Mardybum13
Level 1
(8 points)
Q: Why has the friends favourites wheel been removed in ios3 update? How to I initiate a message unless someone has previously sent me a message?
So, I was excited by the new OS3 update for the Apple Watch and I've now downloaded it and installed. Only to find one of the features I used a lot appears to have gone forever. The friends wheel of 12 favourite contacts has gone completel, the problem with this is that I used this a lot to initiate messages quickly when I'm stuck in a meeting.
The workaround to this problem seems to be to be to open up messages and find a message from the person you want to contact, but what happens if they haven't sent you a message? How would I feasibly send them a text or digital touch? The only contacts app is part of the phone app and this only lets me call.
Maybe this isn't something many people used but I did and I'm upset its gone. It didn't need to be linked to a button but you could have kept this as an app that I could add to my dock. Now I feel I've lost functionality by updating to the latest update.
Apple Watch, watchOS 3
Jonathan UK
Level 8
(39,983 points)
Mardybum13 wrote:
.. but what happens if they haven't sent you a message? How would I feasibly send them a text or digital touch? The only contacts app is part of the phone app and this only lets me call. ..
To send a new message using Messages from your Apple Watch:
- Use Siri: for example "Hey Siri, tell Bob I’ll be there in 30 minutes" and then lower your wrist to send (no button tap / press is required).
- Open Messages > firmly press the list of conversations > tap New Message > tap Add Contact, then either:
- Tap a contact in the list of recent conversations that appears;
- Or tap "+" to choose from your full contacts list;
- Or tap the Microphone button to search for someone in your contacts or to dictate a phone number.
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