Wiggle on
Apple Watch.

APPLE WATCH / 01

Your first touch

1. Open Wiggle on the Watch. Read Quick start or choose Learn later; replay it from Settings anytime.
2. Turn off Silent Mode. Enable Music and set a gentle Volume in Wiggle Settings.
3. Touch and hold to sustain a note. Move sideways for pitch, up or down for tone. Lift every finger to end the live note.
4. Try one or two fingers. Newest leads is the default; a new finger takes control. Three fingers or a palm can invoke watchOS's cover-to-dismiss gesture.

APPLE WATCH / 02

Settings, worlds and the Crown

1. Triple-tap the top-left gear with one finger for Settings. Triple-tap the top-right world icon to cycle Bloom, Bubble and Sunny.
2. In Play controls, set Note direction to Side to side or Up and down to swap pitch and tone axes. Choose Two fingers: Newest leads, First leads or Blend positions.
3. Assign the Crown to Volume, Tone & effects, Octave or Off. For Volume, disable Allow volume changes to keep the level you chose.
4. Touch vibration is a separate light starting haptic. World shortcut sound is an optional chime, not the main synth. Wiggle respects Silent Mode and cannot detect its system state.
5. On a compatible watch face, choose Wiggle as a complication for one-tap opening. It launches the app; it does not show live notes or play music on the face.

APPLE WATCH / 03

Notes, range and musical expression

1. Enable Show notes directly below Touch vibration in Settings. Set Note range just below it: Half octave, One octave, Two octaves or Three octaves.
2. A highlighted note region follows the playing finger, or the shared center in Blend positions. Releasing, muting, opening Settings or leaving the foreground clears it. The highlight is live input, not loop playback.
3. Open Music & loops for Key, Scale, Octave, Effect depth and optional Tilt. These choices apply across all worlds.
4. Choose a smaller range for larger touch regions. Three octaves is compact on Watch; labels and pitch regions become narrower.

APPLE WATCH / 04

A four-beat phrase

1. Set tempo in Music & loops, then choose Record 4 beats. Settings closes so you can play your phrase.
2. After the four beats, reopen Music & loops and choose Play loop. Return to the surface and play live notes over it.
3. Opening Settings, muting or leaving the foreground stops playback. Clear phrase removes the recording. Phrases are session-only musical events, not microphone recordings or exported songs.

APPLE WATCH / 05

Optional iPhone companion

1. The Watch plays independently. You do not need to have the mobile app open to make music.
2. Use Settings > Companion > Send to iPhone to copy shared musical settings and all three world setups. It is an explicit copy, not live syncing.
3. Volume, local finger/axis choices and recorded phrases stay local. If the other device is unreachable, the latest settings snapshot can queue. iPad cannot pair with Watch.

APPLE WATCH / 06

For shared family play

1. Set a comfortable volume first. Disable Crown volume changes, choose Calm visual energy, and leave Show notes off for a simpler look.
2. Stay nearby and take short turns. Wiggle is a creative toy, not a medical or developmental tool.
3. There is no Watch Guided Access mode in Wiggle. System buttons remain active, and Water Lock disables touch, so do not enable it while playing.

SHARED FEATURE REFERENCE

Make each world your own instrument

Open the Customize entry for your selected world in Settings. In the editor, check the World selector before changing anything. Changes here belong only to that world and save automatically.

Voice

Keep World original or choose Soft, Round or Bright as a new starting character.

Harmonics

Move from a purer sound toward a richer tone.

Filter

Move from warmer to more open and bright.

Motion

Adjust the amount of gentle vibrato or movement.

Space

Adjust the short echo, from drier to more spacious.

Envelope > Attack / Release

Choose a quicker or softer onset and a shorter or more lingering fade. Release is bounded; lifting all fingers still ends the held note.

Hear this sound auditions the selected setup when music is enabled. Reset this world asks for confirmation and restores only that world's sound and visuals. It does not reset the other worlds, your key, scale or volume.

Key, scale, octave, note range, effect depth and general play controls are shared across worlds. Your customized sound character and visual setup are per world.

SHARED FEATURE REFERENCE

Choose the look and the particles

In Customize world, visual choices are saved separately for Bloom, Bubble and Sunny. They do not alter pitch, sound or finger ownership.

Style

Playful preserves each world's original art. Orbits, Prism, Ripples and Constellation offer rings, facets or connected stars.

Particles

Choose World original, Sparks, Bubbles, Petals, Diamonds, Mixed, Hearts, Music notes, Emoji or Note labels. World original follows the selected style. Mixed varies between sparks, bubbles, petals and diamonds.

Emoji

When Emoji is selected, choose one of eight curated symbols: Star, Heart, Flower, Butterfly, Bubbles, Music, Planet or Smile.

Note labels

Emit pitch names such as C4 from the playing position. Labels match the key, scale and range when each particle is created, and keep that pitch as they fade. Waiting fingers do not emit these labels; Blend emits from the shared center.

Color shift / Trail size / Moving background

Adjust the palette and trail size, or stop the backdrop from moving.

Visual tuning

Adjust Trail brightness, Background level and Spread. A background level of zero removes the backdrop. Touch guide can be enabled or disabled separately.

Visual energy

Calm, Balanced and Vivid adjust overall particle density in Play controls. This is a general setting, not a per-world style.

Note labels are different from Music notes: Music notes uses a decorative musical-note symbol, while Note labels shows the pitch name. Neither choice automatically turns on the fixed Show notes map.

Low Power Mode and Reduce Motion reduce animation automatically. Choose Calm, reduce brightness or disable Moving background if you prefer a quieter screen.

SHARED FEATURE REFERENCE

Troubleshooting and privacy

No sound

Check Silent Mode, Music/mute, Wiggle volume, device volume and connected audio devices. Touch again after an audio interruption.

Watch closes under several fingers

A cover-to-dismiss system gesture can look like a crash. Try one or two fingers without covering most of the display. If the app exits during ordinary play, report the device and steps to support.

Settings seem different from these pictures

Confirm your app version and device. Watch Settings is compact; phone/tablet layout, menu style and text size differ. Scroll to reveal additional controls.

Changing one world affects the others

Key, scale, note range, Show notes and general play controls are shared. Customize world sound and visual choices are independent. Check which World is selected before editing or resetting.

Nothing plays after returning

Wiggle stops expensive audio and interaction work when inactive. Return to the foreground and touch again; it does not automatically resume a held note.

The native app needs no account and has no ads, analytics, tracking or developer-operated sound server. Preferences stay on the device. Optional paired-device settings transfer is deliberate. Tilt is processed locally and phrases contain musical events, not microphone recordings.

The website demo is a simplified browser sketch, not the complete native synth, settings editor or a Watch-speaker simulation. Website hosting and any optional adult launch emails have their own privacy details.

For help, email support@playwiggle.com with your device, OS version, Wiggle version and steps to reproduce. Do not include passwords or a child's personal information. Support messages do not subscribe you to launch emails.

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