Apple Watch User Guide
- Welcome
- What’s new
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- Alarms
- App Store
- Blood Oxygen
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Camera Remote
- ECG
- Medications
- Memoji
- Music Recognition
- News
- Now Playing
- Reminders
- Remote
- Shortcuts
- Siren
- Stocks
- Stopwatch
- Tides
- Timers
- Tips
- Translate
- Vitals
- Voice Memos
- Walkie-Talkie
- 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
- Auto-select focused app
- Use accessibility features with Siri
- The Accessibility Shortcut
- Copyright
Use the Compass app on Apple Watch
The Compass app shows the direction your Apple Watch is facing, as well as your current location and elevation. You can create Compass Waypoints and then find the distance and direction between them, be alerted when you’ve exceeded a particular elevation, see an estimate of the point where your Apple Watch was last able to establish a cellular connection or make an SOS call, use Backtrack to retrace your steps, and more.
Note: If you remove the Compass app from your iPhone, itʼs also removed from Apple Watch.
Choose a compass view
The Compass app 
Each screen that shows the compass dial has an Elevation button at the bottom of the display. Tap 
Go to the Compass app
at the top left, then tap Waypoints.Tap Compass Waypoints to show the waypoints you’ve created in the Compass app as well as automatically generated waypoints such as the location of your parked car and the last estimated locations where cellular connectivity and Emergency SOS were available.
Tap a guide, such as My Places or a guide you created in the Maps app, to view those waypoints.
To keep a guide’s waypoints from appearing in the Compass app, tap the guide, then turn off Show Waypoints.
Note: Waypoints that are more than 50 miles from you won’t appear on the compass dial.
Add a bearing
Go to the Compass app
, scroll down, tap Bearing, turn the Digital Crown to the new bearing, then tap 
on your Apple Watch.Tap
. To clear the target, tap 
on your Apple Watch, tap Privacy, then tap Location Services.Compass Calibration is disabled: To turn Compass Calibration on or off, go to the Settings app on your iPhone, go to Privacy & Security > Location Services, then tap System Settings.