How to Automatically Change Your Apple Watch Face Based on Location

Yesterday, we went over how the Apple Watch can automatically change its watch face at a certain time of day.  Now I’ll go over how to make it change watch faces based on location.

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Here’s how:

• Launch the Shortcuts app on your ‌iPhone‌.
• Tap the Automation tab at the bottom of the screen.
• Tap Create Personal Automation.
• Select Arrive or Leave, depending on when you want the watch face to change.
• Choose the Location, and select it either by searching or entering the address, then tap Next.
• Tap Add Action, then use the search field to look up “Watch.”
• Select Set Watch Face from the results list of watch actions.
• On the Actions screen, immediately below “Set active watch face to,” tap the word Face in blue.
• Choose the watch face you’d like to change to when arriving at or leaving the specified location. 
• Tap Next when the Actions screen reappears.
• Tap Done on the last screen to finish.
• That’s it.

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