Change Watch Faces on a Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 Smartwatch

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This is a VisiHow tutorial on how to change watch faces on the Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 smartwatch. In order to change watch faces on the Galaxy Gear smartwatch, you can use either the watch, or the Gear S2 application on your smart phone. While both of these methods work, the easiest and fastest one is to use the Galaxy Gear S2 application from your smartphone.

Change Watch Faces from Your Galaxy Phone

We will start this tutorial on how to change watch faces on the Galaxy Gear S2 smartwatch with the Gear Manager application installed on your Android smart phone.

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    To begin with we will need to have the Galaxy Gear S2 application open
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    When the application is open you will see that our watch face is the current standard for the Gear S2.
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    Tap on 'Watch faces' one time
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    This will bring up a list of watch faces.
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    After tapping on watch faces you may then tap any watch face to see it appear on your Galaxy Gear S2
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    This is how you update and change watch faces from your Samsung Galaxy phone, or any other phone connected to your Gear S2 and running the Gear Manager application.
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Change Watch Faces from Your Gear S2

The other way you can update or change watch faces on the Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 smartwatch is by using the watch itself with the watch.

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    With the watch unlocked, simply scroll the dial face to the right.
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    When you have done this, tap on 'Settings'
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    After you have tapped on 'Settings' you should see 'Display'.
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    Tap once on display
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    After you have tapped on display you will see 'Watch Faces'.
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    Tap once on 'Watch Faces'
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    After you've tapped on 'Watch Faces', you can scroll left or right to select from different watch faces.
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    As you can see in the image below, we have now changed our watch face.
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    In order to change the watch face again, dial to the right.
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    Tap settings again, and repeat the process of pressing 'Display' and changing watch faces as we discussed earlier.
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This has been a VisiHow tutorial on how to change watch faces on the Samsung Galaxy Gear S2. If you have any additional questions, comments, or suggestions please leave them in the space below.

Additional Tips

  • Note that in the event you would like to get more watch faces you simply scroll to the bottom of the Gear Manager application on your phone, where you can select from a range of different watch faces.
  • Some watch faces are free, while others can cost up to a dollar or more, depending on the watch face.

See other tutorials on Galaxy Gear: Update Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 Smartwatch Tizen OS, Understand the Buttons and Functions of a Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 Watch, Charge a Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 Smartwatch, Remove or Replace a Watchband on the Galaxy Gear S2, Setting Up Samsung GALAXY Gear S2 Smartwatch, Change Language on a Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 Smartwatch, Factory Reset a Samsung Galaxy Gear S2 Smartwatch, Locate a Misplaced Galaxy Gear Using Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Locate a Misplaced Galaxy Gear Using Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Connect Galaxy Gear to Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Disconnect GALAXY Gear from Samsung GALAXY Note 3, Install Galaxy Gear Manager on Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Configure or Synchronize Your GALAXY Gear with Samsung GALAXY S5, and Locate Your Galaxy Note 3 Using Galaxy Gear.

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