Honor Watch GS 3 User Guide
Honor Watch GS 3 User Guide
User Guide
Contents
Getting Started
Appearance 1
Wearing the watch 1
Powering on and powering off and restarting the watch 2
Pairing your watch with your phone 3
Buttons and gestures 3
Charging your watch 4
Exercise
Starting a workout 6
100+ workout modes 6
Using Smart companion 7
Running courses 7
Fitness courses 7
Rope skipping 8
Viewing workout records 8
Workout status 8
Recording daily activities 9
Route back 9
Health
Monitoring your heart rate 11
Measuring blood oxygen levels (SpO2) 12
Testing stress levels 13
Tracking sleep 14
Breathing exercises 15
Activity reminders 15
Assistant
Playing music 16
Receiving weather reports 17
Answering or rejecting a call on your device 17
Incoming Call 18
Receiving notifications and viewing and deleting messages 18
Connecting Bluetooth earbuds 19
Using Compass 19
Using Stopwatch 19
Using Timer 19
Setting an alarm 20
Air pressure 20
Using Flashlight 21
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Contents
Finding your phone using your device 21
More Guidance
Managing watch faces 22
Configuring Custom watch faces 22
Setting the Always On Display 23
Adjusting the screen display and brightness 23
Sound settings 23
Setting the vibration strength 24
Enabling Do not disturb mode 24
Customizing the function of the Down button 24
Locking or unlocking the device 24
Viewing the watch information 25
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Getting Started
Appearance
The watch adopts a 3D curved glass lens, and a combination of pressable buttons, and a color
touchscreen. The color touchscreen provides a broader field of view.
Number Describe
1 Up button
2 Screen
3 Down button
4 Speaker
5 Microphone
7 Charging area
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Getting Started
• Your watch uses non-toxic materials that have passed strict skin allergy tests. Please rest
reassured when wearing wear it. If you experience skin discomfort when wearing the watch,
take it off and consult a doctor.
• Do not wear it too loosely or too tightly but make sure that your watch is attached securely on
your wrist.
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Getting Started
2 Open the Health app and go to Device > Add device, and the app will automatically
search for nearby available Bluetooth devices. Once your watch is found, touch its name to
start pairing.
3 When a pairing request is displayed on the watch screen, touch to pair your watch and
phone. Confirm the pairing on your phone as well.
• If the target watch is not in the list of devices that can be connected to automatically, touch
> Scan to scan the QR code on the watch screen, and follow the onscreen instructions to finish
pairing.
• Your watch will display an icon on the screen to inform you that pairing was successful. If the
paring failed, your watch screen will display an icon to inform you that pairing was unsuccessful.
It will then return to the startup screen.
Operation Function
Press the Up button • Wake device screen when the screen is off.
• Access the app list screen from the home screen.
• Return to the home screen.
Press and hold the Up • Power on your watch when the watch is off.
button • Access the restart/power off screen when the watch is on.
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Getting Started
Operation Function
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.
• You are advised to use a Honor charger or a non-Honor charger that complies with
corresponding regional or national laws and regulations as well as regional and international
safety standards to charge your watch. Other chargers and power banks that do not meet
corresponding safety standards may cause issues such as slow charging and overheating.
Exercise caution when using them. It is recommended that you purchase a Honor power
adapter from an official Honor sales outlet.
• Keep the charging port dry and clean to prevent short circuits or other risks.
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Getting Started
Method 2: Connect your watch to a power supply and check the battery level on the charging
screen.
Method 3: View the battery level on a watch face that displays the battery level.
Method 4: Connect your watch to the Health app, open the Health app, touch Device then
your device name, and check the battery level on the device details screen.
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Exercise
Starting a workout
Starting a workout on your device
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout.
2 Select the workout you want to do or your preferred course. Alternatively, swipe up on the
screen and touch Custom to add other workout modes.
Touch on the right side of the workout mode, and set the Goal and Reminders.
3 Touch the Start icon to start a workout session. (Ensure that GPS positioning is working
before you start an outdoor workout.)
4 To end a workout session, press the Up button and touch the Stop icon, or press and hold
the Up button.
Auto-detecting workouts
The watch can automatically identify your workout status.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Settings > Workout
settings and enable Auto-detect workouts.
2 After this feature is enabled, the watch will remind you to start a workout when it detects
increased activity. You can ignore the notification or choose to start the corresponding
workout.
Currently, the following workout modes are supported: indoor walk, outdoor walk, indoor run,
outdoor run, elliptical trainer activity, and rowing machine activity.
until you find Custom > , touch it and then add the ones you want.
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Exercise
From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout and the on the
right side of the workout mode, swipe to the bottom and touch Remove to remove the
workout.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout, then touch it.
