How to Switch Between Grid View and List View on the Apple Watch
Many of the apps that you use on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch also have versions for the Apple Watch. Some of these apps …
Apple Watch How-To Guides
Tutorials and guides to help you change the settings on your Apple Watch and improve your experience with the device.
Not sure where to start? Check out our featured Apple Watch guides below:
- How to Turn Off Sound on the Apple Watch – silence the Apple Watch so that you don’t hear notification sounds.
- How to Enable Water Mode on the Apple Watch – learn more about the water drop icon on the watch and how to activate it.
- How to Turn Off Theater Mode on the Apple Watch – get the watch out of theater mode if you don’t need that setting anymore.
How to Change Your Move Goal on the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch has a fitness app and an activity app that provide useful ways to track your exercise. This tracking occurs via three values …
How to Use the Mickey Mouse Face on Your Apple Watch
Many of the devices that we use every day have some sort of setting or option that can be customized. This could be the Home …
How to View Your Step Count on an Apple Watch
Since activity tracking devices like the Apple Watch have become popular, it is common to try and reach certain goal like a step count. But …
How to Stop Spotify from Opening Automatically on an Apple Watch
Your Apple Watch provides you with a lot of helpful ways to receive notifications and control some of the things that happen on your iPhone. …
How to Put Apple Watch on Silent
Your Apple Watch syncs with your iPhone to convey notifications in additional ways. Some of these notifications involve sound, which can also come from the …
Can I Stop My Apple Watch Apps from Updating Automatically?
Much like the apps that you install through the App Store on your iPhone, the apps on your Apple Watch will need to be updated …
How to Remote Control Your iPhone Camera from the Apple Watch
The steps in this article are going to show you how to take a picture using your iPhone camera with a control on your Apple …
How to Change When the Apple Watch Wakes with the Last-Used App
You can configure your Apple Watch to wake when you do things like tap the screen or raise your wrist. In many cases you will …
How to Stop Taking Screenshots on the Apple Watch
Screenshots on your iPhone are a useful way to share part of a text message conversation, give instructions on how to do something, or screencap …
How to Turn Off Apple Watch Youtube Notifications
Following a channel on YouTube is a great way to keep up with new videos that are created by your favorite content producers. The more …
Why is There a Running Man on My Apple Watch?
Is there a tiny green notification at the top of your Apple Watch face that looks like a running man? Or is the Workout complication …
How to Set a Workout Playlist on the Apple Watch
The compatibility between the Apple Watch and your iPhone allows you to do some interesting things. One of these interactions that can be particularly useful …
How to Turn Off Activity Sharing Notifications on the Apple Watch
The Activity circles and awards on your Apple Watch can be a great motivation to be active everyday. It’s rewarding to close those circles, and …
How to Get Flashlight on Apple Watch
Many mobile devices that you use regularly have some kind of flashlight utility. Sometimes this involves keeping the camera flash turned while other times it …
How to Stop Launching Audio Apps Automatically on Apple Watch
There is a lot of interaction that occurs between the apps you use on your iPhone and your Apple Watch. Some of this interaction is …
How to Change Your Apple Watch Name
The electronic devices that you have which are able to communicate with networks and other devices typically have a name attached to them. This helps …
How to Remove Something from the Apple Watch Dock
You can open the dock on the Apple Watch by pressing the flatter side button, next to the crown. This provides a quick way to …
How to Show Different Workout Metrics on the Apple Watch
The Workout app on your Apple Watch is a great way to track your activity and measure your performance when performing certain types of exercise. …
How to Pause Runs Automatically on an Apple Watch
When you are running outside, either around your home or in a city, it’s very likely that you will need to cross a street at …
How to Limit the Amount of Music on Your Apple Watch
While the Apple Watch doesn’t have all of the same capabilities as an iPhone, there are a lot of tasks that you perform on the …
How to Disable Heart Rate Tracking on the Apple Watch
The battery life on the Apple Watch is something that you may find troubling if you use the watch a lot during the course of …
How to Set a Monogram on Your Apple Watch
There are a lot of settings and customizations that you can make on the Apple Watch and if you spend enough time fiddling around with …
How to Turn Off the Black and White Apple Watch Screen
