How to Take a Screenshot on an Apple Watch

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Enable the ability to take screenshots on your Watch

   Open the Watch app on your iPhone and choose General, then scroll down and find the setting that enables this ability.
   
   Slide the Enable Screenshots feature till it turns green.
   
   If you aren't using watchOS 3, disregard this step or update to this newest Watch operating system.
   
   You'll see this setting in the Watch app once you update your iPhone to iOS
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   - a necessity for obtaining the watchOS 3 and
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   Step 2: if you are a watchOS 3 user.

   Find the screen you'd like to capture. , You'll need the two buttons including the side button and the button in the center of the Digital Crown for the screenshot to be taken. , This button is the bottom of the two buttons. ,,,
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   Step 3: Get your screenshot ready.

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   Step 4: Locate the buttons on the right hand side of your Watch.

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   Step 5: Hold in the side button.

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   Step 6: Press the button in the center of the Apple Watch's Digital Crown.

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   Step 7: Listen for the click sound to result coming from your watch and your watch face to flicker to white and back again to the screen.

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   Step 8: Retrieve your screenshot on your Bluetooth-connected iPhone from the default Photos app under either the Screenshots album or the All Photos album.

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