How To Use Apple Watch's Hidden Web Browser: Surf The Web From Your Wrist
A lesser-known Apple Watch feature allows surfing the web and even using search engines. Despite being so small, Apple's wearable is powerful enough to include a web browser, even though it isn't directly accessible as a separate app. While reading on such a tiny screen isn't really ideal, it can be quite handy when wearing an Apple Watch with cellular capability and if your iPhone isn't as easily accessible.
The Apple Watch is a very capable smartwatch. While an iPhone is required to set it up the first time, many features of the watch can be used separately. If using a cellular model, it's possible to make calls, send texts, and receive notifications, even if the paired iPhone is left behind. That makes running, bicycling, and swimming more enjoyable and frees the wearer from keeping track of their iPhone.
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Apple even made a tiny web browser for the Apple Watch, however, it can't be found in the app list. Instead, it appears when needed if a link is tapped. There are at least three easy ways to open the hidden Apple Watch browser, using Siri, from Messages, and from Mail. The trick is to get a link to appear on the screen. After a Siri search, a list of web results will be shown, and tapping any of the links from the list will open the browser. In some cases, the browser defaults to Reader mode. If this happens, touching the website address at the top and then 'Web View' will show the page more like it appears on the iPhone. Back, Forward, and Reload buttons are also revealed by tapping the address bar.
Tapping a link from an email or from a message also opens the page in the Apple Watch browser. A batch of links can be sent to serve as
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