The Apple Watch is a feature-rich smartwatch, and while most of its features like notifications, calling, EKG, and more are essential, there are also some that are not essential but are absolutely amazing to have. The walkie-talkie is one of those features that I’ve always come to love using on my Apple Watch Series 5. However, setting it up is not the simplest thing and people have a lot of doubts about it, so today I am going to help you set up and use the radio on your Apple Watch.
Anyway, what is Wireless?
First, let’s take a quick look at what this feature is and why you might want to use it. As the name suggests, the feature acts like a walkie-talkie but goes over the internet instead of a peer-to-peer connection. This means that while regular radios have short communication distances, this feature can work anywhere in the world as long as both you and the receiver are connected to the internet.
Useful when you want to get in touch with someone about something that isn’t long enough to be a phone call, but still too urgent to be a simple text message. Walkie Talkie is built into the Apple Watch so you don’t have to worry about installing a third-party Apple Watch app just to use this feature.
How to Use Radio on Apple Watch
- Launch the Walkie-Talkie app on your Apple Watch.
- Activate the toggle next to ‘Walkie-Talkie’.
- Now, Tap ‘Add Friend’ and invite the person you want to talk to. You only need to invite a person once. After that, you can contact them at any time, assuming they accept the invitation.
- When the person accepts your invitation, this is how you will see their name in the Walkie-Talkie app. Tap their name and then hold to speak your message.
How Are Radio Invitations Accepted?
If someone has invited you to connect with them on Walkie-Talkie, you must first accept their invitation. you can do it like this Starting the Walkie-Talkie app and tapping ‘Accept’ on the invitation As shown below.
How to Enable/Disable Radio
After installing Walkie-Talkie and inviting your contacts, anyone can reach you anytime on Walkie-Talkie. While this is useful in some situations, it’s not so good when you’re at work, and suddenly your watch starts beeping. Therefore, it is better to disable Walkie-Talkie when you do not want to be disturbed.
To enable or disable the radio, simply Open the control center and tap the Walkie Talkie icon. The icon turns yellow when the radio is on and gray when the feature is off.
Use Walkie-Talkie on your Apple Watch
The Walkie-Talkie feature on the Apple Watch is something I use a lot for quick short bursts of communication. For some reason, when you send the first invite, it sometimes messes up and doesn’t show the new contact, but it was auto-fixed for me in about an hour. If you encounter the same issue, be patient or try restarting your watch. Other than that, I’ve tried to cover everything related to the radio feature in this post, but if you think I missed something, let me know in the comments and I’ll add that as well.
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