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Smart Shift Official Guide

•Walbum Team
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What is Smart Shift?

Smart Shift is Walbum™'s intelligent switching feature that automatically displays the most relevant watch face and widget content on your Apple Watch and iPhone based on time, behavior, and context.

Why Do You Need Smart Shift?

We focus on different information at different times of the day:

  • Morning: Weather forecast, sleep quality
  • Work hours: Stress level, hydration/standing reminders
  • Lunch & after work: Steps and fitness progress
  • Before bed: Tomorrow's weather forecast

However, Apple Watch can only display a limited number of widgets, and traditional widgets can only show one fixed type of information. Manually switching between them is tedious and easy to forget.

Smart Shift automatically switches widgets based on your daily routine, displaying the most relevant information at the right time—weather, HRV, or exercise progress—making your watch always "just right" without any manual effort.

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How to Use Smart Shift?

  1. Download Walbum from the App Store
  2. Go to the "Widget+" Tab
  3. Tap "Get Started" - Grant location & health permissions
  4. Add to your devices
    • Add to Apple Watch
    • Add to Home Screen widgets
    • Add to Lock Screen widgets

Scene Details

Morning Brief

Morning Brief

See today's weather, temperature, and air quality first thing in the morning.

  • Trigger time: Wake-up time → Work start time
  • Display content: Weather icon, temperature range (with comparison to yesterday), air quality
  • Data source: WeatherKit (requires location permission)

Focus Break

Focus Break

Smart reminders to stand up and move during work hours, protecting your neck and eyes.

  • Trigger time: Work start → Lunch break, Lunch end → Before off-work
  • Display states:
    • Focusing: Shows elapsed focus time
    • Reminding: After 30 minutes, rotates reminders to drink water / stand up / stretch
    • Resting: 5-minute countdown
  • Tap the widget → Open Walbum on Watch → Tap button to switch states

Off Work Countdown

Off Work

Countdown before leaving work, adding anticipation to your day.

  • Trigger time:
    • 30 minutes before lunch → Lunch time
    • 1 hour before off-work → Off-work time
  • Display content: Remaining time with progress bar
  • Only active on workdays

Steps Progress

Steps Progress

Visualize your daily step completion percentage, motivating you to walk more.

  • Trigger time: Lunch break, after work
  • Display content: Steps progress bar + current steps / goal
  • Data source: HealthKit
  • Customize daily step goal in settings

Activity Dual

Activity Dual

View calories burned and exercise minutes at a glance.

  • Trigger time: Lunch break, after work
  • Display content: Calories on the left, exercise minutes on the right
  • Data source: HealthKit Activity Ring data

HRV Stress Status

Last HRV

Understand your stress level through heart rate variability.

  • Trigger time: During work hours
  • Display states:
    • Energized: HRV > 50
    • Normal: HRV 30-50
    • Stressed: HRV < 30
  • Data source: HealthKit HRV
  • Note: Apple Watch collects HRV every 2-5 hours automatically

Milestone

Automatically celebrate your special moments—100 days together, 1000 days, and more.

  • Trigger condition: Anniversary reaches round numbers (100 / 200 / 365 / 500 / 1000...)
  • Display content: Large number + anniversary name
  • Requires configuring anniversary in settings

New Record

Get a surprise celebration when you set a new steps or HRV record.

  • Trigger condition: Today's steps / HRV exceeds all-time high
  • Display content: Celebration style + new record value
  • Automatically tracks your historical records

City Steps Ranking

City Steps Ranking

After 9 PM, see how your daily steps rank in your city.

  • Trigger time: 9:00 PM → Midnight
  • Display content: City name + percentile ranking (e.g., "NYC · Top 9.3%") + city landmark icon
  • Trophy levels:
    • 💎 Legendary: Top 5%
    • 🥇 Gold: Top 10%
    • 🥈 Silver: Top 15%
    • 🥉 Bronze: Top 20%
  • Data source: HealthKit steps + location city

Forecast Weather

Forecast Weather

Check tomorrow's weather before bed to prepare for the next day.

  • Trigger time: 9:00 PM → Midnight
  • Display content: Tomorrow's weather overview
  • Data source: WeatherKit

FAQ

How often does data refresh?

  • Weather data: Once per day
  • Health data: Follows system collection frequency (steps in real-time, HRV every 2-5 hours)
  • Scene switching: Checked every 30 minutes

Can I customize which scenes appear?

Currently, Smart Shift automatically schedules scenes based on time periods and doesn't support manual selection. We plan to add more customization options in future updates.

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