the iPhone ping from I watch!