Wear QuickAccess

Replace your watch’s built-in pull-down menu with a better-looking alternative – and added functionality! With Wear QuickAccess, you can mute / unmute your watch through just one tap. What’s more, Wear QuickAccess gives you easy access to your favorite apps. Choose which of your watch’s apps and functions you wish to access through just one tap: Settings, alarm, flashlight, Music, Google Keep, Weather, or the Find my phone feature – it can be any you want! NEW: Choose to have all pending notifications cleared with one tap from your watch. You can select to have the QuickAccess menu replace the built-in pull-down menu entirely – or have it run as a supplement, accessible via a swipe down from the top right or top left edge of the screen... (Note: In order for muting / unmuting via the QuickAccess menu to work, you will need to grant “Notification access” to the app - see below.)

USAGE: After having installed Wear QuickAccess on your phone, please allow approx. 45 seconds for the app to be pushed to your watch. Once installed there, open the Wear QuickAccess app on your watch to access the configuration screen. This screen shows seven circles. Tap the upper left-hand circle to activate Wear QuickAccess. Tapping the upper right-hand circle lets you change the swiping gesture which will open the QuickAccess menu. The default is “all” – meaning that the QuickAccess menu is accessible via a swipe down from any part of the top of the screen. If you want to still access the built-in pull-down menu, you can tap here to change the gesture to a swipe down from the rightmost third of the upper edge, its leftmost third, or from its center third. In the “all” and “center” options, a battery indicator will be displayed at the top of the QuickAccess menu. Tapping the center circle toggles between Apps mode and Functions mode. In Apps mode (the default), you can customize all the remaining circles to launch an app of your choosing (the center circle is reserved for launching Settings). To do so, tap any one of them and choose an app from the list that appears. In Functions mode, two circles are reserved for clearing all notifications (“X” icon) and switching to Priority Interruptions Only mode. (Note: Tapping the “X” icon in the QuickAccess menu will only clear notification received via the phone, not watch-related notifications like step counts.) Close the configuration screen by doing a right swipe.

NOTE: In order for the Mute, Unmute, and Clear Notifications buttons to work, you will need to grant “Notification access” to Wear QuickAccess on your phone. To do so, go to Settings > My Device > Sounds and notifications. (Please don’t be scared by the warning there – Wear QuickAccess does not read nor process your notifications in any way!) Note that muting / unmuting from the watch only works when it is connected to your phone.

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