Contents Getting started Wearing the watch Adjusting and Replacing the watch strap Pairing your watch with your phone Powering on/off and restarting the watch Charging your watch Buttons and gestures Customizing the Down button Adjusting screen brightness Setting the vibration strength Setting time and language Enabling frequently used features Unlocking your phone using your watch Enabling Do not disturb mode Connecting earbuds Viewing the Bluetooth name and MAC address Check the watch's version Check the
Contents Recording workout routes Syncing and sharing your fitness and health data 26 26 Fitness and health Monitoring your heart rate Tracking sleep Testing stress levels Activity reminder Enabling HUAWEI TruSleep™ 27 31 31 32 32 Changing watch faces Setting Gallery watch faces Installing, replacing, and deleting watch faces Setting a standby watch face Setting up dual time zones 34 34 36 37 37 Watch faces ii
Getting started Wearing the watch Attach the heart rate monitoring area of your watch on the top of your wrist, as shown in the following figure. To ensure the accuracy of heart rate measurement, wear your watch properly and do not wear it above the joint in your wrist. Do not wear it too loosely or too tightly but make sure that your watch is attached securely on your wrist. • Your watch uses non-toxic materials that have passed strict skin allergy tests. Please rest reassured when wearing wear it.
Getting started 2. Remove a link from both sides of the clasp to make sure the watch face is still centered. 3. Re-assemble the strap. 4. Put the screws back in.
Getting started Adjusting metal mesh straps 1. Undo the clasp. 2. Pull the bottom plate upward so it is at a 90° angle with the strap. 3. Slide the clasp to adjust the length.
Getting started 4. Align the plate with the grooves and clamp it back down. Finish by fastening the clasp. Removing and installing the strap To remove a non-metallic strap, unlock the fastener, remove your current strap, and then release the spring pin, as shown in the following figure. Follow the steps in the reverse order to install a new strap.
Getting started To remove a metal strap, perform the steps shown in the following figure. Follow the steps in the reverse order to install a new strap. Pairing your watch with your phone If you have just taken the watch out of the box, press the Up button and hold until your watch vibrates and displays a startup screen. The watch is ready to be paired via Bluetooth by default. • For Android users: 1 Download and install the Huawei Health app from an app store.
Getting started 2 Open the Huawei Health app and follow the onscreen instructions to grant required permissions to the app. Go to Devices > Add > Smart Watch, and touch the device you wish to pair. 3 Touch PAIR and the app will automatically search for nearby available Bluetooth devices. Once your watch is found, touch its name to start pairing. 4 • When a pairing request is displayed on the watch screen, touch watch and phone. Confirm the pairing on your phone as well.
Getting started • When pairing for the first time, you can use your phone to scan the QR code on the watch screen to download the Huawei Health app. • If your watch does not respond after you touch to confirm the pairing request, press the Down button and hold to unlock your watch, and initiate a pairing procedure again. • Your watch will display an icon on the screen to inform you that pairing was successful. It will then receive information (such as the date and time) from your phone.
Getting started Charging your watch Charging 1 Connect the USB Type-C port and power adapter and then plug in the power adapter. 2 Rest your watch on top of the charging cradle, ensuring that the contacts on your watch and the cradle are aligned. Wait until the charging icon appears on your watch screen. 3 When your watch is fully charged, 100% will be displayed on the watch screen and the charging will stop automatically.
Getting started • Charge your watch in a dry and well-ventilated environment. • Before charging, make sure that the charging port and metal parts are clean and dry to prevent short circuits or any other risks. • Before charging, make sure the charging port is dry. Wipe off any water or sweat stains. • The charging cradle is not water resistant, so keep it dry at all times. • It is recommended that the ambient temperature is between 0 and 45°C.
Getting started Buttons and gestures The watch is equipped with a color touchscreen that is highly responsive to your touches and can be swiped in different directions. Up button Operation Press Function • • Remarks Wake watch screen when There are certain exceptional the screen is off. scenarios such as for calls and Access the app list screen workouts. from the home screen. Press and hold • Return to the home screen. • Power on your watch when the watch is off.
Getting started Button functions during a workout Operation Function Press the Up button Lock/unlock, mute, or end workout Press the Down button Switch screen. Press and hold the Up button Finish the workout. Swipe up or down on the screen Switch screen. Touch the screen and hold Show a different data type. Gestures Operation Function Touch Choose and confirm. Touch and hold on the home screen Change the watch face. Swipe up on the home screen View notifications.
