Buttons and touch operations on your HUAWEI watch
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Buttons and touch operations on your HUAWEI watch

The device's color touchscreen supports a range of touch operations, like swiping up, down, left, and right, touching, and touching and holding.

Up button

Operations differ during calls and workouts.

Operation

Function

Rotate

  • In Grid mode: Zooms in and out on app icons and app names on the app list screen.
  • In List mode: Scrolls up and down on the app list and details screens.
  • In an app: Scrolls up and down on the screen.

To enter Grid or List mode, go to Settings > Watch face & home > Home, and select Grid or List.

Press

  • When the screen is off: Turns on the screen.
  • When home screen is displayed: Takes you to the app list screen.
  • When any other screen is displayed: Returns to the home screen.
  • Mutes incoming Bluetooth calls.

Double-press

When the screen is on: Takes you to the recent tasks screen to view all running apps.

Press and hold

  • Powers on the watch.
  • Takes you to the restart/power-off screen.
  • Forcibly restarts the watch when the button is held for at least 12s.

Down button

Operation

Function

Press

Opens the Workout app by default.

You can also customize what the Down button does, by performing the steps below:

  1. Press the Up button to enter the app list, and go to Settings > Down button.
  2. Select an app for your custom setting. Once you're done, return to the home screen and press the Down button to open the app.

Press and hold

Wakes up the voice assistant.

Assist button

Operation

Function

Press

  • When home screen is displayed: Takes you to Expedition.
  • During a dive: Switches or edits gas types, resets average depth, or ends the dive.

Touch operations

Operation

Function

Touch

Chooses and confirms.

Touch and hold

On home screen: Opens the watch face editing screen. On a feature card: Accesses the card management screen.

Swipe up

On home screen: Shows notifications.

Swipe down

On home screen: Opens the shortcut menu and status bar.

  • You can enable or disable Do Not Disturb and Sleep from the shortcut menu.
  • You can view the remaining battery level and Bluetooth connection status in the status bar.

Swipe left

On home screen: Accesses the custom feature cards.

Swipe right

On home screen: Enters the HUAWEI Assistant·TODAY screen.

On any app's screen: Returns to the previous screen.

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