Apple’s watchOS platform does not have quite as many customization options as other smartwatches, such as those built on Google’s Wear OS, do. But there are numerous ways to make you Apple Watch your own, beyond choosing your watch color, size and band. Here are the key features to know and how to use it.
The Watch app on your iPgrind gives you some customization options to get you started. Type App View and you can choose between a timetable and a list for your applications (shown when you press the digital crown); with a grid you can also type Arrangement to position all your applications exactly the way you want them.
Then there’s the dock you pull up by pressing the side button on your Apple Watch. It shows your most recent programs or up to ten of your favorite programs. To tell you see which programs to show, tap Port then select in the Watch app for iOS Recent or Favorites (if you select the latter, you can select both the programs you want to watch and the order in which they appear).
See faces
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Apple has not yet opened its doors to a third-party developer community, but there are a growing number of Apple-approved faces to choose from (for the Apple Watch Series 4 and later, at least). Swipe left or right to move a new watch from your actual watch on the current face to see your options.
If you have just set up your Apple Watch, you will not really have many options. You can tick New, and Apple presents a selection of faces for your attention – swipe up or down the screen to scroll through them. Tap a clock to set it if you find something you like (it will also be added to the quick menu that appears when you click on the current watch).
It may be easier to set clock faces from your phone. When you open the Watch app, you can tap Face Gallery to see all the available options. Here you see not only a choice of faces, but several variations of the faces. If you choose one, you can choose the colors (if available) and the complications you see (again, if the clock supports them).
Type add on a watch and it is added My faces block on the My watch tab – tap Edit to change the faces that appear in this list. This is the same list you will see when you swipe your watch to see more options—It’s a good idea to keep the faces you use most often here for easy access. If you tap one of these shortlisted parties in the app on your phone, go to the customization screen, where you can also choose to Set as current clock or Remove Watch Face.
Once you have some watch faces in the My faces gallery, can you swipe across your watch screen to move between them. You do need to press and hold if you want to share a watch look that you particularly like, because this is where you will find the share button in the lower left corner.
Look at complications
Some watch faces have complications small shortcuts that lead to programs or features, or panels showing information in real time. You can change these complications again on your watch or from your phone. To do this on the portable device, tap and hold the watch, then select Edit. You will first see color options, and then you can swipe left to see the complications options.
Tap on one of the available complications to change it to something else and scroll with the digital crown to make your choice. Your choice depends on what kind of complexity it is and what programs you have installed – select and then double-tap the digital crown to return to the clock screen.
As with watch faces, it’s probably easier to set up the Watch app on your iPhone. You can type in any face My faces or on the Face Gallery tab to get to the complications, which are then easy to browse through. Some watch faces have more complications than others, and while you may not be able to rearrange them on the screen, you can turn them off if you like.
If you feel you need more complications to play with, look for iPhone apps that also contain decent Apple Watch apps and complications. You can make music complications with Spotify, weather complications with Carrot weather, note complications with Bear, and travel complications with City Writer, for example. Some complications displays information, while allowing others to interact.
It is possible to create your own complications to some extent with the same tools that developers use. The best option we have found so far is Watchmaker, with which you can create complications that cover the weather, time and date, astronomy and more, and which also have options to change complications depending on the time.
Other adjustments
There are a few other ways you can customize the look of what you see on your Apple Watch. If you choose Display and brightness from within the Watch app on your iPhone, you can adjust the brightness of the screen, turn the Always on turn feature on or off (if available), resize the text on the Apple Watch screen, and make the text bold if you like. You can also make these changes in the Settings app on the watch itself.
One way to completely personalize your Apple Watch is to set your own photo as your watch. When you open the Photos app on your watch, then select an image and tap the small watch icon in the lower left corner, you can apply the image as your background – either as a simple image or as a kaleidoscope effect .
This is basically the idea behind it Face also, which showcases personal designs created by other people – not thirdparty watch faces, but different backgrounds and complication combinations that people want to show. If a watch you choose uses complications from an app you did not install, you will be prompted to install it.
It also does not take too much to create wallpapers specifically for the Apple Watch in your favorite image editor you prefer. All you have to do is look up the resolution of the screen of your Apple Watch and leave room for the digital clock on which Apple clicks (if you choose a kaleidoscope effect, you get the analogue, but there is no way to choose. specifically).
Finally, it’s also worth mentioning Apple’s Shortcuts app. If you run the program on your smartwatch, then you can start compatible actions directly from your wrist and even set them as complications on your watch faces. This is another way of creating custom complications – in this case you can start shortcuts that you find useful.