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
Read news stories on Apple Watch
The News app 
on your Apple Watch helps keep you up to date with current events, presenting stories selected with your interests in mind.
Note: The News app is not available in all countries or regions.
View stories in the News app
You can view news stories in several ways:
Open the News app
on your Apple Watch.Tap the News complication on a watch face.
Tap a News widget on the Siri watch face.
Tap a notification from News.
Read a news story
Open the News app
on your Apple Watch.Scroll through the story list by turning the Digital Crown, then tap a story to expand it.
To save a story to read on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, scroll to the bottom of the story, then tap
.To open the story later on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, do one of the following:
iPhone: Open the News app, tap Following, tap Saved Stories, then tap the story.
iPad: Open the News app, tap Saved Stories in the sidebar, then tap the story.
Mac: Open the News app, click Saved Stories in the sidebar, then click the story.
Share a news story
Open the News app
on your Apple Watch.Scroll to a story, then tap it.
Scroll down, tap
, then choose a sharing option.
Go to the next or previous news story
Open the News app
on your Apple Watch.Scroll down or up to read a story, then tap Read More.
Open news stories on iPhone
Open the News app
on your Apple Watch.Wake iPhone, then open the App Switcher. (On an iPhone with Face ID, swipe up from the bottom edge and pause; on an iPhone with a Home button, double-click the Home button.)
Tap the button that appears at the bottom of the screen to open News.
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