Switch views on Apple Watch

Watch faces aren't the only way you can customise your Apple Watch

- Carrie Marshall

IT WILL TAKE  10 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN  How to customise your Apple Watch

YOU’LL NEED  An Apple Watch with watchOS 6 or later

Genius tip!

Use your iPhone’s Shortcuts app to create custom automations for your Apple Watch. We use Shortcuts to change our Watch face at specific times.

Watches are among the most personal devices we own, and that means every Apple Watch owner will want something a little different. watchOS’s Watch faces and Complications enable you to create all kinds of great combinations, with Apple’s own designs supplemented by Complications from Apple and third-party apps, but that’s not all you can customise. You can also change the way your Apple Watch displays your apps, how it responds to your movements and what it does when you’re no longer interacting with an app.

Here, you’ll discover how to change the layout of your App View and how to swap the Grid View for an easier-to-read List View. You’ll also discover how to change the Dock for easy access to your most important apps, how to make your Apple Watch display easier to read and even how to change how it wakes up.

Not just a pretty face

We’ve also included some Accessibility features, which you can also use to change the way your Watch looks and works. If you have vision or mobility issues there’s even more to discover in Settings > Accessibility than we’ve covered here.