How to Have Your Apple Watch Speak The Time For You
How’d you like your Apple Watch to speak the time to you? Sounds convenient, high-tech, and useful, right?
Apple prides itself on being one of the most forward-thinking tech companies in terms of accessibility. It does a pretty decent job of it as well, although nobody is perfect. You might be forgiven for thinking there isn’t much accessibility on offer from something like the Apple Watch given it’s tiny size, but you’d be wrong. One such example is that you can have the watch speak the time on command, regardless of the watch face that’s being used.
The Apple Watch’s rather fancy – and gorgeous! – Disney watch faces have always had the ability to speak the time, but Apple now offers a broader implementation that includes all Apple watch faces. It’s easy to set up and even easier to use. Let’s get started.
How to Set up “Speak Time” on Apple Watch
Apple calls the feature “Speak Time” and it needs to be turned on for it to work.
- Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch to get started.
- Scroll down by swiping the screen or turning the Digital Crown and tap “Clock”.
- Enable “Speak Time”.
- You need to decide whether you want the feature to respect Silent Mode. If you do, select “Control with Silent Mode” With that checked the time will only be announced when Silent Mode is not active.
- You need to decide whether you want the feature to respect Silent Mode. If you do, select “Control with Silent Mode” With that checked the time will only be announced when Silent Mode is not active.
That’s all the configuration you need. Now it’s time to have your watch read the time.
How to Use “Speak Time” on Apple Watch
Using the feature is easier than you might imagine.
Simply tap and hold on the Apple Watch’s screen using two fingers. Don’t press too hard.
Siri will announce the time after a second or so.
Your Apple Watch will now speak the time to you just by using that two finger tap-and-hold on the screen. Pretty great, right?
There are tons more accessibility options for your Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, and Mac and they can be helpful to everyone. Take the time to familiarize yourself with them, and we’re sure you’ll find some that will help you out daily.
If I am not wrong, It only works on Apple faces, if you have custom made faces, it wouldn’t work!
Ya know, you can place two fingers on the face of the Watch and it will speak the time on-demand!
That’s a great tip, thanks Scott!
Of course – least I can do for all the good stuff you post here!
Or just look at your watch or a clock. No hands required.
Well, as a guy who’s eyes have seen their best days, I appreciate this option – esp at night when I’m not wearing glasses and can’t see small things that well.
I never understand why people have to diss someone rather than ignore ¯\_(ツ)_/¯