2 Touch the icon on the right side of Outdoor run and then enable Smart companion.
3 Return to the workout list screen and touch Outdoor run.
Smart companion is currently only available for Outdoor Run. To ensure that your workout
companion can work properly, wear a Honor smart watch or smart band.
Running courses
Your watch comes with a variety of running courses that can guide you and record your
workouts and running training. It can also work with voice prompts to help you complete the
courses, allowing you to stay more active in daily life.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout > Running
courses.
2 Swipe up or down on the screen, then select. Choose a course and follow the onscreen
instructions to start the workout.
Fitness courses
Your watch comes with a variety of fitness courses that can guide you and record your
workouts and fitness training. It can also work with voice prompts to help you complete the
courses, allowing you to stay more active in daily life.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout > Fitness
courses.
2 Swipe up or down on the screen, then select. Choose a course and follow the onscreen
instructions to start the workout.
These features requires the latest version of the Health app.
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Exercise
Rope skipping
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout.
2 Touch Rope skipping, and touch the or icon to choose different testing modes.
Alternatively, swipe up on the screen and touch Custom to add workout modes.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout records.
2 Select a record and view the corresponding details. The device will display different data
types for different workouts.
Your watch will display different data types for different workouts.
Workout status
The Workout status app on your watch can demonstrate your fitness status variation and your
training load from the last seven days. You can review and modify your current workout plan
with the help of this app.
From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout status, and swipe up
on the screen to view data including your training load and VO2Max.
• The Workout status app mainly tracks your training load and VO2max variations.
• On the Training load screen, you can view your training load from the last seven days.
Training load is classified as High, Low, or Optimal, and you can determine your level based
on your fitness status.
• The watch collects your training load from workout modes which track your heart rate, such
as running, walking, cycling, and climbing, and collects your VO2max value when you start
an outdoor running workout. The watch cannot display your workout status if it has not
collected any VO2max values.
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Exercise
• VO2max variation will be displayed only if you use Outdoor 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.
1 Steps: This ring indicates the proportion of your steps to the target step count. The
default goal is 10,000 steps. You can change the goal settings in Health depending on
your preferences.
2 Duration of moderate to high intensity activity (unit: minutes): The default goal is 30
minutes. Your wearable device will calculate the total duration of your moderate to high
intensity activity based on your pace and heart rate intensity. We recommend that you take
five 30-minute sessions of exercise a week at a moderate intensity to keep healthy.
3 Active hours: This ring represents how many hours you have been stood up for during
the day. If you have walked for more than 1 minute in an hour, such as for 1 minute
between 10:00 and 11:00, this hour will be counted as an active hour. Sitting for too long is
harmful for your health. We recommend you stand up once an hour and get at least 12
active hours every day.
Route back
When you start an outdoor workout and enable the Route back feature, the watch will record
the route you took and provide you with navigation services. After reaching your destination,
you can use this feature to find out how to return to where you passed through or came from.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout and touch it. Start
an individual outdoor workout session.
2 Swipe left on the screen and select Route back or Straight line to the starting point. If there
is no Route back or Straight line on the screen, touch the screen to display it.
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Exercise
Please upgrade your watch to the latest version for a better navigation experience.
The track information provided by the route back function is only for reference, not the only basis
during the course of your return. Please use this function according to the actual road conditions
and traffic management information.
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Health
Monitoring your heart rate
Watch presents newly upgraded heart rate module that includes eight photodiodes in a
circular layout and two sets of light source. Combined with a curved glass lens for comfortable
wear, it significantly reduce external interference; the AI algorithm has been upgraded to filter
out noisy signals more effectively, allowing accurate heart rate monitoring even during
strenuous exercise, and improving the accuracy of health data.
• To guarantee a more accurate heart rate measurement, wear the device correctly and ensure
the strap is fastened. Make sure that your device is secure on your wrist. Ensure that the device
body is in direct contact with your skin without any obstructions.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Workout.
2 Select the workout you want to do or your preferred course.
3 Touch the Start icon to start a workout session. Your watch will display your workout
heartrate, speed, and time.
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Health
morning. Your actual resting heart rate may not be displayed or accurately measured if your
heart rate was measured at the wrong time.
• If "--" is displayed as the resting heart rate reading, it indicates that your watch was unable to
measure your resting heart rate.
• Ensure that you measure your resting heart rate in a quiet and relaxed environment when you
are awake. It is recommended that you measure your resting heart rate immediately after you
wake up in the morning for the most accurate result.
Open the Health app and go to Exercise > > Exercise heart rate settings and select your
desired heart rate limit and heart rate zones.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find SpO2.
