After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

This is very frustrating, I would transition between different watch faces multiple times a day. Why would Apple remove such a simple and user-friendly mechanism?

One of the reasons many people like the Apple Watch is because they can switch back-and-forth between various watch faces without difficulty. Apple, please fix this now.

I have never once accidentally changed my watch face and if I did it’s easy enough to swipe it back.like others have stated swiping through watch faces was my way of easily navigating complications, now it’s inconvenient. Also why do we need to get to the “smart” stack 2 ways by either swiping up or crown twist? I really hope they bring back the left/right swipe watch face change

I also use multiple watch faces. I don’t always want the ‘active’ information displayed and swipe over to that face to sync my Peloton workouts - usually at the last second because I forget beforehand so the long press and switch is not slick at all. I use a different face for work with the settings I need. Outdoor recreation/ golfing has its own set up as well. Quick access to the multiple faces was my favorite feature of the watch. Please fix this.

Yep just updated mine and found the same issue. Would not have if I knew it was gonna happen. In addition when I swipe up from the bottom I no longer have the feature like the water lockdown!!!! I used it a lot where are those features now?

I now like my watch instead of love it. Please change back so we can easily swipe between faces. The “improved” method creates just enough of a hassle that I just no longer use my other faces. If I cannot seamlessly swipe to an adjacent face that has different apps, it really does not work for me.

All the hundreds of posts I have read about what a numbskull move It was to take something as efficient, user-friendly, and effective as being able to swipe between watch faces, and now, making it as complicated as driving a Tesla w/ AI capable features.

In the past I had one screen for health, one for working out with heart rate, music and bike app, and other special faces set specifically for work and Global travel.

2 years ago I THANKED Apple for designing the best smart watch, and the most effective adaptable watch designed.

I’ve seen multiple suggestions but I go back to the original question to Apple………. WHY take something that was perfect and go backwards, downgrading into something less than a Samsung or a Timex

My main face is the kaleidoscope. I found you can use the crown with the face if you tap the face first. It dims the outer area of the face but the crown then will control the kaleidoscope like before. But not being able to swipe anymore to easily change the face sucks. I use multiple faces daily for different purposes as well.

I came on w.the same problem as you interacting with watch faces. Fi me specifically Solar Dial. Anyway, I eventually found an answer on Reddit. Tap the watch face once and then the crown will interact with the face again

Please Apple restore the ability to swipe between watch faces!!

Swiping between faces was something I used multiple times per day and would literally have not updated had I known I would lose this feature.

there are a number of bugs with this latest updates - mainly with complications not working… I’ve always been an early updated, but the watch 10 has me planning to wait and read up on people’s experiences in the future.

Hey hey! Don’t talk like that bout Microsoft….u forgot bout “Apply” lol

i agree tho it’s badly thought out. For 8 generations of Apple Watch and watch OS we’ve trained u to use it like THIS but now out of nowhere we threw all that out and want u to get to everything totally different and un-intuitively. I miss u Steve Jobs

It seems to me we are in the Widget Era, and not only on the watch., on iphone and iPad as well. Widgets are a major feature in Mac OS Sonoma. Widgets don’t sit comfortably with apps. On the watch widgets do not sit well with complications and apps. I guess a wearable device with 9 billion transistors should never have been called a “watch”., But here we are folks, it’s widgets, a stack of widgets and even a Smart Stack of widgets.

The pity is the implementation of widgets and stacks is particularly poor on the watch.

There are some features that I really like about Apple Watch and others I do not notice.

I just googled how do I change watch faces since the last upgrade and I found this thread. One does not realize how much they have enjoyed a feature until it is taken away. I am an Apple Watch addict. I have upgrade my last 4 just because I have the cash to do so. I had a watch that I upgraded just to have stainless steel then because it had a bigger face and then because the uptime had a substantially longer battery life which I question is it is really that much longer. But I can at least monitor my sleep and still have battery to take on another day. Or charge while I shower and I am ready to go.

