The Control Center on your Apple Watch is a useful place on your device where you can turn different modes on and off.
You can also view remaining battery information, turn on the flashlight, and more.
Our guide below will help you identify the icons you see on this site so you can use them more effectively in the future.
Apple Watch icons in Control Center provide information about the status of various watch settings, as well as ways to ping your phone, enable water lock, theater mode, and more.
How to access the Apple Watch icons in Control Center
- Swipe up from the bottom of the watch face.
- Scroll down to find and select the option you want.
Our guide continues below with more information about the Apple Watch icons in Control Center, including images of those steps.
Related: Check out our article on the water drop icon for the Apple Watch for more information on this mode.
The Apple Watch has a limited number of buttons and screen space, but it can still do a lot.
You can make the screen bigger if it’s hard to read (then learn how to turn off the zoom feature on the Apple Watch), and you can also use theater mode, lock screen, and more.
In an effort to put all of these features on the device and make them easier to access, Apple has included some interesting methods for accessing some things.
One way to turn some Apple Watch options on and off is through Control Center.
This is a menu that can be accessed by swiping up from the bottom of the watch face. This menu contains some hidden icons like water drop.
Our guide below will help you familiarize yourself with the various Apple Watch buttons and icons that are available on this site.
Select the buttons in the Apple Watch Control Center
The steps in this article were performed on Apple Watch 2 using version 4.2.3 WatchOS. If you don’t see all of these options, you may have a different version of WatchOS.
This guide will show you how to find the current watchOS version on your device.
Our guide on how to turn off theater mode on your Apple Watch will show you how to use this feature to quickly mute your device.
Step 1: Start by swiping up from the bottom of the watch face to open Control Center.
You should see something like the screen below.
Step 2: All the different buttons are shown in the image below.
Moving from left to right from the top icon, these buttons are:
- Battery life (90% shown in the image above).
- Airplane mode (airplane icon)
- Find your iPhone (phone with brackets)
- Flashlight
- Do not disturb mode (crescent moon symbol)
- Stage mode (two masks)
- Screen lock (water drop icon)
- silent mode (bell)
Now that you know how to find all of these Apple Watch icons and what they mean, you can start using them to customize your watch settings or enable different modes that make your watch better in certain situations.
While many of the Apple Watch icons in Control Center can be turned on and off by tapping the icon, the water drop icon requires something extra.
If your watch is in the waterlock mode, you will need to turn the crown on the side of the watch a few times until the water is removed from the device.
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Apple Watch Control Center icons infographic
