Watch Walks Trail Face: Hiking Trails

Walk a famous trail with the steps you already take, and keep it on your wrist all day. Trail Face needs the free Watch Walks app on your phone. A Connect IQ watch face cannot fetch anything from the internet on its own, so the phone is what sends the trail across. Install Watch Walks, choose a trail, and it appears here. Without the app the face still keeps good time. It will just say "No trail yet". THREE FACES, ONE APP Pick the one you want in the settings, and change it whenever you like. The Route. Your trail drawn as a line across the glass, the way a map draws one. Ground you have walked is a solid coloured path. Ground ahead is grey. Landmarks are notched along it, and a marker sits exactly where you stand. The Ridge. A mountain skyline, lit in the trail's colour as far as you have come, with the marker riding the ridge and the clock in the sky above it. The Data-rich Ring. A bold progress ring around a big clock, with four data fields you choose. IT COUNTS ON THE WATCH The face reads your step count itself, once a minute, so your position moves whether or not your phone is in the room. The phone is only how the trail gets there in the first place. IT KNOWS WHICH TRAIL Choose the Inca Trail and the face turns Andean amber. Choose the South Pole and it turns ice white. The name, the distance, the next landmark and the colour all follow the trail you picked, so two trails do not look like the same watch face. STILL A WATCH FACE The time is the largest thing on the glass. Heart rate, steps, battery, calories, floors, distance and active minutes are all available, and so are three the trail brings with it: how far you have left, how far through you are, and how long ago the trail last reached the watch. Every slot is yours to set, each with its own drawn icon. The date runs across the top of the glass on the Route and the Ridge, and sits with the time on the Ring. There is a low-power version for when your wrist is down. Free, permanently. No adverts, nothing to buy, and it collects nothing about you. The Watch Walks app is out now on Android and iPhone, free. Install it, choose a trail, and this face fills in. GET THE FREE PHONE APP Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.watchwalks.companion iPhone: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/watch-walks/id6787276123

Version 1.2.0 The picture can now show the leg you are walking instead of the whole trail. On a long trail a day's walking barely moves the arc; the stretch between the last landmark and the next one moves with you. Choose it in Watch Walks on your phone, under Watch face picture, or on the watch itself under The picture shows. Once the last landmark is behind you the leg runs to the finish. If the watch has walked past the landmark your phone last sent it, the face goes back to the whole trail rather than sitting at full. The whole trail stays the default. Nothing changes until you choose it.