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
Hmm I don’t seem to have lost the function. I use the modular ultra face primarily. I long press on it and can still swipe to other faces I’ve configured. Is this not what you mean though? I could be misunderstanding
You used to be able to swipe on the watch face and it would swipe between faces. It was nearly instant and extremely convenient.
I used to swap between 2, but now I just take out my phone instead. It’s less of a hassle.
oh no now you gotta hold AND swipe to change faces? 😢 thats ONE whole extra step, now I will NEVER change watch faces again‼️ 😾
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.
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…
Create a shortcut allowing you to select a watch face and then put that on your watch screen. Then you only have to press the button to select from multiple watch faces the one you want.
Yes… the button will take up valuable real estate on your watch but it’s an option towards a solution.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a93110faaac349f5804c6d6f8a91168d
Good point, it was often quicker to swipe and use a complication than to scroll through the app list.
I’m swapping watch faces even more. I have them tied to different Focus modes which activate automatically.
This
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.
No. I’m not a child and can adjust to new ways of doing things quite easily. That being said, the addition of the stack negates most of my old need to switch faces since now even the most bland face has instant access to anything I would have needed to swap to a face with complications for. So yea… I switch less, and that’s a good thing.
Once you commit to focus modes this ceases to become such an issue.
Eg. When I switch to my ‘fitness’ focus mode my Apple Watch face and iPhone homescreen all change instantly. And so can countless other things.
This is vastly more efficient than manually changing watch faces.
Switching between focus modes takes about as long or longer as switching faces now, and you have that ugly icon on your face indicating you’re in focus mode. This is not a solution for me. It’s even worse.
Yeah but there are many of us who don’t see any utility to focus modes. I have my Apple stuff set up the way I use it all the time, and therefore wouldn’t customize anything in the different “modes”. I only need to be able to change my watch face in under a second. Focus mode isn’t going to do that.
I don’t generally change my watch face. I ended up liking Modular enough that I’m sticking with that one 99% of the time. It’s easy enough to change the watch face on the iPhone app if I do decide to change it.
No, because I never used multiple watch faces. I found one that I liked and stuck with it.
I never even knew you could swipe to switch faces