{"id":157081,"date":"2025-08-19T00:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157081\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T00:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T00:45:11","slug":"your-apple-watch-is-gaining-a-simple-yet-practical-new-ability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157081\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Apple Watch Is Gaining a Simple Yet Practical New Ability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Basically, if you\u2019re at an intimate gathering with friends, your Apple Watch will be able to detect this and not ring as loudly when somebody calls you or read out loud a message you\u2019ve received. It essentially aims to prevent a social faux pas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the flip side, if you\u2019re Apple Watch detects that you\u2019re in a loud environment, turning this setting on will further increase the sound of these notifications so that you can hear them even better.<\/p>\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"8d7873\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #8d7873;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/apple-watch-automatic-volume-adjustments-2.webp\" alt=\"Smartwatch on a wrist displaying a settings menu with volume options: Louder, Default, and Quieter, with Quieter selected. The time shown is 3:14.\" class=\"wp-image-915711 not-transparent\"  \/>When the Automatically Adjust Volume setting is turned on, you have the option to further make these notifications louder or quieter. Photo by Tucker Bowe for Gear Patrol<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re somebody who is worried that this new setting will actually make Apple Watch notifications even more intrusive \u2026 don\u2019t worry, you actually have some control over that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once the Automatically Adjust Volume setting is toggled on, you can further tweak how it\u2019s implemented. Specifically, you can set the volume level of these notifications to be \u201cQuieter\u201d or \u201cLouder,\u201d depending on which you prefer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you leave the Automatically Adjust Volume setting off, you can select the exact volume level of these notifications via the volume slider. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, if you have your Apple Watch permanently in silent mode \u2014 which many do \u2014 this new setting will not override it and you won\u2019t hear any notifications. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Basically, if you\u2019re at an intimate gathering with friends, your Apple Watch will be able to detect this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[705,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-157081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gadgets","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115052670812077570","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}