How to add a watch face on Apple Watch

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Apple Watch with new watch face

A new Apple Watch comes preloaded with a couple of watch faces. Plus there's a large collection of additional watch faces, ranging from elegant to totally fun. Here's how to add a new watch face on Apple Watch.

Apple Watch users using the Series 4 or newer and run watchOS 7 or a higher version have access to a large number of different watch faces, all of which can be customized with different styles, colors and complications.

Do you love complications? Add the Infograph watch face, with support for eight different complications. All about the style? Try the beautiful California dial or typography. If you like to keep things digital, You can't go wrong with Infograph Modular.

Different watch faces for Apple Watch

Y, of course, the funniest of all is the animated Memoji clock face.

RELATED: How to create and use Memoji on Apple Watch

In this guide, We will talk about how to add a new watch face to Apple Watch directly from the wearable device, as well as how to use the application “Watch” on the iPhone.

How to add a new watch face to Apple Watch

The procedure of adding a new watch face (and switch between the watch faces) It's very simple. If you wish, You can have a dozen different watch faces and switch between them by sliding your finger from the left or right edge of the screen.

To start, go to an existing watch face on the Apple Watch and long press the screen. Then, you will see the watch face edit interface.

Swipe all the way to the right (you can also use Digital Crown) until you get to the page “New”. Here, touch the button “+”.

How to add a new watch face to Apple Watch

You will now see a list of all available watch faces. Swipe up to see more watch faces or scroll with Digital Crown.

Once you find a watch face that you want to try, just tap the preview.

Toca The Watch Face para agregarlo a Apple Watch

Instantly, the watch face will be added to your collection page.

Typograph watch face on the Apple Watch

And that is. Your new watch face is ready for you to enjoy.

How to Add a New Apple Watch Face Using iPhone

If you don't like using your Apple Watch's small screen to add watch faces, do not worry. You can use the dedicated Face Gallery section in the app “Watch” for iphone.

New watch faces for Apple Watch

First, open the app “Watch” on your iPhone and go to the tab “Face Gallery”.

Select the Face Gallery tab of the Watch app

Then, you will see new watch faces at the top and a list of all available watch faces. The good thing is that Face Gallery shows variations of the same watch face with different colors and complications.

Browse and select a setting you like. Touch a watch face to see more details.

Select a watch face from the face gallery

Here, can customize color, the dial and other design attributes.

Customize the watch face

Once you are ready, touch the button “Add”. You will see an animation that takes the watch face and adds it to the tab “My watch”.

Tap Add to add a watch face

When I go to the tab “My watch”, you will find the new watch face at the end of the section “My faces”.

New watch face on the My Faces tab in the Watch app

And when I lift my wrist, you will find the new watch face set as your new default option.

California watch face on Apple Watch


Although the default complications are excellent, Apple doesn't provide a nice date and time complication, especially for analog watch faces like Infograph face. Then, We show you how you can create your own date and time complications on Apple Watch.

RELATED: How to Create Date and Time Complications for Apple Watch

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