How to uninstall ANY watch face

How to uninstall ANY watch face

1) On your watch you MUST select a different watch face to be displayed that is NOT the one you want to uninstall.

For Garmin built in watch faces go to 5)

2) Using the Garmin Connect IQ App on your Phone / Tablet
a) Make sure your watch is connected to the Device with the App - usually your phone
b) Open the App
c) Select Device at the bottom
d) Select My Watch Faces
e) Select the watch face you want to Uninstall
f) At the top there are 3 dots, press on them
g) Press on Uninstall
h) A pop up will appear asking if you want to uninstall the watch face
I) Select Uninstall

The watch face will be Uninstalled

3) Using Garmin Express
a) Make sure your watch is connected to the Device with the App - usually using a cable to a computer
b) Open the Garmin Express software
c) Select the Watch you have connected
d) Select Apps
e) Scroll down until you find the watch face you want to uninstall
f) Select the X
g) It will come up with Removed and the X will be replaced with a download cloud

The watch face is now Uninstalled


4) Using the Connect IQ Store App on your watch
If it is not already installed on your watch it is Free to download from Garmin: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/7cd38736-510a-4480-8801-0dfe2f5944af?tid=0 or search the store for Connect IQ Store

a) Open the App on your watch
b) Scroll to Installed, and select it
c) Your list of downloaded and installed (not built in) watch faces appears
d) Scroll to the one you want to uninstall, and select it
e) It will say Loading and then there is a list of options
f) Select Uninstall
g) It will ask you to confirm you want to Uninstall the watch face (showing the name of the watch face)
h) Press the button corresponding to the green tick or select the green tick

The watch face is now Uninstalled

5) Using your watch - ONLY Garmin provided built in watch faces can be deleted with this method  / Delete them from the watch using the watch
a) Long press the Menu button
b) Select the watch you want to uninstall
c) If you only get the option to Apply go to 3) or 4)
d) Select Delete

The watch face will be deleted


If you have any issues with the above then refer to you watch manual - your manual might not include how to delete watch faces

And if that still does not help, then contact your Garmin support or go to the Garmin forum for your watch to see if there is help there or start a post asking for help: https://forums.garmin.com/

  • I have added this as I am getting a lot of users contacting Developer / Support asking how to uninstall a watch face.

    Feel free to send a link to this if you are getting the same / or add it to the bottom of your watch face description - that is why I have not mentioned any developer or watch face name

    Or let me know if I have missed something or got something wrong - thanks

  • Most watches released in the last few years also support the Connect IQ Store app on the watch itself. You can use this app to uninstall any kind of Connect IQ app, including Connect IQ watchfaces.

    Here's a link to the app on the Connect IQ store, if you want to download it or see which devices support it: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/7cd38736-510a-4480-8801-0dfe2f5944af?tid=0 

    Regarding the instructions in the OP:

    How to uninstall ANY watch face

    Based on this title and some of the text, you seem to be talking about both built-in watchfaces and watchfaces that come from the Connect IQ store.

    2) Using your watch - MOST watch faces are developed by independent developers and not Garmin, and therefore you might not be able to uninstall / Delete them from the watch using the watch

    To be more accurate, this method can only remove built-in watchfaces, and not Connect IQ watchfaces. Connect IQ watchfaces can be developed by 3rd-party developers or Garmin. Same goes for other types of Connect IQ apps. Just because a watchface came from Garmin, does not mean you can uninstall it with this method.

    3) Using the Garmin IQ App

    - To be clear, this is actually called "Connect IQ" on your phone, which is really unfortunate as it's constantly confused with the "Connect" app,  since they have nearly identical names and icons

    - For clarity, this method can only delete Connect IQ watchfaces, not built-in watchfaces

    4) Using Garmin Express

    - To be clear, this method can only delete Connect IQ watchfaces, not built-in watchfaces

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    TL;DR

    - The two kinds of watchfaces are built-in watchfaces and Connect IQ watchfaces (not Garmin watchfaces and 3rd-party watchfaces)

    - 2) deletes built-in watchfaces only, and not Connect IQ watchfaces

    - 3) and 4) delete Connect IQ watchfaces only, and not built-in watchfaces

    - The on-device Connect IQ store app can delete Connect IQ watchfaces. However it's pretty slow - it takes a few seconds to show you your list of installed apps so you can delete them

  • Thank you -  I will consider some edits to my OP as I assume users will not read your post, it might be that I do a new post as it looks you have provided a lot of clarifications that require a re-write

  • When I made an edit to this post it lost all formatting and looks awful and has line spaces everywhere - making it a very long post, so for the short term I have posted it as code - not my preferred solution, is there a way to delete the whole post so if i do another one it doesn't look like a duplicate? 

  • You can't but you could edit the title.