From the course: iOS and watchOS App Development: Notifications

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Watch looks

Watch looks

From the course: iOS and watchOS App Development: Notifications

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Watch looks

- [Narrator] Apple's philosophy for Apple Watch is the user interacts with the watch in seconds, not minutes as they would with a phone. To make this process as fast as possible for the user, there's not one, but two notifications, referred to as looks, displayed for everyone on the phone. Watch notifications originating from the phone appear if the phone is locked for local notifications and push notifications. The wearer of the Apple Watch starts with a tone, a haptic, and a short look notification. The short look is two seconds long with a larger icon and app name. It is an alert of an incoming notification. After two seconds, the long look notification appears. The long notification is similar to the phones notification, with content and actions. If you tap the content and there's a watch app, the app will launch. If there's not, you may get more detailed notifications. For the phone, we've seen there is a default notification and the content extension. There are four flavors of…

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