How to Silence Apple Watch

If your group chat or work messages start blowing up in the middle of a meeting, you'll

want to know how to silence your Apple Watch quickly, and you have a few different options

You can put your Apple Watch on silent mode from Control Center. You just click the side button

If you have an older model of Apple Watch, you can swipe up from the bottom of the watch face

From here, you make sure this bell button is red. If it's gray, then silent mode is off

If it's red, then you have it turned on. And again, your watch will still send you notifications, it'll just buzz instead of

make a sound. You can also put your watch on Do Not Disturb

This will completely silence your Apple Watch and your other connected Apple devices

You just click on this moon icon, tap Do Not Disturb, and you can set how long you want

it to stay on for. Indefinitely, one hour, until tomorrow morning or until this evening, or until you leave

the location where you're at. There's also theater mode, which I highly recommend you turn on when you go to a movie

theater, a play, or any other type of live show. Turning on theater mode turns on silent mode, but it also turns off the display

It won't turn back on when you raise your wrist, and if you have an always-on display

turned on, it'll temporarily be turned off. You have to tap the screen if you want to activate it

This is a great courtesy to other people in the audience, because otherwise the light

from your wrist might distract them. But at the end, you do have to remember to turn it back off

Here's another pro tip for you. If you ever get a notification that makes a loud noise, and you want to quickly turn

on silent mode, cover your hand over your watch for about three seconds

You'll feel a buzz, and then silent mode will be turned on. I'm D. Griffin Jones with Cult of Mac