Is your Apple Watch suddenly only displaying black, white, and gray colors? This could be a little alarming if you didn’t do it intentionally. The …
How to View Remaining Battery Life on the Apple Watch
Battery life management on a smartphone like the iPhone is something that almost everyone has needed to experiment with in the time they have owned …
How to Quit an App on the Apple Watch
You may be familiar with how to quit an app on your iPhone, as it can be a handy thing to know when an app …
How to Start a Running Workout on the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch has some terrific integrations with the iPhone that let it display notifications on the watch face. This prevents you from constantly needing …
How to Enable Power Reserve Mode on the Apple Watch
Your Apple Watch is useful not only as a way to tell the time but also because of the way it can interact with your …
How to Enable the Unlock with iPhone Setting for an Apple Watch Passcode
Your iPhone contains a lot of sensitive information, which is why it’s so important to lock the device with a passcode or a fingerprint. But …
How to Turn Off Text Message Notifications on the Apple Watch
The ability to view text message notifications on your Apple Watch without needing to unlock your iPhone is one of the more convenient uses of …
How to Check for an Apple Watch Update
Smartphone owners are often inundated with notifications about updates for their apps and the operating system. These updates typically seek to fix known issues with …
How to Turn on VoiceOver on the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch has a speaker on it, although you might not hear sounds coming from the watch itself very often. But one way that …
How to Enable Airplane Mode on an Apple Watch
When you go on an airplane with your phone, you will eventually be asked to turn the device off. This is necessary because smartphones transmit …
How to Completely Disable Siri on the Apple Watch
Your Apple Watch has some Siri functionality that allows you to use the popular voice-control feature to perform some actions from the watch. You can …
How to Turn Off Maps on Apple Watch
There are a lot of interesting ways that the apps on your iPhone will work with the apps on your watch. One of these involves …
How to Increase Haptic Feedback Strength on the Apple Watch
The haptic feedback system on your Apple Watch can be very useful if you rely on the Watch to provide you with alerts about phone …
How to Stop the Apple Watch from Locking When You Take it Off
Since the Apple watch provides access to much of the same information that you have on your iPhone, it can be important to somewhat restrict …
How to Set an Apple Watch Ahead By Five Minutes
It’s very common for people to set different times on the clocks that they use every day. Whether that means setting the clock in your …
How to Change the Alert Volume on the Apple Watch
One of my favorite things about the Apple Watch is how much more convenient it makes checking phone alerts. Your iPhone syncs your notifications with …
How to Turn Off “Hey Siri” on an Apple Watch
The “Hey Siri” feature on the iPhone allows you to use the voice search and control features of Siri without even holding the device. This …
How to Delete an Apple Watch Complication
Some of the third-party apps on your Apple Watch include things called Complications that can add some additional information to some of your watch faces. …
How to Make Apple Watch Stay On Longer
The Apple Watch interface is surprisingly easy to use given the limited amount of ways in which you can interact with it, and the small …
How to Delete a Watch Face from the Apple Watch
There are a lot of different watch faces for your Apple Watch that can provide different types of information. Selecting the right watch face can …
How to Turn Off Activity Notifications on the Apple Watch
The Activity app on your Apple Watch can be responsible for a lot of the notifications that you receive. Whether you wish to stop the …
How to Find Your Apple Watch Serial Number
The Apple Watch has a lot in common with the iPhone, both in the way that the apps and navigation on the devices are structured, …
How to Clear All Apple Watch Notifications at Once
The notifications that you receive on your Apple Watch allow you to check on new messages or information that has appeared on your apps. If you …
How to Delete Bluetooth Headphones on an Apple Watch
You can pair Bluetooth headphones to your Apple Watch using a very similar method to how you would pair them to your iPhone. This is very …
How to Change the Wrist Setting for Your Apple Watch
When you first set up your Apple watch on your iPhone, you had to select the wrist on which you would wear the device, as …
How to Pair Bluetooth Headphones with an Apple Watch
Bluetooth headphones offer a simple, wireless way to listen to music from compatible devices. Your iPhone, iPad, and possibly your laptop all have this capability, …
How to Get Rid of the Red Circle With the Number in It on an iPhone Watch App
Your iPhone and the apps installed on it have a number of different notification types that you can customize. One of these notification types is …