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
Open apps on Apple Watch
The Home Screen lets you open any app on your Apple Watch. The App Switcher gives you quick access to the apps you’ve most recently used.
Display your apps on a grid or in a list
The Home Screen can display apps in a grid or list view. When you first set up your Apple Watch, you choose the view you want. To change it later, follow these steps:
From the watch face, press the Digital Crown to show the Home screen.
Turn the Digital Crown to scroll to the bottom of the screen, then choose Grid View or List View.
You can also open the Settings app 
, tap App View, then choose Grid View or List View.
Open apps from the Home Screen
How you open an app depends on which view you choose.
Grid view: Tap the app icon. Turn the Digital Crown to see more apps.
List view: Turn the Digital Crown, then tap an app.
To return to the Home Screen from an app, press the Digital Crown once, then press it again to switch to the watch face.
Open an app from the App Switcher
Double-click the Digital Crown, then turn the Digital Crown to scroll through your most recently used apps.
Note: Apps that are currently running a session—a Maps navigation session or a Workout session, for example—appear at the top of the list of apps.
Tap an app to open it.
Remove an app from the App Switcher
Double-click the Digital Crown, then turn the Digital Crown to the app you want to remove. Swipe left on the app, then tap X.
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