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
Do more with Music on Apple Watch
Tell Music what you like, add music to the library, and more
On Apple Watch you can add music to your library, remove songs, mark what you do and don’t like, add songs to the queue, browse an artist’s music, and view the contents of albums and playlists. Do any of the following:
View options from the Now Playing screen: While playing music, tap
, then choose an option.View options in Listen Now and Library: Swipe left on a song, playlist, or album; tap
; then choose an option. Tap 
to add the item to your library.
Note: Not all features are available in the Apple Music Voice Plan. For more information, see the Apple Support article About Apple Music Voice.
Share music
In watchOS 8 you can share playlists, albums, and songs if you’re an Apple Music subscriber.
Open the Music app
on your Apple Watch.Tap On iPhone, Listen Now, or Library.
Tap Playlists, Albums, or Songs.
Swipe left on a playlist, album, or song, tap
, then tap Share [Playlist, Album, Song].Choose a sharing option.
To share a song from the Now Playing screen, tap , then choose Share Song. If you’re listening to a song from a radio station, you can also choose Share Station.
Choose cellular connection settings
To listen to music over cellular, you must be using Apple Watch with cellular.
On your iPhone go to Settings > Music, then turn on Cellular Data.
Tap Audio Quality, tap Cellular Streaming, then choose a quality.
Note: Higher quality settings consume significantly more data.
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