Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- Your Apple Watch
- What’s new
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- Get started
- 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
- Use Focus
- Adjust brightness, text size, sounds, and haptics
- See and respond to notifications
- Change notification settings
- Manage your Apple ID
- 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
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- All about Apple Fitness+
- Subscribe to Apple Fitness+
- Set up Apple Fitness+ on Apple TV
- Browse Fitness+ workouts and Meditations
- Start a Fitness+ workout
- Pause and resume a Fitness+ workout
- End and review a Fitness+ workout
- Work out together using SharePlay
- Change what’s on the screen during a Fitness+ workout
- Download a Fitness+ workout
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- Alarms
- Blood Oxygen
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Camera Remote
- Compass
- Contacts
- Cycle Tracking
- ECG
- Heart Rate
- Memoji
- News
- Now Playing
- Reminders
- Sleep
- 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
- Weather
- World Clock
- Copyright
Set timers on Apple Watch
The Timers app on Apple Watch can help you keep track of time. With watchOS 8, you can set multiple timers that track time for up to 24 hours.
Siri: Say something like: “Set a timer for 20 minutes.”
Quickly set a timer
Open the Timers app on your Apple Watch.
To quickly start a timer, tap a duration (like 1, 3, or 5 minutes) or tap a timer you’ve recently used below Recents. To create a custom timer, swipe down, then tap Custom.
When a timer goes off, you can tap to start a timer of the same duration.
Pause or end a timer
With a timer running, open the Timers app on your Apple Watch.
Tap to pause, tap to resume, or tap to end.
Create a custom timer
Open the Timers app on your Apple Watch.
Scroll to the top of the screen, then tap Custom.
Tap hours, minutes, or seconds; turn the Digital Crown to adjust.
Tap Start.
Create multiple timers
Open the Timers app on your Apple Watch.
Create and start a timer.
Tip: To assign a label such as “Pizza” to a timer, use Siri to create the timer. Raise your Apple Watch, then say something like “Set a 12 minute pizza timer.”
Tap < to return to the Timers screen, then create and start another timer.
All your running timers appear on the Timers screen. Tap to pause a timer, and tap to resume.
To delete a running or paused timer that appears on the Timers screen, swipe left, then tap X.
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