Tips and tricks

You can make your watch's screen not light up or display notifications, even if you move your wrist or tap the screen.

To turn off your screen temporarily:

1. If your screen is dim, tap it to wake up the watch.
2. From the top of the screen, swipe down.
3. Tap Cinema mode .
   • If you don't see Cinema mode, tap Brightness Cinema mode .

To turn your screen back on:

• If your watch has a power button, press it once.
• If your watch doesn't have a power button, tap the screen repeatedly until it wakes up.

When you wear your watch, you can turn off watch notification vibrations with Do Not Disturb (DND).

1. If the screen is dim, tap it to wake up the watch.
2. From the top of your screen, swipe down.
3. Tap Do Not Disturb . 
4. Optional Wear 2: To choose which notifications to get when you have DND turned on: 
   1. From the top of the screen, swipe down.
   2. Tap Settings Apps and notifications Override Do Not Disturb for…
   3. Choose the apps from which you want to receive notifications.

You can choose to have calls from favourites, reminders and events to vibrate your watch, even when Do Not Disturb is turned on. Alarms will always vibrate your watch, even when DND is turned on.

If you’re paired with an Android phone and are using Android Wear 1.5 and below, your watch will have the same DND settings as your phone. Find out how to check your watch’s version.

When you wear your watch, you can turn off phone vibrations and sounds.

1. On your phone, open the Wear OS app  or the companion app for your device. 
   • If you use the companion app, follow the app instructions.
2. Scroll down and tap Notifications.
3. Turn on Silence phone while wearing watch.

The Assistant on the watch can help you with many tasks throughout your day. To see what it can do:

1. If the screen is dim, tap it to wake up the watch.
2. Swipe right until you see the Assistant screen.
3. Tap the microphone and say "What can you do?"

You’ll see the Assistant suggest more things you can do, such as "set an alarm" or "send a message". Tap an action to do it.

See personalised content from the Assistant

When you swipe your watch screen to the right, under the microphone you’ll see helpful content when it’s relevant. The information comes from your emails, the agenda app and data from Google Maps.

If you then swipe up, you’ll see a list of info about restaurant, event and travel reservations, as well as shipments, agenda items, commutes and weather. For more details, tap the info.

Learn more about quick Assistant actions on your watch.

You can change your settings so that you won't get notifications or see events for certain calendars.

1. On your phone, open the Wear OS app  or the companion app for your device.
   • If you use the companion app, follow the app instructions.
2. Scroll down and tap Agenda settings. If needed, choose a watch.
3. Tap one of your calendars, like 'Events'.

Tip: Your calendar is hidden if the square next to it is an outline.