One of the best things about owning an Apple Watch is the ability to customize your own watch face with different colors and photos. You can share these designs with friends or family. Here's how.
How to share your Apple Watch Face
The best way to share your Apple Watch is by using the Watch app on your iPhone. Note that you must have iOS 14 or later installed on your iPhone and WatchOS 7 or later installed on your watch for this to work.
Launch the Watch app on your iPhone and tap on the watch face you want to share. Now tap on the “Share” button in the top right corner of the screen to see a list of places you can share it to. These include the following: AirDrop , Messages, Mail, third-party chat services like WhatsApp , note-taking apps, and cloud storage services .
When you export a Watch face, your iPhone sends a file with the .watchface extension to the destination of your choice. This allows you to share your Watch face with almost any service that allows file uploads or sending , making it easy to share your face with others. A .watchface file is about 400kb in size.
You can also share your watch face directly from your Apple Watch. To do this, press and hold your Watch face until you see its name at the top of the screen and an “Edit” button below it. Tap the “Share” button in the bottom-left corner of the screen.
This will open a new message conversation. You can add a contact and a message, then tap “Send” to share your Watch face. There is no way to send your Watch face to other apps using this method.
Download and remove a Watch Face
When you send a Watch face via Messages, the recipient will see a preview of the face in the chat window. If you share a link to a file, this will not work the same. When the link is clicked, the Watch app will open and show a detailed preview of the face.
The recipient can then tap “Add to My Faces” to add the face to device . The face can then be selected on the Apple Watch by either swiping left and right or by long-pressing the face until its name appears and then scrolling through the list of available faces.
Faces can be removed through the Watch app using the “Edit” button or by pressing and holding the Apple Watch face and then “swiping” the face upwards.
Sending a Watch face to someone else will not affect their current list of faces, even if they already have a Watch face that uses a similar design (for example, Infograph). No personal information, such as calendar events, local weather conditions, or activity data, will be included in the face.
