With Messages on Apple Watch, you will get an alert when you receive a new iMessage or text message. Turn the Digital Crown to scroll to the bottom of the message. Tap "Reply." Use the Default Replies, Emoji, or Dictate Text to send the message.
Send a Text Message on Your Apple Watch
- Select the bright green Messages app — it's the word balloon icon — from the Apple Watch's home screen.
- Press firmly on the display to bring up the New Message icon.
- Tap the Add Contact field to select a recipient.
- Select Create Message.
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Field a call from the office, text a thumbs-up to a buddy, check your email — Apple Watch Series 5 keeps you connected, even without your phone.Responding to a Message
- Press the Digital Crown to go to the Home screen on Apple Watch.
- Open the Messages App.
- Select the message you wish to read.
- Turn the Digital Crown to scroll to the bottom of the message.
- Tap "Reply."
- Use the Default Replies, Emoji, or Dictate Text to send the message.
Yes, it can - subject to your Apple Watch and/or iPhone having the required connectivity. If your carrier offers Wi-Fi Calling and it is supported on your plan and enabled on your iPhone, you can also use Apple Watch to make calls and (subject to carrier support) to send and receive SMS / text messages.
Apple provides room for about 20 default replies for Messages and about a dozen for Mail. Facebook provides six. You are not confined to the premade responses, however, and you can customize them to say whatever you'd like.
Open the Settings menu on your iPhone. Tap Notifications (it's weird Apple didn't put this under Siri and Search, but maybe that will change.) There's also an option to “Send replies without confirmation,” which means you can speak a text message back to someone and Siri won't read it back to you before sending it.
With this feature turned on, Siri reads your incoming messages out loud when your headphones are connected to your iPhone or iPad, you're wearing them, and your device is locked. In Settings > Notifications > Announce Messages with Siri, you can also manage which contacts Siri reads messages from.
To stop iPhone from speaking corrections, you need to change the setting.
- Press the “Home” button on your iPhone.
- Tap the “Settings” icon on the home screen.
- Tap “General” and then tap “Accessibility.”
- Tap the “Speak Auto-Text” option to “Off” to stop the iPhone from speaking as you type your text messages.
With the AirPods in your ears, you will be able to listen and respond to incoming text messages. Siri transcribes the message so you can hear the text without looking at your phone or watch.
You can have your iPhone speak your screen out loud. By tapping into the Speech setting on your iPhone, you can hear the entire screen read aloud from top to bottom or just selected text. You can listen to text as you type it, word by word or each character. You can even hear predicted text.
Use Siri's voice to listen to Kindle books on iOS. As alternatives, you can use screen readers on Android and iOS devices. On Android, screen readers have limited functionality which only lets it read out content on the current screen. It will just read the contents of the page and stop.
Reminders, no - but texts, yes. Without bluetooth, when Siri asks you if you want to send your text, say "review" instead of "send" and she will read it back to you, then ask again if you want to send it.
No, it is not possible to bulk delete messages conversations on Apple Watch, nor are they deleted automatically. When viewing the time, go to the Home screen (by pressing once on the Digital Crown) > tap on the Messages app icon. Or use Siri (eg "hey Siri, open Messages").
Go to Settings > Notifications > Announce Messages with Siri and make sure Announce Messages with Siri is turned on. Then tap Messages and make sure that Announce Messages with Siri is turned on there too. Make sure that your iPhone or iPad is locked and its screen is dark.
Hear iPhone speak the screen, selected text, and typing feedback
- Go to Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content.
- Adjust any of the following: Speak Selection: To hear text you selected, tap the Speak button. Speak Screen: To hear the entire screen, swipe down with two fingers from the top of the screen.
