How to keep focus on normal watch face/prevent app from taking focus?
How can I make the watch keep focus on the normal face if an app is running in the background?
I have important complications on my watch face that I want to see whenever I look at my watch (raise my wrist) but there doesn't seem to be any way to prevent an app from grabbing focus.
For example, I use the Strava app to track runs/rides/walks. If I start recording an activity but then switch to the normal watch face by pressing the crown, Strava will take focus again the next time I raise my wrist. Even if I switch to the face to see the time and my complications, and then put my wrist down, the watch will automatically go back to Strava the next time I raise my wrist.
Other apps ("Now Playing" for example) seem to work the same way.
I hate this behavior but cannot seem to get rid of it no matter what watch settings I change. Is there something I am missing, or is this behavior by design? I should be able to run an app in the background on my watch and still have the default face be shown when I raise my wrist. I could even see the functionality of the watch simply restoring the last state of the watch when the wrist is race (or the screen in touched) but the fact that I manually and intentionally switch it to the normal face (time and complications) only to have it automatically switch back to an app...super frustrating.
Is there a setting I've missed? Or was this terrible behavior coded into watchOS on purpose?
Help!
iOS 14.4.2
watchOS 7.3.3
Apple Watch