Data screens can be tailored to show exactly what matters during a run, and watch faces offer additional visual personalization.
Pros: music controls, pairing reliability
Cons: LTE connectivity, ECG functionality
Best 2026 Smartwatches for customization options
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Sport profiles, data pages, widgets, and watch faces offer extensive personalization. Runners can tailor controls and information layouts in unusually fine detail.
Pros: step counting accuracy, app ecosystem
Cons: Bluetooth connectivity, pairing reliability
Data layouts, swappable bands, report themes, and vibration patterns give the watch a pleasing level of personalization.
Pros: recovery insights, fitness tracking accuracy
Cons: ECG functionality, call handling
Customization is strong where evidenced, including customizable training screens, shortcut buttons, replies, and button behavior.
Pros: pairing reliability, brightness
Cons: Wi-Fi connectivity, Bluetooth connectivity
Customization was praised across brightness, data pages and watch setup, with reviewers noting the watch can be tailored heavily to training needs.
Pros: calorie tracking usefulness, durability
Cons: ECG functionality, size options
Customization was viewed positively through complication/widgets customization and easy band swapping.
Pros: workout tracking variety, flashlight usefulness
Cons: blood oxygen tracking, ECG functionality
Cards, shortcuts, controls, and layouts can be rearranged extensively. That flexibility helps offset interface changes such as the removal of the older widget presentation.
Pros: battery life, watch face quality
Cons: activity auto-detection, LTE connectivity
Customization was mixed: watch-face customization was praised, but case/color/size customization was limited.
Pros: display quality, brightness
Cons: onboard music storage, size options
Customization has limitations, especially on fixed elevation overview metrics that cannot yet be configured.
Pros: software smoothness, flashlight usefulness
Cons: sleep tracking accuracy, ECG functionality