Guides
The full write-ups are still being written — properly, one at a time, by the people who build the app. Here is the short version in the meantime, and the FAQ covers the rest.
Installing a watch face, in four steps
This is the whole procedure for every supported Galaxy Watch. It takes about a minute, and the watch never leaves your wrist.
- Install Galaxy Watch Faces on your phone
Get the free app from Google Play. There is nothing to sign up for.
- Open it next to your watch
The app finds the Galaxy Watch already paired with your phone. Keep both nearby and Bluetooth on.
- Find the face you want and tap Apply
Browse or search for the face you want, open it, and tap Apply. The first time, the watch asks for permission — accept it on the watch.
- The face installs over the air
The face transfers to the watch wirelessly and switches on by itself. No PC, no cable, no file transfer.
If a face will not install
Nearly always one of three things. The watch is on software older than One UI 8 Watch, in which case the install cannot happen at all — On the watch: Settings → About watch → Software information. The permission prompt is still sitting unanswered on the watch screen. Or the phone and watch drifted out of Bluetooth range part-way through, and it needs another go with the two together.
There is a longer version of each of these coming. Until then, the FAQ answers them in more detail, and the model pages say exactly which software each Galaxy Watch needs.
What is being written
- Installing watch faces on a Galaxy Watch, start to finish
- What to do when a watch face will not show up on the watch
- Adding a watch face without a phone nearby
- Where the genuinely free Galaxy Watch faces are
- Which watch faces are easiest on the battery
- Watch face compatibility, model by model
- Making a face the active one, and switching back
- Wear OS and Tizen: why an old Galaxy Watch cannot take new faces
Hand-written and edited, published as they are finished, rather than generated in a batch.
Or just try it
The app is free and tells you straight away whether your watch can take a face — which is faster than reading about it.