Version 9.0
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Introducing Apple Watch
- What’s New
- Set up and get started
- Set up Apple Watch for a family member
- Basics
- 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
- Manage your Apple ID
- Use shortcuts
- 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
- Use your Apple Watch with a cellular network
- Apple Watch safety features
- Siri
- Apple Watch faces
- Apple Fitness+
- Apps
- Activity
- Alarms
- Audiobooks
- Blood Oxygen
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Camera Remote
- Compass
- Contacts
- Cycle Tracking
- ECG
- Find People, Devices, and Items
- Heart Rate
- Home
- Maps
- Medications
- Memoji
- Messages
- Mindfulness
- Music
- News
- Noise
- Now Playing
- Phone
- Photos
- Podcasts
- Reminders
- Remote
- Sleep
- Stocks
- Stopwatch
- Timers
- Tips
- Voice Memos
- Walkie-Talkie
- Wallet and Apple Pay
- Weather
- Workout
- World Clock
- Accessibility and related settings
- 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
- Use accessibility features with Siri
- The Accessibility Shortcut
- Restart, erase, recover, restore, and update
- Get help
- Safety and handling
- Copyright
167Apple Watch User Guide
Share your activity from AppleWatch
Keep your fitness routine on track by sharing your activity with your family and friends—you
can even share with a trainer or coach. You can get notifications when your friends meet
their goals, finish workouts, and earn achievements.
Add or remove a friend
If you’ve never shared activity before, open the Fitness app on your iPhone, then tap
Sharing. Tap Get Started, then follow these steps:
1. Open the Activity app on your AppleWatch.
2. Swipe left, then turn the Digital Crown to scroll to the bottom of the screen.
3. To add a friend, tap Invite a Friend, then tap a friend.
To remove a friend, tap a friend you’re sharing with, then tap Remove Friend.
After a friend accepts your invitation, you can see their activity and they can see yours.
If a friend hasn’t accepted an invitation, tap their name in the Invited area of the Sharing
screen, then tap Invite Again.
To add a friend, you can also open the Fitness app on your iPhone, tap Sharing, tap ,
then tap to send an email invitation, or tap to send an invitation with Messages.
Note:If you’re using a managed AppleWatch, just open the Activity app, swipe left, tap
Add Friends, then tap a name.
Check your friends’ progress
1. Open the Activity app on your AppleWatch.
2. Swipe left, then turn the Digital Crown to scroll your friends list.
3. Tap friends to see their stats for the day.
Compete with your friends
Stay motivated with a little healthy competition. You can challenge a friend to a competition
in which you earn points based on the percentage of your Activity Rings that you close.
You get a point for every percent you add to your rings each day. The competition lasts 7
days and you can earn up to 600 points a day for a maximum of 4,200 points for the week.
The person with the most points at the end of the competition wins. During a competition,
alerts tell you if you’re ahead of or falling behind your competitor—along with the score.
1. Open the Activity app on your AppleWatch.
2. Swipe left, tap a friend, then tap Compete.
3. Tap Invite [your friend’s name], then wait for your friend to accept.
Or, when you receive an Activity sharing notification—your friend just closed their rings or
doubled their move goal, for example—you can scroll down and tap Compete.
You can also open the Fitness app on your iPhone, tap Sharing, tap a friend, then tap
Compete with [your friend’s name].










