How to Use the Apple Watch Breathe App

If your Apple Watch keeps reminding you to breathe, don’t panic—that’s a feature of Breathe, the new mindfulness app that comes with watchOS 3. When you need to relax, launch Breathe and breathe deeply along with the animation. You can also customize the exercises, check your stats, and change the frequency of those reminders.

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Starting a Breathing Exercise

  1. The icon is green and contains a white curved arrow.
  2. You can choose from 1 to 5 minutes. [1]
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  3. The Breathe session will end if you move too much during your exercise. [2]
  4. The Breathe app will now guide you through a series of deep breaths. Remain still as you follow the instruction on the screen. [3]
  5. The watch will also tap your wrist continuously you inhale, which is helpful if you’re visually impaired or want to close your eyes.
  6. The tapping stops during your exhale.
  7. When the exercise is complete, you’ll see the Summary screen, which displays the amount of breathing you've completed today, as well as your heart rate.
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Changing Your Preferences

  4. These are the messages on your Apple Watch that remind you to use Breathe. [4]
    • Choose one of the time options (e.g. “Every 5 hours”) if you’d like a notification on your Apple Watch that reminds you to use Breathe.
    • If you receive a Breathe reminder at a time you can’t do an exercise, tap Snooze .
    • To disable reminders, select “None.”
  5. If this feature is on, you’ll see a message every Monday that contains a list of all of your Breathe activity for the week. [5]
  6. By default, a full breath lasts 7 seconds. You can choose from 4 to 10 breaths per minute if you prefer.
  7. The default setting is “Prominent,” but you can select “Minimal” for less noticeable tapping.
  8. If enabled, Breathe will use the duration of your last exercise (the amount of time you set with the Digital Crown) as the default for the next exercise.
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Using Breathe with the Health App

  1. You can keep track of your Breathe activity, also known as “Mindfulness Minutes,” in the Health app. [6]
  2. You’ll see a bar graph that illustrates your Breathe data for the past week.
    • Your daily average (in minutes) for the past week appears at the top of the graph below “Mindfulness Minutes.”
  3. Here you can display data from other time periods, such as for the day, the month, or the year.
    • The daily average will change to reflect the chosen time period.
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Disabling All Breathe Notifications

  1. If you don’t want to use Breathe at all, you can prevent it from bothering you by making a quick change in your watch settings. [7]
    • Breathe cannot be uninstalled.
  4. You will no longer receive any reminders about Breathe on your Apple Watch.
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      • You will not receive most notifications on your Apple Watch as you complete a Breathe exercise.
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      References

      1. ↑ http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/iphone/what-is-breathe-for-apple-watch-how-use-apple-breathe-app-in-watchos-3-3643692/
      2. ↑ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206999
      3. ↑ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206999
      4. ↑ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206999
      5. ↑ https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7101850?start=0&tstart=0
      6. ↑ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206999
      7. ↑ http://www.macworld.co.uk/feature/iphone/what-is-breathe-for-apple-watch-how-use-apple-breathe-app-in-watchos-3-3643692/

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