Mirror your Apple Watch to your iPhone

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In this video, we’re going to look at how we can AirPlay our apple watch to our iPhone, we can even control our apple watch from our iPhone. This was introduced with iOS 16. Let’s see how this works. Let’s go over to my iPhone.

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Now the way that this works is through the accessibility settings on your iPhone. So what I would need to do is open up my settings app here, and then we go over to accessibility, I’ll show you a shortcut towards the end of the video how we can do this with the sleep wake button as well. But let’s first open up our accessibility settings. So I tap on settings here. And then what I do is I swipe up until I get to accessibility. Under accessibility, we have an option for Apple Watch mirroring, all I need to do is just tap on this. And then I turn this on and watch what happens. It’s now connecting to my Apple watch. And it’s going to show what is on my Apple Watch. Let’s go over to my Apple Watch as well, we can see they are showing the same thing. If I go on press the activity rings on my Apple Watch over here, I’m going to press it on my Apple Watch, we can see that it actually changed on the iPhone as well. And if I go over to the iPhone here and I turn this little dial here, I simulate turning it, watch what happens. It’s actually scrolling the Apple Watch.

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So we can control it from the iPhone as well as the Apple Watch. To stop mirroring, what you need to do is just tap on the X here in the upper right hand corner, and then it shuts it down. Now I mentioned that there was a shortcut to this, instead of going to your accessibility settings and then going to Apple Watch mirroring, what we can do is we can just triple press on our sleep wake button, and then it will automatically mirror our Apple Watch. So how do we do that? Well, this is another accessibility setting. This is nothing new in iOS 16. Basically, what we need to do is we need to go to I’m in my accessibility settings here, what we need to do is go down to our accessibility shortcut.

Again, this is nothing new and iOS 16. Basically, with our accessibility shortcut, what we can do is we can configure what happens when we triple click on the side button. Now if you have an iPhone with a home button, it’s triple clicking on the home button. So what I’m able to do is turn on background sounds as an example, I just tap on this. And if I were to triple click on it, triple click on my sleep wake button, my background sounds would start playing. If I have two of them turned on. If I go over to magnifier here and turn that on, I can choose between which one I want to use. So I’m going to turn these off. And if we go to the top you’re going to see we have Apple Watch mirroring. So now all I need to do when this is checked, I’m going to go back to my home screen. All I need to do now is just triple click on the sleep wake button 123. And there is my Apple watch. I can do this from within any app. If I was in my maps app, I triple click 123, it goes to my Apple watch.

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So that’s how we AirPlay our apple watch to our iPhone. Again, this was introduced with iOS 16. Basically all you have to do is just go over to your Settings app and then go to accessibility and you’ll see Apple Watch mirroring, turn it on and your Apple Watch will be mirrored on to your iPhone and you can control your Apple watch from the iPhone. And if you want to set up an accessibility shortcut, you can go back over to your accessibility settings and then go to the very bottom and then when you set up Apple Watch mirroring. What will happen is when you triple click on the sleep wake button, it’ll show your Apple Watch on your iPhone. So that’s how Apple Watch mirroring works on the iPhone.