The watchOS 7 added a feature to your Apple Watch that allows you to customize your watch face with many options. You can share your personalized watch faces with anyone. You can also share your watch faces and get shared faces online. Here’s a guide on how you can share these watch faces and get shared faces online.
How to share a watch face from your Apple Watch
- Make sure that the watch face that you want to share is showing on your Apple Watch.
- Touch and hold the display, then tap the Share button .
- Tap Add Contact, then select from the list of recipients. You can also use the buttons at the top of the screen to search for a contact using your voice, browse all your contacts, or type a phone number.
- Tap the name of the watch face, then specify for each complication whether you want to include the complication with or without data. You can also choose to exclude a complication when you share the watch face. The default is to share all complications with data, if available. Tap Done when you’re finished.
- Then tap Create Message if you want to add a note to the recipient. You can select a default message, or you can use the buttons at the top of the screen to add a message using voice dictation, Scribble, or emoji. Tap Done when you’re finished.
- Tap Send.
To share a watch face with a friend, make sure that you both have Apple Watch Series 3 or later, or Apple Watch SE, using watchOS 7 or later.
Share a watch face online
You can also share a watch face on your website, blog, or social media accounts. Follow these steps to email the watch face to yourself, upload the watch face file, and share the link:
- Open the Watch app on your iPhone, then select the watch face that you want to share.
- Tap the Share button, then choose Mail.
- Email the watch face to yourself.
- Open the email message that you receive and find the attachment that ends in “.watchface” at the bottom of the message.
- Touch and hold the .watchface file, then tap Share.
- Tap Save to Files, select a location, then tap Save.
- Open the Files app and find the .watchface file that you saved.
- Touch and hold the .watchface file, then tap Share.
- Tap Add People.
- Tap Share Options, then tap “Anyone with the link” if you want anyone to be able to download the watch face.
- Then tap the back arrow to go back. Swipe left on the sharing app icons, then tap Copy Link.
- Use the link that you copied to share the watch face online.
Alternatively, you can upload the watch face file to your own web server, or create a sharing link using a third-party app.
Get shared watch faces online
You can use watch faces that others share on websites or social media. Using your iPhone,
- Tap the shared watch face link
- An alert asks if you want to allow the download
- Tap Allow to download the watch face
- Open it in the Watch app.
- Then tap Add to My Faces.
If you tap a shared watch face link and you see a screen that shows the watch face name but doesn’t ask if you want to download it,
- Tap the Share button.
- Tap Watch to open it in the Watch app,
- Then tap Add to My Faces.
