Many users customize their Apple Watch faces based on the types of activity they perform or their personal preferences. Show Therefore it can be annoying to find that your Apple Watch faces are missing from your phone, and you have limited ability to edit them on your Apple Watch. Related reading:
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Is your Apple watch missing one, some, or all watch faces?First, if you are missing one or just a few watch faces, remember that not all watch faces are compatible with all watch models. Like the popular Pride watch face, many require a Series 4 and higher. And some work only with the latest watch model. Check out this Apple guide on watch face support by model. If you are missing supported watch faces or not seeing any at all, read on! Users who report this problem note that it’s just not a single watch face that appears to have vanished, but the entire set of loaded watch faces goes missing. The section under ‘My Faces’ simply appears to be empty. Are you suddenly experiencing this problem with your Apple Watch? Try these steps and check if it fixes your problem. How to recover missing Apple Watch Faces from your deviceBefore troubleshooting, ensure your devices run the latest software versions and update them if available. Once checked, power off and on (restart) both your Apple Watch and paired iPhone. See if that’s all that you need. Restore your preferred watch face by adding it again!Sometimes, the watch face didn’t load correctly when you originally installed it. So removing that watch and then re-adding it from the Watch’s Face Library often fixes your missing watch face! How to remove a watch face from your Apple Watch and add it back
If those steps don’t help, we recommend unpairing and re-pairing your watch again and restoring from the backup that Apple just created when unpairing. This process does not result in ANY loss of your watch’s data. Instead, unpairing and re-pairing with a backup deletes all the watch’s temporary and possibly corrupted files and re-indexes the watch’s file system. If the unpairing/re-pairing steps don’t work, follow the troubleshooting steps listed below (in exact order)
Once your Watch faces are available, you can test them out by trying to create a new version of the face by customizing
You can also change your watch face using the Watch app on your paired iPhone. Once you have saved your changes, you can restart your Apple Watch and iPhone to ensure that the newly customized watch face is available on both devices. How do I get rid of the Apple Watch face?How to delete a watch face from your Apple Watch. Go to your current watch face, then touch and hold the display. Swipe left or right to the watch face that you want to remove. Swipe up and tap Remove.
How do I get my Apple Watch back to normal face?Return to the clock face. Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch.. Go to General > Return to Clock, then scroll down and choose when you want your Apple Watch to return to the clock face: Always, After 2 minutes, or After 1 hour.. You can also return to the clock face by pressing the Digital Crown.. |