Apple Watch User Guide

First steps

You can set up and start using your Apple Watch in a matter of minutes.

Get started with Apple Watch

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.

Stay fit with Apple Watch

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.

Track important health information with Apple Watch

Keep in touch

With the Messages, Mail, Phone, and Walkie-Talkie apps, it’s easy to communicate with family, friends, and coworkers.

Apple Watch Fall Detection

If Apple Watch detects a hard fall, it can help connect you to emergency services if needed.

Here's how it works

If Apple Watch SE, Apple Watch Series 4 or later, or Apple Watch Ultra or later detects a hard fall while you're wearing your watch, it taps you on the wrist, sounds an alarm, and displays an alert. You can choose to contact emergency services or dismiss the alert by pressing the Digital Crown, tapping Close in the upper-left corner, or tapping "I'm OK."

If your Apple Watch detects that you're moving, it waits for you to respond to the alert and won't automatically call emergency services. If your watch detects that you've been immobile for about a minute, it will make the call automatically.1

How to remove someone from a group text message

Tap the group message that has the contact you want to remove.

  1. Tap the group icons at the top of the thread.

  2. Tap the gray arrow icon to the right of the contacts, then swipe left over the name of the person you want to remove.

  3. Tap Remove, then tap Done.

If you can't add or remove someone in a group message

  • You can only remove someone if the group has four or more people, and everyone is using an Apple device, like an iPhone or iPad.

  • You can only add someone to a group message if they're using an Apple device. If you want to add someone to a group message but they're using a non-Apple device, you need to create a new group message. That message will use SMS/MMS by default since someone is using a non-Apple device.

  • You can only add someone to a group message that already includes three or more people. You can't add someone to a messages conversation that you're already having with just one other person.