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hey so you just got your Apple watch or you're considering getting one how do you make it work there are a lot of different buttons and features on this may get a little confusing I'd be using one for a while and here are my five go-to gestures to survive on the Apple watch with a few more at the end one swipe down this brings you to notifications just like on your phone you can look at all the messages you missed and click any one of them to find out more to swipe up this brings you to glances glances are little widgets that operate like little mini apps on the Apple watch you can use this like an app dock click any one of them and you can go to the full-sized app it's a great shortcut you can set it up in settings 3.the click the digital crown which is like that little scroll wheel on the side also clicks and that's basically your home button click on it to get out of any app to go back to the grid of apps or to go back to your watch face 4 click and hold for Siri the digital crown if you click and hold it will bring up Siri and will be ready to listen for what you require you can use all the Siri type of requests from your phone and there are also the ability to launch apps within the Apple watch which can be a real time saver if you don't know where that app is you can also just raise your wrist and say hey Siri five force touch this has a force sensitive touch display this is on the new MacBooks - on the trackpad if you press and push in you can actually get to submenus and customization features on many apps it's not always consistent but you can get to settings like shuffle on the music app and more got those well there are actually a few more that I consider go twos too so I'll throw them in one is clicking the bottom button yet brings up your friend wheel so if you want to call somebody send a message it's essential for an easy way to reach your friends take that same button and double click it and you bring up Apple pay that's how you pay for something in a store just like your iPhone 6 or 6 plus if you take that same button and click and hold it that's basically your power button you're going to be able to power off your watch or go into a power reserve stay which shuts down all functions except for showing the watch face to get back out of that you got to press and hold that button again to reboot the digital crown double-click if you double click that digital crown it takes you back to your last opened app just double click and you can actually hop back and forth between your watch face and the app and finally you can always cover the watch just put your palm over it if you're in an app and you want to get back to the watch face or if the phone's ringing or if something's happening you want to get out of put your palm over it hold for a second or two you'll be able to turn off all sound and get back to the beginning when you tap follow a few of those gestures and hopefully you'll survive those are my go-to gesture tips on the Apple watch for now I'm Scott Stein at Cena