How to View and Control Your Apple Watch From Your iPhone?

The ability to see your Apple watch screen on your iPhone is a fantastic new feature of iOS 16 and Apple watch OS 9. Not only that, but you can also control it from there as well. Now before you try this make sure you meet the requirements.

Control Your Apple Watch From Your iPhone

• You must be using an Apple Watch series 6 or later.
• The Apple watch must be using the new watch OS 9 operating system.
• iOS 16 or later should be installed on your iPhone.

The idea here is that you’ll need to show your Apple Watch screen on your iPhone in order to do so, this is a new feature in the settings app. You’d assume you’d go to the Watch app to get this. Follow the step bellow

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• Open Settings on your iPhone.
• In settings you’re going to want to go down to Accessibility and tap on it.
• There is an option under PHYSICAL AND MOTOR look for Apple watch mirroring. tap on it.
• Now turn the switch ON.

Now the function is activate and connect to your Apple watch with your iPhone and syncs information between these devices. Now you can see exactly what’s on the screen of the watch. The watch is going to have a blue rectangle around it indicate that it’s being shown on your iPhone as well.

Now you can control this feature using your watch just like before and anything you do on your watch will be reflected on the screen you see on your iPhone but you could also control your Apple watch using your iPhone.

You can just touch the crown and drag down or drag up like you’re control the physical thing. There’s the side button as well. Just a quick tap on the side button there on the screen is acting just like you’re pressing it on your watch and then you could scroll up and down with your finger to control what’s on the screen, tap on an app to get into it. Everything works just as you would expected. So you can control your watch from your iPhone or from the watch itself.

Now this is an accessibility. The reason it’s here is to give you a larger screen. If this screen is sometimes too small for you to change anything on your watch app. Getting into settings, manipulating some apps it’s easier to do it seeing the larger screen on your iPhone. But this also gives us the ability to record the Apple watch screen. Before this function we just take screenshots or just still images of what’s going on in the Apple watch but now with mirroring it to the iPhone you could record the iPhone screen using iPhone screen recording or any other recording software and actually get a recording.

Also this could be used for customizing your Apple watch using a bigger screen but keep in mind that you also have the Watch app, which you could use for things like changing your watch faces, changing colors, complexities, and many other things. But even the watch faces appear pretty small on your Apple watch app and using Apple watch mirroring may actually be a better option. For instance if you were to go and try to customize watch face on your watch, you go to edit and you can see it’s a little bit bigger on iPhone than what you were looking at in the watch app.

Some more troubleshooting tips to follow.

• Make sure you have an Apple Watch series 6 or later.
• Make sure that your operating systems are up to date.

If it’s still not working like the screen comes up but it’s just a spinning wheel in the middle and it never connects to the Apple watch follow the next.

• make sure your Apple Watch is unlocked
• Apple Watch is not asleep.
• Can access in Apple watch App.
• Try Restarting the Watch.
• Try Restarting iPhone

Hope you found this useful. Thanks for reading this article. If you like this article let me know in the comment section bellow.

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