How to make your Apple Watch wake up where you left off

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This might suit your needs much better than a simple timepiece. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac
This might suit your needs much better than a simple timepiece. Photo: Rob LeFebvre/Cult of Mac

When you make your Apple Watch wake up, either by raising your wrist or tapping the watch face itself, it will show you the watch face you’ve chosen. That’s what a watch does, right?

However, Apple Watch is much more than a timepiece, with tons of apps that you use to make your life a bit easier and cooler, right? It would be great if you could wake the watch to the last app you were using.

Here’s how to get your Apple Watch to show you that most recent app when you lift your wrist.

Wake your Apple Watch up and click the digital crown to get to your app screen. Tap on the Settings icon (it looks like a little gray gear) and then tap into General settings. Once there, tap on Activate on Wrist Raise.

You can toggle the Wrist Raise feature OFF here, but you’ll need to have it set to ON to use the last app feature. Tap Open to the Last-Used App and from now on, your Apple Watch will wake to the last app you were using. If that happens to be your watch face, so be it.

Now you can just lift your wrist or tap on the screen to get back into Lifeline, that great game from Big Fish that you really ought to play, or see your calendar when you lift your wrist, like the busy person you are. Have fun!

Via: iMore

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