How to share and receive Apple Watch faces in watchOS 7

watchOS 7 offers new ways to discover and share combinations to completely configure the watch face on your Apple Watch to your needs. Customizable and personalized faces, inclusive of complications, can be shared through Messages or Mail, and discovered through the App Store or even from links through websites and social media channels.

To share a watch face:

On your Apple Watch, show the watch face you want to share.

Touch and hold the display, then tap the share icon (a rectange with an upwards facing arrow).

Tap Add Contact to add a recipient, then tap Create Message to compose your message.

Tap the name of the watch face, then tap “Don’t include” for any complications that you don’t want to share.

Tap Send.

You can receive a watch face sent to you in Messages or Mail, or by clicking a link online. Here’s how:

Open a text, email, or link that contains a shared watch face.

Tap the shared watch face, then tap Add.

If you receive a watch face with a complication from a third-party app, tap the price of the app or Get to download the app from the App Store. You can also tap Continue Without This App to get the watch face without the third-party complication.

watchOS 7 also offers updates to faces for more personalization and greater access to favorite apps. The Chronograph Pro includes a tachymeter to calculate speed based on time traveled over a fixed distance, the Photos face offers color filters, while the bold X-Large face now has an option to add a rich complication.

Finally, developers now have the ability to offer more than one complication per app on a single watch face. For example, on one watch face, Glow Baby can display multiple complications that help new parents track bottle-feeding, breastfeeding, pumping statistics, and nap times, while Dawn Patrol can show surfers tide, wind speed, and water temperature from a favorite surf spot.