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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
Other ways to view the Apple Watch User Guide
You can view the Apple Watch User Guide on your iPhone in the Apple Watch app, Safari, or Books. You can also download a PDF of the user guide.
View the user guide from the Apple Watch app
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
Tap Discover at the bottom-right, then tap Apple Watch User Guide.
View the user guide in Safari
Go to support.apple.com/guide/watch/welcome/watchos.
Add an icon for the user guide to the iPhone Home Screen: Tap
, then tap Add to Home Screen.
View the user guide in Apple Books
To download the Apple Watch User Guide and view it in the Books app, visit Apple Books.
Download a PDF
Download a PDF of the Apple Watch User Guide.
Download this guide: Apple Books | PDF
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