2 Touch Measure. Keep your body still during the SpO2 measurement.
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Health
2 Go to Health Alert > Continuous oxygen measurement, and enable Automatic blood
oxygen monitoring. The watch automatically measures and records your blood oxygen
when it detects that you are still.
3 Touch Lower blood oxygen limit reminder to set the bottom limit of your blood oxygen for
you to receive an alert when you are not asleep.
• This product is not a medical device and the monitoring data and results are for reference only
and are not intended for diagnostic or medical use.
• These features requires the latest version of the Health app and is available in selected
countries and regions.
• During the stress test, wear your watch correctly and keep still. Your watch will be unable to
accurately detect your stress level during a workout or when you move your wrist too frequently.
In this case, your watch will not carry out a stress test.
• This product is not a medical device and the monitoring data and results are for reference only
and are not intended for diagnostic or medical use.
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Health
Tracking sleep
Your watch tracks your sleep quality when you wear it while sleeping. You can view basic sleep
information in the Sleep app of your watch, and view detailed sleep data in the Health app.
Sleep monitoring
Your watch collects sleep data and identifies your sleep status when you wear it while
sleeping. It can automatically detect when you fall asleep and wake up and whether you are in
a light or deep sleep. You can sync and view your sleep data in detail in the Health app.
From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Sleep, then touch it and swipe up
on the screen to view your Sleep duration and Naps duration. Your daytime sleep duration is
displayed under Naps.
Scientific sleep
You can enable Scientific sleep in the Health app, and after you enable Scientific sleep, your
watch will collect your sleep data, detect when you fall asleep, wake up, and whether you are
in a light, deep, or REM sleep, and identify the times when you wake up and your breathing
quality to provide you with a sleep quality analysis and suggestions to help you understand
and improve your sleep quality.
2 Touch Sleep > > Scientific sleep switch, and enable Scientific sleep.
• Naps that you take during the day are counted under Naps. If you take a midday nap of less
than 30 minutes or you moved around too much during a midday nap, your watch may have
determined incorrectly that you were awake.
• When your watch detects that you are sleeping, it will automatically disable Always-on screen,
message reminders, incoming call notifications, Raise wrist to wake screen, and other features in
order to not disturb your sleep.
Method 2:
You are able to view your history sleep data in the Health app.
Open the Health app and go to Sleep card to view your daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly
sleep statistics.
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Health
Breathing exercises
Breathing exercises can help you relax and improve your mood at work or in day-to-day life.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Breathing exercises.
2 Set the duration and rhythm, touch the breathing exercises icon on the screen, and follow
the onscreen instructions to do the breathing exercises.
After the exercise is finished, the screen will display the training stress, heart rate before
the exercise, training duration, and evaluation.
Activity reminders
1 Open the Health app and go to the device details screen.
2 Touch Health Alert and enable Sedentary Alert.
When Sedentary Alert is enabled, the watch will monitor your activity throughout the day
in increments (1 hour by default). It will vibrate and the screen will turn on to remind you to
take a moment to get up and move around if you didn't move around during the set
period.
• Your watch will not vibrate to remind you to move around if you have enabled Do not disturb on
your device.
• Your watch will not vibrate if it detects that you are asleep.
• Your watch will only send reminders between 8:00 to 12:00 AM and from 2:30 to 9:00 PM.
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Playing music
Adding songs
To use this feature, ensure that the watch is connected to your phone.
2 Touch Music > Music management > , and select the music as needed from the list
• Music can be played through third-party social media apps, only MP3, AAC (LC-AAC), WAV,
FLAC and APE files can be added to the watch locally.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Music.
3 Swipe right on the screen to return to the previous screen, touch to play the music.
• On the music playback screen of your watch, you can switch between songs, adjust the volume,
and select a playback mode, such as Play in order, Shuffle, Repeat the current song, and Repeat
list.
• Swipe up to view the music list, touch the icon in the lower-right corner of the screen to
delete music, connect the watch to Bluetooth earphones, control the music playback on your
watch, or control music playback on your phone.
1 On the device details screen in the Health app, go to Music and enable Watch controls
phone music.
2 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Music and touch >
Phone.
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• You can check the amount of storage left available on the watch in the Health app by going to
Device > Music > Music management.
• To use this feature, ensure that your watch is connected to your phone and that the Health app
is running in the background.
Adjust the call volume by pressing the button. Mute a call by touching the Mute icon.
Rejecting a call
Touch on the screen or touch and hold the Up button on your watch to end the call.
Message reply
When inconvenient to answer the call, switch up screen and select the message reply content,
and click Send. The call will be automatically hung up and a message will be sent.
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Incoming Call
• From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Contacts, and touch a
frequent contacts to call the contact's number on your device.
• From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Call log, touch a contact in
your device's app list to call the contact's number on your device.
