Change the watch face, background, and other settings on Pixel Watch

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How to Customize your Google Pixel Watch

Customize your watch face and background

Select a pre-designed watch face or create a watch face to personalize your Pixel Watch. In addition to the color and layout, you can choose widgets called complications to add to your watch face gallery. Add complications if you want to display information beyond the time, like weather or step count, on the watch face.

What do you need?

To proceed, make sure you have the latest version of the Google Pixel Watch app installed on your smartphone, along with the most up-to-date version of the Google Photos app on both your phone and smartwatch.

Select a new watch face

Press and hold the dial app installed on your smartphone, along with the most up-to-date version of the Google Photos app on both your phone.
Swipe left and choose a new watch face.
Tap the watch face you want from the list, or Edit to change its colors and complications first.

Select a personal photo for a watch face

If you select the Photos watch face, you can add 30 photos from your personal photo album to use as your watch face.

Add photos to your watch face

Set a photo watch face from your phone:

Open the Google Pixel Watch app on your phone .
Tap Watch faces Add new .
Tap Photos Choose a watch face in the Photos app.

Tip: If you can't find it, update all your watch apps and try again. Learn how to update apps on your watch.
Select up to 30 photos.
At the top, tap Add, then Save.

Set a photo watch face from your watch:

Press and hold your watch face.
Swipe left Tap Add new Photos Edit .
On your watch, open the Google Photos app when prompted, tap Google Photos.
Tip: If you can't find it, update all your watch apps and try again. Learn how to update apps on your watch.
On your phone, select the photos you want to add, then tap Add.

Personalize your watch face

Press and hold your watch face.
To personalize the color and layout, tap Edit .
Swipe left to scroll through the styles and complication layouts.

Set up and add screen tiles

Tiles act as shortcuts to access your favorite features or actions.

On your Google Pixel Watch, swipe to any tile, then press and hold the tile.
Tap Add .
Swipe up to go through the tiles and tap the one you would like to add.

Remove screen tiles

On your Google Pixel Watch, swipe to any tile, then press and hold the tile.
Swipe left or right to navigate to the tile you want to delete.
Swipe up to delete the tile.

Change audio, screen, and brightness settings

To change most settings on Google Pixel Watch:

Tap the watch face if your screen is dim.
Swipe down from the top of the screen.
Tap Settings .
From here, you can:
- Lock your watch screen
- Tap Sound to turn the volume up or down
- Tap Vibration to turn vibrations on or off
- Tap Display to adjust brightness, font size, and more

Note: For changing alarms and notification sounds and settings, refer to Set alarms and manage notifications on Google Pixel Watch.

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