![]() One of the things we like about the Gear S2 is how great its wake-up gesture is - we don't know what Samsung has been feeding the smartwatch's gyroscope, but it's working. Turn the wake-up gesture off when out running In other words, if you forgot to charge the S2 last night and haven't got a charging dock at work, it's not the end of the world. (It's also on the main settings menu).īy using a simplified, greyscale homescreen rather than your usual watch face, disabling Wi-Fi and all functions apart from calls, texts and alerts plus limiting performance, this mode actually lasted us a whole work day on 15% when we left the house. Put the watch in power saving modeīy holding down on the lower down 'home' button on the right hand edge of the device then rotating/swiping down to select it from the simple, two item menu of 'power off' and 'power saving'. Then, as soon as your phone is left unattended, the secure lock screen is turned on again to prevent unauthorized access. Using Smart Lock, you can set the watch to turn off secure lock screen when it is connected to the phone. This lets you turn off/on your phone's secure lock screen, depending on your settings. If you're tethering your Gear S2 to an Android phone, you can take advantage of the Smart Lock feature. In most cases this is more useful than the cool, if fiddly, experience of viewing yourself on a tiny map in the full app. ![]() You can ask for directions using S Voice - which is so-so for accuracy - and view each step on screen. Here Maps is preloaded onto the new Gear smartwatch but if you head to Google Play and download the companion Navigator app you can get turn by turn directions too. We set it up to open the music player, but it can also get you straight to recent apps, maps, messages, schedule or third party apps. You can go to 'Add Shortcut' in 'Accessibility' in Settings to do this. One example of this is setting up the 'back' button (the top one) to act as a shortcut when you double press it. The wonderful thing about both physical buttons and the Gear S2's rotating bezel is that you can start to get to where you want to be without looking down at the screen. You can use Find My Gear to sound an alarm in case you can't find it. The Gear S2 comes with Wi-Fi support, meaning it will continue to run online even if it out of range of your paired smartphone. But thankfully, Samsung provides you with some handy security features to avoid this. If you're starting to feel like you can't live without the Gear S2 on your wrist, the last thing you'll want to do is misplace it. This is all done within the Settings for the S Health app. Depending on how much you hate charging up wearables, you can choose to use only on the spot readings, like Android Wear, or between moderate or frequent readings throughout the day. The Samsung watch will 'continuously' take your heart rate but how continuously you want it to read your pulse is up to you. While it's true that the Gear S2 doesn't have enough tech to replace your Garmin or Polar watch, this is pretty cool. ![]()
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