Kickoff smartphone screens replaced wallet pictures as the way to evidence off your photos and now you tin can put your photos right on your wrist. Read on as we show you how to sync your favorite photos to your Apple Watch.

How Does It Work?

The Apple tree Watch can store up to 500 photos from your iPhone (as long every bit the feature is enabled the Photo app on your telephone and the Photograph app on your sentry work seamlessly together). The brandish quality is surprisingly expert and the photos look as sharp (albeit smaller) as they practice on the iPhone.

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Each photo is resized, synced, and is displayed independently of the watch's connexion with the iPhone (fifty-fifty if you're not connected to your telephone yous can still look at the photos).

By default they sync together right out of the box (as long as y'all have pictures tagged equally "Favorites" in the iPhone Photo app). If y'all oasis't used the favorites characteristic or you want to use a different album at that place are a few minor configuration tweaks you'll need to make. Allow's take a wait at how to configure the Apple Sentinel photo syncing characteristic now.

How Practise I Configure It?

The configuration process is pretty simple just it helps to know exactly what each adjustment accomplishes.

Prep Your Pictures

In terms of training, you don't actually take to conform or crop your photos (unless you're so inclined) because the syncing process automatically resizes them. That said, yous'll want to check out your albums and make up one's mind if you want to use the Favorites features or ready a dedicated anthology for photos that will be transferred to your Apple Watch.

If you're not using the Favorites feature (and weren't actively using it before we got an Apple Watch) that's a perfect manner to option out which pictures you want on the lookout. But open up each photograph y'all want to sync and tap the niggling center icon on the bottom of the display to Favorite it. The photograph will be automatically tagged and placed in the "Favorites" album.

If you are using the Favorites feature (and y'all don't want all the pictures you've favorited to go dumped over to your spotter) you may wish create a secondary album like "Lookout Pics" so you tin populate it only with the photos best suited for brandish on the watch face up.

Configure the Photo App

Apple Sentinel app configuration is handled by the Sentinel app on your iPhone. Open up upwardly the Apple Lookout app and roll down until yous see the entry for Photos.

Select the Photos entry to admission the configuration options for the mobile Photos app.

The kickoff option in the list is not relevant to syncing your photos but since we're already in here explaining everything: it controls whether or non your Apple Watch will mirror the iCloud Photo alerts received past your iPhone or y'all can configure custom alerts (as well every bit turn it off) here.

Here you tin can select the album. By default information technology is set to "Favorites". If you're not using the Favorites feature/anthology, tap on the entry to select the album yous wish to utilise.

Finally, you tin select the photo limit. Although the limit is displayed on the primary page in megabytes, if you click on the entry to change the amount it also gives you the estimated number of photos for that amount of data (e.grand. 15MB = 100 photos, 40MB = 250 photos). The smallest corporeality yous can allocate is 5MB (25 photos) which is really more than enough for a couple good pictures of your pets/kids/spouse if you're looking to salvage space on your scout.

Accessing the Photos on Your Spotter

Once yous've set up everything up on the phone side the hard work is done. Your iPhone will automatically sync the photos to your picket. To access them you lot just demand to open the Photo app.

Tap on the crown of the watch to bring upwardly your watch apps.

Select the Photo app (the multi-chromatic flower icon) and y'all'll see a 3×3 grid of your photos. Curl up or downwards with your fingertip to see more than photos. Tap on a photo to zoom to just that photo and then, if you desire a closer await, plow the spotter crown clockwise to zoom in closer. To return to the single photo view from the zoomed view (or from the single photo view to the grid view) plow the crown again counterclockwise to zoom out.

If y'all find there are photos you no longer desire on your watch, simply remove them from the synced anthology and the watch app volition have care of the rest.

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