The watch app is simple, but it has a few screens. This article is a short tour. You can read it in one go, or just look at the bit that matches what is on your wrist right now.
Apple Watch has four screens: Home, Today, Monitor and Insights. Swipe up or down with your finger, or turn the Digital Crown, to move between them.
Most Garmin watches have the same four screens. Press the up or down buttons on the right side of the watch, or on touch models tap the small arrows at the top and bottom of the screen. On Venu and vívoactive watches the Garmin app has two screens, Home and Today.
Home
This is the first screen you see when you open MigraineMe.
- At the top, a gauge shows your current migraine risk. Your risk score sits in the middle of the gauge, on a scale from 0 to 10, with a coloured word underneath: Negligible, Low, Mild or High.
- On Apple Watch, a grid of six small icons below the gauge lets you log things in a couple of taps: Migraine, Trigger, Prodrome, Medicine, Relief, and Activity. On Garmin, a single Log button below the gauge opens the same six categories.
- On Apple Watch, if a migraine is currently in progress, a small card appears with the severity number, plus and minus buttons, and an End button. On Garmin you see the active migraine and its severity, and you change or end it on your phone.
Today
This is the second screen.
The Today screen shows a single short sentence written by MigraineMe just for you, based on your data from today. For example: Your sleep was 2 hours shorter than usual last night. Keep an eye on triggers like bright lights today.
This is a paid feature. On Apple Watch, if you have not upgraded, you will see a polite note asking you to upgrade in the phone app first. On Garmin you will see No insight today yet. until there is one.
Monitor
The Monitor screen shows your health metrics, grouped into five coloured cards.
- Sleep in purple. Shows things like sleep duration and when you fell asleep and woke up.
- Physical in coral red. Shows recovery, heart rate variability, resting heart rate and similar.
- Environment in sky blue. Shows the weather around you: temperature, pressure, humidity.
- Mental in amber. Shows stress, noise around you, and other mind related things.
- Nutrition in green. Shows what you have eaten today, like calories and caffeine.
Tap any card to see more details. On Apple Watch, a small 14-day chart for each metric is part of the paid plan; without it you see a note asking you to upgrade on your iPhone.
Risk
There is no separate Risk screen anymore. The risk gauge lives on the Home screen, so there is nothing extra to learn.
Insights
The Insights screen shows short AI recommendations made just for you. They are grouped by Triggers, Prodromes, Medicines, Reliefs and Activities. Swipe through to read each one.
This is a paid feature. On Apple Watch, if you have not upgraded, you will see a polite note asking you to do so on your iPhone.
The screen you see before signing in
On Apple Watch, if the watch has not received your sign in from the phone yet, it shows a Syncing with iPhone screen. You will rarely see it, because the watch signs in by itself from the phone. On Garmin, the first thing you see is a welcome screen with a Pair button, which you use once during pairing.
If either screen appears later than expected, see our help article What to do when the watch shows Sign in needed.
Recovery if a screen looks blank
If a screen looks empty:
- Make sure your phone is nearby and switched on. The watch needs a connection to fetch fresh data. On Garmin the screen says Phone not connected when it cannot reach your phone.
- On Apple Watch, pull the screen down with your finger to refresh. On Garmin, leave the screen and come back to it.
- If a paid feature is locked, upgrade in the phone app and try again.
That is the whole tour. A few screens, all designed for a quick glance.
