How can I get the old Modular Watch face back?

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.

I agree bring back the old modular face back. I really dislike the new one I also need the larger face and really don’t need to see the days of the weather not really useful please bring the old face back!!

I’m a senior and the new Infograph Modular I can no longer read the detail daily forecast I the the middle of the screen. The old screen with the big letters for forecast and location is what I need. Anyone have suggestions on how I can add this back or is there a suggestion for a different watch face I can use. I really like having daily weather and location in big letters.

Agreed!! As a nurse I need the date and time to be central on my watch and now the date in the top right is just saying sat 1 is horrible not even the month!

I don’t want my freaking calendar on my watch I just want my old watch face back.

Exactly, thanks for submitting, nhhun . Please, everyone else who has visited here today — go to the link and lodge your complaint, too! Takes but a minute. We need Apple to see how many people are upset. Thanks, everyone.

PS Just noticed my typo earlier. I meant “ageist.” As someone else pointed out, this current watchface discriminates against those of us who no longer can read tiny font. Plus I am also frustrated they did away with the month.

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PS Just noticed my typo earlier. I meant “ageist.” As someone else pointed out, this current watchface discriminates against those of us who no longer can read tiny font. Plus I am also frustrated they did away with the month.

Isn't it rather ageist to assume that only older people have vision issues?

Fair point. It initially hadn’t even occurred to me it was even ageist until others here pointed it out. Then those with fine vision said they also didn’t appreciate the redesign since it was simply more aesthetically pleasing before. Now you’re pointing out that poor vision isn’t necessarily related to age, indeed true. But my whole point was simply to urge everyone to post their complaint with Apple, which I hope you did.

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But my whole point was simply to urge everyone to post their complaint with Apple, which I hope you did.

Everyone who doesn't like it should absolutely submit feedback. As should people who really like it.

Personally, despite having needed reading glasses for going on twenty years, I don't have any particular feelings about it one way or the other. It's a face I use (though not exclusively) and it's fine.

I think this is a post for all who want the old modular face back. Every comment (but yours) supports that for whatever the reason, which is why we all posted here. Futile as it may be, some of us are just asking everyone to post the complaint in the right place. 

You can certainly also encourage those who like the new face to submit positive feedback but this is not the group. And those who are indifferent but somehow found themselves here have probably glanced and moved on. If your purpose was just to point out reasoning flaws (eg, the inadvertent omission of a less populous group of younger people with vision issues, committed by whoever first started using “ageist” in here and all those who concurred thereafter, including me), you can check off that box. I don’t even need reading glasses and I hate the new off-center, tinier, month-missing face. Watch (pun intended) me now be accused of being a “face-ist” at the rate this innocent post is going! Anyway, I was just (like others who posted the proper link before me) trying to help this group get some traction. If you insist on the last word, at least make sure it includes wishing us luck we get the old face added back!

You seem to be mistaken as to what is happening here.

This is a honey pot. A topic thread that the Apple Support Communities hosts allow to exist to keep the fomenting in one place.

And so you know, there is no freedom of speech in the Apple Support Communities, it's not a democracy of any sort. You can say here what Apple allows you to say. Period. End of story.

If by honey pot you mean a sweet=supportive place, good. And if by fomenting you mean we are all riled up venting about the same issue, then also good. And I didn’t mean that literally nor is it a surprise Apple monitors what’s said here - my point was only that even if you love/are indifferent to the new design, sure, you’re still allowed to post that here… but why? If Apple allows us to complain as a group here and submit feedback there, that’s all I came for. 

But if this is a forum to debate the legitimacy of the initial post, then you are correct, not the place for me. I mistakenly thought this was a place for everyone in agreement about a poor design change to share makeshift repair ideas, commiserate and even try to get Apple to do something about it. It certainly looked like that.

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I mistakenly thought this was a place for everyone in agreement about a poor design change to share makeshift repair ideas, commiserate and even try to get Apple to do something about it. It certainly looked like that.

This is a technical support forum. So, yes, suggestions about fixes or workarounds are appropriate. Simply complaining is tolerated by the Hosts up to a point but it's not the fundamental purpose of the forums. And posting here has pretty much no effect on what Apple does. They don't read here for feedback or suggestions.

Also, there's nothing in the Terms of Use that says you can only post in the thread if you agree with the original poster or for that matter, with anyone.

Thanks for confirming. And I agree, would never think coming here to complain is the main purpose. In fact, it’s that very point — posting here has virtually no effect — that prompted me to concur by commenting on and reposting the feedback link, as it was getting buried in all the aggregating comments.  

Certainly visitors here can even rave about the new face (hence my preemptive comment earlier about free speech that another took way too literally)… but I guess I’m just confused as to why? We’re here to troubleshoot the new face and to try to get the old face back. If someone likes the new face, great, nothing more to be done, enjoy. So I didn’t get why such a comment would be pertinent/helpful in this thread (unless it’s to point out an improved aspect of the new face that the rest of us are all overlooking). But no, not stopping anyone, don’t worry.

TBH, joke or not, us here being accused as ageist or declaring this site as undemocratic/lacking freedom of speech is, IMHO, what I call vinegary, unnecessary, off-topic. As a Level 1, this thread is the very first time I’ve ever chosen to post (and I can count on one hand my total public posts *anywhere* online) but I was moved to repost the feedback link, in desperate hope of us lobbying Apple to bring the old face back. 

I’ve invested time and sincere effort here to clarify/explain intents and it’s just exhausting/feels hopeless. So don’t fear me posting “all over the forums” after this. I cannot compare to you Level 9/10 folks (min 50k/80k posts?) - I really have no more time/desire nor do I get a rise out of picking apart benign posts. But I’ve certainly been reminded of why people hate social media so I’ve just toggled the handy button to unfollow and I leave in peace and relief.