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How to Customize Watch Face on Samsung Galaxy Watch 4

The Galaxy Watch 4 offers thousands of watch face options with extensive customization for colors, complications, and styles. Changing your watch face takes just a few taps.


Changing Watch Faces

Switch between installed watch faces directly on the watch.

  1. Long-press the current watch face for 2-3 seconds
  2. A carousel of available faces appears
  3. Swipe left or right to browse options
  4. Tap the face you want to apply it immediately

You can also browse and apply watch faces from the Galaxy Wearable app on your phone by tapping Watch faces and selecting Apply on your chosen design.


Customizing Your Watch Face

Most watch faces allow you to adjust colors, complications, and styles.

  1. Long-press the watch face to enter the carousel
  2. Tap the Customize button (gear icon) below your current face
  3. Swipe through customization screens for Style, Complications, Background, and more
  4. Tap any complication slot to change what data it displays
  5. Tap the checkmark when done to save your changes

Complication Options: Steps, heart rate, weather, battery level, calendar events, alarms, world clock, and shortcuts to specific apps.


Downloading New Watch Faces

Thousands of free and premium watch faces are available from multiple sources.

  • From Play Store on Watch: Open Play Store on your watch, search for watch faces, browse apps like Facer or WatchMaker with thousands of designs, and install and open the app to apply faces.

  • From Galaxy Store: Open Galaxy Store on your phone or watch, search for Galaxy Watch faces, browse Samsung-curated designs (many free, some $0.99-$2.99). Installed faces appear in your watch face carousel.


Battery-Friendly Watch Faces

Your watch face choice affects battery life.

  • Best for Battery: Simple designs with dark backgrounds, minimal complications (2-3), and no animations. AMOLED displays use less power showing black pixels.

  • Higher Battery Drain: Animated faces, video backgrounds, bright colors, and faces with many frequently-updating complications.


Photo Watch Faces

Use personal photos as your watch face background.

  1. Long-press the watch face and swipe to a Photo face option
  2. Tap Add photo or Customize
  3. Select a photo from your gallery
  4. Crop and position the image
  5. Add time display and complications as desired

Use high-contrast images with darker areas where the time will appear for best readability.


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