You can easily take a screenshot on your iPhone, MacBook or iPad, but what about your Apple Watch? If you have an alert you want to keep or want to show your watch face to a friend, you can easily do so without using your iPhone to take a photo of your watch.
The Apple Watch has a built-in mode that makes it easy to take a screenshot, and it only takes a few steps to get it up and running. Here’s how to take a screenshot on Apple Watch.
How to set up the screenshot feature on your Apple Watch
To take a screenshot on Apple Watch, you first need to enable the feature that you can do directly from your wearable device. Go to watch settings and choose general, go to screenshots and toggle the option to enable screenshots.
How to set up the screenshot feature from your iPhone
You can also use your iPhone to set up the screenshot feature for your watch by going to the Watch app, selecting General, and scrolling down to toggle the Enable screenshots option.
How to take a screenshot on Apple Watch
To take a screenshot on the Apple Watch, press the Digital Crown and Side button at the same time, and they’ll go straight to your photo library.
How to view Apple Watch screenshots
You can find Apple Watch screenshots in the Photos app on your iPhone under Media Types in the Screenshots folder. If you want to view these screenshots on the watch itself, you can sync the album from your iPhone to view on your watch.
To enable this, go to the Watch app, tap Photos, select Sync Photos, then tap Sync Album to link to the album you want.
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