How to Automatically Change Your Apple Watch Face Based on Time or Location

This article is for you if you find yourself frequently looking at a different watch face on your Apple Watch. Thanks to the power that Apple has built into its Shortcuts app, it is possible to change the face of your Apple Watch based on your location. Continue reading to learn how to do it.

One of the great things about the Apple Watch is the number of watch faces you can change, which allows you to make certain faces more useful or informative, and then use them when you need them. You can have a watch face filled with work-related problems when you go to the office. You could use a minimal watch face in the evening when you are winding down.

If you want to change the watch face on your Apple Watch without raising your wrist, then it is worth considering creating an automation that will do it for you. You can with the app.

The steps below show you how easy this particular automation is to set up. If you want your Apple Watch to change to another watch face after a certain time, you will need to set up a second, separate automation for this to happen.

If you want the watch face to only be active when you are at a particular location and then reverting when you leave, then a second automation is required.

How to Automatically Change Your Apple Watch Face At a Certain Time

1. Launch the Shortcuts app on your iPhone.
2. Tap the Automation tab at the bottom of the screen.
3. Tap Create Personal Automation.
4. Select Time of Day.
5. Choose Sunrise or Sunset (after which you'll be given the option to define a specific time around these solar events), or specify any time with Time of Day. (Note the Repeat options include Daily, Weekly, and Monthly.) Then tap Next.

   

6. Tap Add Action, then use the search field to look up "Watch."
7. Select Set Watch Face from the results list of watch actions.
8. On the Actions screen, immediately below "Set active watch face to," tap the word Face in blue.
9. Choose the watch face you'd like to change to at the specified time. Note the list here uses Apple's official names for its watch faces, so you may see some duplicates. That's because the list corresponds to the current watch faces arranged on your watch, with the top watch face in the list being the one you see when you've swiped to the first (leftmost) face on your Apple Watch.

   

10. Tap Next when the Actions screen reappears, then toggle off the switch next to Ask Before Running and confirm by tapping Don't Ask at the prompt.
11. Tap Done to finish.

    

You should see the automation on the screen. Your watch face should change at the time you set it.

How to Automatically Change Your Apple Watch Face Based on Location

1. Launch the Shortcuts app on your ‌iPhone‌.
2. Tap the Automation tab at the bottom of the screen.
3. Tap Create Personal Automation.
4. Select Arrive or Leave, depending on when you want the watch face to change.
5. Choose the Location, and select it either by searching or entering the address, then tap Next.

   

6. Tap Add Action, then use the search field to look up "Watch."
7. Select Set Watch Face from the results list of watch actions.
8. On the Actions screen, immediately below "Set active watch face to," tap the word Face in blue.
9. Choose the watch face you'd like to change to when arriving at or leaving the specified location. Note the list here uses Apple's official names for its watch faces, so you may see some duplicates. That's because the list corresponds to the current watch faces arranged on your watch, with the top watch face in the list being the one you see when you've swiped to the first (leftmost) face on your Apple Watch.

   

10. Tap Next when the Actions screen reappears.
11. Tap Done on the last screen to finish.

    

You should see the automation on the screen. Your watch face should change when you leave or arrive at the location you chose.

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