The fashion of smartbands or smartwatch is here to stay. It is clear that it is more and more frequent that a friend, family member or even our partner decides to indulge in buying this type of device. Not only to see the time, but rather to be aware of what we receive on the phone at all times. For this reason, if you have just done with a Huawei watch, we will tell you everything you need to pair it to the smartphone.
To do this, don’t worry, we are going to explain in detail each of the steps you must follow. In this way, if it is the first time that you have a Huawei watch in your hands, it will not take more than two minutes to configure it. Although, we already warned you that the customization will take us a little more time, but its pairing is ‘suck’.
Pair the watch to the mobile
First of all, it will be to have the Huawei bracelet or watch with a battery. After this, everything will be simple. So it will only take us a few minutes to get it.
Install the Huawei Health app
First of all, we will have to download the Chinese firm’s Health application on our phone. In this case it will not matter if we have an Android or iPhone. Of course, for it to work you must make sure that the smartwatch is compatible with the operating system of your mobile. Otherwise, it will be impossible for you to link it.
Here we leave you the links so that you can download the Huawei Health application from Google Play or App Store. Although, if you have a mobile from the Chinese firm without GMS and you don’t have it, you will have to download it from AppGallery:
Once you have downloaded and installed Huawei Health on your terminal, you will have to start the app and follow these steps:
- Choose the region (in our case Spain) > click Next.
- You will get more information about the application > tap on Next > I accept.
- Sign in with your Huawei ID or create an account.
- Grant all the permissions it asks for: location and calls.
Pair the smartwatch
Now that we have managed to access the Chinese firm’s app, it is time to add our Huawei smart watch to the application so that we can link the smartwatch to the mobile :
- Activate mobile Bluetooth.
- Then go to the Health app.
- Go to the Devices tab.
- Choose the type you want to pair to the mobile (in this case it will be a smart watch or bracelet).
- Select the model you want to link > Link .
- Check the model that appears on the smartwatch screen and look for it in the list that appears on the phone screen.
- Click on the one on your smartwatch and touch the button in the form of a ‘tick’ that will appear on the panel of your watch. And voila, it will be paired.
However, if you prefer, you can slide your finger up on the screen of your smartwatch and scan the QR code that appears with the phone to connect the Huawei watch to the mobile.
As soon as the Huawei watch is linked with the mobile , it will take us to a window so that we can make it automatically search for updates. Then, we will go to the Notifications window where we will see the apps on our Android phone. In the case of iPhones, it will only give us a series of default options. And for the rest of the applications within an Apple phone, we must enable the Other box.
When you try to activate Notifications, it will take you directly to the smartphone permissions so that we grant you access to messages and alerts on the phone. Tap in the Health app > Allow > confirm the option.
Set up a Huawei smartwatch
After we have successfully linked it to the phone, it is time to see how we can configure it. And we are not talking about customizing its spheres, but about the functions that we will find, as is the case of receiving notifications on the Huawei smart watch. In this way, you will avoid having problems when the smartwatch shows you what comes to your smartphone.
Therefore, you must enter the Huawei Health app > Devices> tap on your watch or bracelet. Within this tab we will see different elements:
- Clock faces : within this section we can change the background that the clock will have.
- Monitor health : if we click on this option we will find different tools, although we will have more or less depending on the model we have. In our case we find Huawei TruSleep, Activity Reminder, Continuous Heart Rate Monitoring, Automatic Stress Test and Automatic SpO2 Measurement.
- Alarm : within this tool we can program alarms so that the bracelet vibrates and wakes us up.
- Weather reports : inside it we can activate a function that will enable us to have a detailed weather report on the Huawei watch or smart bracelet. And it will give us a choice between Celsius or Fahrenheit.
- Help : if we enter this tab, we will find guides that will help us understand the use of the device, in addition to the different options that we find in the app.
- Notifications : by clicking on this tool, we can find the switch to enable us to receive messages and alerts on the Huawei bracelet. In addition, of the other options that we told you before.
And as an extra, we can also find the following: Device settings (Bluetooth disconnection reminder and Pick up to activate), Reset settings and Firmware update .
What can I customize?
From the Health application that we have installed on the mobile we will not be able to change the vibration , nor the lighting, nor other aspects of the smart watch. We will find all these functions directly in the same Huawei Watch.
However, so that you can give the watch another touch, we do find the section that we saw previously about Spheres. We will see this tab in the Devices tab > choose yours > Watch faces > Next > Allow. From here, we can quickly customize the Huawei smartwatch .
Upon entering this section of the phone application, we will find a wide and totally free repertoire of spheres that are compatible with our Huawei device. So you can download the ones you want. In addition, when accessing this menu we will find ourselves in the Recommended window, but if we click on the Mine button, we will go to the ones with our accessory.
If we have already chosen a specific one, we only have to click on Install. At that time, it will start downloading. Although, the best of all is that it will automatically be put on the bracelet without you having to change it yourself. On the other hand, if you are tired of always carrying the same one and you want to put another one that you already had, you must go to the Mine window > click on one > Set as default . And if you want to delete it, you just have to follow these same steps, but tap on the trash icon that will be at the bottom left.