Check your heart rate on Apple Watch
Your heart rate is an important way to monitor how your body is doing. You can check your heart rate during a workout; see your resting, walking, workout, and post-workout heart rates, and your heart rate during a Breathe session; or take a new reading at any time.
Note: Make sure that your wrist and your Apple Watch are clean and dry. Water and sweat can cause a poor recording.
Turn on heart rate data
By default, your Apple Watch monitors your heart rate for the Heart Rate app, workouts, and Breathe and Reflect sessions. If you’ve turned off heart rate data, you can turn it back on.
Go to the Settings app
on your Apple Watch.
Tap Privacy & Security, then tap Health.
Tap Heart Rate, then turn on Heart Rate.
You can also open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, tap Privacy, then turn on Heart Rate.
See your heart rate
Go to the Heart Rate app on your Apple Watch to view your current heart rate.
Your Apple Watch continues measuring your heart rate as long as you’re wearing it.
On Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, you can view a chart of your heart rate measurements as it updates in real time. To turn off these measurements, go to the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap Apps, tap Heart, then turn off Continuous Measurements.
See a graph of your heart rate data
Go to the Heart Rate app
on your Apple Watch.
Turn the Digital Crown to Range, Resting Rate, or Walking Average to show your heart rate throughout the day.
To learn more about your heart rate data, tap
.
To see your heart rate data over a longer period of time, go to the Health app on your iPhone, tap Browse, tap Heart, then tap an entry. You can show heart data for the last hour, day, week, month, or year.
View your recovery heart rate variability
On Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, you can view your recovery heart rate variability (HRV), which measures the overall variation in time between heart beats.
Go to the Heart Rate app
Turn the Digital Crown to Heart Rate Variability to view your data.
To learn more, tap
Note: The back of your Apple Watch needs skin contact for features like wrist detection, haptic notifications, blood oxygen level measurements, and the heart rate sensor. Wearing your Apple Watch with the right fit—not too tight, not too loose, and with room for your skin to breathe—keeps you comfortable and lets the sensors do their job. For more information, see the Apple Support articles Wearing your Apple Watch and Monitor your heart rate with Apple Watch.
For more information about Irregular Rhythm Notifications, see the Apple Support article Heart health notifications on your Apple Watch, and the document Irregular Rhythm Notification Instructions for Use (IFU).