The 8 best Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 tips and tricks you should try

When considering the best Android smartwatches of 2023, we at AP consider the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 and Galaxy Watch 6 Classic to be the best of the best. There’s a lot to love about their looks. As you delve deeper into the software, you’ll find a host of useful features.

We’ve collected the best and most useful tips and tricks for your Galaxy Watch 6. We also recommend extending the life of your smartwatch with these methods to improve your Watch 6’s battery life.

1 Replace Bixby with Google Assistant

Many Android users, even some loyal Samsung fans, prefer Google Assistant over Samsung Bixby. While some Wear OS watches don’t have access to Assistant, Samsung’s watches do. Even better, you can set Google Assistant to take over as your Watch 6’s default voice assistant. Here’s how:

1. If Google Assistant isn’t installed on your watch, search for it Google Assistant in the Play Store on your Watch 6 and install the app.
2. Open your Watch 6 settings.
3. Scroll down and tap Apps.

4. Tap Select default apps.
5. Tap Digital assistant app.

6. Tap Default app.
7. Select Assistant.

By completing this process, Google Assistant will become your watch’s default voice assistant, meaning it will appear instead of Bixby when you press and hold the watch’s home button.

2 Make your Watch 6 a better watch with hourly sounds

Despite all their useful high-tech features, one of the most useful aspects of any smartwatch is that it tells the time. The Galaxy Watch 6 has an hourly beep function. The clock chimes and buzzes at the top of each hour, helping you keep track of the time throughout the day.

1. open settings.
2. Scroll down and tap Sound and vibration.

3. Scroll down and tap The system sounds.
4. Find and turn on Calls every hour.

With Hourly Alarm enabled, your clock will buzz every hour, on the hour, and ring when you turn on the system sound. You always know what time it is.

While the Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 lets you define what a long press or double press of the home button does, the back button is less customizable. Pressing and holding will open Samsung Wallet. However, you get an extra app shortcut with a feature that Samsung calls quick launch. Setting it up is easy.

1. open settings.
2. Scroll down and tap Advanced features.

3. Scroll down and tap Quick start.
4. Turn on the feature.

5. Tap choose an alternative to choose what happens when you make a quick launch gesture.

With quick launch enabled, raise your arm and flick your fist down twice (imagine tapping an invisible table twice) to trigger the action or open the app of your choice. It’s not completely seamless, and it takes practice to get the gesture right. When you want to access more than a few features without digging into your watch’s app drawer, Quick Launch is the way to do it.

4 Customize your notifications

There is a simple solution if your Galaxy Watch 6 is showing notifications you don’t want or not showing the notifications you want. With the Galaxy Wearable app, you can choose which apps installed on your phone can send notifications to your watch.

1. Open Galaxy Wearables app on your phone.
2. Tap Clock settings.
3. Tap Notifications.

4. Tap App notifications.
5. Scroll through the list and enable the apps you want to send notifications to your watch.

You can’t choose which notification channels for individual apps alert you on your Watch 6. You also can’t have notifications only go to your watch. When you turn off notifications for a particular app on your phone, you’ll need to turn them on to show them on your watch.

5 Turn off notifications on your phone when you’re wearing the watch

If your watch vibrates and lights up when you get a notification, your phone probably doesn’t need to. With the Galaxy Wearable app, you can turn off alerts on your phone while the watch is on your wrist.

1. Open Galaxy Wearables app on your phone.
2. Tap Clock settings.
3. Tap Notifications.

4. Putting on Turn off notifications on your phone.

This setting only applies when your Galaxy Watch 6 is unlocked and on your wrist, so you don’t miss anything important while it’s charging.

6 Decline calls with a twist

A call causing your watch to vibrate at an inopportune time can be frustrating, especially if your other hand can’t get to the watch to silence it. The Galaxy Watch 6 offers a setting that lets you dismiss calls and other alerts like alarms and timers with a one-handed gesture.

1. open settings.
2. Scroll down and tap Advanced features.

3. Scroll down and tap Reject alerts and calls.
4. Turn on the feature.

With this feature turned on, you can dismiss calls, alarms, and timers by quickly rotating your wrist twice. This action comes in handy when you’re cooking, walking the dog, or doing anything that prevents you from using both hands at the same time to handle a notification.

7 Use Bedtime Mode to ignore all but the most important notifications

Wearing your Galaxy Watch 6 to bed is important for accurate sleep tracking, but you don’t want random notifications waking you up. Bedtime Mode silences all notifications except for repeat callers, so you don’t miss an emergency.

1. Swipe down from the watch face.
2. Press settings (gear icon) button.
3. Scroll down and tap The location.
4. Press Sleep button.
5. Tap Putting on.

8 Save battery with tilt-to-wake

The Galaxy Watch 6 has an excellent battery life. You can improve it by turning off always-on display and enabling tilt-to-wake. You can go a step further and tap the screen to wake it up, but that can be frustrating.

1. Swipe down from the watch face.
2. Press settings (gear icon) button.
3. Scroll down and tap Show.
4. Switch on Always on Show of.
5. Switch Raise your wrist to wake up turn off to improve battery life.

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