Apple Watch Faces: How to Configure Them

The Apple Watch is a device that can be really useful in people’s daily lives, and this is largely the fault of the number and variety of dials with which you can customize your Apple Watch. From some minimalist where you can only know the time, to others in which you will be able to include the weather information, your activity, the date and much more data that you will have at your wrist. Therefore, in this post we want to help you be able to get the most out of the spheres of your Apple Watch.

What are the Apple Watch Faces?

The spheres on the Apple Watch are the different interfaces that you can configure and customize on the Apple Watch, it is exactly what the watch shows you whenever you look at it. Just as in a conventional watch when you look at it you can check the time and date you are in, the Apple Watch can be configured to show much more information each time you look at it, such as the amount of calories you have. burned up to that time of day, the temperature right at that time, a shortcut to the music app, and a whole host of other data that you can have displayed on the screen of your smartwatch.

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Types of spheres

As we mentioned before, the amount and variety of spheres that exist in the Apple Watch is enormous, below we show you the list with all the names of all the spheres that you have available in the latest version of watchOS.

  • Activity
  • Artist
  • Astronomy
  • Kaleidoscope
  • California
  • Color
  • Counter
  • Chronograph
  • Chronograph Pro
  • Degraded
  • Photos
  • Stripes
  • Fire and water
  • GMT
  • Infogram
  • Modular infogram
  • Memoji
  • Meridian
  • Liquid metal
  • Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse
  • Modular
  • Compact modular
  • Movement
  • Numbers
  • Duo numbers
  • Monkey numbers
  • Pride
  • To breathe
  • Simple
  • Siri
  • Solar
  • Time-lapse
  • Typography
  • Toy story
  • Unit
  • Utilities
  • Steam
  • XL

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In addition, there are different ways of viewing each of these spheres that give you an even greater level of customization, that is, in the end, within each type of sphere, there are different types of sphere, something that has made users can perfectly adapt both the information and the aesthetics of their device to the needs of each of them.

Depending on the model of Apple Watch you have, some dials will be noticeably different as they adapt to the screen size, so those models like the Apple Watch Series 3 and earlier, the dials are adapted to sizes 38 and 42 mm, and on the other hand, the Apple Watch Series 4 and later, its dials are adapted to the sizes of 40 and 44mm. Depending on the type of sphere, the aesthetics will vary more or less from one model to another.

Exclusive spheres

Apart from the spheres that we have mentioned in the previous point, there are some that are exclusive to various models. First of all we will talk about the Apple Watch Nike Edition model, which has up to 4 different types, they are the following.

  • Nike Compact
  • Hybrid nike
  • Analog nike
  • Nike digital

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In the same way that happens with the rest of the spheres, within each of these types there are different ways to adapt and personalize the sphere, changing its color, the way of displaying the time and many other parameters that you can adapt to your taste Another model that has exclusive dials, in this case much less customizable, is the Hermès model, a truly exclusive Apple Watch due to the price it has, but which has very elegant dials that will make your Apple Watch look very stylish.

Configure and customize your Apple Watch to your liking

Choose a model

The first step to get your completely customizable sphere is that you choose one of all the types of spheres that we have discussed previously. You can create as many spheres as you want of the same or different type, so do not worry when selecting one, when you finish configuring this, you can reconfigure another and so as many times as you want.

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Choose your style

Once you have chosen the type of sphere you want to configure, it is time to select its style. Depending on the type of sphere you have chosen, you will have more or fewer styles available to apply to your sphere. Choose the one that you like the most or meets your needs.

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Select the most useful complications

This is the key step to get the face of your Apple Watch to give you what you are looking for every time you look at the watch. Depending on the model that you have previously chosen, you will have the opportunity to enjoy more or less complications, which are neither more nor less than the data that you can see on the watch, such as the temperature of a certain place or the calories that you have burned up to that point. The number of complications available will also vary depending on the applications you have installed on your Apple Watch.

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Add it to the “My spheres” tab

Once you have chosen your sphere, with the style that you liked the most and you have added the complements that give you the required information every time you look at your Apple Watch, the last step is to add that sphere to “My Spheres”, to do so once You have finished the selection of complications, you just have to click on the ADD button that is displayed just below the name of the sphere.

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As we mentioned, this process can be carried out as many times as you want without any type of limit. The more dials you configure, the more possibilities you will have to adapt your Apple Watch to the needs you may have during the day or during the week.

You can share your favorites

One feature that many users have long asked for is the ability to share watch faces with other Apple Watch users. This feature has become a reality as of watchOS 7, therefore not all Apple Watch supports this feature. Below you have the list of models that were compatible with watchOS 7 and therefore can use this functionality:

  • Apple Watch Series 3
  • Apple Watch Series 4
  • Apple Watch Series 5
  • Apple Watch Series 6
  • Apple Watch SE

If you have one of these Apple Watch, you can both share spheres and have them shared with you. However, there are some limitations, and that is that if the sphere that you share or are shared with contains some complication of an app that the recipient does not have installed, they will have to install the application to enjoy this complication. In addition, the exclusive dials of the Nike and Hermès model cannot be shared.

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The process to share a sphere is really simple, you just have to follow the steps that we show you below.

  1. Position yourself in the sphere you want to share from your Apple Watch.
  2. Make a long press on the screen.
  3. Click on the share button to the left of “Edit”.
  4. Click on “Add a contact” and select the person you want to send the sphere.
  5. Write a message if you wish to accompany the sphere.
  6. Scroll down and click on “Send”.

Apps to download spheres

If the amount and variety of spheres that you have available natively are not enough for you, you can always resort to applications that offer more spheres and that open the range even more in order to take the customization of your Apple Watch to the maximum. Here are some of the most popular applications and through which you can download different spheres.

Developer: PubiLand
Developer: Apposter.Inc.

So you can make your dial change at a certain time

Finally, we want to tell you how you can make the face of your Apple Watch change automatically at a certain time to another that you have chosen. The process is very simple and you will need to have the Shortcuts application installed on your iPhone. To get it you just have to follow the following steps.

  1. Open the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.
  2. Go to the Automation tab.
  3. Click the “+” icon at the top right of the screen.
  4. Select Create personal automation
  5. Click Time of day and select the time you want your Apple Watch to change faces. You will also have to select if you want this automation to take place every day, only some days of the week or only some specific days of the month. When you’re done, click Next.
  6. Click on Add action, put in the search engine, “Apple Watch” and select Define sphere.
  7. Click on the word “Sphere” and select the one you want to set at the scheduled time.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Uncheck the “Request confirmation” option and click OK.

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In this simple way you can make the face of your Apple Watch change automatically whenever you want. This can help you to adopt a certain sphere depending on the time of day or day of the week and which is very useful if you usually change your sphere manually for it.