How to Silence Your Apple Watch [4 Different Ways]

Imagine you’re in a crucial business meeting, discussing the next big project when your Apple Watch starts chiming with notifications, drawing unwanted attention and disrupting the discussion.

In such moments, muting your smartwatch is essential. This post explores when silencing your Apple Watch is crucial and offers various methods to mute it in just a few taps.

Method 1: Use the Control Center

Access the Control Center to quickly silence your watch:

1. Swipe up from the bottom or press the Side button in WatchOS 10+ to open Control Center.

   

2. Tap the silent mode icon (bell icon) to mute your watch.

   

3. Tap the bell icon again to switch off silence mode.

With this method, you’ll still receive haptic notifications, but the watch won’t make sounds.

Method 2: Turn On Do Not Disturb

Activate Do Not Disturb to halt all notifications:

Activating this on your iPhone will also apply to your Apple Watch and vice versa.

1. Open the Control Center by swiping up.

2. Tap the crescent moon icon to enable Do Not Disturb.

   

3. Select Do Not Disturb, Sleep, or Driving.

   

4. Choose how long to keep it on: until manually turned off, for one hour, until tomorrow, or until you leave.

   

Method 3: Use Theatre Mode

Theatre Mode mutes your watch and prevents the screen from turning on with wrist movement, useful in dark or quiet environments:

1. Open Control Center by swiping up.
2. Tap the theatre mask icon.
   

   

3. Tap Theatre Mode once more upon initial activation.
   

   

Method 4: Cover Your Apple Watch with Your Palm to Silence It

Cover to Mute silences an incoming call or alarm by covering the watch face. Enable it:

1. Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch.
   

   

2. Navigate to Gestures.
3. Enable Cover to Mute by tapping the toggle.
   

   

4. When you cover the watch, it mutes notifications.

On some WatchOS versions, you’ll need to go to Settings > Sounds & Haptics and turn on Cover to Mute.