Thanks to the iOS operating system we can carry out an innumerable number of actions that will allow us to be more productive in our day to day and to be able to focus on other actions. To this productivity, the use of the Apple Watch is probably added, a device that thanks to the arrival of iOS 16 on our mobile phones we can now duplicate its screen to be able to easily control it from a distance.
This will be a function that, as with our different iPhone or iPad screens that we can duplicate on other devices such as a television, now we can do the same with the screen of our Apple Watch ; a device from which we could control aspects of the iPhone but in no way the other way around. Now we can easily control it from our iPhone, being able to execute different actions within the watch, on a much larger screen size.
What do I need to control it?
To start with this process, it is important that we know that obviously, as we have already indicated, in the case of a trick that belongs to iOS 16, it is necessary that the phone from which we have linked the Apple Watch to be controlled, is updated to the latest version . of the Apple operating system.
In the event that you have not updated yet, it will be as simple as going to the phone settings and immediately afterwards, to ‘General’ and ‘Software Updates’. Here you should see the latest updates, although in the event that you do not see any version of iOS 16, it may be that your mobile is not compatible. Something that will be like this in the event that your iPhone is the 6s model or earlier .
This is not the only thing that we will have to have in our possession to control our Apple Watch, as the latter will also have a lot to do with it. Specifically, we will have an Apple Watch Series 6 or later updated to watchOS 9 . An update that we must carry out from the Watch app itself, within its settings.
Activate mirroring
Once we have everything ready, the time has come to carry out the much-awaited screen mirroring of our Apple Watch. This will be a fairly simple process that we must do from our mobile phone. To do this we will have to follow the following steps:
- On iPhone, go to the ‘Settings’ app.
- Scroll until you find the ‘ Accessibility’ menu on which we must click.
- Tap on ‘Apple Watch Mirroring’ and then activate the tab to start controlling the watch from your iPhone.
Once you have activated this button, you will see how the Apple Watch screen appears on your iPhone while on the watch itself we see it with a blue outline that will indicate that this duplication is fully activated.
What really interests us arrives, the time to move easily through our Apple Watch from our iPhone. Simply, we will have to slide our finger , just as we would do on the screen of our Apple Watch in a simple way. In the event that we want to access our apps, we simply have to touch the side button of the Apple Watch and then slide the Digital Crown until we reach the app we are looking for to select it and be able to control it from our mobile . You can also click on AirPlay Duplication so that we can see how you control the Apple Watch from your mobile on another device, such as a television.
In the event that you do not want to continue with screen mirroring on your iPhone, you will simply have to touch the ‘X’ to close this tool completely.