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
Listen to guided meditations on Apple Watch (Apple Fitness+ subscription required)
If you subscribe to Apple Fitness+, you can listen to guided meditations with your Apple Watch when it’s paired with AirPods or other Bluetooth headphones or speakers.
Note: Apple Fitness+ isn’t available in all countries or regions.
Start a guided meditation
Open the Mindfulness app
on your Apple Watch.Tap Fitness+ Audio Meditations.
Scroll to browse through the meditation.
The theme, trainer, and duration of the meditation appear near the bottom of each episode.
Tap
to learn more about the meditation, add it to My Library in Apple Fitness+, or play its playlist in the Music app 
.Tap a meditation to begin.
As the meditation plays, its elapsed time and your current heart rate appear on Apple Watch.
To pause or end a guided meditation, swipe right as the meditation plays, then tap Pause or End. To begin a workout while the meditation continues to play, tap Workout, then choose a workout.
Browse your completed meditations
When you complete most or all of a meditation, it appears in My Library in Apple Fitness+, which you can find on your Apple Watch and in the Fitness app on your iPhone.
Open the Mindfulness app
on your Apple Watch.Tap Fitness+ Audio Meditations.
Scroll to the bottom of the screen, then tap Library to show any meditations you’ve played.
Tap
to learn more about the meditation, download it, remove it from My Library, or play its playlist in the Music app .Tap a meditation to play it again.
You can also browse My Library on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple TV. Open the Fitness app on your device (tap Fitness+ on iPhone), then scroll down to My Library.
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