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Move it
Apple Watch can track your activity and workouts, and encourage you to lead a more active life through gentle reminders and friendly competitions.
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Keep tabs on your health
Your Apple Watch can help you track important health information, including your menstrual cycle and high and low heart rates.
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Keep in touch
With the Messages, Mail, Phone, and Walkie-Talkie apps, it’s easy to communicate with family, friends, and coworkers.
To browse the Apple Watch User Guide, click Table of Contents at the top of the page. To download the Apple Watch User Guide and view it in the Books app, visit Apple Books.
If you need more help, visit the Apple Watch Support website.
Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Open apps
- Apps on Apple Watch
- Organize apps
- Get more apps
- Tell time
- Status icons
- Control Center
- Adjust brightness, text size, sounds, and haptics
- Siri
- See and respond to notifications
- Create an emergency Medical ID
- Manage fall detection
- 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
- Use Apple Watch without its paired iPhone
- Use your Apple Watch with a cellular network
- Copyright
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