How to change your Garmin watch face
Switch the face from the watch or the app, on any model.
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Garmin watch face guides
Plain-English answers to the common questions, with exact steps for your model. After face picks instead? They all live in the best-of hub.
How to customize a Garmin watch face
Accent colours, data fields and complications — where the settings live.
Read guideWhat is Garmin Connect IQ?
Garmin's app platform — watch faces, widgets, data fields and apps.
Read guideWatch face vs widget vs data field
The terms that are easy to mix up, made simple.
Read guideDo Garmin watch faces drain battery?
What actually costs power, and how to keep a face battery-smart.
Read guideAMOLED vs MIP: which screen do you have?
The two Garmin display types and what they mean for faces.
Read guideGarmin always-on display, explained
What always-on does, the battery trade-off, and how faces handle it.
Read guideFree Garmin watch faces: find good ones
Where to look and what to check before you install.
Read guideNew Garmin watches in 2026
Just got a Forerunner 70/170, Venu 4 or vívoactive 6? Our faces already fit.
Read guideHow to change, by model
Step-by-step for your watch
Change the watch face on Fenix 8
Exact touch and button steps for the Fenix 8.
Read guideChange the watch face on Vivoactive 5
Touchscreen steps for the Vivoactive 5.
Read guideChange the watch face on Vivoactive 6
Touchscreen steps for the Vivoactive 6.
Read guideChange the watch face on Instinct 3
Button-by-button steps for the Instinct 3.
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