How to set up your new Apple Watch

Over the years, the Apple Watch has become its own thing, more of a standalone device, but it's still tethered to your iPhone — especially when you set it up.

So, here's what you need to do when you get your Apple Watch Series 7, or any current model, out of the box and on your wrist. First, turn on your Apple Watch by pressing and holding the Side button until you see the Apple logo.

Apple says this might take a few minutes, but once they're a little overly cautious, it won't take that long at all. Not this part anyway.

Once your watch is turned on, it will tell you to place it near your iPhone. When you do this, your iPhone will recognize that you have it.

Just like Apple does with AirPods, it will display an image of your Apple Watch and ask if you want to continue setup. you do.

One question, though—which Apple will ask you next—is whether you want to set this watch up for yourself or for a family member. The difference is that if you say it was deleted four times for your third-generation cousin, Apple adds a few extra steps.

For example, you must select the family members you want, which means they must be in your contact list. There are also issues related to parental controls.

But other than that, it's pretty much the same thing as setting it up for yourself is probably more common.

This means the next step is that you have to position your iPhone over your Apple Watch. The Watch shows a really beautiful hazy, hazy animation, and the iPhone sees it and pairs the two together.

That watch now belongs to that iPhone, if you will.

You are far from done.

Apple Watch Series 7

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Apple Watch Series 7 is equipped with an always-on Retina display, which has nearly 20% more screen area than Series 6, and It is the most crack-resistant front crystal on Apple Watch to date.

Using a Backup

Next, you have to choose whether to set up your watch as a new one, or use a backup of your old watch. If this is your first Apple Watch, you have no choice in the matter, but if it is, you're going to have some extra steps, extra questions, again.

They are all related to issues such as privacy and location services. For the sake of speed, let's do this using a backup of our old watch. You'll see extra steps about location services and such, but you don't have to actually answer them.

Select the latest backup available. Quite a long wait. This is when Apple isn't conservative, and for some reason this can take a few minutes.

After setting up Apple Watch Series 7

Apple Music, sharing settings, text size, and password

, you must agree to the terms and conditions. You will then be prompted to choose to sign in to the iTunes Store. In fact, you can do it now, you can do it later, and you'll probably never bother.

However, whenever you do this, it allows you to control Apple Music from your Watch, which is convenient.

Next, share settings. Whatever you say, whatever you choose when setting up your iPhone, applies here. Location services, lookup, how you use Siri, and permission to send bug reports to Apple and developers. Whatever you set up on your iPhone, you can now set it up here.

And you have no choice. There is only one OK button.

You do have a choice in the next section, which is a completely new addition to the settings. You can choose the size of text displayed on your watch. You can fiddle around here, you can see examples, but it's best to let it go for now.

Have the Watch display the default text size. After you've used your watch for a while, you can adjust the size in Settings when you go in and out of apps on your watch.

Strictly speaking, you can also drop the next point about setting a password. Choose a long or short password—short passwords are just four digits—but don’t select the Don’t add a password option.

It's so useful. When you put the watch on your wrist and set a passcode, it will ask you to enter your passcode. From that point on, until you take the watch off, when it loses contact with your skin, you are recognized. You can use Apple Pay or confirm your purchase from the App Store.

No one else can access your watch and use it.

So set a password.

Health, Updates, and Apple Pay

Next, two health-related points. You'll be asked if you want to set up Activity, a watch feature that helps you become healthier. Just say yes, but you can set it up later. do not forget. Activity is one of the best reasons to own an Apple Watch.

Enable blood oxygen. This allows you to later use the watch's functionality to check your blood oxygen levels, and there's no benefit in turning it off.

You may want to consider your next steps more carefully to keep your watch up to date. If you let Apple do whatever it wants, your Watch will automatically get new updates and install them.

Instead, if you would rather wait a few days until others download the update and notice any issues, you choose to install the update manually.

However, this does mean you can always stay on top of updates. Watch will prompt you and this site will always warn you if any issues are found.

Now, just like the iPhone, Apple has inserted an Apple Pay section into Settings. There’s really no need for you to use the Watch, Apple is pushing its Apple Pay service — but at some point, be sure to set it up.

The ability to pay with just a twist of your wrist is huge, and it makes paying with an iPhone seem prehistoric. The thing is, you can add all your debit and credit cards to Apple Pay in your Apple Watch, so leave this section for now until you're ready to add them.

But adding your cards to your Apple Watch is a very quick process if you've already done this on your iPhone, you confirm you want to do it, and your bank says OK , you are who you say you are.

Recover health for a while. SOS. You have no choice here, Apple just tells you that your Watch will contact the person you nominate if necessary. Click Continue.

What the Watch Display Shows

Next, Apple once again just tells you something rather than asking you anything. It promotes the fact that Apple Watch Series 5 and later have always-on displays. Instead of going blank, the watch stays on until you turn your wrist or sometimes make a flamenco-style movement.

That's fine. Seriously, it's great. But you can adjust it later in Settings—not in Settings.

And you can set whether you want your Watch apps to appear as what Apple calls a grid, but is actually more like a honeycomb. Choose to display it as a honeycomb or a direct list.

Frankly, the list is boring and the honeycomb "grid" is confusing. So you won't really win here. Choose one or leave it as is - knowing you can change your mind later.

This is the last decision you have to make, this is the last part of the setup you have to do.

Switch between Grid or List View of your app

Tidying it up

This is still not the last part of the setup that must be completed. You'll get this "Apple Watch is syncing" message, which will also sink you in a little bit. The length of time it takes depends on various factors, such as how much data you have to install if you use backups.

But for example, this watch took less than five minutes to fill that circle.

However, once it's done, it's done. Your Apple Watch is ready to go—which means it's fun to choose between its different watch faces and really fun to keep its healthy activity ring running.

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