watchOS 26 offers ways to discover and share combinations to completely configure the watch face on your Apple Watch to your needs. Let’s look at how.
From your Apple Watch:
- Press and hold the display on your current watch face.
- Tap the Share button (the square with an arrow pointing up).
- Tap Add Contact to choose someone from your recent contacts or favorites, or dictate their name.
- Choose a suggested message or dictate your own, then tap Send.
From your iPhone:
- Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone.
- Select a face from your My Watch collection or the Face Gallery.
- Tap the Share icon in the upper-right corner and choose Messages, Mail, or another sharing option.
How to Receive and Add a Watch Face
When someone shares a watch face with you, it arrives as a .watchface file or an inline link in a message, email, or Airdrop.
Tap or click the shared watch face link in Messages or Mail.
- A preview of the configured watch face will open.
- Tap Add or Add to My Faces.
- It will immediately be saved to your watch collection and set as your active watch face.
