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
Organize apps on Apple Watch
Rearrange your apps in grid view
On your Apple Watch, press the Digital Crown to go to the Home Screen.
If the screen is in list view, open the Settings app on your Apple Watch, tap App View, then tap Grid View.
Press the Digital Crown, touch and hold an app until they all jiggle, then drag it to a new location.
Press the Digital Crown when you’re done.
Or open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, tap App View, then tap Arrangement. Touch and hold an app icon, then drag it to a new location.
Note: In list view, apps are always arranged in alphabetical order.
Remove an app from Apple Watch
Grid view: On the Home Screen, touch and hold the app icon until you see an X on the icon, then tap the X to remove the app from your Apple Watch. It remains on your paired iPhone, unless you delete it there, too.
List view: Swipe the app left, then tap to remove it from your Apple Watch. It remains on your paired iPhone, unless you delete it there, too.
Adjust app settings
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
Tap My Watch, then scroll down to see apps you installed.
Tap an app to change its settings.
Some restrictions you set on your iPhone in Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions affect your Apple Watch also. For example, if you disable Camera on your iPhone, the Camera icon is removed from the Apple Watch Home Screen.
Check storage used by apps
Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch.
Go to General > Usage.
Or open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, then go to General > Usage.