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
See activity and health reports for family members
With your family member’s permission, you can view reports of their activity and health information.
Add a family member’s health details and Medical ID
Follow these steps to enter your family member’s health details or Medical ID:
Open the Apple Watch app on the iPhone used to manage the watch.
Tap My Watch, tap Family Watches, then tap a watch.
Tap Done, tap Health, then tap Request [family member’s name] Health Data.
Tap Request Health Data, and a notification is sent to the managed watch. After your family member has chosen to share their health data, do the following:
Tap Health Details to enter or edit information such as birthdate, height, and weight.
Tap Set Up Medical ID to add emergency contacts and more.
If your family member chose to share this information from their Health app with you, you can see health details and Medical ID on the iPhone used to manage the Apple Watch and on the watch.
On your iPhone: Open the Health app, tap Sharing, tap your family member’s name, then tap Profile.
On the managed Apple Watch: Open the Settings app
on the Apple Watch, then tap Health.
See a family member’s health information
If your family member has chosen to share their health data, you can see additional information about their activity as well as information about hearing, time in daylight, heart rate, and more.
Open the Health app on your iPhone, then tap Sharing.
Tap the name of your family member below Sharing With You.
Tap Health Categories, then tap a category.
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