After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

WatchOS 10.2 is out and the swipe to change the watch face is now an option to toggle on and off.

Go to Settings>Clock.

This infuriates me!!!! I have a utility screen I created that has calculator, timer, etc to let me quickly access certain tools. I have 3 screens I like to swap between based on what I’m doing. I hope Apple reads these as they took away one of the most useful aspects (to me) of my watch.

Come on guys, please bring back the watch face swipe as it was before watchOS 10. At least as an optional feature so people can choose whether to press and hold or just swipe. Maybe they’ll change their mind as they did with changing pages animation in the books where they brought it back eventually.

Major bummer, yes! I updated to 10 last night and was also shocked to find I had to long press, swipe and click to get to my other watch faces. Watch faces are my preselected groups of complications that I use throughout the day for different events and times of the day. A simple fun swipe that was replaced by multiple gyrations that will eventually drive me mad!!

i left feedback (10 is not there yet so I left the OS blank), they need to change this.

Feedback - Watch - Apple

It absolutely makes the watch unusable and it's frustrating that people are suggesting otherwise.

As I've written extensively here, this is more than 80% of my interaction with the device. Removing this user interface is removing the functionality of the device.

Prior to sending it back to revert to OS9, the only thing I was doing with it was putting it on to track fitness for an hour and a half a day. Then I would take the useless device off.

It's not crazy talk. It's FAR more than an annoyance. They have REMOVED THE USER INTERFACE. It's the same as if swiping home screens from iPhone or iPad were removed. Worse, really. It's like removing the Time from a watch.

If Apple doesn't listen to user feedback and revert the operating system to something that's functional, my current Series 8 on WatchOS 9 will be the last Apple Watch I own. This isn't a threat or a promise. It's not something I want. It's an inevitability that Apple has burdened users with. That's the part that hurts the most. Well, that and people claiming it's not unusable.

The more I consider it, the more I worry. Smart Stacks is supposedly the replacement for changing watch faces. Smart Stacks is a horrible design for people who want lots of information at a quick glance (this is what I thought all Apple Watch owners used their watches for). The crown is imprecise - it's wiggle-y. Not enough data is shown at once. It's cumbersome, inefficient, dynamic, and not predictable. It's a bad user interface for a smart watch. A smart watch should function primarily as a device to give you a lot of information as bold and efficiently as possible. WatchOS 10 fails on many accounts to do so. This is an observable and repeatable objective fact.

We’re just assuming this was why. They will consider changing features if enough people complain about it. There’s always going to be things we don’t like. It’s frustrating if it was something you depended on and had got used to. On the introduction of WatchOS 9 last year, they changed how you snoozed or stopped an alarm - you had to tap the face. This was all fine and dandy if wearing short sleeves but to those of us in the northern hemisphere we are wearing long sleeves (or ski gear) and we had lost the ability to just put our hand up the sleeve to feel for the button to do it. A couple of updates later they put it back. We can assume again that enough people complained this was an inconvenience.

This is such a bad change. I also normally would use multiple faces daily and just swiping to change it was quick, easy and convenient. But now I have found myself using the watch less and less.

Every single time I need to change the face it takes longer, is less user friendly and I am reminded of what has been taken away.

Yet again, the devs treat you like children trying to protect you from something that really didn't need to be changed. At least put it back and give us the option.

This desire to add function at the expense of usability, this "just one more click" mentality is counter to Steve Job's vision of make it work and make it simple.

Free the finger and bring back the swipe!

I hate this new change as well.

I have the different Modular watch faces set up to show and access different apps and info.

now when I switch to my weather face, I have to wait for all the weather info to load first before I can see it. It’s no longer a quick check.

And there are lots of other apps I like to be able to get to quickly in certain combinations in certain situations.

it’s now crippled.

I submitted the Feedback as well

But turning what was a single gesture action into a triple motion press/swipe/press is ludicrously over complicating what was a simple and intuitive control that after 4 years with my series 5 is very much ingrained in muscle memory.

I WAS going to upgrade to the series 9 this year but now I’m not so sure.

Since you're new in the Apple Support Communities, you are unaware of how many folks complained in this forum about the constant accidental switching of watch faces! Millions around the world welcomed the tap & hold to activate watch face swutching.

Now folks have a choice between the two.

IOS 10 is taking a while to get use to. It wasn’t too hard to touch the screen for a second and when it becomes smaller I can swipe between my different watch faces. That was AFTER I read the help in this forum.

I agree (and I’ve already complained thru feedback), but Apple have redesigned the UI so that navigating to a complication on a watch face is no longer the primary route to information. Very disappointing if you used Infograph and Modular and carefully set up your complications I am disappointed there’s no way to set up the Smart Stack on the phone. Doing it on the watch is fiddly.

Know what's a great way to get "information at a glance"?

Effortlessly swiping watch faces that have been precisely configured to offer information at a glance.

I really tried using Smart Stacks. It's imprecise. It's dynamic. It doesn't know what's on your mind.

With watch faces, I can easily swipe from one to the next to get a ton of information - at a glance. I can even swipe faces and open apps all in one motion as I'm raising my wrist before I even look at the watch because I know how they're designed. A predictable user interface is superior to an unpredictable one.

Using the crown to select app parts in Smart Stacks is a bad experience. And I'm just realizing now why they're pushing for this - VISION PRO.

There's no way Apple is going to change back to the superior UX of WatchOS 9 because WatchOS 10 is integrating UX elements from VISION PRO.

I very well may end up switching to some other brand of smart watch. That's disappointment and hurtful because I love Apple Watch so much. I love it being the only device I need when I leave the house. I can do that, I can rely exclusively on Apple Watch for days, because OS 9 is an intuitive, ergonomic, and joyful user experience.

Please Apple just give name the option to downgrade to watchOS 9...

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It seems that all watch faces display the time as 10:09 and then jump to the current time. That does seem to be new behavior but it happens in milliseconds and certainly isn't something to get ruffled about.