HOW TO Personalize your Apple Watch

1 Find your face

Press and hold your Apple Watch face and the Share and Edit buttons appear. Let’s find something more interesting. Swipe from the right of your Watch until you see the New icon. Tap it to see the available faces.

2 Style or substance?

Some watch faces, such as Contour, are more about style — but the Modular faces are designed to be packed with lots of handy information. Simply tap the Add button to add it to your Watch.

3 Choose a background

Certain faces give you a choice of a black or colored background. To move between them, turn the Digital Crown and you’ll see the background change on screen. Don’t worry about colors: that’s our next step.

4 Pick your colors

Swipe from the right and you should now see the Colors screen. Options vary from face to face, and in the case of Modular there are some subtle, pastel and almost monochrome versions as well as the more colorful.

5 The complications

Swipe from the right again and you’ll see the available complications slots. Some are very limited — the slot currently showing the date can only show that — but most have a huge selection of different complications.

6 Your personal taste

With Modular you can have one big complication in the middle — we’ve picked the rain forecast from the Weather complication — and four icon–only ones. We’ve picked alarms, timer, analog time and temperature.

7 Change the app view

You may find the App View pretty but also hard to navigate because of its tiny icons, and you can change it in Settings > App View. Choosing the List View replaces the grid with a scrolling list in alphabetical order.

8 Adjust notifications

In Settings > Notifications you can make your notifications more or less prominent — for example by disabling the red dot indicator or by getting Siri to read out new notifications when using headphones.

9 Tweak the haptics

You can change the vibrations by going to Settings > Sounds & Haptics. You can make vibrations stronger and enable or disable vibration when you use the Digital Crown. You can also adjust the volume of audio alerts.