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Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Open apps
- Apps on Apple Watch
- Organize apps
- Get more apps
- Tell time
- Status icons
- Control Center
- Adjust brightness, text size, sounds, and haptics
- Siri
- See and respond to notifications
- Create an emergency Medical ID
- Manage fall detection
- 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
- Use Apple Watch without its paired iPhone
- Use your Apple Watch with a cellular network
- Copyright
Change language and orientation on Apple Watch
Choose language or region
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
Tap My Watch, go to General > Language & Region, tap Custom, then tap Watch Language.
![The Language & Region screen in the Apple Watch app, with the Watch Language setting near the top.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5E61BF6E09462208643389DB/5E61BF7C09462208643389EC/en_US/59d45abf2de1bfc7290aead5a21d5d0e.png)
Switch wrists or Digital Crown orientation
If you want to move your Apple Watch to your other wrist or prefer the Digital Crown on the other side, adjust your orientation settings so that raising your wrist wakes your Apple Watch, and turning the Digital Crown moves things in the direction you expect.
Open the Settings app
on your Apple Watch.
Go to General > Orientation.
You can also open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, then go to General > Watch Orientation.
![The Orientation screen on Apple Watch. You can set your wrist and Digital Crown preference.](https://help.apple.com/assets/5E61BF6E09462208643389DB/5E61BF7C09462208643389EC/en_US/8b8dd494839f48e817251a16a1262952.png)
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