WatchOS 9 removed the old Modular watch face and renamed the Infographic Modular to Modular. How can I get the old Modular back? I need the larger numbers for some of the complications like temperature.
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Apple Watch Series 4
If you actually read the thread you just posted to, you'd see no one on this user to user only forum has anything to do with Apple nor does anyone here have any ability to bring anything back. It's usually good to read past the first post.
There is a feedback link posted multiple times in the thread, which you can use to let Apple know what you want.
If you actually read the thread you just posted to, you'd see no one on this user to user only forum has anything to do with Apple nor does anyone here have any ability to bring anything back. It's usually good to read past the first post.
There is a feedback link posted multiple times in the thread, which you can use to let Apple know what you want.
Late to party but may help someone. While it sucks that Apple screwed the modular watch face you can easily use Watchsmith from the AppStore and create some new complications that look like the old ones and add to the new Infograph watch face.
The basic complications are free to use/add
Don't be sorry for posting here. Just understand there is no one here on this user to user only forum from Apple and no one here can bring back the face you like. Do let Apple know your thoughts using the link provided above multiple times as that is the only way your voice can truly be heard. Here it is again --> Product Feedback - Apple
Josefy wrote:
How can we get back our modular faces with the larger numbers that show a lot more complications?
You cannot. However, you can let Apple know that you'd like it to be an option in the future.
Welcome to the club Josefy. Many of us a very unhappy with the WatchOS9 update.
There is no way to revert to the old watch faces.
Your best best is to send you feedback to Apple. Here is the link:
Well guys, here is a solution that I've implemented. It may not work for most, but maybe it can help some...
Quick backstory:
We've had 5 Apple Watches. S0 38 Stainless, S0 42 Alum, S3 42 Alum, S4 40 Alum, and S5 40 Alum. Sadly 3 got stolen at once, leaving us with a S0 38 Stainless that Apple repaired in 2020 (sent a refurb), and the S5 Alum wich is the one that got "updated" and ruined the modular face that I used every day for work (2 world times, weather, stocks, etc.)
I swapped my wife's Series 0 38mm for my Series 5 40mm. The S0 is too old for OS9, so the old modular face is there and is more legible than the newer watch with the larger screen.
So... if you don't need the new fangled features of a Series 4 onward, get a Series 3. They're still available super cheap and your old complications are there! (Hopefully apple doesn't try to hard to "update" that.)
Solution #2: Get a normal watch! If you are not using the health or fitness stuff, get a G-Shock, Seiko, Tissot, Rolex, whatever. Many of them have large numbers, and complications that will never be changed by a dumb software update. Even a $30 Casio might be good enough. I recently got a G-Shock GWM-5610U, and it's great! Solar powered, syncs by radio, has a legible world time, etc. (My Apple watch has sat on it's charger quite a lot lately.) In a few weeks I'm looking at ordering a Casio Lineage LCW-M100TSE (Titanium, sapphire, solar, radio, legible digital complication...) If that looks and functions as reviewed, my Apple watch days may be over.
We were about to buy 2 new Apple watches this year, but no way. This whole experience has shown me there are other options. I know Apple doesn't give a flying squirrel's tail that I don't buy 2 watches. Their hype machine will bring in loads more hipsters than they lose old folks. But at least I know I've voted with my wallet.
I didn't lose the Modular face when I updated to WatchOS 9. It was my active face when I updated and didn't change after the update. However, I did just get a new Apple Watch, and when I set it up as a new watch found that the old Modular face was not an option. So I erased it and set it up from the backup of my current watch and the old Modular face that we all like came across and is now on my new watch. The old Modular is far superior to the new versions they offer.
Apple is not here.
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RRR75 wrote:
We all make mistakes, the proper recourse when they occur is to make corrections. Here’s your opportunity to do so.
No one posting or reading in this forum had anything to do with the change in the modular face. You need to tell Apple. The feedback link has already been provided in this thread.
Read the entire thread you posted to. No one here can bring back the old modular face. Use the feedback link which as been posted multiple times to share your thoughts with Apple.
Read the thread you just posted to. You can't is the simple answer. Use the feedback link posted multiple times throughout the thread to let Apple know what you want.
PLEASE read the thread you just posted to. Read it past the first post. See how this isn't Apple and no one can give it back. Use the feedback link if you want Apple to hear you.
It bears repeating that another user reported that resetting their watch to the factory settings and then setting it up with a backup from before the update restored the old version of the Modular watch face.
You cannot uninstall the new update on your watch. I have been chatting with Apple all morning as I woke up to the 5-day forecast invading my screen. Yeah NO.
While chatting with them, I did figure out if you scroll waaaaay up to the top of the middle complication, you can turn the middle complication off removing everything, so it ALMOST looks like the old modular face, but there is no option to put the watch time there, and there should be. You should be able to pick to put the date and time in any box, top left, top right, middle, bottom left etc. The representative agreed and sent the request to the appropriate parties. I told her nobody in their right mind, wearing a watch to know what time it was, wanted the 5-day weather forecast, UV index, rain or wind as the focal point on the watch lol........
michaelc15 wrote:
The complication icons are now bulky and not fully monochromatic. The clock and date forced white rather than the color I chose I pointless. Let me customize the font and complications colors back to the original Modular face.
No one here on this user to user only forum can bring back anything. Which you'd know if you had actually read past the first post in this thread. And you'd also see a Feedback Link posted multiple times for you to use to let Apple know your thoughts.
How can I get the old Modular Watch face back?
