How to add more Apple Watch faces

When you buy something new, you want it to look great. If you’re an Apple fan and just bought a new Apple Watch, you’ll be pleased to know that your customization options, including watch faces, are almost limitless.

If you want to add more Apple Watch faces and customize them, we’ve got you covered. Below, we’ll explain how to add more Apple Watch faces to your always-on display and how to personalize your watch to meet your daily needs.

How can you add more faces to your Apple Watch?

You can find many specialized faces in the Face Gallery that you can access from both your watch and the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Here’s how you can start adding new faces through the iPhone app:

1. On your iPhone, go to the Apple Watch app and open “My Faces.”
2. Browse through the faces until you find something you like.
3. Once you’ve selected a face and edited its features, click “Add.”

Apple Watch faces and features

Since the Apple Watch face is interactive, it has features called “Complications” to enhance the Apple to Watch user experience. You can choose the type of information you want to display on the face, such as the time, battery levels, or new email notifications. Plus, with the “Photo” watch face, you can even use one of your photos as a background.

To adjust face features on iPhone, you need to go to the Apple Watch app and select the face you want. Under “Complications,” you’ll see areas of the watch face that can be customized. Click on each area and you can add the details you want to optimize the watch face for you.

Add Apple Complications

Sometimes you’ll need direct access to an app or a way to see your notifications even if you’re in an important meeting. Personalizations are shortcuts to apps that provide information such as weather, date, calendar notifications, battery life, navigation, and many more useful details.

Almost all faces allow for a good amount of customization, so you can use complications to organize access to your most important phone apps. Here’s how to add complications:

1. Tap your watch face and hold until you see the “Edit” option.
2. Start swiping left and you’ll see if your face has an option for complications.
3. Click “Complication” and then click the crown to save the changes.

Make your face collection

If you are one of those people who like to personalize each device you use, we have good news for you. Apple Watch lets you create collections of your custom faces, including multiple variants of a design. Now you can have them all in one place. If you have a design you really like, here’s how to save it:

1. Tap and hold your watch face.
2. Start swiping left and once you see the “New Button”, click on it.
3. Turn the crown to find the face you want to save and tap it.
4. Now you can customize the face design and save it to your collection.

Share Apple Watch faces

Sharing your faces is only possible if you have watchOS 7 or higher. Plus, you can send your friends fully customized watch faces with complications to help their Apple Watch fit their specific needs. Here’s what you need to do to share an Apple Watch face:

1. Look at the face you made at your friend.
2. Tap and hold the face and click the “Share” sign.
3. Choose a contact to be the recipient and click “Create Message.”
4. Click the name of the face you want to send and click “Send.”

If this process seems too complicated, you can open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone and send the watch face from there. Receiving the watch face is also easy. All you need is to open the message and add a new look to your collection.

How to remove a face

Sometimes, if you keep the same watch face design for a long time, over time you may feel like it’s time to create a new collection. Apple Watch faces let you easily remove unused faces to make room for new ones.

Here’s what you need to do to remove faces from your Apple Watch:

1. Press and hold your current face.
2. Find the face you no longer want to use and click “Delete.”
3. In case you want to delete more faces, you can open the Apple Watch app, select “Edit” next to “My Faces” and check all the faces you want to delete.

More than just a watch

With the Apple Watch Series 6, Apple pushes the boundaries and challenges all definitions of watches. With its revolutionary always-on display, it is more than twice as bright as the previous model, making it ideal for outdoor sports activities.

Now that you know more about Apple Watch faces, complications, and face collections, you can optimize each face you decide to use. What’s your all-time favorite face on Apple Watch? Do you like using Complications?