# How to Put Your Own Text on an Apple Watch Face

Updated: November 12, 2026

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Apple Watch can show your own text only as a monogram of a few characters, on some watch faces. With [Any Text](https://sindresorhus.com/any-text), write a text on your iPhone, like a goal or a room number, and add it to the watch face as a complication.

## With Any Text

1. Install [Any Text](https://sindresorhus.com/any-text) on your iPhone and on your Apple Watch.
1. In Any Text on the iPhone and on the Apple Watch, tap the More button, and turn on “iCloud Sync”. The text gets to the watch with iCloud.
1. Open Any Text on the iPhone, tap “Widget 1”, and write your text.
1. On the Apple Watch, touch and hold the watch face, and tap “Edit”.
1. Swipe left to the last screen, which shows the complications of the face.
1. Tap a complication, turn the Digital Crown to Any Text, and choose “Widget 1”.
1. Press the Digital Crown to save.

When you change the text on the iPhone, the watch face changes too. This can take up to about 15 minutes. Any Text has 20 widgets, so different watch faces can show different texts.

- A watch face has places of different shapes. A rectangular place, like on the Modular face, shows the most text. A round place shows only a few characters, and the line of text at the top of some faces shows one short line.
- Keep the text short. A watch face has less space than a widget on the iPhone.
- You can also add the same widget to the Smart Stack.

## Without an app

Some watch faces, like California and Meridian, have the Monogram complication, which shows a few characters that you choose:

1. Open the Watch app on the iPhone, and tap “Clock”.
1. Tap “Monogram”, and type the characters.
1. Add the Monogram complication to the watch face, like in the steps above.

A monogram is good for initials or a symbol. It cannot show a sentence, and only some faces have it. [The watch faces and their complications.](https://support.apple.com/guide/watch/faces-and-features-apde9218b440/watchos)