Guide

Set up your Watch run screens

28 September 2026·5 min read

• watch
• screens
• settings
• iphone

During a run your Watch shows three areas side by side, and the middle one is a stack of data pages. You choose which pages go in that stack, and in what order, in the iPhone app.

How a run is laid out on the Watch

Swipe left or right to move between the three areas. Controls is on the left, with End, Pause, Lap and Run Settings. Your data pages are in the centre. Now Playing is on the right, for music or a podcast.

The data pages sit one above the other. Swipe up or down, or turn the Digital Crown, to move through them. Before you start, the run waits on the Controls page; when you tap Start it moves to the first data page.

If you run a planned workout with steps, Vanoor puts a Split Target page at the top of the stack for that run. It shows the step you are on and its target. You can't edit, move or remove it, and it doesn't appear on a free run.

Open the screen builder

1. Open Vanoor on your iPhone and tap the gear on Home to open Settings.
2. Tap Watch Screens.

The Watch Screens page lists your pages in the order the Watch shows them. Each row has a small preview of the watch face with its metrics, and the counter at the top shows how many pages are active out of 5.

Add a page

1. Tap Add Screen.
2. Pick a page type. Heart Rate, Metrics, Elevation, Map and Metronome have fixed layouts and are added as soon as you tap them.
3. Classic, Big Metric, Pace and Calories let you choose what they show. Pick a metric for each position and watch the preview change, then tap Add.

Classic has five positions, Pace has four, Big Metric has three (a large one on top and two below) and Calories has two. For each position you can choose elapsed time, distance, current pace, average pace, heart rate, active calories, elevation, route remaining or route progress.

Change, reorder, switch off or delete a page

• Tap a page to open it. You get a larger preview, an Enabled switch and, on the four pages with a choice of metrics, a picker for each position.
• Use the switch on a row to take a page out of your run without deleting it.
• Tap Edit, then drag rows into a new order. The page at the top is the one you see first when the run starts.
• Swipe a row to the left and tap Delete to remove it.
• Reset to Default brings back the standard set: Classic, Elevation, Heart Rate, Metrics and Map.

Each change is saved on the iPhone and sent to your Watch, so you don't need to set anything up on the Watch itself.

If a switch won't move

A greyed-out switch means one of the two limits above. Either five pages are already on, or the page is your last data page. Turn a different page off or on first, and the switch works again.

Walks and hikes

Before you start, the Controls page shows one big green Start button. Below it are a gear for run settings, a button for the activity type and a button to leave. Each tap on the activity type button moves to the next type (run, walk, hike), and the big button changes to Start, Start Walk or Start Hike. Every workout starts as a run until you change it.

A walk or a hike uses the same pages as a run, and your route, map and alerts come along. The one difference on the Watch is that the Metrics page with your running form is skipped. The workout is saved to Apple Health as a walk or a hike, and uploaded to Strava the same way. In the Activity tab on your iPhone, a filter by type appears once you have more than one type of workout.