On The Watch  | Week of 4/19/26 |
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In This Edition | | - Tips - Easily turn up your brightness ☀️
- Trivia - Test your Apple Watch knowledge 🧠
- Deep Dive - Discover the best faces for your watch ⌚
- Health Challenge Update - Join our April 2026 Challenge! 🏆
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🤓 It’s Trivia Time! | | Have you ever downloaded an app on your Apple Watch only for it to apparently disappear?. When this happens, where is the best place to look for the missing app? 🕵️ In the App Store
🕵️🕵️ On your Home Screen
🕵️🕵️🕵️ In your Settings app Did you get it right? Scroll down to find out! |
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🌊🤿 DEEP DIVE: My Favorite Apple Watch Faces | | My favorite way to customize my watch is by creating the perfect watch face. Every year, Apple comes out with new faces, including themed ones for Pride and Black History Month. Let me show you my favorite options from the current list, and we’ll go over who would benefit from a watch face like this. | |
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Infograph Watch Face for Complications
For years, I preferred a one-size-fits-all watch face that had all of the complications I might need throughout the day. Infograph is my favorite watch face for this purpose because it offers eight complications and places them on the screen in a clean, aesthetically pleasing way. Using this watch face, you can see the steps you've taken, the battery life on your watch and phone, the temperature, the time in a different time zone, your heart rate, and then some! If you love to keep track of everything all at once, try Infograph out. It took me a while to decide which complications suit me best. At one point, I had two versions of Infograph: one was work- and productivity-related with Timers, Notes app, Voice Memos app, etc. The other was health- and fitness-focused. | |
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Photos Watch Face for Feeling Warm & Fuzzy
At some point, I got overwhelmed with all my complications, and I decided that I didn't want to see any at all! There are lots of options for time-only watch faces, but my favorite is the Photos face. There are many ways to customize this face, like picking a specific photo, a selected few photos to cycle through, and even an entire album. I like to have my Pets album used for my watch face, and I opt to see a different photo every time I tap on the screen, but you can have it change every hour or day instead. My one complaint is that my watch will pick maybe 10 to cycle through during the day, but it won't pick a brand new photo every single time, despite my Pets album having ample pictures to pick from. | |
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Exactograph for the Perfect Timing
While I have never had a need for this personally, I've been frequently asked for the best watch face that shows seconds. Exactograph has some unique faces that show you every second that passes, making time-keeping a breeze! Personally, I find this watch face to be very intense, but I can see people who work as nurses benefiting from it. | | If you've ever wondered how some people take iPhone photographs that seem like works of art, iPhone Photography School is here to get you on the right track. Get 80% off their Capture It All course and learn every secret to iPhone photography in a few short hours. |
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Color for Fashion & Minimalism
If you like to be all matchy-matchy or super simple, the Color watch face shows just the time on a single-color background. I've used it to match whatever outfit I'm wearing. This watch face made me realize that you can have a simple black watch band and still have a colorful Apple Watch experience without spending the money or having to store a collection of bands. World Time for Travelers & Time Zone Trackers
If you need to keep track of multiple time zones, try World Time. This watch face is not for the faint of heart. It lets you pick between digital and analog time in the center while showing you the time in virtually every time zone. You can also add up to four complications! While I happen to track two time zones that are not my own at any given time, I find this watch face too much and prefer to use the Infograph watch face and set each time zone as a complication. Did I miss your favorite Apple Watch accessory? Email OntheWatch@iphonelife.com and let me know! | |
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🥇 CHECK YOUR TRIVIA ANSWER 🥇 | | 🕵️In the App Store While your Settings app will show which apps you have downloaded on your Watch, if an app has truly disappeared, it’s best to go to the App Store and re-download it. It’s unfortunately easy to accidentally delete an app from your Apple Watch… one wrong swipe will do it! |
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👟💪 iPhone Life Health 👟 Challenge Update | | You can still join the April Challenge! In fact, if you join now, you can still get credit for all the activity you’ve done—as long as you’ve worn your Apple Watch during this time! The monthly iPhone Life Challenge is a great way to come together as a community and motivate each other to reach our health goals by staying active. We’ll be doing a weekly accountability post for subscribers in our Insider Facebook group. Join to share struggles, trade tips, and support one another on our journeys. To join the challenge, download the free Challenges app on your iPhone and enter the code 2F3U when prompted. Need help? This article explains the steps and tells you more about the app. Are you enjoying the challenge? Do you have any suggestions for how we can make it even better? Email OnTheWatch@iPhoneLife.com and let me know. |
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