Apple Watch The Complete Manual

Tap Top Left In many places on the Apple Watch you can tap the top left corner of the screen to go back to the page you just left. This is a very important gesture, so remember it well. The Speaker Your Apple Watch’s speaker is found on the left-hand side of the casing. It’s used for features such as phone calls and alerts. Force Touch The watch screen is touch sensitive and it can differentiate between a tap and a press. This is an important feature you need to get used to when using your Apple Watch. Complications Customisable complications add more information to your watch screen. You can also access the app that produced this information by tapping on its complication. Unopened Notifications A red dot at the…

First-time Set-up with a New Watch If you’re planning to use watchOS 26, you must pair a compatible Apple Watch with an iPhone 11 or later, or iPhone SE (2nd gen) or later. Apple Watch is only compatible with iPhone – sorry, Android users. 1 If your watch is switched off, press and hold the side button to switch it on. It Invites you to make sure your Apple Watch and iPhone are in close proximity. On your iPhone, tap the Continue button that appears at the foot of the screen and proceed. 2 If you wish to choose a language at this stage, tap the ‘i’ in the circle, found in the bottom-right corner of the watch screen, and choose from the languages available. Scroll up and down the…

On Your Watch If your Apple Watch is already running watchOS 6 or higher, you can update directly from your watch. If it isn’t, you might be very out of date. Follow the guide to updating on your iPhone instead. 1 If you get a notification like this, there’s a new version of watchOS you can install on to your Apple Watch. To install overnight, scroll up and tap Install Tonight, then leave your watch on a charger overnight. 2 To install immediately from your Apple Watch, place the watch on your charger, and make sure it’s connected to your Wi-Fi network. On your watch, go to Settings > General > Software Update. 3 On this Software Update screen, scroll up and tap the button marked Install. The install only…

Interacting With Your Watch Although the gestures offered by the Apple Watch aren’t as advanced or as comprehensive as those used in iOS devices or on the Mac, it’s definitely worth taking a little time to familiarise yourself with these controls. Swipe Down From the main watch screen, swipe down to access the Notification Screen. A red dot at the top of the watch face means you’ve unread notifications. To get back to the watch screen, swipe up again or press the Digital Crown. Swipe Up Swiping up from the watch face takes you to your widgets screen, giving easy access to apps you use a lot. Scroll all the way up with the Digital Crown and tap the Edit button and you can customise it to suit yourself. Swipe…

Changing Your Watch Face Changing and customising your watch face is easy. There are currently eleven unique faces to choose from, all of which can be customised, and two options to use your own photographs as a face for your Apple Watch. 1 To cycle between available faces on your Apple Watch, deep press the watch face until the face picker screen appears, as seen above. Swipe left or right or turn the Digital Crown until you find the face you want. 2 Tap, hold and drag a watch face to reorder, drag one upwards and tap Remove to delete it. When you’ve chosen your watch face, tap it to use it, or tap the Edit button to get to the editing screen. 3 To add a new watch face,…

Connecting to a Wi-Fi Network Your watch is usually connected to your iPhone, but you can connect it directly to a 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi network if you wish, or even a 5 GHz network if you have a Series 6 watch or later. Here’s how to go about it. 1 To find and join a Wi-Fi network, in the watch’s Settings app, tap Wi-Fi. Make sure it’s switched on (see the switch at the top of the page), then scroll up to find the network you want to join. Tap it, and if necessary, enter the network’s Wi-Fi password. Tap Join. 2 To get your Apple Watch to forget a Wi-Fi network, so it won’t automatically join, open the watch’s Settings app and tap Wi-Fi. Use the Digital Crown to…