Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Apple Watch gestures
- Use double tap to perform common actions
- Set up and pair your Apple Watch with iPhone
- Set up more than one Apple Watch
- Pair Apple Watch with a new 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
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- Apps on Apple Watch
- Open apps
- Organize apps
- Get more apps
- Tell time
- Status icons
- Control Center
- Use Focus
- Adjust brightness, text size, sounds, and haptics
- See and respond to notifications
- Change notification settings
- Use the Smart Stack to show timely widgets
- Manage your Apple ID
- Use shortcuts
- See time in daylight
- 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 your iPhone with Apple Watch
- Use Apple Watch without its paired iPhone
- Set up and use cellular service on Apple Watch
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- Get started with Apple Fitness+
- Subscribe to Apple Fitness+
- Find Fitness+ workouts and meditations
- Start a Fitness+ workout or meditation
- Create a Custom Plan in Apple Fitness+
- Work out together using SharePlay
- Change what’s on the screen during a Fitness+ workout or meditation
- Download a Fitness+ workout
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- Alarms
- Blood Oxygen
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Camera Remote
- Contacts
- ECG
- Medications
- Memoji
- News
- Now Playing
- Reminders
- Stocks
- Stopwatch
- Timers
- Tips
- Voice Memos
- Walkie-Talkie
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- About Wallet
- Apple Pay
- Set up Apple Pay
- Make purchases
- Send, receive, and request money with Apple Watch (U.S. only)
- Manage Apple Cash (U.S. only)
- Use Wallet for passes
- Use rewards cards
- Pay with Apple Watch on Mac
- Ride transit
- Use your driver’s license or state ID
- Use digital keys
- Use COVID-19 vaccination cards
- World Clock
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- VoiceOver
- Set up Apple Watch using VoiceOver
- Apple Watch basics with VoiceOver
- Apple Watch Mirroring
- Control nearby devices
- AssistiveTouch
- Use a braille display
- Use a Bluetooth keyboard
- Zoom
- Tell time with haptic feedback
- Adjust text size and other visual settings
- Adjust motor skills settings
- Set up and use RTT
- Accessibility audio settings
- Type to speak
- Use accessibility features with Siri
- The Accessibility Shortcut
- Copyright
Choose a photo album and manage storage on Apple Watch
With the Photos app 
on your Apple Watch, you can view photos from the iPhone album of your choice, featured photos, and Memories.
Choose the album to store on Apple Watch
When you first get an Apple Watch, it’s set to display photos from your Favorites album—photos you tagged as favorites—but you can change the album it uses.
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
Tap My Watch, go to Photos > Sync Album, then choose the album.
To remove a photo from Apple Watch, open the Photos app on your iPhone, then remove the image from the album you’ve synced.
To create a new album for Apple Watch photos, use the Photos app on your iPhone.
Show featured photos and Memories on Apple Watch
Your Apple Watch can automatically sync featured photos and Memories from the photos library on your iPhone.
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
Tap My Watch, tap Photos, then turn on Sync Memories and Sync Featured Photos.
Stop photo syncing
If you don’t want your iPhone to sync Memories, featured photos, or photos from an album you’ve chosen, follow these steps:
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
Tap My Watch, tap Photos, then turn off Photo Syncing.
Limit photo storage on Apple Watch
The number of photos stored on your Apple Watch depends on available space. To save space for songs or other content, you can limit the number of photos stored on it.
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
Tap My Watch, then go to Photos > Photos Limit.
To see how many photos are on your Apple Watch, do one of the following:
Open the Settings app
on your Apple Watch, then go to General > About.Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, then go to General > About.
To see how much space is used for your photos, open the Settings app on your Apple Watch, then go to General > Storage. To do this on your iPhone, open the Apple Watch app, tap My Watch, then go to General > Storage.
Take a screenshot of Apple Watch
Open the Settings app
on your Apple Watch, go to General > Screenshots, then turn on Enable Screenshots.Press the Digital Crown and the side button at the same time to take a picture of the screen.
Screenshots are saved in Photos on your iPhone.
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