Date is missing as complication in Watch OS7

This is a ridiculous answer. I must download the Apple Calendar app to see the date on my watch? This was never the case prior to this most recent update. Why? What is the purpose? I cannot use this calendar, now I have to keep the app to know what the date is?

With previous versions of watchOS the Date complication was independent. With watchOS 7 it's part of Calendar. When adding the Calendar complication Today's Date can be selected. If Calendar was removed from the paired iPhone, it will also be missing from the Apple Watch.

if you have removed it from your phone, like I had, go to the App Store and look it up and download it.

thilak64 wrote:

This is just ridiculous to expect one to use Apple calendar on phone to use a watch face with date. Please fix this!!

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. We are powerless to fix anything.

You are welcome to send Apple feedback

https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch.html

I just had this today. Downloaded the calendar app to my phone. Kept trying from my phone and it wouldn't show up in my app list. But then I went onto my watch (which did have the calendar app on the screen with all the apps now). I did the long press on my watch face, edited it, and was able to select the calendar as a complication to go into the face where it had been before. But I had to do it on my watch, not my phone.

The 'fix' was about 6 hrs after my last post when Apple quickly updated to iOS 14.0.1 and watch 7.0.1.

The date immediately appeared on my watch once that update happened.

Now the date complication shows on both iPhone and watch.

Make sure your phone is updated to 14.0.1 and watch updated to 7.0.1

If needed, you can delete and reinstall the iCalendar on the phone and make sure it is active on your watch. Took me 3 days to get this to work but that was just before the updates listed above.

ivonnemac wrote:

I agree . This is ridiculous. Why are we forced to download useless apps for this to work ?

No one says you have to use the Apple Calendar app. It just has to be installed. Just leave it in the App Library and ignore it.

mikelle192 wrote:

Missing Day & Date from the face of my Apple Watch seems impossible to restore. HELP

Did you delete the pre-installed Calendar app from your iPhone? If so, re-install it. That will return the day/date complications to your Watch.

It’s a bit tricky. Go to the watch app. Make sure you have added calendar to the apps and dock.

‘Go to your watch face and one of the complications. Not all watch faces will let you add the calendar.

‘For the calendar, there is an option to add the calendar OR the date. Be sure to check “date.”

I agree, this is ridiculous. Why make something more complicated than it was before? I don’t use Apple’s default calendar so I removed it. Makes no sense to incorporate such a simple feature, the date, into an unnecessary app. Just another example of apple forcing its users to use their products only. Once my watch and phone expire, I’m switching to Android products. Already went back to Windows when my Mac died.

KDfilm wrote:

I agree, this is ridiculous. Why make something more complicated than it was before? I don’t use Apple’s default calendar so I removed it.

And you still don't have to use it. It just needs to be on your phone. You just have to leave in stored somewhere in a folder you never look at (or the App Library). Not complicated at all!

I also had this issue on my Series 3. Guess when i installed Google Calendar last year it also removed the default Apple Calendar. I couldn't resolve this issue with just a reinstallation of Apple Calendar, i had to uninstall Apple Calendar and Google Calendar, then reinstall Apple Calendar!

JL

Also, never had Apple calendar on my iPhone. But, did have the date & day of the week on my Apple Watch before last 2 “update”. Don’t need another calendar on my phone. I do NEED date & day on my watch!

thanks

copnomo wrote:

Also, never had Apple calendar on my iPhone. But, did have the date & day of the week on my Apple Watch before last 2 “update”. Don’t need another calendar on my phone. I do NEED date & day on my watch!

thanks

Apple changed where it gets the date information to is uses information from the Calendar app. Things change. This is one of them.

If you need the data on your Apple Watch, then install the Calendar app.

"You can have them any color you want as long as it is black." Henry Ford - a 100 years ago. I guess if you are the only car maker in the world you can Tell consumers to heal to. But, Oh yeah, I forgot there is Android... or even a $50 Citizen watch will give you the day and date...