The Easy Way to Change Your Smartwatch Watch Face width

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Even more than phones, smartwatches reflect our personal styles. The band and watch face that you choose are out on display for everyone to see. If you have a Samsung Galaxy watch, changing the watch face is a simple process.

How to Change Watch Faces

Changing the watch face on your Samsung Galaxy smartwatch is the easiest way to customize the look. First, wake the watch to turn the screen on. Make sure that you're looking at the watch face.

Next, tap and hold your finger down on the watch face until it zooms out.

You're now looking at the watch face selection screen. You can scroll to the right to see more watch faces to choose from. Simply tap one to select it.

Some watch faces will have a "Customize" button. This means that you can tweak some elements of the watch face. This is typically available for faces made by Samsung.

Make your customization choices and then tap "OK."

How to Download Watch Faces

To take the customization even further, you can download watch faces from the Galaxy Store. Open the Galaxy Wearable app on your iPhone or Android phone or tablet and go to the "Discover" tab.

At the top of the screen, tap the Galaxy Store icon to open the store.

Tap the three-line menu icon in the top-right corner.

Next, select "Watch Faces" from the menu.

You'll see a number of different categories to explore at the top of the screen. You can scroll down to browse the Top Watch Faces.

To install a watch face, select it and tap the "Install" button at the bottom of the screen. You'll have to purchase paid watch faces before being able to download them to your wearable.

Tap "Accept and Download" to proceed.

The watch face will download and install. When the installation is complete, you can tap "Apply" to set it as your current watch face.

That's it! Enjoy your new watch face. The great thing is that you can change up your look at any time.

Related: How to Connect a Samsung Galaxy Watch to a New Phone

Best Samsung Galaxy Watch faces: Free options and how to download

Samsung Galaxy Watch smartwatches have the ability to tap into tons of superb watch faces and help you personalize the look on your wrist.

Whether you own a Galaxy Watch 6, or the Watch 5/Watch 4, you can access watch faces via Googles Play Store.

Read on to find out how to find and download great watch faces, and a pick of our top choices for your wrist.

How to download Galaxy Watch faces

Unlike the Apple Watch, there are thousands of watch faces available to download for the Galaxy Watch. There are no restrictions, so anything goes.

While the Galaxy Watch comes pre-loaded with tons of watch faces, there are even more to choose from the Google Play Store and services such as Facer.

In true Wear OS style, the process is a little fiddly, and actually differs from depending on the watch face you choose. Read on for how to download faces.

1. Fire up Google Play

Head to the Google Play Store on your Android phone.

2. Find watch faces

The interface of Google Play is quite chaotic. On the apps tab choose Categories and then watch faces to find the full selection.

3. Find a watch face you like

Browse through the watch faces and tap anything that catches your eye.

4. Press Install

The watch face will then be installed. Wait a few seconds, and then press Open. Youll then get a preview of the watch face app on your smartphone, and there will be some permissions to agree to. After this, youll see a message that the watch face has been installed on your smartwatch. Usually, youll see this happen on the Galaxy Watch as well.

5. Find it on your Galaxy Watch

Now head to the Galaxy Watch. Press and hold the watch face and slide across to Add. Now scroll all the way down until you get to Downloads, which is usually last on the list. You will see your watch face there.

Best Galaxy Watch faces to download

Facer

The first one is a cheat as it doesnt come from the Google Play watch face store. Its an Android app in itself. Download the Facer app from the Google Play Store, and then select the Facer watch face from the library on your Galaxy Watch. In the smartphone app, you can browse watch faces, including some cheeky Rolex, Breitling, or Tag Heuer-inspired options.

Free to download | Google Play

Flower

Something a little floral, the Flower watch face is elegant and stylish more so than most of the options on the Google Play Store. It is free, but to use complications and other features, youll need to pay for the premium version (1.09).

Free | Google Play

Minimal and Simple

This one does what it says on the tin, with a bit of an 80s vibe. You still get some information on the watch face, with the date, heart rate and step count. You can customize the color, dial, and complications.

Free | Google Play

Willow

This has a very cool, 80s, Vice City kind of vibe, and we love the typography of the digital dial. You can make some basic changes to the text size, but by and large, what you see is what you get. Theres a premium tier, that enables you to add complications for $2.

Free | Google Play

Tancha S32

A very classic dial with Roman numerals around the face, the Tancha compliments the look of the Galaxy Watch Classic well.

Free | Google Play

X-Force

An action-packed face full of data and complications, theres not much spare room left on X-Force. Its one for people who like as much information as possible although you can turn elements off in the settings.

Free | Google Play

E-Look Watch Face

An animated option for Watch 5 / Watch 4 owners, this digital face fits in eight data fields, letting you see information like temperature, daily step count, and even phone and battery life along with the date and time.

It sounds like its squeezing a lot in, but it actually does a very good job of giving you lots of data to glance at and still looks very slick. It also offers an always-on display mode, too.

Free: Google Play

Pixel Minimal Watch Face

If you want to add more of a Pixel Watch feel to your Samsung smartwatch, this is currently one of the best faces to do it.

