Features available for watch faces that use Watch Face Format
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All versions of the Watch Face Format offer the following capabilities:
Style editing: Customize the watch face, including its color, background
image, and font.
Groups and complications: Group components so that you can control or
move those components with a single action. You can also handle an entire
complication as one group.
Tag expressions: Add tags with date, time, battery, step count
information, and more.
Features added in version 2
Version 2 of the Watch Face Format adds several capabilities related to data
visualization, weather forecasts, and system data source types.
Highlights include the following:
- Flavors: Preset configurations for your watch face that users can
browse in a companion app.
- Goal progress complication type: Useful when users can exceed a goal
such as step count.
- Weighted elements complication type: Useful for showing discrete subsets
of data.
- Weather conditions: Show the current weather, as well as forecast
conditions for hours or days into the future.
- A new heart rate system data source for complications.
To view features from version 2 in the XML reference, check that the
Version 2 button is selected at the top of the documentation page.
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Last updated 2024-05-15 UTC.
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