Can you set a Watch Face based on a variable saved in Data Jar?

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Hi there,

I have a shortcut that automatically sets my Apple Watch face based on me arriving at a location. This works well. When I leave that location, I want to be able to automatically reset the watch face to its previous setting. I thought I’d be able to do this by saving the watch face in Data Jar (before changing the face), and that I’d then be able to retrieve this value and use this to reset the watch face:

Reset the watch face to the stored value (doesn’t work!)

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Unfortunately, this fails with a ‘Conversion Error’ saying the action failed because ‘shortcuts couldn’t convert from Text to Face’.

Of course! The data type stored in Data Jar is type:text, but you can only pass data of type ‘Face’ to the ‘Set active watch face to…’ action.

The only workaround I’ve come up with is using IF statements on the saved watch face variable and then linking the ‘Set active watch face to…’ action to those. But that’s clumsy and would need to be updated each time I add or delete a watch face.

Does anyone know of a good way to solve this?

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Here’s a worked examplethat doesn’t require hard coding and lots of if entries.

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d2aa8c3f8eb54be081bf6b242aed1304

It gives you a menu that let’s you choose a face to store in Data Jar, and then it gives you a second option to retrieve the face and set it.

Hope that helps.

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Thanks so much. That looks like it will do the trick nicely. I really appreciate your help - thank you

Fred