Find Your Lost Apple Watch in Seconds with Ping My Watch on iOS!

Ever misplaced your Apple Watch and spent minutes frantically searching under couch cushions? Worry no more! In this episode Thomas Domville dives into the handy "Ping My Watch" feature on iOS, turning your iPhone into a personal Apple Watch locator.

Here are the steps to activate Ping My Watch on your iPhone:

Open the Settings app on your iPhone.
Double Tap Control Center.
Under More Controls, Double tap the "insert Ping My Watch".
Now, open Control Center.
Double Tap the Ping My Watch button to make your watch audibly beep.

Bonus Tip: If your Apple Watch is on silent mode, the ping will still play through your Apple Watch speaker.

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Find Your Lost Apple Watch in Seconds with Ping My Watch on iOS! - An AppleVis Podcast
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You're listening to an AppleViz Podcast.

Hello and welcome.

My name is Thomas Domville, also known as AnonyMouse.

Now, I've done a podcast before on Apple Watch and being able to identify and find your iPhone with the ping my iPhone from your Apple Watch.

So like myself, I tend to put my phone in places I don't remember where I left it.

Are you one of those people?

Raise your hand.

Yep.

There's a few out there.

And what that feature does is that it takes, I can go to my Apple Watch, go to the control center and use the ping my iPhone, double tap that, and then it'll start chiming and you can find your phone in no time by following the chime within the house or place that you left your iPhone.

What if I told you, you can do the other way around?

Yes.

So this was very useful for me as I was on vacation shortly ago.

And one of the things I came in, I was just hot.

I was just hot and the Apple Watch was just making me hotter, right?

You got to get that watch off.

And so I put it down and Lord, behold, I forget where I left the Apple Watch.

Then I remembered, Hey, there's a feature that I can do the other way around.

And that's using my iPhone to ping my watch.

So I'm going to show you how to set that up and how this works.

And so you can find your Apple Watch as you could with your iPhone, with your Apple Watch.

So it's great both ways.

So we are going to go to your iPhone and we are going to go to the settings, because that is where we are going to have to turn this feature on.

And that lives in the control center of settings.

So let's go double tap settings, settings.

Now swipe to the right until you get to control center button, control center button.

Once you find that one finger, double tap, swipe down from the top right edge to open control center.

Now the easiest way to get to where we need to go is to set your order to headings.

And let's go to the first headings here, included controls heading.

These are the included controls.

So these are controls that shows up on your control center as of right now.

So here's a few of the controls I have set.

Remove timer, reorder timer button, direct remove code scanner, reorder code scanner, remove voice memos, reorder voice memos button.

Now those are just some of the control.

Now of course, these may sound different than what you have in your included area.

So these are the controls that are active if I were to go to my control center will be there now.

And these are customizable.

But I want them looking for is the next set of heading.

So go to the next heading, more controls heading.

And this is where other controls lives that you can add to the included controls that will show up in control center.

So these are options that are not being seen in control center.

So we are going to swipe to the right until we find ping my watch.

And yes, believe it or not, this is an alphabetical order.

So just head on down to P.

Insert ping my watch.

And there she is.

So what we want to do is we want to insert in this into your included control.

So one finger double tap, insert quick note.

And that allows you to know that it has been added.

And to prove that, let's go back up to the headings here.

I'll go up twice here to two headings up.

More controls heading.

We got the more controls one more included controls heading.

Now just to verify that is in here, I'm going to swipe to the right until I find the ping my watch.

Remove ping my watch.

Swipe up or down to select a custom action, then double tap to activate.

Now it says remove.

Don't have any fear.

That's what it's supposed to say if you want to remove this from your control center and you want it to move back down to the more controls, you don't want this anymore.

You can just swipe up, move up, remove until you get to remove and double tap to remove that.

However, that's not the purpose here.

We want to make sure that was included and so it is.

So let's go back to my home screen here, activate settings, double tap.

Now I'm going to go to my control center here, control center, accessories and scenes you and in the home app will appear here.

Open home, home button.

Now because I added this in the controls and it was at the bottom of the included controls, it's going to be at the very bottom of the page.

So that's easy to find.

Just do a four finger tap towards the bottom half of your phone.

Using my watch, switch button off, double tap to toggle setting.

So at any time now I can just double tap them and that will turn that option on and I'll start paying your Apple watch and then you go hunting for your watch.

See where I left it.

Now I have it right next to me, of course here, but I did this for demonstration purposes and I'll have this sing to you as a double tap this.

You will hear the Apple watch chime away.

So let's go ahead and double tap this.

And so you can get an idea of what it sounds like on, on, you can double tap that as many times you want.

It'll just make that little cute little chime until you're located and I say, I couldn't quite find it.

Just double tap it again on and then voila, you found the watch.

We have success and you find your watch and that is it.

How simple is that, but yet a very powerful feature that I have in my arsenal.

So now I will be able to find my phone easily when I have my Apple watch on.

And if I misplace my watch, I can use my iPhone to find the Apple watch once again.

So that is about how to ping your Apple watch using your iPhone.

My name is Thomas Donville also known as AnonyMouse until next time.

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