Getting started Customizing the Down button 1 From the home screen press the Up button and go to Settings > Down button. 2 Touch an app from the list. This app will be opened when you press the Down button. By default, pressing the Down button will open the Workout app. Adjusting screen brightness From the home screen press the Up button and go to Settings > Display > Brightness to adjust the screen brightness.
Getting started • Activity reminder • Continuous heart rate monitoring • Automatic stress test • Notifications • Weather reports • Bluetooth disconnection reminder • Raise wrist to wake screen Unlocking your phone using your watch Whether this feature is supported depends on your phone's specifications. To enable this feature, perform the following: (The following example is with a phone running EMUI 9.0.) 1 Ensure that your phone and watch have been paired.
Getting started • If Bluetooth earbuds are connected via the watch and you answer a call from the watch, the audio will play from the watch's speaker. Audio for calls cannot go through the earbuds yet. • If you would like to use your Bluetooth earbuds for calls, connect the earbuds to your phone and answer calls from your phone too.
Getting started the watch will display update reminders. Follow the onscreen instructions to update your watch. • For iOS users: Open the Huawei Health app, touch the profile picture in the upper-left corner on the home screen, touch Settings, then enable Auto-download update packages over Wi-Fi. If there are any new updates, the watch will display update reminders. Follow the onscreen instructions to update your watch. During an update, the watch will automatically disconnect from your phone.
App management Getting notifications and deleting messages Getting notifications Ensure that the watch is paired with your phone using the Huawei Health app, then perform the following: For Android users: Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, and then touch your device. Touch Notifications and enable Notifications. Turn on the switch for apps for which you want to receive notifications. For iOS users: Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, and then touch your device.
App management Deleting messages To delete a message, swipe right on it. To delete all messages, touch Clear . Setting favorite contacts (using a watch to make/ receive a call) 1 Open the Huawei Health app and touch Devices. Touch your device name to access the watch settings screen. Touch Favorite contacts. 2 Then perform the following: Touch ADD and your phone contacts list will appear. Then select the contacts you wish • to add. 3 • Touch Sequence to sort the contacts you have added.
App management Checking your call log 1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Call Log, touch it to view call logs. 2 Touch an entry to call them back. 3 Swipe down to the bottom of the screen and touch Clear to clear all call logs. Playing music The music feature is only available with Android. 1 Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, touch the device name, and then touch Music.
App management Using Stopwatch or Timer Stopwatch From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Stopwatch, and then touch it. Touch to start timing. Touch to reset the stopwatch. Swipe right on your watch screen to exit Stopwatch. Timer From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Timer, and then touch it. By default, there are 8 available countdown modes: 1 minute, 3 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, and 2 hours.
App management 4 Swipe down on the home screen to ensure that the alarm settings are synced to your watch. 5 Touch an alarm to edit or delete it. For iOS users: 1 Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, and then touch your device name from the device list. 2 Go to Alarm > Event Alarms or go to Alarm > Smart Alarm. 3 Set the alarm time, tag, and repeat cycle. 4 Touch Save. 5 Swipe down on the home screen to ensure that the alarm settings are synced to your watch.
App management Altitude: Altitude measurement range: –800 to 8800 meters. Air pressure: Air pressure measurement range: 300 to 1100 hPa. Swipe up or down to check altitude and air pressure respectively. Using Compass From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Compass, touch it, and then follow the onscreen instructions to calibrate it. After it is successfully calibrated, your watch will display a compass dial.
App management screen. If your phone is within Bluetooth range, it will play a ringtone to alert you, even in Silent mode. Touch your watch screen or unlock your phone screen to stop playing the ringtone. This feature will only work when your phone and watch are connected.
Professional workouts Starting a workout Your watch supports multiple workout modes. Choose a workout mode and start exercising. Running Courses The watch has been preinstalled with a series of running courses, from entry-level to advanced, that provide personalized and real-time guidance. You can choose different courses on your watch.
Professional workouts Starting a workout using the Huawei Health app: To start a workout using the Huawei Health app, you need to bring your phone and watch together to ensure that they are connected properly. 1 Open the Huawei Health app, touch Exercise, choose a workout mode, and then touch the Start icon to start a workout. 2 Once you have started a workout, your watch will sync and display your workout heart rate, step count, speed, and time.
