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Close up of an Apple Watch Series 10 showing the steps to install the Google Calendar app, including navigating to the app store, searching and downloading the app and syncing it with your iPhone

Apple Watch finally has a Google Calendar app — here’s how to set it up

By Dan Bracaglia published

Google Calendar is now available in the Apple Watch App Store. Here’s how to get it up and running in five simple steps.

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The Apple Watch Series 10 on a user's wrist showing a colorful orange and pink home screen

Get more from your Apple Watch — 5 hidden Control Center features worth knowing

By Kaycee Hill published

These Apple Watch Control Center features unlock advanced options through press-and-hold gestures, and are well worth knowing.

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Apple Watch showing menstrual tracking

How to set up menstrual tracking on your Apple Watch

By Jane McGuire published

How to use your Apple Watch to track your cycle, fertile window and ovulation.

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The Apple Watch Series 10 on display at the device's launch in September 2024

​​watchOS 11.4 just dropped — 3 new Apple Watch features to try first

By Kaycee Hill published

Learn how to use watchOS 11.4’s new alarm option, emoji, and robot vacuum support on your Apple Watch right now.

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A slide from the Pixel Watch 3 launch event introducing the new Loss of Pulse Detection feature

Google’s Loss of Pulse Detection is finally available in the U.S. — here’s how to turn it on your Pixel Watch 3

By Dan Bracaglia last updated

Google's Loss of Pulse Detection is now available in the U.S. for Pixel Watch owners. Here's how to set it up.

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The coolest things the Apple Watch can do

7 best Apple Watch features you're probably not using, but should

By Kaycee Hill published

Discover how your Apple Watch can track workouts, monitor vital health metrics, listen to music, and leverage the latest watchOS 11 features.

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The Apple Watch Series 10 on a user's wrist showing a colorful orange and pink home screen

Your Apple Watch has a flashlight feature — here’s how to turn it on

By Kaycee Hill published

Learn how to use and adjust your Apple Watch's built-in flashlight feature.

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a photo of the Garmin Forerunner 965

You can locate your phone with your Garmin watch — here's how

By Kaycee Hill published

Learn how to use your Garmin watch's Find My Phone feature across different models.

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Garmin Fenix 8

You can create custom shortcuts on your Garmin watch — here's how

By Kaycee Hill published

Learn how to create hot keys on you Garmin watch — shortcuts that make life easier.

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Garmin Fenix 8

Garmin’s beta software program gives you early access to new features — here’s how to sign up

By Nick Harris-Fry published

Sign up to Garmin’s beta program and you’ll get to try out new features on your watch months before they’re available to the general public.

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