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Customizing the Watch Face on a tactix 8 Solar Watch
Garmin tactix® 8 Solar watches offer the ability to customize what data is displayed on the watch face. The selected watch face may change what can be customized, what options are available, or how the data appears. The instructions below are for customizing the pre-loaded watch faces. For instructions on customizing watch faces that have been downloaded from the Connect IQ™ Store, see - How to Customize a Watch Face Through Connect IQ Store. The video below will walk you through the steps to customize your watch face.
Customizing the Watch Face
The tactix 8 Solar watch allows you to save your customizations to different watch face templates. You can have up to ten saved watch faces, and you can use the same template to create multiple versions of the same watch face.
From the watch face, hold
.Select Watch Face.
Press
or 
to scroll through your saved watch faces.Scroll to a saved watch face or select Add New to add a new saved watch face.
Press
on the face you want to customize, then select an option.NOTE: Not all watch faces will have all of the following options.
Select Styles to change the style of the background which may include shading, color, or in some cases whether the face is digital or analog.
Select Data to change what data options appear.
The field that is being customized will pulse and what is currently shown there will be listed at the bottom of the screen.
Press
to customize the pulsing field or scroll to a different field.Scroll to see the available data options, the name of the data will show at the bottom of the screen.
Press
to save the changes and move on to the next data field.Select Done after all fields have been customized.
Select Accent Color to change the color that is adjustable on the watch face.
Select Data Color to change the color of the data that appears on the watch face.
Select Alt. Time Zones to add or edit an alternate time zone. Alternate time zones point to the time based on a 24 hour dial, and the watch face will only show one alternate time zone at a time.
Select Apply to save changes and use the current watch face.
If you are uncertain what a symbol on your watch face means, you can touch and hold on the field to be taken to the associated widget glance, or you can follow the steps above to customize the data on the watch face. When the data field you want to know more about is pulsing, it will list what the field is showing at the bottom of the screen.
 | Alpha This watch face will show a UTC time zone hand that corresponds with the 24 hour indicator on the watch bezel. |
 | Delta This watch face will show a UTC time zone hand that corresponds with the 24 hour indicator on the watch bezel. |
 | Industrial |
 | Endurance |
 | Enduro 2 |
 | Portal Adjusting the Styles of this watch face switches between an analog or digital time option |
 | Double Time Adjusting the Styles of this watch face switches between an analog or digital time option |
 | Analog 001 |
 | Deep Sea This watch face can show an alternate time zone hand and track your no fly time after scuba diving. |
Watch Face Data Customization Options
Depending on the watch face you have selected, the data options may vary. Some watch faces may also include larger graphical data fields for things like VO2 max, Training Status, or solar charging information.
For more information on available data field options, see What Do the Watch Face Icons on My Garmin Watch Mean?
Deleting a Saved Watch Face
You can have up to ten saved customized watch faces. After you have saved 10 watch faces, if you want to create a new watch face, you will need to delete one of your saved customizations in order to add a new customized watch face. Deleting a saved watch face does not delete the watch face template from your watch.
From the watch face, hold
.Select Watch Face.
Press
or to scroll through your saved watch faces.Press
to select the face that you want to delete.Select Delete.