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Use apps on Apple Watch

You can browse and open apps from the Home Screen. Your Apple Watch comes with a collection of helpful apps designed to keep you connected right from your wrist. These built-in apps work seamlessly with your iPhone and can help you stay active, communicate with others, access important information, and more.

Open apps from the Home Screen

From the watch face, press the Digital Crown to see the dynamic app grid, which shows the apps you use most and have used most recently.
Tap an app to open it.
To see more apps, turn the Digital Crown.

To return to the Home Screen from an app, press the Digital Crown once, then press it again to switch to the watch face.

Apps included with Apple Watch

App icon		App name				For more information
		Activity				Track daily activity
		Alarms				Add an alarm
		App Store				Get apps
		Audiobooks				Listen to audiobooks
		Blood Oxygen (not available on Apple Watch SE; not available in all countries or regions)				Measure blood oxygen levels
		Calculator				Use Calculator
		Calendar				Check and update your calendar
		Camera Remote				Use Camera Remote
		Compass				Use the compass
		Contacts				See contact information
		Cycle Tracking				Use Cycle Tracking
		Depth				Measure underwater temperature, duration, and depth
		ECG				Record an electrocardiogram
		Find My				Set up Find My
		Heart Rate				Check your heart rate
		Home				Control your home
		Mail				Read and write mail
		Maps				Get directions
		Medications				Track your medications
		Memoji				Use Memoji
		Messages				Read and respond to messages
		Mindfulness				Practice mindfulness
		Music				Add and play music
		Music Recognition				Identify songs with Shazam
		News (not available in all countries or regions)				Read news stories
		Noise				Measure noise levels
		Notes				Take notes
		Now Playing				Use Now Playing
		Phone				Answer and make phone calls
		Photos				View photos and Memories
		Podcasts				Play podcasts
		Readiness (available on Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4)				Use the Readiness app
		Reminders				Use reminders
		Remote				Control Apple TV 4K
		Settings				Change the settings
		Shortcuts				Use shortcuts
		Siren (available on Apple Watch Ultra models)				Activate the siren
		Siri (Siri AI is available in beta on watchOS 27 or later on Apple Watch Series 9 and later, Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later, and Apple Watch SE 3 when paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or iPhone 16 model or later with Siri and device language set to a supported language. Available in English to start. Siri AI will not initially be available in the EU on iOS and watchOS. Usage limits may apply.)*				Use the Siri app
		Sleep				Track your sleep
		Stocks				Track stocks
		Stopwatch				Use a stopwatch
		Tides				Tides
		Timers				Set timers
		Tips				View tips
		Translate				Translate text and voice
		Vitals				Track your vitals
		Voice Memos				Record and play voice memos
		Wallet				Set up cards and passes
		Weather				Check the weather
		Workout				Start a workout
		World Clock				Check the time in other locations

Quit an app

If an app isn’t responding, you can quit and reopen it to try to resolve the issue. (Typically, there’s no reason to quit an app; quitting it doesn’t save battery power, for example.)

From the app you want to quit, press and hold the side button until the sliders appear.
Press and hold the Digital Crown until the watch face appears.

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Apple Watch User Guide

Use apps on Apple Watch

Open apps from the Home Screen

Apps included with Apple Watch

Quit an app