Top 10 Apple tips

Water Lock locks the screen to prevent it from being activated or flooded by water. Especially handy (and engaged automatically) when you start a swimming activity in the Workout app. But it’s a good idea to use it in the rain or shower, too. However, you’ll have to do this manually. Swipe up from the bottom of the watch face to enter the Control Centre, which includes a number of frequently used controls. Choose the water droplet icon. Turn off Water Lock by rotating the Digital Crown dial. The Water Lock will be disabled. You’ll hear a sort of beeping noise when the speaker vibrates to purge any remaining water.

Siri can control your HomeKit enabled kit from your HomePod, that's a given. But a much more natural, and cool, way of getting Siri working harder in your smart home is to create scenes that it can control. For example, set up a bedtime routine in which Siri turns off all the lights, activates the alarm and locks the front door – where a simple, "Hey Siri, it's bedtime," gets the scene started. Any scenes created in the Home app can be activated using Siri on your HomePod.

Given the current scenario, it is important that one washes their hands frequently. Your Apple Watch can help you in this regard as it can remind you periodically to wash your hands as well as when you come back home. The Handwash detection feature will require you to wash your hands for 20 seconds. If you stop washing your hands before that, your watch will give you a haptic feedback to encourage you to continue washing your hands. It is not easy to fool the feature as well since Apple uses the microphone to listen to the sound of running water along with another advanced algorithm to determine if you are washing your hands or not.

I know what you’re thinking, the Apple Watch Series 5 has an always on display so we can easily check the time without raising our wrist. True, but not every one has a Series 5 Apple Watch, and if you’re one of the people rocking their Series 3 or 4, you don’t have to necessarily raise your wrist to check the time. Plus, a lot of people prefer disabling the always on display to extend the Series 5’s battery life. When your watch screen (or AOD) is turned off, slightly rotate the digital crown to light the screen up at a low brightness and check the time. You can keep rotating the crown to increase the brightness if you want. By the way, this is also handy if you have turned on theater mode on your watch but you need to check the time without blasting the entire theater with your watch’s screen brightness.