No matter your needs, you’ll find different Apple Watch faces that can help you during an average workday.
During the Sept. 7, 2022, Far Out event, Apple presented the new watchOS 9, the Apple Watch Series 8, the new Apple Watch SE and the Apple Watch Ultra. The latest products, OS and redesigns introduce new and more customizable watch faces like Lunar and Metropolitan.
It’s no secret that Apple Watch owners can see time in many different ways choosing from a wide range of faces. Even after selecting the face, each can be highly customized, changing styles and colors as well as adding features that the company from Cupertino calls “complications.”
Some watch faces are out to make a personal statement. Others are tuned in for health and maximizing sports performance, while others are strictly designed for work. Changing face watches once in your collection is as easy as a tap and a swipe.
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To help with your business tasks and related activities, an Apple Watch face that delivers helpful information at a glance can be an asset. If you just need the time and no other distractions, you can choose a simple face such as California, Simple, Typograph or Numerals. On the other hand, if you deal with people and projects worldwide, the GMT and World Time faces display the time in different zones.
The new watchOS 9 not only brought a redesigned Compass app and new health features. Apple Watch users now have more watch faces to choose from, with richer complications that provide more information and opportunity for personalization.
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You can add new faces to your Apple Watch through your iPhone or using your watch. To add faces using your phone, open the Watch app on your iPhone, then tap the icon at the bottom: Face Gallery. The face gallery will show you all the latest Apple Watch faces, as well as those Apple has unveiled in the past.
Swipe down and across the gallery and tap a face you like. Each face can be customized, and you can add extra information displays like data, weather, time zones, heart rate, mail and voice memos, among many others. You can even add complications from third-party apps. Once you are done, tap the Add button to add it to your Apple Watch. The face you added will appear in the My Faces list in the Watch app and on your Apple Watch (Figure A).
Figure A
To add faces using your Apple Watch, swipe edge to edge across the watch face to see other faces in your collection. To see all available watch faces, touch and hold the watch face, swipe to the one you want, then tap to select it.
You can also customize a face directly from the watch. To do this, press down on the face until it shrinks in size and an Edit button appears. Tap the Edit button and turn the Digital Crown to choose a different color or style. Swipe the face to the left to see the Complications screen. Tap a specific complication and turn the Digital Crown to change it (Figure B).
Figure B
To add complications to a face using your watch, first touch and hold the display, then tap Edit. Swipe left all the way to the end — the different available complications will show up on the last screen. Tap a complication to select it. To choose more complications, turn the Digital Crown and find a new one.
Once you are finished, press the Digital Crown to save your changes, then tap the face to switch to it. The entire process is very intuitive; once you have done it, adding complications comes easy. You can also add saved faces to your collection to access them easily.
