The Infograph face remains one of our favourites: you
can pack a lot of info into it without it feeling cluttered.50 | MACFORMAT | DECEMBER 2019 macformat.com @macformatCreate a custom Watch face
Get the look and the info you want most on your Apple Watch
IT WILL TAKE
5 minutesYOU WILL LEARN
How to customise
your Apple WatchYOU’LL NEED
watchOS 6 (or
iPhone optional)One of the best things about
Apple’s watchOS is that you’re
no longer stuck with the default
Apple Watch faces. You can now
change the colours, adjust their individual
styles and change what complications appear
on your preferred face.
Complications are little sections that do
something. For example, you might have a
Calendar complication that tells you what your
next appointment is, or a Shazam complicationthat opens the Shazam app, or a weather
complication telling you that you need to pack
an umbrella. Complications may be made by
Apple, or they may be provided by third-party
apps such as Fantastical, Dark Sky and so on.
To see what’s available, go into the Watch app
and tap on Complications. This enables you to
copy any third-party complications you’d like
to run to your Watch.Change of face
As we’ll discover, it’s very easy to create a
custom version of any watch face in watchOS- Some of the changes are really subtle, such
as changing the colour of the seconds hand;
others are more in-your-face (ahem), such as
the bright complications of the Infograph
face in multicolour mode.
Not every face can contain the same
things. Some enable you to use more
complications than others, and you’ll often
find that a complication that’s available for
Face X isn’t available for Face Y. That means
it’s worth experimenting with and tweaking
the many available faces to see which one
suits you best. Carrie Marshall
Genius tip!
You don’t have to stick
with the same face all
day: try having one for
work and another for
weekends. Swipe from
edge to edge to swap.APPLE SKILLS watchOS software