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Apple Watch User Guide

Time events with a stopwatch on Apple Watch

Time events with accuracy and ease. Apple Watch can time full events and keep track of lap or split times, then show the results as a list, a graph, or live on your watch face. The Chronograph Pro watch face has the stopwatch built in.

Open and choose a stopwatch

  1. Go to the Stopwatch app 👁 Image
    on your Apple Watch, or tap the stopwatch on your watch face (if you’ve added it or you’re using the Chronograph Pro watch face).

  2. To choose a different format, turn the Digital Crown.

    You can choose Analog, Hybrid, or Digital.

👁 Three kinds of stopwatches in the Stopwatch app: An analog stopwatch, a hybrid stopwatch that shows time in both analog and digital forms, and a digital stopwatch with a lap counter. Each watch has start and reset buttons.

Start, stop, and reset the stopwatch

  1. Go to the Stopwatch app 👁 Image
    on your Apple Watch.

  2. Turn the Digital Crown to choose a format, then do any of the following:

The timing continues even if you switch back to the watch face or open other apps.

Note: On supported models, when you turn on Always On Display, the stopwatch updates once a second when your wrist is down. To turn on Always On Display, go to the Settings app 👁 Image
, tap Display & Brightness, then turn on Always On Display.

Review results on the display you used for timing, or change displays to analyze your lap times and fastest/slowest laps (marked with green and red) in the format you prefer.

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