How to Mute Sounds on the Apple Watch

If you're out and about wearing your Apple Watch but don't want to hear or disturb others with its noises, you can simply turn off the sound. This wikiHow will tell you how that's done.

EditSteps

EditFrom the Apple Watch

1. Unlock your Apple Watch. Tap your Watch's face once, then tap it once again. Enter your pin.
   
2. Swipe the screen from the bottom up. A menu will appear with options including connectivity, airplane mode, mute, Do Not Disturb mode, theater mode and two modes that will help you look for and remotely lock your iPhone from your Watch.
   
3. Tap the bell icon. This is a mute feature that will silence all bells and whistles without affecting the haptic feedback (if you have that turned on).
   
   • Haptic feedback (vibration patterns felt on your wrist) can be turned off or on with your Watch and/or Watch app on your paired iPhone.
4. Turn sounds back on when you want to. You can tap the bell once more to turn sound on again. Your sounds will be back on when the button isn't lit in the purplish hue.
   
5. Open up your Settings app to make additional modifications on your volume on the Watch. With watchOS 3.2, Apple included the ability to adjust the volume inside of Settings.
   
   • Open up the Settings app/tool, tap "Sounds & Haptics", look under the "Alert Volume" setting for the slider control. Press the volume up or volume down button as desired; then you can turn your digital crown towards you to turn the volume down, or away from you to turn the volume up, to more accurately represent the volume you'd like to use.
   • Right underneath this, you'll also find a second switch for Silent Mode. This on/off setting works the same as the quick action menu one and synchronizes with it.

EditFrom Your Paired iPhone

1. Open the Apple Watch app. The Watch app is black with a picture of a sideways-facing profile image of an Apple Watch.
   
2. Scroll the screen up and tap the "Sounds & Haptics" option. At first, it won't be seen, until you scroll the screen up a little ways.
   
3. Locate and slide the switch next to "Silent Mode." Slide the switch until it turns green. Green on this switch means that you've muted all your notifications except your Alarms and Timers while your Watch charges.
   
   • You can slide it the other way to turn Silent Mode off.
4. Turn down the Alert volume if you want. You'll find the slider switch right above the option for Silent Mode. Slide it to the left to soften the volume of notifications when the watch has sounds turned on, and to the right, if you want to increase the volume.