Apple Watch Support

Get started with your Apple Watch

Grab your iPhone and follow these simple steps to get up and running with your new Apple Watch.

Set up your Apple Watch Activate cellular on your watch

Set up an Apple Watch for a family member

You can use your iPhone to set up and manage an Apple Watch for a family member, such as a child, who doesn’t have their own iPhone.

Learn more about Family Setup Learn how to schedule Schooltime

Keep up with your heart

Apple Watch can alert you to high or low heart rates as well as irregular rhythms. And with Apple Watch Series 4 and later, you can take an electrocardiogram (ECG) any time.

Set up heart notifications

Take an ECG

Do more with Apple Watch

Create and share watch faces

Customize any face on your Apple Watch and then share it with a friend so they can use it, too.

Learn how to share a watch face

Change your watch face

Choose different designs, adjust the colors, and add complications to your watch face.

Learn how to customize

Get apps for your Apple Watch

You can manage apps on your watch with the App Store in watchOS 6 and later, or do it on your iPhone.

Learn how to install apps

Handwashing detection

In watchOS 7, your watch automatically detects when you begin washing your hands and times you for 20 seconds.

Learn more about handwashing reminders

Your daily partner for a healthy life

Take blood oxygen measurements

Apple Watch Series 6 can measure the oxygen saturation level of your blood on-demand directly from your wrist.

Set up the Blood Oxygen app

Track your time asleep

Use the Sleep app in watchOS 7 to schedule your wake-up alarm, bedtime, and bedtime reminders. Then, wear your watch to bed to track how well you sleep.

Set up the Sleep app