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Guides and honest verdicts on using an Apple Watch for reading, studying and working — without reaching for your phone.

Apple Watch Not Getting Notifications? Six Things to Check

Notifications go to the iPhone or the Watch, never both. Six checks, in the order that finds the culprit fastest.

Every current Apple Watch has 64 GB. Here is how to see what is using it, and what that space holds in music, films, photos and PDFs.

Apple's Translate is free and works offline. Translate Now covers 29 languages, phrase books on the Watch and a Reply button, and needs a connection.

Set iWatch Videos to pause after 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or at the end of the chapter, straight from the Apple Watch player.

Star a PDF in iWatch PDF on the iPhone and it waits under Starred on your Apple Watch, sorted A to Z, two taps from the home screen.

Point the camera at printed text, and Translate Now reads it and translates it — useful for menus, signs, labels and forms.

Capture a clip from your iPhone screen, with its sound, and keep it on your Apple Watch for when the phone is not in your hand.

What keeps working when the phone is off, what needs Wi-Fi, and what quietly stops — a plain list, without the marketing.

Your own audio files — not a streaming subscription — stored on the Watch and played through AirPods with the iPhone left at home.

Save the sentences you always need, group them per trip, and have them on your wrist — with the translation already done.

One iPhone between two people: the screen splits, the top half faces them, and each side has its own language and microphone.

Speak into the Watch, read the translation, hear it out loud and let the other person reply — without taking your phone out.