[SC-CSTD] How to Control Your iPhone With Your Apple Watch

[Steve Cook]

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How to Control Your iPhone With Your Apple Watch


Tuesday November 1, 2022 4:21 PM PDT by
<https://www.macrumors.com/author/tim-hardwick/> Tim Hardwick

In  <https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/watchos-9/> watchOS 9, Apple includes
a feature that allows you to control your
<https://www.macrumors.com/guide/iphone/> iPhone with your Apple Watch. Keep
reading to learn how it works.


With the release of  <https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ios-16/> iOS 16 and
‌watchOS 9‌, Apple introduced new accessibility features including the
<https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/control-apple-watch-with-your-iphone/>
ability to control your Apple Watch with your iPhone, and vice versa.

Both features are designed to make the Apple Watch and ‌iPhone‌ experience
more accessible for people with physical and motor disabilities, but they
can also be useful if, for example, your ‌iPhone‌'s screen is cracked or
unresponsive, or the device is simply out of reach.

The following steps show you how to control your ‌iPhone‌ with your Apple
Watch. Bear in mind that the watch needs to be paired to the ‌iPhone‌ you
want to control, and the watch and phone need to be running ‌watchOS 9‌ and
‌iOS 16‌, respectively.

1.       On your Apple Watch, open the Settings app.

2.       Scroll down and tap Accessibility.

3.       Select Control Nearby Devices.

4.       Select your ‌iPhone‌ (or  <https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ipad/>
iPad) from the list.



Once connected, you'll see a series of control buttons enabling you to
perform a variety of actions on your ‌‌iPhone‌‌, including Go to Home
Screen, Open App Switcher, Open Notification Center, Open Control Center,
and Activate Siri. Tapping the More button will also give you media playback
controls.

Note that if VoiceOver is enabled on your Apple Watch and you control a
nearby device, VoiceOver will also be enabled on that device, and the
VoiceOver gestures that you use on your Apple Watch are performed on the
device.

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