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
Accessibility audio settings on Apple Watch
If you prefer to hear a combined left+right audio signal out of both audio channels on speakers or headphones connected to your Apple Watch, turn on Mono Audio. You can also adjust the left-right balance of your Apple Watch audio, whether stereo or mono. And you can change AirPods settings to be more accessible.
Change mono audio and balance settings
Open the Settings app 
on your Apple Watch, tap Accessibility, then, under Hearing, do any of the following:
Switch from stereo to mono audio: Turn on Mono Audio.
Adjust the audio balance: Tap the L or R button below Mono Audio.
You can also open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, tap Accessibility, then turn on Mono Audio and adjust the audio balance.
Change AirPods settings
You can change press speed and press-and-hold duration settings for the AirPods you use with your Apple Watch. You can also turn on noise cancellation on AirPods Pro for when you have one of your AirPods in only one ear.
Open the Settings app
on your Apple Watch.Go to Accessibility > AirPods, select your AirPods, then choose settings.
You can also open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap My Watch, then go to Accessibility > AirPods.
Show HomePod transcriptions
Apple Watch can show transcriptions for any HomePod announcements when both devices use the same Apple ID.
Open the Settings app
on your Apple Watch.Go to Accessibility, then turn on Show Audio Transcriptions.
Turn on headphone notifications
To protect your hearing, your Apple Watch can send a notification if you’ve been listening to loud headphone audio for long enough to affect your hearing.
Open the Settings app
on your Apple Watch.Go to Accessibility, then turn on Headphone Notifications.
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