{
  "id": 88808,
  "title": "How to change and customize your Apple Watch face",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/how-to-change-and-customize-your-apple-watch-face",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-03T13:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Engadget",
    "slug": "engadget",
    "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2226183/how-to-change-customize-apple-watch-face/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The Apple Watch is a versatile and stylish device, capable of much more than simply displaying the time. With its myriad features and customization options, the watch can be tailored to suit individual preferences and needs. One such aspect of personalization is the watch face, which can be changed and customized to reflect one's aesthetic tastes. Apple offers a vast array of watch faces, ranging from those created by major brands like Nike and Disney to user-created designs with millions of unique combinations. Users can access these faces through the Watch app on their iPhone, which serves as a gateway to the watch's advanced features and customization tools. To personalize their watch face, users can browse the Face Gallery, which includes categories such as Health & Fitness, Photos, and Data Rich. By selecting the 'See All Watch Faces' option, users can explore Apple's entire collection of watch faces, including specialized wallpapers from various sources. Once a desired face has been selected, users can add it to their watch's Face collection by tapping 'Get' and following the on-screen prompts. For a more personal touch, users can also add their own photos to the watch's gallery. This can be done by visiting the Watch app on their iPhone, tapping Face Gallery, and then choosing to shuffle featured photographs, specific people in their camera roll, or a particular album in the Photos app. Users can further customize their watch face by adding complications, which are advanced widgets that display additional information such as calendars, compasses, map directions, tide swells, air quality conditions, and moon phases. These complications can be added within the Watch app or directly through the Apple Watch interface, and users can access the full roster of available complications by visiting Apple's complications section on its support page. To remove a face from the collection, users can press and hold the current watch face, swipe until they find the desired face, and swipe up before tapping the red 'Remove' icon. Alternatively, this process can be accomplished within the Watch app by tapping 'My Watch', selecting the 'Edit' button in the 'My Faces' tab, and clicking the red icon next to the face they wish to remove.",
  "summary": "Your Apple Watch has lots of options that will allow you to make it your own.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}