I am trying to develop my first watch face on my Galaxy Watch 5 using WFS. When I Preview My Watchface the font sizes of my complications (such as Date, or Battery Level, or Steps) are as I would expect. When I Run On Device the font size is very small, and does not change when I change font size in WFS. Can anybody help, please?
Regards, Stuart
I am having the exact same problem. It just started. I tried a completely new project and just did one small box complication - nothing else and still had no luck.
Hello,
Welcome to this forum.
To make a specific style for a sub-component of complication, you should take care of all complication layouts.
You can check this blog to know about complication layout in detail: Things to Consider when Designing Complication Layouts
If your issue remains, please share image.
For Sunrise Sunset short text box it is the Title not the text that shows for some reason and I couldnât get the Icon to not appear either.
I donât know if this is WFS or the Weather appâs issue.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
This first image is how I configured a Battery Power complication. I chose 48pt as its size. The font is Sync To Device. I chose a âSmall Boxâ complication slot - donât know if that makes a difference. It is Text Only.
The following is the result on the watch:
The text is far too small, and there is an icon.
The following is for a âDateâ provider:
Once again, text is far too small, and there is an icon.
Also, is there a reliable way to get a project downloaded to a watch such that it always overwites what is already on the watch? I have frequently found that my downloads do not reflect the changes I have made. It is erratic and frustrating!
Regards, Stuart
I know what you mean because I use the same test watch face over and over and not normally but often enough it caches something. So, Iâve gotten into the habit of deleting the watch face before sideloading the newer version.
Regarding the size and appearance of complications, I also see the issues with some complications as well. I donât know if they are not updated for API 30 (Wear OS 3) or if there is another issue.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
Hello,
As the complication layout is automatically selected as per the complication provider. So we donât know which layout will be selected. For this reason, you have to set every layout size individually. For example, for your test case, you have to resize the Text layout only. But after deploying on the watch the watch battery provider provides icon and text so it will select the icon and text layout. As you have not resized the icon and text so the default size is shown on the watch.
Check my images below. I have resized the icon and text layout also which is why my text size on the watch shows 48 pixels.
Thank you so much. That answered my question. I thought text formatting applied to ANY complication layout. Your explanation clarified everything. Works perfectly now.
Glad to know that my response helped you. My pleasure to support you.
I have spent quite a lot of time researching the problem. WFS alludes to certain funtionality, but doesnât live upto the promise (or is it the watch, or the OS?). I have experimented with 3 complications: Battery Charge, Date, and Steps. I got varying results. I found that with the Battery Charge and Date it was becessary to use an Icon, Text and Title type, even if I only wanted the text. I found that if I then made the unwanted elements invisible on the Layers pane to the left, and then gave the text (for example) the appropriate size it then gave me what I expected.
I found with the Steps Count that there does not appear to be a default icon (please correct me if I am wroung). Attempts to display the non-existing icon screws everything up. So I used a Text or Text and Title type, suitably sized to get what I wanted.
I am a newbie to watch face design, but I suppose every system has its idiosyncracies and foibles. It is a shame that I am finding them so early on, and they take a long time to bottom out. Should I hold my breath while Samsung or Google fix them - I donât think so. Shame really.
Please let me know if you can elaborate further.
Regards, Stuart
Great to know that you are showing your interest in Watch Face Studio.
Complications provider donât provide all data (icon, text and title), that is why you are getting differt types of data and layout.
All complications donât provide icon. Step count one of them.
Please read this two blogs to know more about complications layout:
If you found any bugs, please share it here Samsung Developer Support Channel.
Stuart, give yourself credit! Youâre doing exactly what you need to do as far as working with complications. Good Job. Unfortunately WFS canât determine which layout a complication provider uses so itâs up to us as designers to determine-through trial and error and/or process of elimination-which complication layout a provider uses and then design that layout accordingly. I found that the sunrise/sunset provider uses text and icon, so like you I chose that layout and made icon invisible because I like to use my own icon.
I would say one flaw with WFS is they make it âappearâ that if you apply changes to text fonts, sizes, colors etc that it applies to ALL layouts but it actually only applies the layout you have selected at the time. And that confused me until Boshra clarified it for me. For example I chose a yellow font color and font size of 36 while I had layout âtext onlyâ selected. when I selected âtext and iconâ layout it still showed font color yellow and font size 36 when, in fact, that wasnât the case for this layout.
The steps complication layout may show âtext and iconâ but actually the steps complication provider doesnât provide an icon. WFS does not know this as all providers are different. So for steps i use my own designed icon.
You may not realize it but youâve got complications all figured out. May be a bit tedious and hopefully WFS can make improvements in the future but as a beginner watch face designer youâve done a great job!!! Keep it up.
This was pointed out to me earlier this month and I found a contact in the Health Team and was told on the next release all Samsung Health Complications will include an Icon. They hadnât included it because it was optional. The team listened to the feedback and reacted. 
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
Many thanks for your comments TwinMarlin, appreciated. I also tried to get just a day of the week (with no icon) to display, but so far I have not been able to - I have parked that for the time being.
Regards, Stuart
Many thanks for escalating this Ron. When you refer to âthe next releaseâ what release are you referring to? Watch update? OS update? Would this mean that the displaying or not of the Icon would be down to whether a Text and Icon complication was chosen over Text Only, i.e. the way it should be intuitively configured?
Also, please see my previous comments on the Day of the week complication. I could not display just the Day of the Week without an icon.
I believe @Boshra explained this earlier. It will prioritize the selection, if that selection (without the icon or image) is not available it will use the next complication.
I think a lot of complications were written for API 28 but that will be I think they will need to be updated to API 30 by the end of August and hopefully that will resolve some issues.
I have a Galaxy Watch6 pre-ordered for next week and I am very curious how everything works on that. GW4 and GW5 will also be updated to Wear4 at some point this year.
Finally, there is WFS 1.5.x but I do not know the schedule for that to be released.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
Many thanks Ron
Regards, Stuart
Hi Everybody,
I have read the above post just now and still the text size is so ini mini tiny small 
The steps to upsize the complication text and image/icon I have looked for but the complication slots in WFS can not be upsizedâŚ
Can anyone show me how to upsize the text? As I want to be able to create my own watch faces instead of paying 2-15 Euro for a watch which is not 100% to my tast.
