How to set up a new Apple Watch: Power on

The button on the side of the Apple Watch - below the rotatable Digital Crown dial if you're wearing it on your left wrist and above it on the right wrist - is officially known, I kid you not, as the Side Button. On the watch made by Apple called the Apple Watch.

Anyway, the Side Button is primarily there to provide a shortcut to your favourite contacts. Press it once and you'll see their initials arranged around the dial: rotate the Digital Crown to move the cursor on to your choice, and their photo, if available, will appear in the centre. Tap their face, or the enlarged initials in the centre of the watch face if no photo is available, and it will expand and offer buttons to call, message or 'Digital Touch' them, depending on what contact details are saved, whether they have Apple Watches and so on.

But we'll return to contacts later. For the time being, we'll use the Side Button's secondary function: if you press and hold it you can power the Apple Watch on or off. Do this now to wake the watch up. As when waking up an iPhone, you'll see the Apple logo for a moment or two, before the interface starts up.

Your brand-new Apple Watch should arrive at least partially charged up. But on the off chance that it doesn't, and so you know how to recharge your wearable in the future, we'll briefly discuss how to charge up your Apple Watch in the next section.