Walkthrough: Using the Apple Watch app

When your hands are full — holding your person, driving, settling a hard moment — pulling out your phone is the last thing you want to do. CareHaven on your Apple Watch lets you log the small things from your wrist, with a tap you can feel without looking. Available

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Before you start
The three pages
1. Check the Now page
2. Log a feeding with one tap
3. Do a regulation check-in from your wrist
4. Dictate a quick note
5. Glance at what's next
When your phone isn't nearby

Everything you log on the Watch flows back to your iPhone. If your phone is out of reach, the Watch holds onto what you logged and sends it over the moment the two are back together, so nothing is lost.

Before you start

You will need:

An Apple Watch paired to the iPhone that has CareHaven on it.
CareHaven open on your iPhone at least once. Opening the iPhone app sends a fresh snapshot to your wrist.

Open the Watch app from your watch face or the app grid. The Watch app picks up the color theme you chose on your iPhone, so it will feel familiar.

The three pages

The Watch app has three pages. Turn the Digital Crown or swipe up and down to move between them.

Now — a quick glance at where things stand.
Quick Log — one-tap logging and dictation.
Schedule — your next appointment.

1. Check the Now page

The Now page is the first thing you see. It gives you the picture at a glance:

Your person's name at the top.
The last feeding and how long ago it was (for example, "3 min ago").
Today's mood, if you have checked in.
Today's running count of feedings and behavior events.
The next appointment and when it is, if one is coming up.
A small note showing when this was last updated.

If the page looks empty, open CareHaven on your iPhone for a moment. Within a few seconds the Watch fills in with today's snapshot.

2. Log a feeding with one tap

Swipe or turn the Crown to the Quick Log page.
Tap the feeding row (for example, Bottle).

That is it. The moment you tap, the Watch gives you a gentle buzz to confirm, and a green checkmark badge appears — "Logged bottle" — then fades after a second or so. The buzz is the point: you can log without ever looking at your wrist.

The feeding lands in today's list on your iPhone a few seconds later. The time stamped on it is the moment you tapped, not the moment it reached your phone, so a feeding you logged while your phone was in the other room still shows the right time.

3. Do a regulation check-in from your wrist

A regulation check-in is a quick read of how your person is doing right now, on a calm-to-crisis scale. You can capture it from the Watch without breaking away from the moment.

On the Quick Log page, tap one of the mood chips — for example Calm, Mixed, or Crisis.
You feel the buzz and see a badge confirm it (for example, "Mood: Calm").

The check-in syncs to your iPhone as a regulation entry at the level you chose. Logging at the same few moments each day — after school, after dinner, before bed — is where the patterns start to show. For more on what regulation check-ins are for, see Daily tracking.

4. Dictate a quick note

When something is worth remembering but you cannot stop to type, dictate it.

On the Quick Log page, scroll to the Dictate row and tap it.
The Watch opens its built-in dictation screen.
Speak your note — for example, "She had a great therapy session today."
Tap Done.

You feel the buzz, a badge confirms "Logged note," and the note appears on your iPhone as a quick note. If you happened to say a name aloud, it is removed before the note is saved, in keeping with how CareHaven handles names everywhere.

5. Glance at what's next

Swipe or turn the Crown to the Schedule page to see your next appointment — its title and when it is. If nothing is coming up, the page simply tells you the schedule is clear. To see your full schedule and add appointments, head to your iPhone; see Appointments & calendar.

When your phone isn't nearby

You do not have to wait for your phone to be in reach. Tap your logs as usual — the buzz and the badge confirm each one — and the Watch quietly holds them. As soon as your iPhone is back within range, everything you logged arrives in order, each with the time you actually tapped it. You will not lose a single entry, and nothing doubles up.

A note on the seizure timer

The built-in seizure timer — the stopwatch that warns you at five minutes to consider calling for help — runs on your iPhone today, where it also shows on your Lock Screen. A version that lives on the Watch is on the way as a fast-follow. Coming soon For now, start and run the seizure timer from your phone; see Walkthrough: Log a seizure with the timer.