Setting your Apple Watch to display a digital clock is straightforward and involves selecting a digital watch face from the available options using your paired iPhone.
Steps to Set a Digital Watch Face
To change your Apple Watch display to a digital clock, you will primarily use the Watch app on your iPhone. Here's how:
- Open the Watch App: On your paired iPhone, find and open the Watch app. This app manages all settings and customizations for your Apple Watch.
- Go to Face Gallery: Within the Watch app, navigate to the Face Gallery tab. This section contains a wide variety of watch faces you can add to your collection.
- Choose a Digital Face: Browse through the available watch faces in the Face Gallery. Look for faces that display the time using numbers (digital format) rather than hands (analog format). Popular digital faces include:
- Modular
- Utility (can be configured digitally)
- Activity Analog (can be configured digitally)
- Numerals Duo
- X-Large
- Customize and Add: Once you've found a digital face you like, tap on it. You can often customize aspects like colors, complications (small widgets that show information like weather, activity, etc.), and style. After customizing, tap the Add button.
- Load to the Watch: Adding the face in the Face Gallery automatically adds it to your collection of faces available on your Apple Watch. It may also automatically set it as your current watch face, depending on your settings.
As referenced, you simply "On your iPhone, open the Watch app and go to Face Gallery. Pick a digital face and load it to the watch."
Changing Faces Directly on Your Apple Watch
Once you have added digital faces to your collection using the iPhone Watch app, you can quickly switch between them directly on your Apple Watch:
- From your current watch face, swipe horizontally across the screen. Your added watch faces will appear, and you can stop on the digital face you want to use.
This method allows for quick changes without needing to access your iPhone every time you want to switch watch faces.
By following these steps, you can easily set your Apple Watch display to a digital clock format, choosing from various styles available in the Face Gallery.
