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Apple Watch can be used for countless different things. They are primarily designed to help you track your health and activity, and you can also easily view and interact with notifications from your Apple phone through them. It must be mentioned, however, that these are still watches that are designed to tell you the current time anytime and anywhere. In order to preserve this feature, you may have already noticed that when you go somewhere within watchOS, after some time the system automatically returns to the home screen with the watch face, so that you always have it available when the display is turned on.

How to (de)activate automatic return to watch face on Apple Watch

Most users probably don't have a problem with the above-mentioned behavior. Of course, something may suit everyone differently. If the automatic return to the watch face does not suit you, then I have good news for you. Apple engineers thought of such individuals as well, so you can customize the return to the watch face in a certain way, which you will definitely appreciate. By default, Apple Watch is selected to return to the watch face after 2 minutes of inactivity, but you can also choose to return immediately or return after 1 hour. The procedure is as follows:

  • First, you need to go to the native app on your iPhone Watch.
  • Once you've done that, tap on the section at the bottom of the screen My watch.
  • Then move a bit below and locate the box In general, which you open.
  • Here, then swipe in the direction again Dolu and click on the line with the name Back to watch face.
  • In the end, just the top is enough choose one of the three available options to return to the watch face.

So, using the above procedure, it is possible to reset the automatic return to the watch face on your Apple Watch. You can set an immediate transition, or after 2 minutes or 1 hour of inactivity in the application. But you can also set the behavior of returning to the watch face separately for each application. Just make sure you're in the list below have opened the selected application, then they checked the option Own a they chose one of three options.

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