Use The Compass On Apple Watch Apple Support First and foremost, you need to open the Compass app on your Apple Watch Once you open the app, you will find that the compass app will show you the direction that the top of your watch is pointing to, and on the other hand, your bearing will appear in the topleft corner New to Apple Watch Series 5 models is a builtin compass that allows users to see which way they are facing, complete with a new Compass app that displays heading, incline, latitude, longitude Apple watch compass milanese loop