Regardless of whether it was iOS 12 or watchOS 5, there are a lot of new Siri features coming. When watchOS 4 was released, Apple included a new Siri Face for Watch owners. Apple claimed that this was going to be the “Smartest Watch Face Ever”.
Once watchOS 5 hits the Watch this Fall, there will be a new and improved Siri Face. Today, we’re going to take a look at some of the new features coming to the Siri Watch Face.
What’s new with the Siri Face
Instead of relying more on your device, the new Siri Face will take advantage of machine learning. This will allow for your different complications to be more personalized across the board.
For example, if you are an avid sports fan, the score of your favorite team will appear. If you are nearing the time for you to leave work, then a Maps complication will give you an idea of traffic.
There will also be other suggestions to interact with the Music or Podcast app, depending on your routine. Finally, Apple is opening the Siri Face to third-party developers, so your favorite apps will appear as well.
How to set up the Siri Face using watchOS 5
When it comes to the actual set up of this new Siri Face, things are pretty straightforward. Apple didn’t adjust the way that you actually customize the watch face to your liking.
Here are the steps you need to take to set up the Watch Face:
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone
Select the Face Gallery tab from the bottom
Tap the Siri Face
From here, you will want to tap the Add button on the Siri Face
Then, you can customize the color of the background – Original or Gray
Choose the Complications for the Top Left and Top Right
While this gets the Siri Face set up for your Watch, there are even more things to customize. You will want to go through and adjust the different Data Sources that the Siri Face will use.
Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone
Under the My Faces section, select the SiriFace
Below Complications, go through the Data Sources section
Toggle on and off any information you don’t want to be shared with Siri
After everything has been customized, you will be able to set the Siri Face as your current Watch Face. Additionally, if you have already enabled the Siri Watch Face, you can swipe to the right on your Watch until you find the face.
Conclusion
Thanks to the Machine Learning features, these should help make the watch face even more useful over time. Apple seems to really be ramping up development with Siri and watchOS 5 is just another example.
Let us know what you think about the new Siri Watch Face in the comments below. Do you think we will see even more features added in the near future? Or do you think it will be smaller updates from here on out?
Andrew is a freelance writer based on the East Coast of the US.
He has written for a variety of sites over the years, including iMore, Android Central, Phandroid, and a few others. Now, he spends his days working for an HVAC company, while moonlighting as a freelance writer at night.
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