Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Alarms
- App Store
- Blood Oxygen
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Camera Remote
- ECG
- Medications
- Memoji
- Music Recognition
- News
- Now Playing
- Reminders
- Remote
- Shortcuts
- Siren
- Stocks
- Stopwatch
- Tides
- Timers
- Tips
- Translate
- Vitals
- Voice Memos
- Walkie-Talkie
- 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
- Auto-select focused app
- Use accessibility features with Siri
- The Accessibility Shortcut
- Copyright
Edit and unsend messages on Apple Watch
In the Messages app, you can edit or unsend a message.
Edit a sent message
You can edit a recently sent message up to five times within 15 minutes of sending it.
Go to the Messages app
on your Apple Watch.Select a conversation with the message you want to edit.
Touch and hold the message bubble, then tap Edit.
Make any changes, then tap Done to resend with edits.
Note: The message is marked as Edited in the conversation transcript.
The message bubble is updated to reflect your edits on your recipient’s device, and both of you can tap Edited to see previous versions of your message.
If the person you’re messaging is using a device with iOS 15.7, iPadOS 15.7, macOS 12.6, watchOS 9, or earlier, they receive follow-up messages with the preface “Edited to” and your new message in quotation marks. Messages sent with SMS can’t be edited.
Unsend a message
You can undo a recently sent message for up to 2 minutes after sending it.
Go to the Messages app
on your Apple Watch.Touch and hold the message bubble, then tap Undo Send.
A note confirming that you unsent the message appears in both conversation transcripts: yours and your recipient’s.
Unsending removes the message from your recipient’s device.
If the person you’re messaging is using a device with iOS 15.7, iPadOS 15.7, macOS 12.6, watchOS 9, or earlier, the original message remains in the conversation. When you unsend a message, you’re notified that the recipient may still see the original message in the message transcript.