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Apple Watch
Extend on your wrist — pages, complications, and watch-side settings.
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Overview
The Watch app mirrors what you care about on your wrist:
• Swipe through pages for Today's Plan, Library (quick-start), Apple Health, Steps & Distance, Water, Mindful, Moon, Date, and Settings.
• Add complications to your watch face for at-a-glance stats and one-tap deep links — including Today's Plan, Library, Steps, Distance, Steps & Distance, Water, Mindful, Date, Moon, and Apple Health (Activity Rings).
• Mirror an iPhone/iPad workout session to capture accurate heart rate and calories.
Long-press your watch face → Edit → Complications → scroll to find Extend to add complications.
Pages (Watch App)
Swipe horizontally to move between pages. Hide pages you don't use in Settings → Pages on the Watch — Settings always stays visible so you can re-enable them.
• Today's Plan — your scheduled items for today, with check-off tracking.
• Library — quick-launch any workout or exercise.
• Apple Health — today's Activity Rings (Move / Exercise / Stand) with the raw values.
• Steps & Distance — today's totals with progress toward your goals.
• Water — current intake with quick-add buttons.
• Mindful — two configurable quick-duration capsules + Custom Digital Crown picker. Starts a mindful session on the wrist (or mirrors a phone-driven one) and writes an Apple Health mindful sample on completion.
• Moon — tonight's lunar phase, with rise/set times and upcoming cardinal phases.
• Date — a per-day calendar list.
• Settings — pages, goals, complication appearance and routing, voice announcements, diagnostics.
Watch Settings — Pages
Toggle which pages appear when swiping. Hidden pages won't show, but Settings is always available so nothing is unrecoverable.
Watch Settings — Workouts
• Voice Announcements — master toggle for all workout voice cues: the last 5-second countdown on timed sets, complex round announcements, and warmup/cooldown warnings. Turn off for silent sessions.
Watch Settings — Water
• Water Quick Add — defines the volume/amount of water two buttons will add. The third button is always Custom.
Watch Settings — Mindful
• Mindful Quick Add — defines the durations for the two Mindful page quick-start capsules. The third capsule is always Custom (Digital Crown minutes picker).
Watch Settings — Goals
• Steps — your daily step goal (used by the Steps complication and page).
• Distance — your daily distance goal.
• Unit — mi or km. Affects the Distance complication and Steps & Distance page.
Watch Settings — Complication Shape
Pick a shape for each ring-style complication: Ring (default), Ring Sectioned, Ring Sectioned 2, Circle, Square, Heart, Star, Hexagon, Shield, Seal, Diamond, Triangle, Pentagon, or Octagon.
Ring Sectioned variants render progress as alternating narrow/wide pill segments that light up as you fill toward the goal.
Applies to: Steps, Distance, Steps & Distance, Water, Today's Plan, Library. Date, Moon, and Apple Health have fixed designs.
Watch Settings — Complication Color
Pick the shape or outline color per complication. "Watch Face" follows the face's tint; override with White, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Purple, or Pink.
• Apple Health — one tint applied to all three rings. "Watch Face" keeps the classic red / green / blue.
• Moon — grayscale-only palette for the lit hemisphere.
• Date – Weekday / Date – Day — color the two lines independently.
Specific colors only take effect on Multicolor watch faces.
Watch Settings — Complication Text Color
Color the value shown in the middle of each complication. "Watch Face" follows the shape color. Available for Steps, Distance, Steps & Distance, Water, Today's Plan, Library, and Apple Health.
Watch Settings — Complication Tap
• Steps/Distance Open — where the Steps, Distance, and Steps & Distance complications go when tapped. Choose between the Steps & Distance page, the Apple Health page, or the app's home page.
Watch Settings — Diagnostics
• Mirror Log — recent handshake messages between the iPhone and Watch (useful when debugging a mirrored workout).
• Version — the Watch app's version and build. Confirm it matches the iPhone build before chasing a sync issue.
Complication — Today's Plan
Shows a ring filling up as you complete today's scheduled items. Shows number completed vs. total count. Shows "Rest" on rest days and a full checkmark when everything is done. Tapping opens the Today's Plan page.
Complication — Steps
A ring showing your step count progress toward your daily step goal. The ring turns green when you hit your goal. Numbers over 1,000 are shown compactly (e.g. 8.4k).
Set your step goal in the Watch's Settings → Goals.
Complication — Distance
A ring showing how far you've walked or run today toward your daily distance goal. Displays in km or miles depending on your Goals setting. The ring turns green when you hit your goal.
Complication — Steps & Distance
Combines both into one complication — the ring tracks steps, with your current distance shown as a second line below.
Complication — Water
Shows today's water intake as a percentage of your daily goal. Turns green when your goal is reached.
Set your water goal on the iPhone in Settings → Water.
Complication — Mindful
Shows today's mindful session count, today's total mindful minutes, and current streak. Tapping opens the Watch app's Mindful page directly.
Sourced from Apple Health mindful category samples only.
Complication — Library (Extend)
Shows the app's name and displays the number of activities you've completed for the day. Tapping opens directly to the Library page for kickstarting activities.
Complication — Date
Weekday on top, day-of-month below. Color the two lines independently in Settings → Complication Color. Tap to open the Date page.
Supported families: Circular and Rectangular (Rectangular also shows the month name and year).
Complication — Moon
Tonight's lunar phase, drawn as an actual crescent / gibbous / quarter shape. Multicolor watch faces show NASA imagery; tinted faces show the phase geometrically. Tap to open the Moon page.
Override the lit-side shade in Settings → Complication Color → Moon. Rectangular adds the phase name, illumination %, and days to the next full moon.
Supported families: Circular and Rectangular.
Complication — Apple Health (Activity Rings)
Today's Activity Rings (Move / Exercise / Stand) with the raw values next to them (e.g. "320/500 CAL", "18/30 MIN", "8/12 HRS").
All three rings share a single tint override in Settings → Complication Color → Apple Health; text color is separate. "Watch Face" keeps the classic red / green / blue palette. Tap to open the Apple Health page.
Supported family: Rectangular only.
Mirrored Workouts
When "Use Apple Watch for Workouts" is on (iPhone Settings → Apple Health), starting a workout on the phone runs a live HKWorkoutSession on your Watch. The Watch overlay shows duration, heart rate, and calories. Stop / Finish from either device saves the session.