Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started
- Your Apple Watch
- 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
- Adjust brightness, text size, sounds, and haptics
- Siri
- Listen and respond to messages
- See and respond to notifications
- 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
- Copyright
Stay connected with Apple Watch
Apple Watch makes it easy to communicate with friends, family, and coworkers, even when your iPhone isn’t with you.
Send a message, right from your wrist
Quickly respond to a message with Siri. When Apple Watch is connected to Wi-Fi or cellular, just raise your wrist and say, “Tell Julie I’ll be there in five minutes.” Or touch and hold the message to give your friend a thumbs up with a Tapback reply.
Make a call
Siri can also help you make a quick call. With an Apple Watch with a cellular or Wi-Fi connection, raise your wrist and say “Call Mom.” If you have a Wi-Fi connection, a simple “FaceTime Mom” does the trick.
Announce your arrival
Meeting a friend? Apple Watch can let them know you’ve arrived. Open the Find People app and tap your friend. Scroll up, tap Notify [your friend’s name], then choose to notify your friend when you arrive at their location.
Tap and talk
For a quick audio chat, try Walkie-Talkie . Tap a friend’s name, touch and hold the talk button, and ask “Got time to chat?”
For more information, see Send messages, Make phone calls, Use Apple Watch to get directions or contact a friend, and Use Walkie-Talkie.