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Welcome! In front of me I have Garmin Forerunner 245 and I'm gonna show you
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how to set an image as a watch face on this watch. Basically if you want to use
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your own image or a picture as a watch face. Before we start if you want to set an image as a watch face on this watch your
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watch needs to be paired with a phone via the Garmin Connect application. Once
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the devices are paired together we can continue. And now we need to download and
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install the Connect IQ store application on our phone that is paired with our
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watch. So make sure you have the internet connection and Bluetooth enabled. Once
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you do open the App Store on your phone. In the App Store tap on search and type
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in Connect IQ and tap on search. You should see this application Connect IQ
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store. Install it by tapping on the install button. Of course if you're using
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an iPhone you can also do it on an iPhone. So you can open the App Store on
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your iPhone, find this application and then just simply install it. And once you
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install the application you can open it. So I'm gonna tap on the open button and
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in the app you should see this screen. Now tap on the welcome. Here you can tap
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on continue or you can switch the accounts if you want to. I'm gonna use
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this account so I'm gonna tap on continue, check the box, tap on next, allow
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the permission. And once the IQ store loads we can tap on the face it icon
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right here. And right here we can set up a custom watch face or the custom with
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our own image. So tap on this plus button. You can select camera or gallery. If you
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select the camera option it will open the camera app on your phone. You can
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take a picture and use it as a watch face. And the gallery option allows you
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to select the picture or image from your phone. I'm gonna use the gallery
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option. As you can see it opened the files I believe or photos. And here we
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can browse our phone to look for the photo. I'm gonna select this one. So once
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you select the photo you will need to crop it. Basically you can select the
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part of the picture to be on your watch face. Because if the picture is too big
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it won't fit on the watch face. You will need to select the part of it. You can
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zoom in, zoom out. You can move this clock face basically around. And whatever is
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gonna be in this clear area is gonna be on our watch face. Let's set it to
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something like this. Once you're done centering the image you can select the
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type of the clock right here. And once you're done you can tap on this icon
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right here. Select the color of the accent. And then you can tap right here
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and select the type of the font of the clock. Okay. And once you're done
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customizing you can tap on done button. Name it. Tap on save. And here we have
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our custom watch face. You can create multiple if you want but for now let's
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just stay with this one. And once you're done and you want to apply this watch
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face to your watch you need to tap on the install button. It's gonna start installing on your watch. As you can see it's installing now. It might take a
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couple minutes so I recommend to wait. And once the watch face is done installing it's gonna be applied on your
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watch as you can see. And at this point we can close the application. And that's
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how you set an image as a watch face on this watch. Thank you for watching. If you
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