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Get a move on
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, high and low heart rates, and irregularities in heart rhythm. You can also take an ECG recording to check your heart rhythm using the ECG app on Apple Watch.
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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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- 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