How Do I Edit the Watch Face on My Apple Watch?

Editing your Apple Watch face allows you to personalize its appearance, select the information you see at a glance, and adjust its overall style to match your preferences or outfit. You can customize your watch face directly on your Apple Watch or through the Watch app on your paired iPhone.

Editing Directly on Your Apple Watch

This method offers a quick and convenient way to make adjustments right from your wrist.

1. Access the Watch Face Gallery: With your current watch face showing, touch and hold the display. This action will bring you to the watch face gallery, where you can see all your saved watch faces.
2. Navigate and Select: From this gallery, you can drag the selected watch face left or right to browse through your existing collection. To ensure you're focused on a specific watch face for editing or to switch to it, you may need to touch and hold again briefly on the desired face to bring it to the foreground.
3. Tap Edit: Once you've located the watch face you wish to customize, tap the Edit button that appears directly below it.
4. Customize Elements: Swipe left or right across the screen to navigate through the customizable elements. These typically include Colors, Style, and Complications.
5. Adjust Settings: For each element, use the Digital Crown to cycle through the available options. For complications, tap on a specific slot, then turn the Digital Crown to choose the app or data you want to display (e.g., weather, activity, calendar).
6. Save Changes: When you're satisfied with your adjustments, press the Digital Crown to save your changes and return to your newly customized watch face.

Editing Using the iPhone Watch App

For a more comprehensive and visual customization experience, use the Watch app on your iPhone. This method is often preferred for setting up new watch faces or making significant changes.

1. Open the Watch App: On your iPhone, open the Watch app.
2. Go to Face Gallery or My Faces:
   • To edit an existing watch face: Tap on the My Faces tab at the bottom. Scroll to find the watch face you want to edit and tap on it.
   • To add a new watch face: Tap on the Face Gallery tab. Browse the available watch faces by category (e.g., Activity, Portraits, Utility), then tap on one you like.
3. Customize:
   • Within the watch face's customization screen, you'll find various options such as:
     • Color: Choose a primary or accent color for the watch face elements.
     • Style/Dial: Select a design, layout, or numbering style.
     • Complications: Tap on each complication slot to choose which app or information you want to display (e.g., date, temperature, timer). You can often choose different sizes or styles for complications.
4. Add/Set as Current:
   • If you're editing an existing face, your changes are typically saved automatically as you make them.
   • If you're adding a new face from the Face Gallery, tap Add to include it in your collection. You can then tap Set as Current Watch Face to make it active on your Apple Watch.

Key Customization Options

Most Apple Watch faces offer a range of customizable features to truly make them your own:

• Colors: Change the overall color scheme or accent colors of the watch face.
• Styles/Dials: Select different layouts, numbering styles (e.g., Roman, Arabic, or none), or visual effects.
• Complications: These are small widgets that display information from apps directly on your watch face. You can typically choose the app and the type of data displayed for each available slot. Popular complications include:
  • Date
  • Weather
  • Activity Rings
  • Heart Rate
  • Timer
  • Calendar events
  • Battery level
• Photos/Images: For watch faces like "Photos" or "Portraits," you can select specific photos from your iPhone's library to display on your watch.

Adding and Removing Watch Faces

Managing your collection of watch faces is easy, whether you do it on your Apple Watch or iPhone.