For a long time we have had the possibility in watchOS to be able to “ping” our iPhone. Make it ring to identify where we have left it and thus be able to find it easily. Now, With the arrival of iOS 17, we can do the exercise in reverse as well.
Making that ping or ringing the iPhone from the Apple Watch is very simple. We just have to go to the control center and click on the icon of the iPhone that is emitting waves for this to happen. A little trick with this functionality is that if we keep it, in addition to ringing, the rear flash will activate, making it easier to find in dark areas.
In the iOS 17 beta we can already activate this functionality in reverse and call our Apple Watch from the iPhone. In order to activate it, we must follow a few simple steps and thus have it available in our Control Center:
- OPEN Settings
- We go to the menu Control center
- In the lower part, we select by pressing the + the option of call your watch so that it is added to the control center
- We order the icon inside the Control Center where we want to place it.
- We go out and anywhere in iOS 17 We launch the Control Center and click on the icon that we have added
This functionality will be available and will work if the Apple Watch is within Bluetooth range of the iPhone and they are also connected (in the same way that it happens with the functionality of watchOS). If we want to make it sound further away, we will have to resort to the Search application. We can make it work when the Apple Watch is unlocked on your wrist (although this use may make little sense for obvious reasons), locked, charging or where the Apple Watch has been able to hide itself.
Poco a poco We are discovering new features of iOS 17 and surely Apple will surprise us with more news of this style in the following betas.
