Get back to HookPlan on your watch in one move

On your watch face, swipe up from the bottom of the screen, or turn the Digital Crown. This is the Smart Stack: a short stack of cards you can reach without hunting through the app list. Tap Edit at the bottom.

The stack opens in editing mode with a big plus at the top. Tap it to add a card.

Scroll down to All Apps and tap HookPlan.

The card called Counter is the one from your watch. It shows the project you are counting on, the row you are working, and your stitch count. Tap it to add it. The Row +1 and Stitch +1 buttons further down come from your iPhone and count on the global counter.

Back in Your Widgets, tap the yellow pin on the HookPlan card so it stays at the top of the stack instead of moving around. Then tap the checkmark.

From now on a swipe up from the watch face lands on your project. Tap the card to open HookPlan straight to the row screen. HookPlan also asks to float to the top of the stack on its own while you are counting and around the time of day you usually crochet.

By default your watch goes back to the clock two minutes after you stop tapping. Open Settings on the watch, tap General, then Return to Clock. You can also do this from the Watch app on your iPhone under General.

Scroll past the general options to the Apps list and tap HookPlan.

Tap Custom, then After 1 hour. For an hour after your last tap, every wrist raise brings HookPlan back instead of the clock. HookPlan will also remind you of this setting after your first few counts on the watch.

HookPlan also works as a complication. Press and hold your watch face, tap Edit, swipe to the complications, tap a slot, and choose HookPlan. It shows the row you are on, and one tap opens the app.

Press the Digital Crown twice quickly and the watch jumps straight back to the last app you used. While you are crocheting, that is HookPlan, so it is one double-press away from any watch face. (The side button opens Control Center, and double-pressed, Wallet.)