Professional workouts Run mode at least once a week (at least 2.4 kilometers within 20 minutes for each workout), and the watch collects at least two VO2max values with an interval of more than a week. From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout status, touch it, and then swipe up on the screen to view your workout status. Fitness status (VO2max) variation is an important indicator of your workout status.
Professional workouts Android users can also check the duration of moderate to high intensity activity on the home screen of the Huawei Health app. The data displayed in the Huawei Health app is collected from both your phone and watch. Therefore, there is nothing to be concerned about if there is a data discrepancy between the app and your watch. Recording workout routes The watch features built-in GPS.
Fitness and health Monitoring your heart rate The HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 features an optical heart rate sensor, which can monitor and record your heart rate all day. To use this feature, you need to enable Continuous heart rate in the Huawei Health app. When the watch detects that the user has fallen sleep, it will switch to use the non-visible light to measure your heart rate, letting you have a good nights sleep. Heart rate measurement 1 Keep your arm still and wear your watch correctly.
Fitness and health app, go to Me > Settings > Heart rate limit and zones and set Calculation method to either Maximum heart rate percentage or HRR percentage. • If you select Maximum heart rate percentage as the calculation method, the heart rate zone for different types of workout activities (Extreme, Anaerobic, Aerobic, Fatburning, and Warm-up) is calculated based on your maximum heart rate ("220 – your age" by default). Heart rate = Maximum heart rate x Maximum heart rate percentage.
Fitness and health • Your heart rate will not be displayed if you remove the watch from your wrist during the workout. However, the watch will continue to search for your heart rate for a while. The measurement will resume once you wear the watch again. • Your watch can measure your heart rate when you have connected it to your phone and started a workout using the Huawei Health app. • Heart rate monitoring during swimming is supported on the HUAWEI WATCH GT 2 and HUAWEI WATCH GT 2e.
Fitness and health measure your resting heart rate immediately after you wake up in the morning for the most accurate result. If you disable Continuous heart rate monitoring after checking your resting heart rate, the resting heart rate displayed in the Huawei Health app will remain the same. Heart rate warning After you start a workout using your watch, your watch will vibrate to alert you that your heart rate value has exceeded the upper limit for more than 10 seconds.
Fitness and health To enable High heart rate alerts for your resting heart rate, open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices then your device, go to Continuous heart rate monitoring > High heart rate alert, and set your heart rate upper limit. Then, touch OK. When you are not doing any exercise, you will receive an alert when your resting heart rate stays above your set limit for more than 10 minutes.
Fitness and health • To measure your stress level on a periodic basis: Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, then touch your device name, enable Automatic stress test and follow the onscreen instructions to calibrate the stress value. Make sure that you are wearing your watch correctly and the watch will periodically test your stress level.
Fitness and health Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, then touch your device name, and enable HUAWEI TruSleepTM. For iOS users: Open the Huawei Health app, touch Devices, then touch your device name, and enable HUAWEI TruSleepTM. • Enabling HUAWEI TruSleepTM may reduce the battery life. • HUAWEI TruSleepTM is disabled by default. • The HUAWEI TruSleepTM tracking will not be affected if your phone powers off while you are asleep.
Watch faces Changing watch faces Method 1: Touch and hold the home screen, and then swipe left or right to choose a watch face. Method 2: From the home screen press the Up button, go to Settings > Display > Watch face, and then swipe left or right to choose a watch face. Method 3: Open the Huawei Health app, touch Watch faces and then Mine, choose a watch face as needed, and then touch Set as default. Setting Gallery watch faces • Only available on Android phones.
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Watch faces 3 On the Gallery screen in the Huawei Health app, touch Style to customize the font and color of the displayed time and date. 4 Touch Layout to adjust the position of the displayed time and date. • Only still images can be used as watch faces. There are no restrictions on the file format • A maximum of 5 images can be transferred at one. If you transfer multiple images an image will be selected randomly and displayed each time the screen wakes up.
Watch faces and the watch face installed on your watch will then be deleted. Certain preinstalled watch faces cannot be deleted. • You cannot download additional watch faces in the Huawei Health app on an iOS phone. To download new watch faces, you are advised to temporarily pair your watch with an Android phone. When the downloaded watch faces are synced to your watch, pair the watch back with your iOS phone.
