Master complications

Complications in watchOS 9 make your Apple Watch even more 'you'

- Carrie Marshall

IT WILL TAKE

10 minutes

YOU WILL LEARN

How to personalise your Apple Watch

YOU’LL NEED

Apple Watch S4 or later, watchOS 9

One of our favourite things about watchOS 9 is that you can make customise the way your Apple Watch looks. In addition to four new watch faces – Lunar, Metropolitan, Playtime and the redesigned Astronomy – there are also big improvements to the complications you can use and where you can use them. Complications are little bits of apps – Apple ones and some third-party apps too – that live on your watch face, for example, to show you the weather forecast, what’s next on your Calendar or how close you are to closing your Activity rings.

In many cases, you can choose from multiple options, such as what weather information a complication displays, and you can often choose different shapes for different bits of your watch face. Sticking with the weather complication, for example, you can have it as a round icon or a rounded corner that displays more information.

The new faces in watchOS 9 are fun, but old favourites such as the Modular faces have been updated too.