Drafts watch app allows for quick capture on the go, as well as the ability to browse and manage inbox drafts.
If you have an Apple Watch paired with your iPhone, the Drafts watch app can be installed in the Watch app on iPhone. While in the Watch app on your iPhone, there are two settings available you may with to configure:
- Auto-capture from complication: If enabled, when the Drafts app is launched by tapping on the watch face complication, the app will immediately enter dictation mode to capture a new draft. This is a time saver if you use the app often to quickly capture an idea.
- Tag for new drafts: Optional, but you can enter a tag name here and new drafts created on the Watch will automatically be assigned this tag.
Once installed, you can launch Drafts from the app launch on the Watch. Drafts from your inbox on iPhone will be synchronized to the Watch and the following features can be used from the main screen:
- Capture (microphone button): Capture a new draft with dictation.
- Advanced Capture: (pen icon): Capture with options, which includes access to the Watch scribble handwriting interface.
- Inbox: Displays count on inbox drafts, and tapping it opens the inbox draft list.
The inbox screen provides a quick list of drafts in your inbox. Tap on a draft to view its detail view. On the detail, the following commands are available:
- Flag: Toggle the flagged status of the draft.
- Add/Remove Tag: Tags can be added using dictation, scribble, or by selecting from recently used tags - or tags already assigned can be removed from the draft.
- Append/Prepend: Use to add text to the beginning or end of a draft, either by dictation - or by scribble using the pen icons.
- Archive: Move the draft to the archive.
- Trash: Move draft to the trash.
Siri
The Drafts Apple Watch app also support direct integration with Siri, using the phrase “Create a note using Drafts”.
Interaction with the Phone and Disconnected Use
When your watch is paired and has an active connection with your iPhone, changes made on the Watch are pushed back to the phone more or less in real time.
The watch app can be used while disconnected from iPhone, with some limitations depending on the model and connectivity of your Watch. Dictation requires a connected phone or network to work. Other changes, will be stored on the watch and replayed to the phone when the devices are connected again.
