How to Switch Between Apps on your Apple Watch How to Organize your Apple Watch Dock How to Add, Remove and Rearrange Apps in your Apple Watch Dock
How to switch between apps on your Apple Watch
In the watchOS, the dock is specially designed to enhance your multitasking ability. It holds up to 10 apps and allows quick access to the most recent apps or favorite apps, so you can switch, delete, or manage them accordingly. And just like that, you will be switched to the desired app.
Special Trick to Quickly Switch from One App to Another
While it does not pertain to the Dock, this one is an interesting hack to jump between two selected apps quickly; here’s what you have to do.
How to organize Apple Watch dock in Watch App
The Dock displays either the most recent apps or your favorite apps. As the name suggests, Recents will show you the app you used recently, in the order that you opened them. Whereas, with Favorites, you choose to keep up to 10 apps handy. Below is an example of both Recents and Favorites Dock view. By default, Recents is selected. And as soon as you switch to Favorites, you will see a list of apps that will appear in the Dock.
How to Add, Remove and Rearrange Apps in Apple Watch Dock
Thankfully, the Favorites list is not fixed. You can choose which apps to show or remove to fit your requirements. While you can choose the order in which they appear, it is essential to note that the most recently used app will still appear at the top of the Dock. And If you wish to add this app into your favorites, long press on the app until it expands a bit, and then tap on Keep in Dock.
How to Remove App from Dock
Whether you arrange by Recents or Favorites, apps can be easily removed from the Dock by this method. Notably, when you use Recents, this will work as closing or force quitting an app. However, when you remove it from the Favorites, it is erased from the list entirely. Signing off See how wonderfully handy the Apple Watch Dock is? Sometimes, actually most of the time, it surprises me how well Apple understands and incorporates small features like these to simplify even the biggest of tasks. To bring the point home, here are some examples of the brilliant features incorporated in the Apple Watch:
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