How to download iwatch apps

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How to get apps for your Apple Watch If you can't find an app If you have an issue when you download apps If an app does not work. How to get apps Use the iPhone that's paired with the watch, or use the App Store on the watch. Tap Search to find apps using Scribble or Dictation, or scroll down to discover featured apps and curated app collections. Tap an app to see its description, ratings and reviews, screenshots, release notes, and more.

Some apps require that you also have the iOS version of the app on your iPhone. To find a specific app, tap the Search field at the top of the screen, then type Apple Watch Series 7 only , or use dictation or Scribble to enter the name of the app.

You can also browse trending categories of apps by tapping a category. Note: When using Apple Watch with cellular , cellular data charges may apply. Scribble is not available in all languages. By default, apps on your iPhone that have a watchOS app available are automatically installed and appear on the Home Screen.

The list is pretty comprehensive with everything from ATMs and cafes to beauty salons and book stores. Tap on what you need to find and a list of results will appear on your arm, each of which you can then tap on for more information and even directions. If you've used Shazam you'll know how it works. You hear a track, fumble for your phone, and try to tap listen before the song finishes.

With the Shazam Apple Watch app, you can simply slide up from a Glance, press the listen button and you're capturing the tune before you know it. Night Sky is a great app for identifying stars, planets, constellations and satellites in the night sky.

Ever wondered which one Orion's Belt is? Just point your Apple Watch at the sky and it will direct you to it, after which you can explore the object in AR on your iPhone. An essential app for the football fans out there. Onefootball allows you to follow thousands of teams and hundreds of leagues and competitions worldwide. You can select your favourite players, clubs, national teams and leagues to get instant content and scores that matter to you when they happen.

Like Onefootball, you can personalise the app to get alerts for your favourite teams and leagues. Yelp is a local guide to helps you find restaurants, bars, salons, coffee shops and plenty more nearby. You'll be able to see reviews, price range, opening hours and the address directly from your wrist. Perfect for when you're in a new area. Fiit lets you stream hundreds of workouts, with options including HIIT, strength training, kettlebell, dumbbell, yoga, postnatal recovery and more.

Start a workout on your iPhone and you'll see your heart rate come up on your Apple Watch, along with a leaderboard on the next screen. If you are wearing the Apple Watch for fitness, Runkeeper is a good one to download.

It allows you to start the app straight from your wrist, without even looking at your iPhone. Open the app, press "start running" and off you go. Once you've started running you can check a number of stats, including overall time, distance covered and pace.

Strava is an excellent app and the Apple Watch version is great. Like others, Strava allows you to start an activity from your wrist, such as an outdoor ride or run, or indoor run.

It will then offer time, splits, distance and heart rate on your wrist during the workout. All data is transferred to the iPhone app following a workout so you can see more detail. Streaks Workout app is excellent, offering 30 equipment-free exercises to choose from and four different workout lengths comprising six minutes, 12 minutes, 18 minutes or 30 minutes. The Apple Watch will display your heart rate on the display, alongside the exercise, time and progress. Super simple to use, but expect some serious pain.

The Gymaholic Workout Tracker uses AR to create an avatar, which you can then change to represent your gender, height and body fat percentage. After a workout, the avatar will show all the muscles you trained and it will also show which muscles are ready for training too. During a workout, you'll see various stats, including reps, weight, heart rate and calories, alongside your avatar.

It's great. MapMyRun is another good Apple Watch app for those into fitness. It allows you to start a running, cycling or walking workout without touching your iPhone. During the workout, you will be able to see duration, distance and calories burned, as well as pause, finish, save or discard the workout.

The information is then visible in the MapMyRun iPhone app. Runtastic allows you to track various activities from running to biking, see a brief history of your previous workouts and monitor your stats from your wrist. The app will track workouts in real-time with built-in GPS and during a workout, it will display time, distance, pace and heart rate.

It is also possible to manage tracking settings directly from your Apple Watch. For those that use the Withings ecosystem, the Withings Apple Watch app is good for providing quick stats in a simple format.

If you have a Withings activity and sleep tracker, as well as one of its smart scales, the Apple Watch app will show you steps and distance, sleep recorded and weight recorded. You can also see your activity and weight history without opening the app on your phone. Seven is another workout app and the Apple Watch version is lovely and simple.

You can pretty much do everything on your wrist as you can on your phone. The Apple Watch app allows you to select which seven-minute workout you want to do, whether that's full-body, upper body, core, lower body or random, depending on which workouts you've bought or unlocked, and then you can just hit start. A picture of the exercise you need to perform appears on the watch face, surrounded by a countdown circle.

Hole19 is the Apple Watch app for golfers.