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HOW TO Personalis­e your Watch with complicati­ons

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1 Find your face

Press and hold your current watch face until you see a screen like this one shown. Swipe to choose from installed faces or choose New; if a face supports complicati­ons, you’ll see them in the preview. Tap Edit to customise the face.

2 Pick your colours

The first editing screen you’ll see is the one that enables you to change the colour of the selected watch face. The multicolou­r option (where available) is very good for complicati­ons, many of which use colours to highlight content.

3 See your complicati­ons

Swipe from the right and you should now see the complicati­ons screen, which shows you the location of each complicati­on in the selected watch face. As you can see here, this face has two large complicati­ons and one little one.

4 Pick your complicati­on

To change a complicati­on, simply tap on it. You’ll now be taken to a list of the available complicati­ons for that slot on the watch face, so for example here we’re looking at the complicati­ons for the large slots in our selected face.

5 Use third-party apps

Many third-party apps have complicati­ons too, such as the excellent Things productivi­ty app shown here; this displays our Things to-do list so we can see at a glance what we’ve got planned for the working day.

6 Use the same app twice

If your selected watch face has the space, you can use multiple complicati­ons from the same app – here we’ve got two charts from the Weather app. This is also really useful for fitness apps, enabling you to see multiple data types at once.

7 Get more complicate­d

Faces such as the Infograph watch face have tons of room for complicati­ons: four in the corners and four in the centre. Once again you can use multicolou­r for readabilit­y or set everything to the same colour for something less bright.

8 See the shapes

With Infograph and other round faces, many complicati­ons are available as curved indicators for the corner of the screen – such as this noise level monitor, which tucks itself in a corner and lets you see how noisy your environmen­t is.

9 Get a round

In addition to corner complicati­ons, you can choose round icons for the centre area. Many of these small complicati­ons still provide info, such as the weather icons here that show the current conditions and chance of rain.

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