Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new in watchOS 27
- Apple Watch For Your Kids
- Run with Apple Watch
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- Important safety information
- Important handling information
- Find more resources for software and service
- Unauthorized modification of watchOS
- Band care information
- FCC compliance statement
- ISED Canada compliance statement
- Ultra Wideband information
- Disposal and recycling information
- Apple and the environment
- Copyright and trademarks
Tell time on Apple Watch
See the time on the watch face, hear the time spoken aloud, and feel the time as taps on your wrist. You can also turn on 24-hour time.
See the time
Simply raise your wrist to see the time on the watch face and in the top-right corner of most apps.
To glance at the watch face and time without having to raise your wrist, use Always On.
Turn on 24-hour time
Instead of using AM and PM, 24-hour time expresses afternoon and evening hours as 13:00 through 23:59. For example, 8:00 PM appears as 20:00.
Go to the Apple Watch app
on your iPhone.
Tap My Watch, tap Clock, then turn on 24-Hour Time.
Ask Siri for the time
If you turned on Raise to Speak, simply raise your wrist and say “What time is it?”
Hear the time with a gesture
Go to the Settings app
on your Apple Watch.
Tap Clock, then turn on Speak Time.
Hold two fingers on the watch face to hear the time.
Apple Watch can also play chimes on the hour. In the Settings app on Apple Watch, tap Clock, then turn on Chimes. Tap Sounds to choose Bells or Birds.
Play chimes and haptics at specified time intervals
When chimes are turned on, Apple Watch plays the selected sound and haptics at regular time intervals.
Go to the Settings app
Tap Accessibility, then tap Chimes.
Turn on Chimes, then set the following:
Schedule: Choose Hourly, 30 minutes, or 15 minutes.
Sounds: Choose Bells or Birds.
You can also set up chimes on your iPhone—go to the Apple Watch app , tap My Watch, tap Accessibility, then tap Chimes.