Jason Cipriani/CNET Apple included cute little emoji that bounce around and bring life to the otherwise mundane staples of online communication on the Apple Watch. When you’re selecting which emoji to send, you can use digital crown to scroll through the various hearts, faces or hands to pick the best response for the given situation. …

Jason Cipriani/CNET In order to secure your Apple Watch, Apple asks you to enter a PIN code on initial setup. The watch then knows each time you’ve taken it off your wrist, and requires you to enter your PIN on a tiny number pad to unlock it. The benefits are twofold. First, your information is secure should someone steal your …

Jason Cipriani/CNET When Apple touted the ability to disable Apple Pay on a lost Apple Watch, I had assumed it meant the smartwatch would appear in the Find My iPhone app and on the website alongside fellow iOS and OS X devices. And I was wrong. The Apple Watch is nowhere to be found within the service, leading to confusion …

Jason Cipriani/CNET With such a finite amount of storage available on the Apple Watch — a measly 8 gigabytes — Apple has opted to limit how much storage users can assign for the Music and Photos apps to take up. You have some, albeit limited, control over how much space is taken up on your watch. Here’s how to adjust …

When you first set up your Apple Watch, Apple assigns a default name to it. For my watch it was “Jason’s Apple Watch.” Yours is likely something similar, only with your name, not mine. Some people, like me, prefer to give our devices a name of our own instead of a standard affair. To change the name assigned to your …

Jason Cipriani/CNET Currently Apple doesn’t allow Apple Watch users to install third-party watch faces, but it does afford users the ability to customize the various default faces on the watch. You can set the color scheme, control what information is displayed in the various “complication” sections on each respective face, as well as other bits of information such as hour …

When your first start using Messages on your Apple Watch, you’ll notice the option to select if you want to send a voice note or a transcribed message when you compose a new message. The option is nice to have, but time consuming if you’re carrying on longer conversations. Not to mention it’s easy to forget about the extra step …

Sarah Tew/CNET One of the primary functions of the Apple Watch is to replace your iPhone’s notification chimes with a gentle tap on your wrist and an audible notification. The combination of the two are often more than enough to get my attention, but I’ve had a few friends and readers contact me asking if there was a way to …

Responding to a text on Apple Watch: preselected responses, emoji or dictation. Sarah Tew/CNET Being able to quickly reply to a message from your Apple Watch is a big part of its appeal. Currently, you have the option of sending a voice-note, a dictated message (transcribed by Siri) pr using one of the pre-defined replies provided by Apple. The list …

Jason Cipriani/CNET In addition to sending a series of taps or you heartbeat, Digital Touch on the Apple Watch makes it possible to send disappearing images to fellow Watch owners using a series of colors. But the standard colors are kind of, well, boring. Thankfully, Apple has included a way to access a color picker when your selecting a color, …