Don’t update if you like swiping between watch faces!!
My biggest regret is updating my watch.
They took away one of the best features and that was swiping between watch faces. On a day to day basis I would use 2-3 depending where I am, what time it is and what I am doing. I had set them up for different things. My main was in the middle and then one to the left and one to the right.
Now in the last few days of having the update I’ve stop using the others watch faces because when I need to quickly do something it’s not quick anymore, I actually have to stop and manually change faces and I never realized how handy it was before because if I need something on those other faces except the main one I just no longer use it.
Yes I realise that it’s first world problems but removing that one feature has given me such a massive distain towards using my Apple Watch for anything besides fitness.
I have the 5 and I was planning on getting the 10 next year because maybe more features I could put across the three faces that I use but now, unless they bring the feature back I’m not buying a new Apple Watch until mine disintegrates.
And yes I realise I may be over reacting but swiping between faces was such an important feature for me!
I use one for work and one for when I’m not at work, I don’t find it cumbersome to switch
You can still use the swipe feature. Just press and hold the watch face. It goes into edit. Then you can swipe to the face you want. Takes an extra 2seconds.
Same for me. I kept a super clean one in the middle with a complication heavy one to one side, and a bright colorful one to the other, basically giving me a control center and a quick switch for certain outfits. I still swap when needed but I find myself just checking info on my phone more.
For sure. Not really in any conscious way, but I would just randomly swipe through different faces while I was waiting for someone to answer the phone or while a web page loaded. Now just leave it on the one face. The little extra friction is just enough to stop me bothering.
You’ve hit the nail on the head. They’ve added just enough resistance to the gesture to make it unnatural, less ergonomic, less intuitive
You just have to tap and hold for a second and then swipe to choose your watch face. It’s really not that big of a deal.
100% agree with you that this is a huge miscalculation by Apple.
yeah how often do normal people change faces. i hated how easily it could happen. best feature.
oh no now you gotta hold AND swipe to change faces? 😢 thats ONE whole extra step, now I will NEVER change watch faces again‼️ 😾
I used to swap between 2, but now I just take out my phone instead. It’s less of a hassle.
I’m swapping watch faces even more. I have them tied to different Focus modes which activate automatically.
All the people suggesting to use focus modes are assuming that the reason you want to swap between watch faces is predictable and based on time, day, location. What about when you just want to see info that’s on a different screen? Access a different complication on the fly?
I’d have no problem taking 5 seconds to change my screen when I go somewhere else, or on a weekend morning. It’s the dynamic “I need something from my other screen right now” situations where you want the quick swapping and that’s exactly what they’ve made clunky and awkward.
Good point, it was often quicker to swipe and use a complication than to scroll through the app list.
Well, basically yes. More folks do this for example if you go gym or run, you have a face with the needed complications, if you’re at night on sleep time, you get a darker face (I have mine red with blank bg), when I’m working mine have work related complications. That’s the thing, you put usability based on the context. It’s not like you’re going to randomly pull your Snoopy face for gym. Got it?
They just not willing to accept apple took away a perfectly working and amazing feature to settle with some mid ui experience
It wasn’t perfectly working and amazing to a lot of people. I am certainly in the camp where it would get changed accidentally frequently enough to be annoying. Now we just have a slew of post from the vocal minority impacting by the change for the negative. Also it is not that difficult to change still but less prone to be done so accidentally.
Now if they could do a similar change for iOS with pressing and holding the screen…
Yes, I actually like stylish faces without complications now. If I want to see my fitness metrics I simply turn the dial
I wear mine inside the wrist half the time: now not having accidental switches. Took about two minutes to get used to the new setup.
?? How come you get accidental swipes? I can imagine you triggering anything on the watch under the wrist when the angle enables the screen.
I don’t change faces as often anymore. Not because of the one extra step to swipe, but because I finally turned on AOD and have been using the Snoopy face. Those animations make me smile no matter what kind of mood I’m in.
AOD?
Always On Display
🤦♂️ Could not come up with it.
I’m with you. OS 10 significantly degrades my personal experience with the watch to the point I might look at non Apple Watches when this one needs to be replaced next year. Even quickly glancing at the weather or fitness or heart data is more cumbersome because they made once scrollable data into a series of slow moving single screen views. The fitness ring is a great example of this change. I also have to press PHYSICAL BUTTONS more than ever in this version (the crown or side button) and that doesn’t feel like an Apple product to me at all.