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
Complete an outdoor run workout on Apple Watch
Start a running workout
Open the Workout app
on your Apple Watch.Turn the Digital Crown to Outdoor Run.
When you’re ready to go, tap the workout.
Set a pace for an outdoor run workout
Choose a target pace for an outdoor run, and your Apple Watch shows if you’re ahead or behind that pace.
Open the Workout app
on your Apple Watch.Turn the Digital Crown to scroll to Outdoor Run, then tap
.Tap Create Workout, then tap Pacer.
Adjust the distance—5 miles, for example—then tap Next.
Adjust the target time for running that distance, then tap Done.
During your run, your Apple Watch shows your average pace and your current pace, and a graph shows whether you are ahead or behind your chosen pace.
Your Apple Watch remembers your target pace across workouts. To change it, choose Outdoor Run, tap , tap 
in the Pacer tile, tap Distance • Time, then edit the distance and time.
Use Race Route to race your last or best time
When running or cycling a route you do often, you can race against your last or best time. Routes are automatically generated and are available to you after you’ve repeated the same route with little to no deviation at least two or more times.
Open the Workout app
on your Apple Watch.Tap
next to an Outdoor Run or Outdoor Cycle workout.Tap the Race Route tile, then select Last or Personal Best.
During the workout, your Apple Watch shows how far ahead or behind you are compared to the route you’re racing as well as the remaining distance. If you deviate from the route, “Proceed To Route” appears on the screen until you return to the original route.
Available Race Routes appear as a suggested workout when you’re close to the starting point of a route you’ve previously run. You can view all available routes by tapping Suggested, then selecting Route.
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