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watch faces not showing up in phone app or on watch

I am trying to add watch faces to my watch. In my watch app, none of the faces I have Show up in the watch face gallery. Any recommendations on how to get them to show?


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Posted on Oct 20, 2020 7:45 AM

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Posted on Oct 27, 2020 5:09 AM

So what I did specifically was to un-pair the watch, power it off, power the phone off.


Then I turned the phone on and let it fully reboot; then I turned on the watch and then re-paired the watch to the phone.


After that, I found the watch faces I wanted to use in Favorite photos.


Hope this helps!!

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Oct 27, 2020 5:09 AM in response to kungpaochewy

So what I did specifically was to un-pair the watch, power it off, power the phone off.


Then I turned the phone on and let it fully reboot; then I turned on the watch and then re-paired the watch to the phone.


After that, I found the watch faces I wanted to use in Favorite photos.


Hope this helps!!

Oct 27, 2020 11:59 AM in response to jamiefromflowery branch

Thanks for the info there. I still wasn't able to get mine to work, even after a full erasure and setup as new devices. I discovered it was an issue with iCloud Photos and syncing the photos (for watch faces) to my watches. By default, it selected 100 photos from Favorites. I found that if I turned that off, reduced it to 25, or opened the photos app and waited until they all synced that things would work.


Hopefully this helps someone out in the future. I did let Apple know.

watch faces not showing up in phone app or on watch

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