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If you find yourself regularly swiping to a different watch face on your Apple Watch depending on what you’re doing or where you are, this article is for you. Because thanks to the power that Apple has built into its Shortcuts app, it’s possible to make the watch face on your Apple Watch automatically change based on the time of day or your location. Keep reading to learn how.
One of the great things about the Apple Watch is the number of watch faces you can customize, which allows you to make certain faces more informative or more functional for different purposes, and then swipe to them when you need them. When you go to the office, for example, you can have a watch face filled with work-focused complications. Or you might swipe to a minimal watch face in the evening when you’re winding down before bed.
If you tend to set up different watch faces in such a way, then it’s worth considering creating an automation in iOS that can change the watch face on your Apple Watch for you when you need it, without you having to even raise your wrist. With the Shortcuts app, you can.
If you’ve never created a shortcut before, don’t worry – the steps below show you how easy this particular automation is to set up. The only thing to bear in mind is that if you want your Apple Watch to change to another watch face after a certain time (when your working day is at an end, for example) then you’ll need to set up a second, separate automation for this to happen.
Likewise, if you want the watch face to only be active when you’re at a particular location and then revert when you leave, then unless you want to dig deeper into the complex world of Shortcuts, a second automation is required.
How to Automatically Change Your Apple Watch Face At a Certain Time
- Launch the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.
- Tap the Automation tab at the bottom of the screen.
- Tap Create Personal Automation.
- Select Time of Day.
- Choose Sunrise or Sunset (after which you’ll be given the option to define a specific time around these s
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