How can I get the old Modular Watch face back?

scruffxscruffx wrote:

I’ve invested time and sincere effort here to clarify/explain intents and it’s just exhausting/feels hopeless.

If your intent were to find out if you can change the face or to find out how to tell Apple you're not happy with the decision, there really wouldn't be much for you to explain or clarify.

This is so true AveryAK! For a company that’s always touting how much they do for “accessibility” this is the complete opposite. It clearly shows that unless their designer is on the “accessibility design team” they really have no clue, and don’t care for the broad customer base.

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.

I agree, so frustrating that the date and time are the least flexible complications in terms of location and size and yet the most important.

They kept the Mickey Mouse face…why not just keep the Modular and add the Infographic?

Apple use to think through these decisions affecting user experience…that’s what set them apart. I hope they aren’t abandoning user experience for the sake of ‘new’.

You are so right!!!! I have called everyone and emailed and text everyone i could think of with NO LUCK!!! What can we do??? Why get rid of a good thing. I see No reason to take it away. PLEASE BRING IT BACK!!! I work in a Hospital and use my watch everyday Now it’s not worth it!!!

I have been chatting with apple all morning. I turned off the middle complication removing that stupid 5-day forecast. I am not interested in the wind, rain, UV index, my schedule, or any other option they have listed. You do have to scroll way up to the top to see the off choice. I did ask that Apple please make the middle have an option for the time, so that would be our focal point, and we could change the top right to something else....or not lol. She submitted a ticket for this.

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........

Thank you. I am hating the new modular face just because I can’t see it. I tried the extra large face and you can add the date on there but I miss my temp being on there. If they added a couple of extra complications on the extra large would be good also.

I just updated my watch to find the same problem. After 3 years using the same face it was deleted on me overnight. This is the second time Apple has removed features from my watch. The first was Force Touch which worked better then the replacement.

It really sucks. You can’t even have a dark background. Everything looks washed out. I would have never updated if I knew. I’m going to change my setting to stop automatically updating. I need to make sure they didn’t do anything stupid before updating. Like this change.

Certainly your choice to not update. But a very good choice. By not updating you skip important security updates, which protect you and your data. And you miss options you might enjoy or appreciate.

It's never bothered me when Apple changes watch faces, which they routinely do. I change faces a lot and just go find something new to use for a while.

The Modular face and complications were perfect for people with poor vision. This is not to mention the fact that this was a very functional face.

all the other faces and not the Modular face are hard to see.

Why on earth remove it? Bring it back and ad whatever you want.

Whoever made that decision why!!!!

[Edited by Moderator]

I’m sorry this is why I don’t post on social media media. I am unfamiliar with the rules.. watch face is a serious issue for people with poor vision. What’s the use of your form if I can’t post what is on my mind.

I won’t post again.

So, eventually this thread did get to Apple through a Moderator?

I am sure many (All?) of us used the Apple feedback AND vented on this thread.

#BBMF (Bring Back the Modular Face)

And, thank you moderators for keeping threads like this from chaos.

For that person saying this is not a complaint forum and only a technical forum.

This is a platform for users to ask questions, request information, voice their opinion on or about Apple products. If we have enough users complain, and other sites see the complaints, they may make it more publicly known. and, we may get that feature back.

This place is not a place to keep quiet about the technical limitation Apple has implemented.

Cheers