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 …
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 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
Smart phone owners are often inundated with notifications about updates for their apps and the operating system. These updates typically seek to fix known issues …
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 interestng 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 everyday. Whether that means setting the clock in your car …
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 …
What is Reduce Motion on Apple Watch?
While the Apple Watch is popular because of all of the features it offers and how much you can do on it, there are some …
How to Make the Apple Watch Screen Brighter
The battery on your Apple Watch is able to last a couple of days with normal usage. This average usage time can vary, depending upon …
How to Dismiss an Apple Watch Notification
Notifications get sent by almost any app that you have installed on your iPhone, and this behavior applies to Apple Watch apps, too. You can turn …
How to View Storage Usage on the Apple Watch
Your Apple Watch has many of the same characteristics as your iPhone, including an internal storage system. This storage is used by the apps that are installed …
How to Restart the Apple Watch
You’ve probably had to restart your laptop or desktop computer if something wasn’t working properly. Maybe you’ve even had to do this for your wireless …
How to Enable Nightstand Mode on the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch has a lot of interesting features that you can integrate into your life. One of these features is called Nightstand Mode, which …
How to Turn Off Twitter Notifications on the Apple Watch
Some of the notifications that you get on your Apple Watch are great. I personally like the text message notifications and the phone call notifications, …
How to Find Your Apple Watch from Your iPhone
Devices that are associated with your Apple ID can be located, and even remotely erased, with the use of a feature called “Find My iPhone.” …
How to Install a Software Update on the Apple Watch
The operating system on your Apple Watch shares many of the features of the operating system on your iPhone. The Watch operating system occasionally receives …
How to Add a New Watch Face on the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch “Home” screen can be customized to display the time in several different ways, and it can include different types of information. This …
How to Enable Zoom on the Apple Watch
The screen on the Apple Watch is quite small, regardless of whether you have purchased the 38mm or 42mm watch face. If you’ve used the …
How to Make Text Bigger on the Apple Watch
The Apple Watch has a lot of intuitive design features that make it easy to use, despite the lack of buttons and dials. You can …
How to Hide the Red Dot at the Top of the Apple Watch Screen
You might have noticed a red dot that occasionally appears at the top of your Apple Watch screen. This red dot indicates that you have …
How to Hide Notification Details on the Apple Watch
Your Apple Watch can display notifications from your iPhone. This is often a more convenient way of viewing your notifications if your iPhone is typically …
How to Delete an App on the Apple Watch
Apps will appear on your Apple watch because of a feature called Automatic App Install. Not every iPhone app has a compatible Watch app, so …
How to Add the Battery Widget to the iPhone 7
Your iPhone that is running the iOS 10 operating system has a new location that displays widgets. These widgets are associated with certain apps, and …
How to Stop Automatic App Install on the Apple Watch
Many of the apps on your iPhone have an Apple Watch version that you can use directly from the watch. Sometimes these Watch app versions include …
How to Reorganize the Apps on Your Apple Watch
The Home screen on the Apple Watch has some similarities to the iPhone Home screen, but it is different enough to make it unique. There …
How to Turn Off Background App Refresh on the Apple Watch
The apps on your Apple devices are often downloading information and refreshing what you see on your screen. This feature is called “Background App Refresh” …
How to Disable Stand Reminders on the Apple Watch
There is a big focus on exercise, wellness, and other health-related activities on the Apple Watch. The device includes several built-in features that specifically target …
How to Remove the Email Signature on the Apple Watch
Apple devices are able to sync with your email account so that you can read and send emails from that device. By default, each of …
Which Version of Watch OS is on My Apple Watch?
Your Apple Watch uses an operating system called Watch OS. This is a special version of Apple’s software that was designed specifically for Apple Watch …
How to Turn Off Breathe Reminders on the Apple Watch
There are a lot of fitness and health related functions on the Apple Watch, and most of them work silently in the background. You may …
How to Do Apple Watch Screenshots
Screenshots are a great tool to have at your disposal when you want to show something to someone. Simply pressing a couple of buttons and …
How to Sync a Playlist from Your iPhone 7 to an Apple Watch
The Apple Watch is a great tool for exercising, especially if you are interested in tracking your running activity. You may have discovered that you …