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Your iPhone and Apple Watch are packed with features designed to help in a genuine emergency — but they only work if you've set them up in advance. In this video, Lee walks you through several essential safety features: Medical ID, Emergency SOS, Fall Detection, Heart Rate alerts with ECG, and Check In. This gives you everything you need to make sure your devices are ready when it matters most.

Five minutes of setup today could make a real difference when you need it most.

Apple have spent a lot of time focusing their recent advertising campaigns on promoting the Sleep Score feature that has been added to Apple Health, however the ability to track your sleep quality with Apple Watch has slipped under the radar for many people.

In this Tip video, Lee looks at how to set up Sleep Tracking on your compatible devices, setup sleep goals, schedules, focus modes and more, to ensure you have the knowledge required to make the most of this important feature.

AirDrop has been around for a long time now, however Lee finds that when he talks to family and friends, whenever files or photos need to be shared between them, it never appears to be the first thing they think about using. It's a shame as when it's used properly, it is so much quicker than other methods of File Transfer.

In this video, Lee offers a refresher in how AirDrop can be used to share files between devices with the same iCloud account, as well as with others. He also goes over NameDrop, Proximity Sharing and SharePlay, more recent additions that can all be useful in the right context.

To use AirDrop you need iOS 7 or later, macOS 10.10 or later.

The NameDrop, Proximity Sharing, and SharePlay via AirDrop features all require iOS 17 or later.

watchOS 26 has arrived with a compliment of new features. Starting with the workout app, which has been redesigned to create a more focused experience when interacting with your workout of choice. Add to this Workout Buddy, a new motivational tool created with the help of Apple Intelligence to audibly motivate you throughout your exercise. Notes have finally made their way over from the iPhone, allowing you to view, edit and create new notes directly from your wrists. So to can you utilise the new Live Translation feature which uses Apple Intelligence to automatically translate iMessage notifications into your preferred language.

Apple Watch is Apple's most important device for keeping track of your health and staying active, and watchOS 11 brought with it even more useful features. From guiding you on exercise to tracking your vitals, notifying you of health trends and progress, as well as helping you stay on top of your sleep. It also now has its own Control Centre, improved notifications, a better app layout, and more. Join Darcy as he goes on a discovery with you, showing you features you may not have known were there, as well as making sure you take advantage of the latest updates to get the most out of your Apple Watch.

watchOS 11 will run on the following Apple Watch models:

• Apple Watch Series 6

• Apple Watch Series 7 

• Apple Watch Series 8

• Apple Watch Series 9

• Apple Watch Series 10

• Apple Watch SE (2nd generation)

  • Apple Watch Ultra

• Apple Watch Ultra 2

Apple’s build-in Reminders app has received a lot of love recently and the requests for utilising a Kanban view for managing reminders has been granted. Splitting your reminders into different columns offers a new way to organise your tasks and projects. In this video, Lee shows you how to set that up using a real world example. And with Templates now available for those projects you often repeat, Reminders has become even more useful.

The version of Reminders used in this screencast is the latest one available for iPadOS. The features shown here are identical on the Mac as well as iPhone. Make sure your devices run iOS 17 or newer, and macOS 14 or newer.

The Apple Watch improves once again with an upgrade to watchOS 11. Follow along as Darcy showcases the new features announced at WWDC and available now. Several features such as the Translator app and check-in functionality have been brought to the watch creating a seamless way to communicate with others while traveling and keep friends and family informed of your journey (including when exercising). See how you can monitor your training load to keep your body healthy, take control of your activity schedule and keep an eye on the tides.

watchOS 11 is compatible with: Apple Watch SE (2nd generation), Apple Watch Series 6 or newer, and Apple Watch Ultra models.

Not all features are available on all devices.

Keeping track of your Apple devices, AirTag items, and even loved ones, is easy with Apple's Find My app. Regardless of the platform you are using, you can keep track of your devices whereabouts, notify friends and family when you are leaving or arriving at a location, mark devices as lost if you fear they won't be returned and much more. In this video, Lee gives you a tour of Find My and its features.

Each year, a new version of watchOS is released, yet to date, the overall look and feel of the operating system has remained largely unchanged.

However, watchOS 10 is very different. With an overhaul of the interface, it's sleeker, faster and makes a lot more use of the dimensions of your watch face, with full-screen apps. Smart Stack allows you to quickly access widgets from either the Digital Crown or swiping up from the bottom of the watch face.

In this video, Lee walks you through the new layout and showcases some of the more impressive app redesigns.

To conclude his series on Apple Watch, Darcy showcases many of the health focused apps and hardware available on your wrists. Watch along to learn how to check your heart rate, ECG and blood oxygen in the moment and share that information with medical professionals. And for people who exercise at any level, a full breakdown of the exercise app including custom workouts and mindfulness. All of this information is then shown through the Fitness and Health apps to give you a rounded picture of your health.

The Apple Watch can be an all-purpose audio entertainment device. With the iPod now long gone, consumers can still leave their iPhone at home and take music, podcasts and audiobooks with them on the go. In this tip Darcy takes you through the experience of syncing and streaming content with the Watch app, including how to control the Music app on your Mac using your Apple Watch.

The Apple Watch is a fully capable piece of technology, and along with that comes a mountain of settings, preferences and customisation. In this tip video Darcy explores the Apple Watch Settings app and the iPhone Watch app. He shows you how you can move from one to the other and easily change Home Screen layouts, watch faces, and, if you have Apple Watch Ultra, configure the action button.

The Apple Watch has grown up over the years. And while many think of it solely as a health-focused product it's actually capable of much, much more. After going over the setup from scratch, Darcy shows you around some core apps such as Mail, Calendar, Messages, and Phone. He also gives you a taste of Find My, Camera Remote, Weather, and more.

An alternative to the Fitness app on Apple Watch, Gentler Streak assesses your health and fitness data to recommend the workout types, duration and intensity to help you improve without overdoing it. Know when you need to rest, what to eat and stay on top of your health. In this tip Darcy gives you a tour of the app and shows you its main features and benefits.

It's been a while since we've looked at the operating system powering Apple Watch, so with the release of watchOS 9, we decided the time was right. In this show, Don explores the functionality and usefulness of these new features and apps.