• Touch to display your phone's contacts list and then select the contacts you wish to
add.
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• If you are using Do not disturb mode, asleep, not wearing your device, or doing a workout, your
watch can receive messages but will not push notifications.
• Messages that you have viewed on your phone will be deleted from your watch at the same
time.
• When the Health app is connected to your watch via Bluetooth, the notifications displayed in
the status bar of your phone will be pushed to your watch. The notifications that are not
displayed in the status bar will not be pushed to your watch.
Using Compass
The Compass app displays the direction, longitude, and latitude of your watch, helping you
get your bearings in unfamiliar environments such as when you are outdoors or traveling.
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 device
will display a compass dial.
During the calibration, avoid sources of magnetic field interference, such as phones, tablets, and
computers. Otherwise, the calibration accuracy may be affected.
Using Stopwatch
The watch supports normal and segment-based timing in Stopwatch, helping you with
activities that require accurate timing, such as sports and competitions.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Stopwatch.
Using Timer
The watch supports quick timers with preset durations and customized timers to help you
complete tasks with specified durations.
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From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Timer. Select a duration or
swipe up on the screen and touch Custom, then touch to start timing.
After the timer expires, the watch will vibrate. You can touch to exit or touch to repeat
the last quick timer.
Swipe right on your watch screen to keep Timer running in the background.
Setting an alarm
Setting an alarm on your device
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Alarm touch it, and then
1 On the device details screen in the Health app, go to Alarm Clock > .
2 Set the alarm time, name, and repeat cycle.
• When an alarm rings, touch on your watch screen, press the up button, or swipe right on
your watch screen to snooze for 10 minutes. To turn off the alarm, touch on your watch
screen or press and hold the Up button.
Air pressure
Barometer on the watch automatically measures the altitude and air pressure of the current
location and records the measurement data of the current day in a waveform graph.
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1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Air pressure, and touch it
to check the altitude and air pressure of your current location and a graph showing
atmospheric changes of the current day.
2 Swipe up or down to check altimeter and air pressure respectively.
Altimeter:
Altimeter measurement range: –800 to 8800 meters.
Air pressure:
Air pressure measurement range: 300 to 1100 hPa.
Using Flashlight
From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Flashlight, and then touch it
to turn on the flashlight. Touch the screen to turn off the flashlight and touch the screen icon
again to turn it on. Swipe right on your device screen to exit Flashlight.
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More Guidance
Managing watch faces
Watch Face Store provides a diverse range of watch faces for you to choose from. To
download or delete watch faces, update the watch and the Health app to the latest versions.
Download and install even more cool watch faces by performing the following.
Some watch faces can be customized. You can touch under a watch face to customize the
content that is displayed.
1 On the device details screen in the Health app, go to Watch face market > All watch faces.
2 Select a watch face.
• If the watch face has not been installed, touch Install. After the installation is complete,
your watch will automatically use this new watch face.
• If the watch face has been installed, touch Set as watch face to use the selected watch
face.
1 On the device details screen in the Health app, go to Watch face market > All watch faces.
2 Touch Me > Edit, and select an installed watch face and touch in the corner to delete
it.
• To download or delete watch faces, update your watch and the Health app to the latest
versions.
• You may not be able to download or delete watch faces in certain countries and regions. For
more information, contact the local Honor hotline.
• You do not need to purchase a watch face again after deleting it from Watch Face Store. You
will only need to reinstall it.
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More Guidance
1 On the device details screen in the Health app, go to Watch face market > All watch faces
> Me > Album to access the Custom settings screen.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Settings > Watch faces
and cards > Always On Display.
2 Swipe left or right on the screen to select a watch face, and touch .
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Settings > Display and
brightness > Brightness.
2 If Automatic is enabled, disable it.
3 Touch Brightness to adjust the screen brightness.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Settings > Display and
brightness > Sleep.
2 Touch Sleep to adjust the screen sleep time.
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Settings > Display and
brightness > Sceen on.
2 Touch Sceen on to adjust the screen always display time.
Sound settings
Setting the ring volume
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Settings > Volume >
Volume.
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More Guidance
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Settings > Volume.
2 Enable Silent mode.
If you have enabled Silent mode, your device will only vibrate to inform you of incoming calls
and messages. Otherwise, your watch will ring and vibrate when receiving new calls or
messages.
Setting a PIN
1 From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Settings > PIN > Enable
PIN, and follow the onscreen instructions to set a PIN.
2 Swipe down on the device's home screen, go to Settings > PIN, and enable Auto-Lock.
If you forget the PIN, you will be required to restore the watch to its factory settings.
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More Guidance
Viewing the SN
From the home screen press the Up button, swipe until you find Settings > About to view the
SN of your watch.
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