If you’re like most people, you probably use Apple Watch faces to keep track of your daily schedule, monitor your fitness data, and more. But there are also a lot of other ways to use your Apple Watch. You can add shortcuts to make life easier. Here’s how:

  1. Open the watch face app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and find “Shortcuts.”
  3. Click on one of the shortcut icons to add it to your watch face.
  4. Type in a few words about the shortcut and click on “add.”
  5. The shortcut will appear in your watch face and you can use it as you please!

If you’re running watchOS 7 and higher on Apple Watch (and iOS 14 and higher on the iPhone), you can use the Shortcuts app on your smartwatch to trigger shortcuts. The Shortcuts app on the iPhone automatically recognizes shortcuts that can run on the Apple Watch and adds them to a separate “Apple Watch” folder.

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In this guide, we’ll focus on adding existing Apple Watch shortcuts directly to a watch face. Once added, you can simply tap the shortcut and confirm to trigger it.

First, navigate to the watch face that you want to add the shortcut to as a complication. Next, tap and hold the watch face. From the menu, select the “Edit” button.

Now, swipe left to go to the “Complications” section. Here, tap the complication that you want to change.

Use the Digital Crown to scroll through the list of all available apps and complications. Here, select a shortcut from the “Shortcuts” section. If you don’t find your shortcut here, tap the “More” button to see a list of all available shortcuts.

Once the shortcut is added, you’ll see it in the preview. Press the Digital Crown once to save the layout. Press the Digital Crown once more to go back to the watch face.

You’ll see that the shortcut has been added to the watch face.

Simply tap the shortcut to trigger it. From the next screen, select the “Run” button and enter any information if needed. Once the shortcut runs, you’ll see a visual confirmation from the Shortcuts app.

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