How can I get the old Modular Watch face back?

Please please bring back old modular face with larger views especially weather! Why would Apple change this? I can not see 5 days on screen! You should have at least kept the older face design as an option. This has been most frustrating!

please please bring back the old faces....so much more choice now but in many ways more limited, ie day and date in the middle, cities from around the world time and weather ect so clean from a graphics perspective and now overload with many of the faces and with simple just no choice....oh dear what a horrible step backwards. why not have the new and leave alone what many of us loved???

I agree. The new face is cluttered with information I don't need and it is too small to read. Makes the watch face ugly. There was no warning that installing the upgrade would do this, essentially ruining the watch face. None of the other faces in the face gallery are as useful as the old modular face.

Very frustrated Apple just changes a watch face so many use and faces are already very limited. Let us put the time where we want it and allow options for font size. By the way, this is a watch. Being forced to have time small and in forced location is just stupid.

TUGC15 wrote:

Very frustrated Apple just changes a watch face so many use and faces are already very limited. Let us put the time where we want it and allow options for font size. By the way, this is a watch. Being forced to have time small and in forced location is just stupid.

Did you submit feedback to Apple?

my phone updated and remove my modular face. The new pro face the print is too small for me to see. I do not need a graph. I don’t need it to tell me it’s activity already know that just give me my steps, calories and distance in the old format. I have tried searching modular compact and it doesn’t give me the same information.

I to am I’m very disappointed they took this face away. My husband visually impaired and is a diabetic with an insulin pump and can’t read his dexcom on the watch now. Since they remove this face he has not worn his watch at all. None of the face have large enough numbers to read. He is looking for a watch to read. Please put it back please

I’m not updating my watch because of this. All of my friends that have- lost the modular face and hate the replacement. Apple! Bring it back!! No one cares to read microscopic daily weather reports- can easily look that up on the iPhone- which we all have.

I agree. The new forced change in the modular face makes me want to throw my watch away. It's too busy and the important functions are too small and cluttered among unwanted features. Biggest unwanted feature is the weather module. Give me the old simple one back. PLEASE.

I have read way far past the first post and what I see is that for over 2 months with countless people posting feedback to apple, nothing has changed. Thick I’ll try the Watch app others have mentioned as clearly Apple doesn’t give a c***!

I already did that as did countless others over the past few months. Would love just one example of Apple changing things...over a decade later of using Apple products exclusively (MacBook, iPhone, iPad and all the accessories) and I haven't seen that to be the case, myself. Maybe you know better. Having said that, my solution is to go back to my original Apple Watch that has the interface I need and return the new one I just bought and will buy a continuous O2 monitor as that is the only reason I wanted the new watch, and that will save me about $300! (Good continuous O2 monitors run in the $150 range.)

And anyway, here's a news flash: the O2 monitor on the Apple watches requires one to be perfectly motionless for 15 seconds - difficult to do when one is heaving/panting with low O2 levels. So it's back to my SE 1st gen, I'm sure I'll be happy with it for quite a while longer: I was perfectly happy with my original (used) Series 1 for years. Fortunately I'm not one to always need the latest, greatest, most up-to-datedness tech! ;-)

Hope everyone else can find a solution that works for them!

canderson16 wrote:

I already did that as did countless others over the past few months. Would love just one example of Apple changing things.

The most recent example is the battery percentage on phones with the notch. Apple added it in iOS 16 after a lot of feedback. However, people didn't like the way it looked and there was more uproar. Apple changed it again.

I'd guess that the kind of change that people are asking for in the Modular face is exactly the kind of change that Apple is most likely to make. They aren't going to, for example, stop requiring 2FA even though people have asked for that.

canderson16 wrote:

I already did that as did countless others over the past few months. Would love just one example of Apple changing things...over a decade later of using Apple products exclusively (MacBook, iPhone, iPad and all the accessories) and I haven't seen that to be the case, myself. Maybe you know better. Having said that, my solution is to go back to my original Apple Watch that has the interface I need and return the new one I just bought and will buy a continuous O2 monitor as that is the only reason I wanted the new watch, and that will save me about $300! (Good continuous O2 monitors run in the $150 range.)

And anyway, here's a news flash: the O2 monitor on the Apple watches requires one to be perfectly motionless for 15 seconds - difficult to do when one is heaving/panting with low O2 levels. So it's back to my SE 1st gen, I'm sure I'll be happy with it for quite a while longer: I was perfectly happy with my original (used) Series 1 for years. Fortunately I'm not one to always need the latest, greatest, most up-to-datedness tech! ;-)

Hope everyone else can find a solution that works for them!

Really? Let's see, if you use MacOS, when Ventura was released recently, System Preferences were completely bulldozed in favor of a completely new version to get to settings. On Apple Watch, the water lock was changed from rotate the digital crown to push in and hold the digital crown. The way you open Control Center on Apple Watch has changed over the years. The way you now completely power down Apple Watch, is different in WatchOS 9.

I know you asked for just one example, but to be honest, the day isn't long enough for me to chronicle the changes new iOS/iPadOS/MacOS/WatchOS have brought over the years.

I don't think he's refering to changes in general. In fact, your comment makes the point @canderson16 is making...

Apple will change things because they feel like it or because it's "new" and "cool" causing a user interface problem for many people, and then they rarely change it back. As if they always know better.

I tried WatchSmith as suggested above and it's world time froze today. I use this all day at work, so I had to go back to the microscopic Apple complication with it's microscopic little sun and moon, and reading glasses...

My comment was that Apple changes things. They always have and they always will. They suggested in all these years, they didn't recall changes. I answered the question as I believe it was framed. I could be wrong however.

If we want to limit it to things Apple changed, then changed after user complaints a great example would be how messages are deleted on iPhone when iOS 16 was released. When iOS 16 was released, Apple made it a multiple step process to delete a message, where you forced to decide if the message should be reported as spam. People complained aplenty and soon after, an update was released removing the requirement, giving back a simpler "delete" option for messages.