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AG1951

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Oct 1, 2025
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Jus got my Apple Watch Ulta 3 and I am using the new Waypoint face.

I live in the UK and all distances in the activity app and compass app are set to miles and compass. In every other place I can find the distance units show correctly as miles.

However on the Waypoint Face the range is shown in kilometres - any idea how to change this to miles??
 
You need to change the measurement system in settings. Settings - General - Language & Region - Management System. Change it from UK to US! Leave it a second then click on the Radius area on the watch face it should now show Mi. I did notice that it changed the weather to Fahrenheit but you can change that back to celsius in the app settings.
 
Not the same but I’m in the UK and prefer to have all measurements in metric. Always worked well for me until I first got an AW and the map directions on the watch would be in imperial despite my phone showing metric at the same time. Drove me mad for a few months as I couldn’t find a resolution and then one day I noticed it had corrected itself. I don’t think I caused the change, maybe a software update or restart caused the setting to be finally picked up correctly on the watch?
 
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