You can display simple details like the time, date, and temperature, with a premium mode letting you add additional widgets to show off data like real-time heart rate and battery status.

If you like a more uncluttered face look and something that screams Wear OS, this is the one for you.

Free (with in-app purchases): Google Play

G-Over Watch Face

Offering a mix of analog and digital looks, this is another watch face that will let you glance at the time on one side while also keeping a close eye on step counts and things like the weather.

You can adjust colors, there are eight data fields and it works with Wear OS widgets, too, to make it one of our current favorites.

Free: Google Play

Analog Watch Face

If you like your faces customizable, thats what this analog-style watch face promises.

You can stick to just showing off the time or add in custom complications, customize all parts of the watch face and it supports hidden complications when in ambient mode.

Free: Google Play

A/D Watchface

This is definitely one of the sleekest faces weve spotted in the Google Play Store and its a really good fit on Samsungs latest smartwatches.

It displays time in both digital and analog and hosts multiple complication spots that you can configure where they live on the face.

You can adjust the look of the watchs face color and the font style on the digital watch display.

It also works with background complications, and, while is best optimized for square devices, it worked fine on our round Galaxy Watch.

Free: Google Play

Forty-Five Color

If you love watch faces, Facer (linked below) is your best friend and its already got some pretty slick faces for Samsungs Wear OS smartwatch.

This Facer Premium option puts that time at a slant but still offers space to show off additional stats like step counts and heart rate data.

$1.99 / 1.99: Google Play

RUP-XC1

Another Facer Premium option, were big fans of its highly stylized look.

It puts the time and date at the front and center using a mix of gauges and complications to show off your additional smartwatch stats.

You can customize colors, choose whether to display time in 12/24 hour modes, and also select between metric and imperial measurements, too.

$1.99 / 1.99: Google Play

BA | Simply Info 4.0

It has Simply in the name, but its far from a simple watch face to look at.

It crams in a lot and it shouldnt work, but it still manages to make checking in on the weather, step counts, battery life, or checking the date nice and easy to do.

Youll need to have a Facer Premium subscription to grab it, but its one worth having in your watch face tray.

$1.99 / 1.99: Google Play

PD psychadelic girl

If you like your watch faces with a big splash of color, we think youre going to have a lot of time for this watch face.

Its a free digital face option from Facer that can show off battery status, daily step counts, and heart rate data.

You can change the time format but you cant change the colors, and the chosen shades are bright and brash in the best kind of way.

$1.99 / 1.99: Google Play

Kitchen Sink

Apart from loving the name of this face, this Facer freebie displays the time in analog and digital looks and shows off battery status, daily step count progress, the weather, and real-time heart rate data.

It works in both always-on and dim watch modes and is a data-rich option that, crucially, looks the part, too.

Free: Google Play

Best Galaxy Watch 3 & Watch Active 2 faces

AWF One

If youre yearning for that Samsung phone feel on your smartwatch, this is what this watch face is all about.

It pulls in those familiar app icons that offer shortcuts to your most used features and frees up ample room to show off the time and date, and also discreetly shows off the current battery status.

It wont sap that watch battery and theres even an ambient mode to revert to a simpler watch face look, too.

KRT Modular

A watch freebie from the Samsung Galaxy Store, this face spreads your data around the screen with a big spot saved for the time and supports four app shortcuts in total.

It can also display heart rate, battery status, and step counts. You can tinker with the main color here, too, but we are definite fans of the green-on-black case look on the Galaxy Watch 3.

My Day

The My Day watch face made its debut on the first Samsung Galaxy Watch and were glad to see its stuck around for the newer Tizen watches, too.

As you might have already deduced, this one gives you a glanceable look at drumroll, please your day.

It syncs with your calendar to give you a tab for when youre getting close to events and clicking it pops open the details in a mini-screen.

Since this is a Samsung-own face, theres also room to customize.

If you hold down the face, youll be given the option to change the style of the hands, as well as mute/unmute toggling for the ticking sound.

Weather center

This is absolutely one of our favorite Samsung watch faces.Surprise, surprise, its all about the weather displaying the chance of rain and uses small weather icons to display forecasts by the hour.

Best of all, the real-time weather conditions form the backdrop for the face.

So if its cloudy, moving clouds appear or youll see water droplets when it starts to pour with rain.

Its a bit of a battery hog, but if you can live with that, its a great watch face addition to Samsungs collection.

Tomcat

This is one that sticks out from our time with the first Galaxy Watch and one we enjoy rocking on the Active 2.

Found under the Classic category, Tomcat is an analog-style face that matches a black watch face with orange hands that offers a really nice, clean look.

Theres room for three widgets to show off data like battery status, step counts, and the weather. Its one of the nicest analog faces that looks like the part on Samsungs smaller smartwatch.

Simplicity

Another one for the Watch Active 2, this one used to be a paid-for watch face, so its nice to see its now free.

The black font on sky blue keeps things really simple showing off information like the date, time, step counts, and heart rate data.

Its not one you can customize yourself, but it does manage to cram in a lot of data when you accept to share your sensor data.

If youre looking for a digital face option and one thats a good match for the blue Active Watch 2, this is one of our faves.

