Make sure your volume isn't turned down, maybe the watch is waking but the volume is very low. The vibrations are telling the time. You are probably inadvertantly doing a 1-finger double or triple tap or at least the watch is interpreting your gestures or taps that way. Keep in mind that the following only works if the watch is locked. A double tap with 1 finger gives you the time silently via vibrations. The default is that each hour is indicated by a short vibration, then there is a short pause and then the minutes are indicated by a long vibration for every 10 minutes and a short vibration for every minute. For example, right now it's 7:32 AM, if I do a double tap with 1 finger when my watch is locked, I get 7 short vibrations indicating it's 7 o'clock, then there is a pause, then I get 3 long vibrations indication 30 minutes, then 2 more short vibrations indicating 2 minutes hence 7:32. Just as with minutes where every 10 minute interval is indicated by a long vibration so the hours are also indicated with a long vibration at 10 AM and 10 PM. If it were 10:13 AM or PM, you would get a single long vibration, a pause, then another long vibration followed by 3 short vibrations. The system for hours therefore is as follows, this always applies to AM or PM, it is assumed you know whether it's daytime or night time. 1 o'clock = 1 short vibration 2 o'clock = 2 short vibrations 3 o'clock = 3 short vibrations This goes all the way to 9 o'clock which equals 9 short vibrartions 10 o'clock then is a single long vibration followed by the pause and then the long vibrations for every 10 minute interval and the short vibrations for single minutes. 11 o'clock is a long vibration followed by a short vibration 12 o'clock is a long vibration and 2 short vibrations
You can change the system used, for example, you can also have the vibrations use morse code if you know it and there is one other system I can't remember. The most vibrations you would possibly get would be at 9:59 AM or PM, here you would get 9 short vibrations followed by a pause, then you would get 5 long vibrations and 9 more short vibrations to indicate 59 minutes. The least amount of vibrations would be at exactly 1:00 AM or PM and at 10:00 AM or PM, the first would just be a single short vibration and the second a single long vibration. If you already know the hour of the day, for example, you are in a meeting which started at 9 AM and you know it's 9 o'clock something, you can do a triple tap and this will only give you vibrations for the minutes skipping the first set of 9 short vibrations to indicate it's 9 AM. It's a good system, but keep in mind that if you have turned on the raise at wrist raise setting or that you want to be able to use SIRI by simply saying "Hey Siri, that if you first raise your wrist and then do a double tap it would probably speak the ime or whatever might be on your screen because raising rthe wrist wakes up the watch and it's no longer in locked mode and getting the time this way only works if the watch is truly locked. If you want to raise your wrist and get time via vibrations you would first have to cover the watch with your hand for a second or two which would force it to lock, then do the double or triple tap. Best regards, Sieghard -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Terri Stimmel Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2020 3:43 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: more Apple watch questions Hello everyone, My subject says it all. I really hope someone can help me out. Ok, on Monday, and Tuesday, when I would touch my watch face, the watch would wake. However, now it's not. What could I have possibly done, to cause this to no longer happen? In a way, it's fine that it doesn't do this. I just don't know why it seemed to have stopped. Also, I have heard the term, crown up, a few times. In the podcasts I have listened to. What might this mean? And lastly, sometimes when I am messing with my watch, trying to text or do other things, it will start to vibrate in a pattern. A couple of long, slow vibrations. Then several fast ones. What could this possibly mean? Nothing is spoken when this happens. Nor does anything seem to happen. So I am just confused by it. Any help would be great. Thank you, Terri -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/CH2PR04MB6839FF7E6568F354880F9EBCA8950%40CH2PR04MB6839.namprd04.prod.outlook.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: mk...@ucla.edu. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/MWHPR06MB31357069DCFB68139FCBAEF6C7920%40MWHPR06MB3135.namprd06.prod.outlook.com.