What I do know is my experience thus far has not been one of “awesome job Apple I love this new change.” Instead it has been one of “what happen to the face swipe function and why can’t I intuitively figure it out. The key word being intuitively.

I am a nurse, a hospice nurse to be exact. Prior to the upgrade when I have to listen for heart tones with my stethoscope for one minute prior to pronouncing the time of death of patient I use to be able to, as I am bent over the bed stethoscope in one hand and with the other swipe to the face that had the sweeping second hand and listen quietly as the family looked on. after the last update I have resorted to asking Siri to set a timer which in itself as I am staring at the chest of a deceased loved one in a home with grieving individuals is the last thing I want to do. Before it use to be a smooth function now I have to change a multiple year behavior I had created. The last time I pronounced was when I realized that the swipe function was removed so I am struggling to find a clock with a second hand after I tried several times to swipe. While a room full (10 people) anxiously stared at me waiting to hear the words of their loved one had died.

more to come I ran out of characters…..

Needless to say I am not super excited about this change. Will I leave Apple Watch…no but it was not an upgrade. The comment about the stacks is supportive but just because the iPhone uses stacks does not mean the watch has to as well.

As a nurse, I’ve had multiple roles in my 20+ year career one of those roles has been for me to serve within the field of electronic medical records. The one thing I have learned is if you want to frustrate people then just add more steps to what was a very simple process. I have spent hours that could measured in weeks of listening to physicians and nurses count the number of mouse clicks it takes them to get from one screen to another to perform a simple task. Apple has done just that. You have taken a simple and intuitive process and turned it into a complex multi step process. Apple lost focus of asking the question how are our customers (the Apple family) using their devices?

We want our devices to work with us seamlessly. We want them to enhance our lives not complicate our lives. For me the fact that I can silence my phone and my watch and when I’m getting a call from another important situation, say another family, I can look at my watch without being interrupted by a ring, and I can continue my visit with the family that I’m with. I like the fact that I can monitor my fitness, activity and standing throughout the day. I like the fact that for the most part I can monitor my heart rate that I get something that reminds me to take a moment of mindfulness for myself. These are all wonderful functions, but they are not the primary source of what a watch is meant to do, which is to tell time. This is true when it comes to electronic medical records everybody loves the fact that everything is in one place but a simple function of writing vitals down on a sheet of paper is turned into a 15 step process just to get to that screen , it’s an inconvenience not an improvement. The same is true when changing what people used to use to allow them to adjust the face to wherever they were in the function of their day. We all do not live in one world all day long that is the beauty of swiping between faces.

The beauty of a well tuned smart watch is that it allows us to continue to keep track of time and date while adjusting it seamlessly to the different roles and interests we have throughout our day. If the creators of these smart devices begin to see this “watch” as a wrist computer and they make their function more complicated then I may as well return to my classic dress watch and my Ironman training watch. Because then once again I am controlling how my time peace serves in my life as opposed to me serving my time peace. Yes the health functions are nice. But it has not completely altered my health. It has assisted me in some areas.

Apple, I believe you should strongly reconsider this upgrade and maybe look at it as a downgrade. Thank you for hearing our voices. Keep the focus. The Apple Watch is still a watch that should be able to intuitively adjust to our roles in a day. I don’t want it to be an another version of my iPhone. If I did then I would just strap my iPhone to my wrist.

I had 7 faces. Now I have one. I use Infograph because it has 8 complications - and it has a second sweep hand.

I suggest you “pin” the Timer widget to the top of the Smart Stack.

Not very elegant but I appear to be short of real solutions; I would call it a “workaround” pending a hopeful return to the os9 way of switching faces.

Fix this please! I miss my easy to use swipe to change up my iwatch faces. Each face styled with appropriate complications are used according to what I’m doing in that part of the day. The swipe feature to change faces was quick and very effective. Please fix this. I feel stuck now!!