Connect IQ watch face settings can be adjusted in two ways:
Mar 29, 2020 This post is focused on apply i ng those basic concepts to build a watch face application for a Garmin watch. I will provide you with step by step instructions on how to create this application. The Face-It watch face app lets you customize your watch face with any photo from your mobile device. Download the app, choose an image from your photo library, add the time and set it as your watch’s face. Whether it’s a scenic view from your last hike or a picture of your new puppy, the Face-It app lets you add personality to your watch that’s uniquely you. Creating a watch face in the Connect IQ Store app. Select Camera to take a new picture or Photos to use a photo in your camera roll. Arrange the photo, and choose a display. Once the watch has synced, 1 the custom watch face will then be available on the device. Refer to your owner's manual for steps on enabling the watch face. Garmin Connect displays your vital health data and entries for easy viewing. Customize what you want to see, in the order you want to see it.You'll receive more detailed analysis, as well. View weekly, monthly and yearly averages of health stats, historic tracking of your favorites activities and more.
1. Directly on the watch, if the watch and the app allows it
To do this, first you need to get to the watch face selection menu on your watch. When you are there and your face of choice is being shown, you will always be presented with the “Apply” option. If the settings on the watch are supported, you will also see another choice “Customize”.
2. Through a Garmin app
To customize Connect IQ watch faces settings, you will need to use one of the available Garmin tools:
- Garmin Express for PC or Mac (http://software.garmin.com/en-US/express.html)
- Garmin Connect (iOS or Android)
- Garmin Connect IQ (iOS or Android)
Each of these tools has its pros and cons:
Garmin Express
+ You can uninstall the watch face currently active on your watch.
– You won’t see the results of your changes until you disconnect the watch from the computer, so if you want to try different settings to decide which you like most, this will be somewhat tedious.
Garmin Connect / Connect IQ
+You can see the setting changes effect immediately after you press ‘DONE’ button, which generally makes the adjustments easier and faster. This is much more convenient than with Garmin Express and enough to definitely recommend Garmin Connect Mobile as the preferred option to change the settings.
– You can’t uninstall the currently active watch face, which means you need to switch to another screen on your watch first. This is just the way Garmin has done it and it seems to be one of the most common reasons for users’ frustration judging from the comments they leave on the review pages.
Please note that changing the settings with Garmin apps requires an active internet connection.
Welcome to the online manual of the MagicDust apps.
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Let’s dive into the MagicDust universe. These apps offer you a complete ecosystem to track your activities and fitness to beat yesterday.
The MagiDust watch face is all about readability and provide the every day activity tracking info. Very large fonts for all kind of information makes it easy to read. Although this watch face displays a lot of information, the primary display of time is never limited. Turn your wrist and the time and date are always visible.
An automatic day & night color mode of the watch face provides best readability during day and night. This color mode is based on the sunrise & sunset times of your location (GPS position is required – just start an activity to get one).
Extra data fields are shown by the turn of your wrist to display all information you want. The seconds hash marks, the blinking seconds index and the always on seconds make this watch face to the most dynamic watch face for your smartwatch.
A very special feature of the MagicDust watch face is the ability to analyse your fitness performance and display the results as a bar chart with a live performance index and the possibility to compare your current fitness value with the past six days.
Tracking your body weight gets easy with this watch face, enable the optional feature to keep your current weight focused to achieve your target weight.
Add Watch Face To Garmin
In general with this watch face all available data is automatically shown and no custom data field configuration is necessary. Of course, the complex magic inside this watch face gives you some options to customize it. Ten font types, a lot of color themes (that can be randomized) or inverse colors can be selected. But to make you completely happy you can setup your watch face with sixteen color options including fourteen colors each.
Best Garmin Watch Faces
To make the watch face perfect, gimmicks like the move bar, the week number, or the moon phase are available and the unit settings of your watch are supported completely.
To give you an easy start the watch face settings and the displayed day of week abbreviations in the watch face itself are supported in twenty two languages.
The MagicDust widget introduces the next level of activity data fields. Just press the hot key of your watch to switch from the started activity to the widget. The widget automatically detects your selected activity and provides the best data fields.
Based on the same design like the MagicDust watch face the widget with a compact and easily readable data field layout completes the watch face as companion app. In additon the widget introduces a battery booster and a build in map view for super fast navigation use cases.
Garmin Face It
Hocus Pocus, Abracadabra! Let the magic begin with some MagicDust to your watch.