Change sleep screen watch face

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Change sleep screen watch face

There are many things I really like about the Apple Watch but one thing that drives me crazy.

With Sleep focus on and Sleep Screen toggles ON, my watch is dark with no display. If I wake up in the middle of the night, I can tap the display to see what time it is which works as expected. Great feature.

What I hate is the simplified watch face display. Ignore the blurriness in the photo.

It’s really confusing when I’m half-asleep and very easy to misread as, in this case, 4:54.

There does not seem to be a way to change the watch face for this particular use case with Sleep Focus activated and Sleep Screen ON.

Is there a way to change this watch face? Can Apple add another option with a smaller watch face that does wrap?

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Apple Watch Series 8, watchOS 11

Posted on Oct 4, 2025 3:23 AM

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Ingo2711

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Oct 4, 2025 5:39 AM in response to dhandelsman

You can change the settings for the Sleep Focus screen on your iPhone in Settings/Focus/Sleep/ -> Customise Screens.

If you disable the Sleep Screen under Options, you will get your normal Watch Face back, which you can select by taping on Choose beneath the Apple Watch icon.

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Xjxjnm

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Oct 4, 2025 4:26 AM in response to dhandelsman

If you have 24 hour time on, you can read it easier because the top and bottom row are both filled, making it easier (for me) to see.

Another way is that you could turn off Show Time then you would have to hold the digital crown to open your normal watch face that you use (You could select it for the sleep focus)

Hopefully in the future they add more watch functionality and customisation.

Oddly enough mine looks like this

Have you updated to WatchOS 26 yet?

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Change sleep screen watch face

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