Acentric

The Galaxy Watch 3 is designed to be a dressier Samsung watch with its leather band and high-grade watch case. Samsung includes a range of analog faces and Acentric is the one that stands out for us.

Its a face that includes multiple sub-dials that can show off information like battery status and step counts a bit as youd find on a hybrid smartwatch.

You also have the ability to customize those dials to display additional information like the weather, heart rate, and displaying time from another time zone.

Color Pie

Sometimes the simplest watch faces are the best faces and thats definitely how we feel about Color Pie.

Available for free in the Galaxy Store, it puts the time front and center with the second hand replaced with a moving line of color that changes hue every time it hits 12.

Theres no room to customize, though that would ultimately defeat the purpose of what is an attractive, minimalist watch face option.

Friss 44 Core

For Galaxy Watch 3 owners only, this is one that you need to see live to get a sense of its trippy look.

Its one of the top animated faces weve found, and, if youre worried about that animated look hitting the battery hard, theres also an eco mode that adjusts the look.

Itll still give you a big hit of additional data including steps and heart rate, of course, and will also support reminders to make sure you keep moving during the day.

Matveyan Digital watch

This feels like a digital watch that shouldnt work, as it tries to cram in a lot around the edge of the screen, but it surprisingly stayed on our wrist for quite a while after first appearing.

The splash of color in the center gives it a nice, stylish look, and you can quickly access contacts, messages, and music features without jumping into the main app screen.

You can adjust the colors used, and theres also an always-on display mode if you want to stare at it 24/7.

Jibber Jab stripe face

There are a lot of quite fun, cartoon-style watch faces available, and this is the one weve found that makes great use of that vibrant AMOLED display.

Its still easy to absorb your info at a glance, and you can adjust shortcuts by simply tapping on the screen.

You also have the option to adjust background colors if you fancy going for a darker one, and black and white looks great, too.

Szasz Cold

This is a big, digital love-in that goes huge on stats you can view, while still making sure the time is front and center.

It finds room to show off the battery, step counts, calorie burn and heart rate, which all sit above and below the time.

Theres also a very small floating ball that floats around the edge of the screen if you want a nicer way to count down the minutes.

You cant tinker with the font color, unfortunately, but we kind of like how that electric neon blue looks on the black watch face. If you do a search, you should be able to find it in more colors, too.

BoSSWatch Yin Yang

Mixing an analog watch face with an LCD one, this face feels like a bit of a throwback to retro watches.

It nicely embraces that yin-yang design to show off the battery, heart rate, step counts, data, and time without making things feel too overcrowded.

Its a good example of a Samsung watch face that merges analog and digital looks in a really attractive way.

Fresh

Fresh is a mash-up of analog and digital elements that come together that uses the heart rate icon as your second watch hand as it streams past widgets that display the date, step counts, elevation, and calorie burn.

The contrasting minute and hour hands also look great and its one of the more stylish face options you can find in the Galaxy Store.

Fit future

There are plenty of watch faces that put your fitness stats front and center, and this one that appears on the Watch Active 2 and the Watch 3 is one of the best at doing it.

The icons are nice and big, the color is great and it comfortably looks the part when displayed on both of Samsungs watches.

Step Challenge 2

Samsung offers some of the most rewarding and motivating fitness features you can find on a smartwatch, and this watch face is designed to play nicely with one of those key features.

If you are planning to take on a fellow Samsung smartwatch owner in a challenge to see who can rack up the most steps, this face is able to display progress against your competition.

So you can quickly find out if youre comfortably ahead of the need to step up your step game.

Earth our home

Another face that takes advantage of the live faces support on the Galaxy Watch 3, this simple face displays the time and our planet slowly spinning on its axis.

Its just a really lovely option to look at, and, also, theres also something quite calming about seeing the world spinning. This is another one to hunt out in the Galaxy Store.

Under the sea

No, this isnt paying homage to Sebastian from The Little Mermaid. Instead, its giving you that feeling of having a fish tank on your smartwatch.

Along with displaying the time, it can also show off battery status, daily step counts, and heart rate all while a trio of fish gently bob up and down on the display.

This is one youll find swimming around in Samsungs Galaxy Store.

Londons night

Taking full advantage of one of the best smartwatch screens in the business, Londons night drops that city skyline onto your watch face, while making room for additional widgets and of course the time up in the sky.

Its a really good example of how to fit in those data widgets without breaking up the great imagery used as the faces backdrop.

Its a slight shame you cant tinker with the colors, but we can deal with Big Ben and London Eye dressed up in pastel purple.

Surfing On Beach

If youre looking for watch faces outside of the ones lurking inside Samsungs store, youll find plenty of good ones from the Facer app, where you can also make your own faces, as well.

Its an app thats available for both Samsung and non-Samsung phones, too.

This surf-themed one offers great colors and does a really nice job of discreetly adding details like date, current heart rate, temperature, and step counts.

No.7

Another one from the Facer watch face library, this one carries that round watch theme to section off your stats and leave plenty of space to show off the time as well.

The colors look great on the darker Galaxy Watch Active 2 case designs and its easy to absorb information when you glance down at your wrist.