This is how we can send WhatsApp from the Apple Watch
All owners of a Apple Watch know that we can't send WhatsApp from the Apple WatchWell yes, we can always respond to a message we receive from this app, but sending one without having to receive one beforehand is not possible.
Until the official WhatsApp app is released for Apple Watch, which we doubt, we have a way to do it through the app Shortcuts It is very easy to configure and will allow us to have a button, as a complication, on the face of our watch to be able to send the messages we want to whoever we want, at the moment that we wish
How to send WhatsApp from Apple Watch without using apps:
If you don't want to complicate your life creating the Shortcut, which we will explain the process below, you can download it directly to your iPhone by clicking below: Shortcut I send WhatsApp messages .
Once installed in your Shortcuts app, you simply have to access your Apple Watch, access the Shortcuts app from the watch and click on the “Send WhatsApp” Shortcut.
You will see how a notification sounds, then the list of your contacts appears, select the one you want to send the text to and, after writing it, press "Ok" to send it. Super simple right?.
How to create this Shortcut for WhatsApp:
In the following video we explain it to you step by step. If you are more of reading, below you have it written:
If you want to create it yourself, we give you the steps below:
- Open the App Shortcuts from the iPhone.
- Click on the "+" that appears at the top right to create a new shortcut.
- Click on "Add action" .
- In the search engine that appears at the top we look for “Select contact” .
- It will appear under the search engine and we click on it.
- Now click on the search engine that now appears at the bottom of the screen, and look for “Contacts” .
- From the list that appears, select the option "Obtain contact details" .
- Now click on the word "Details" that appears in the new action in a light blue color and from the variables that appear click on "Phone numbers". After this, click on the "X" that appears at the bottom in a tab called contacts.
- Again we go to the search engine and look for "WhatsApp" and click on the "WhatsApp" option that will appear at the bottom of the search engine.
- Now from the list of actions that we see, click on "Send message" .
- In the action that we will see, we will hold down on “Phone numbers” and select “Ask each time” .
- Then we will hold down on “Recipients” and select “Contacts” .
- After this, click on the ">" button that appears right next to "Contacts" in the last of the configured actions and deactivate "Show when running" .
The shortcut should look like this:
Shortcut to send WhatsApp from Apple Watch
In this simple way we will create the shortcut, but before finishing we advise you to customize it. Click on the name that appears at the top of the screen and change its name, color, icon .
How to install this Shortcut to send WhatsApp messages on the Apple Watch:
Button to send WhatsApp
It's very simple:
- We select a sphere in which we can add complications.
- Once we have it selected, we keep it pressed to access its configuration, clicking on "Edit" .
- By moving your finger from right to left, we go to the "Complications" section .
- We select the place where we want our button to send WhatsApp to appear.
- Now we look for the Shortcut and we simply have to press it so that it appears in the indicated place.
IMPORTANT!!! If the Shortcut you created does not appear on the Apple Watch you must enter the settings again of it and click on the "i" that appears at the bottom of the screen and, in the menu that appears, activate the option "Show on Apple Watch".
Show Shortcut on Apple Watch
Also make sure Shortcuts is syncing with iCloud, under Settings/Shortcuts.
What do you think? In this way we have the possibility of sending WhatsApp from the Apple Watch without the need to use any third-party application that we do not trust very much.
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