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Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Get started
- Your Apple Watch
- 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
- Adjust brightness, text size, sounds, and haptics
- Siri
- Listen and respond to messages
- See and respond to notifications
- 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
- Copyright
Record and play voice memos on Apple Watch
![Apple Watch showing the Voice Memos screen. A red Record button appears near the top. Two recorded memos appear below. They display the time they were recorded and their length.](https://help.apple.com/assets/600F108EB67A7B74502B78B5/600F1093B67A7B74502B78C6/en_US/c03ff53d1db26cd3c25a404256ece3da.png)
Use the Voice Memos app on Apple Watch to record personal notes.
Record a voice memo
Open the Voice Memos app
on your Apple Watch.
Tap
.
Tap
to end the recording.
Play a voice memo
Open the Voice Memos app
on your Apple Watch.
Tap a recording on the Voice Memos screen, then tap
to play it.
To delete the recording, tap
, then tap Delete.
Voice memos you record on your Apple Watch automatically sync to your Mac, iPad, and any iOS devices where you’re signed in with the same Apple ID.
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