Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- Your Apple Watch
- What’s new
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- Get started
- Apple Watch gestures
- Set up and pair your Apple Watch with iPhone
- The Apple Watch app
- Charge Apple Watch
- Turn on and wake Apple Watch
- Lock or unlock Apple Watch
- Change language and orientation on Apple Watch
- Remove, change, and fasten Apple Watch bands
- Stay fit with Apple Watch
- Track important health information with Apple Watch
- Stay connected with Apple Watch
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- Apps on Apple Watch
- Open apps
- Organize apps
- Get more apps
- Tell time
- Status icons
- Control Center
- Use Focus
- Adjust brightness, text size, sounds, and haptics
- See and respond to notifications
- Change notification settings
- Manage your Apple ID
- Use shortcuts
- Create an emergency Medical ID
- Manage fall detection
- Set up Handwashing
- Connect Apple Watch to a Wi-Fi network
- Connect to Bluetooth headphones or speakers
- Hand off tasks from Apple Watch
- Unlock your Mac with Apple Watch
- Unlock iPhone with Apple Watch
- Use Apple Watch without its paired iPhone
- Use your Apple Watch with a cellular network
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- All about Apple Fitness
- Subscribe to Apple Fitness
- Set up Apple Fitness on Apple TV
- Browse Fitness workouts and Meditations
- Start a Fitness workout
- Pause and resume a Fitness workout
- End and review a Fitness workout
- Work out together using SharePlay
- Change what’s on the screen during a Fitness workout
- Download a Fitness workout
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- Alarms
- Blood Oxygen
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Camera Remote
- Compass
- Contacts
- Cycle Tracking
- ECG
- Heart Rate
- Memoji
- News
- Now Playing
- Reminders
- Sleep
- Stocks
- Stopwatch
- Timers
- Tips
- Voice Memos
- Walkie-Talkie
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- About Wallet
- Apple Pay
- Set up Apple Pay
- Make purchases
- Send, receive, and request money with Apple Watch (U.S. only)
- Manage Apple Cash (U.S. only)
- Use Wallet for passes
- Use rewards cards
- Pay with Apple Watch on Mac
- Ride transit
- Use your driver’s license or state ID
- Use digital keys
- Use COVID-19 vaccination cards
- Weather
- World Clock
- Copyright
Contacts
In the Contacts app , you can view, edit, and share contacts from other devices that use the same Apple ID. You can also create contacts and set up a contact card with your own information.
See contacts on your Apple Watch
Open the Contacts app on your Apple Watch.
Turn the Digital Crown to scroll through your contacts.
Tap a contact to view address information and notes.
If you have an image associated with the contact, tap it to enlarge the image.
Communicate with contacts
You can call, text, email, or begin a Walkie-Talkie conversation directly from the Contacts app.
Open the Contacts app on your Apple Watch.
Turn the Digital Crown to scroll through your contacts.
Tap a contact, then do any of the following:
Tap to see the contact’s phone numbers. Tap a phone number to call.
Tap to open an existing message thread or begin a new one.
Tap to create an email message.
Tap to invite the person to Walkie-Talkie or—if they’ve already accepted your invitation and they have Walkie-Talkie turned on—begin a Walkie-Talkie conversation.
Create a contact
Open the Contacts app on your Apple Watch.
Swipe down, then tap New Contact.
Enter the contact’s name and, optionally, company.
Add a phone number, email, and address, then tap Done.
Share, edit, or delete a contact
Open the Contacts app on your Apple Watch.
Turn the Digital Crown to scroll through your contacts.
Tap a contact, scroll down, then tap Share Contact, Edit, or Delete Contact.
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