After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

This! I am so frustrated with this change! I had two different watch faces with different setups. Not being able to easily and quickly swipe between them is such an annoying thing. Why do this change Apple?

Yes, it’s a pretty poor implementation of a new philosophy, and , as I’ve said in an earlier post , these issues were raised in the Beta.

7 Widgets is nowhere near enough and only one widget with only 3 complications won’t do.— if the new focus is a minimal number of faces, or using a face with only one or two complications. And where’s the communication widget for email, messages & phone? MIA?

I’ve yet to see much “smartness” in the machine learning that manages the Smart Stack.

And why the OS9 way of swiping between faces was hobbled in OS10 is beyond me.

All we can do, as Bob Harris says, is bang away on the Apple Feedback system.

Note >others MAY have complained about. Who, I wonder. I've never once in all the years I've had Apple watches accidentally switched faces, quite the reverse actually. If my finger was too wet or too dry the swipe wouldn't swipe.

Pfui and a pox on all your houses, iOS 10 and 17 mechanics!

You can't, until or unless Apple hears the howls of fury and chagrin and changes back to the simple, sensible swipe.

There's a feedback form but I didn't think to copy the link so I could pass access to it on.

I wonder how long this particular piece of iOS 10/17 idiocy will last...

I think if it worked as intended it wouldn’t be more complicated. I had 42 complications spread over 7 faces. That’s a lot of swiping backwards and forwards. Changing faces is more complicated, but we’re not supposed to use the watch like that in OS10. (Yes, I know. How dare they. But that’s Apple)

The new Smart Stack is designed to give you the info you’re looking for by a swipe up, or turn of the crown, from any watch face. The problem is Smart Stack widgets don’t work anywhere near as well as they should. In fact, the Smart Stack is a disaster.

I’ve failed to set up the smart stack to replicate the info and data that 42 complications gave me.

Oh, no, it's intentional, apparently. One speculation here is that someone decided some "may" have found it hard to swipe between faces. And of course it's so much easier to press and swipe?

Thoughts... "If it ain't broke... " KISS-- No, I'm not sending love. Keep It Simple, Stupid.

I did find out that it's possible to edit what's almost a worst aggravation: the former control center swipe screen that now tells you the time (I thought that's what the watch face was for?) among other clutter. A long press on that screen puts pluses and minuses on the app icons so at least you can clear out the ones imposed on you. I suppose you could add the 'complication' functions that used to be so easy to access from a watch face but I'd sure rather have the old screen back!

I have to wonder how long the side button's going to last as more and more keeps getting assigned to it. On the watch the new one replaced it was getting very hard to make a press on the side button register.

Everyone - please take 1 minute to let Apple know this needs to be changed IMMEDIATELY. Here is the official feedback link: http://Apple.com/feedback

They are telling support reps that we (end users) simply need to get used to the design change. That’s a no-go for me.

Please change it back or at least make it option. We don’t have time for this…many of us use that feature daily (hourly) and the difference in ease of use is mind-boggling!

zeteticos wrote:

Oh, no, it's intentional, apparently. One speculation here is that someone decided some "may" have found it hard to swipe between faces. And of course it's so much easier to press and swipe?

My suspicion is that a lot of people thought it was too easy to swipe accidentally. I know I submitted feedback about that. I hated it when my watch was showing a face I hadn't intended.

zeteticos wrote:

What if you just click the newest iOS on the list and write your (our!) gripe? And post here if that works.

Apple doesn't respond to feedback directly. You'll know if works if they release an update that changes things.

My problem was the opposite on both the old and the new watch -- if my fingers were too dry or too wet the face wouldn't swipe until the skin on my finger was properly au point.

I lived in fear until I got the Edge bumper frames for my watches so the frame may have prevented accidental swipes of all kinds.

zeteticos wrote:

My problem was the opposite on both the old and the new watch -- if my fingers were too dry or too wet the face wouldn't swipe until the skin on my finger was properly au point.

I lived in fear until I got the Edge bumper frames for my watches so the frame may have prevented accidental swipes of all kinds.

That's quite possible. I've never used any kind of case on my watch. For me, that was the whole point of paying extra for the stainless steel with the sapphire crystal, its durability. I've had an original Watch, a Series 2, a Series 4, and now the Series 7. Hardly a mark on any of them. And I'm not exactly graceful.

Even with the bumper I got some pretty good gouges on my old watch face, which is why I got the new stainless watch and was forced to upgrade to 10/17.

I live in the country and fixing fencing, plumbing, and whatever else falls apart is rough on a watch, and I get really nervous without the fall detection function (haven't gotten up the nerve to deliberately bang my new watch hard enough to get asked if I fell! Wonder if 10 messed with that...) After spending all that money I wouldn't dare leave my beautiful new watch nekkid.

Had any good stawdust lately?

IdrisSeabright wrote:

My suspicion is that a lot of people thought it was too easy to swipe accidentally. I know I submitted feedback about that. I hated it when my watch was showing a face I hadn't intended.

I think a lot of people complained because it was too easy to make unintended swipes. There might also be a case for users with accessibility needs particularly around hand coordination and motor control. They can find it difficult to make a smooth and consistent swipe action, but the new method locks the watch in swiping mode until a deliberate tap selects the desired face and releases the watch back to normal operation.

zeteticos wrote:

I get really nervous without the fall detection function (haven't gotten up the nerve to deliberately bang my new watch hard enough to get asked if I fell! Wonder if 10 messed with that...) After spending all that money I wouldn't dare leave my beautiful new watch nekkid.

The watch doesn't need impact to activate the fall detection - in fact the probability of hitting (and damaging) the watch in a fall is probably rather low (fortunately). I have had several unexpected false alerts in previous software versions, including while using a hammer, shaking a folded bed sheet to open it out, and having my arm yanked suddenly by an energetic dog. None of these involved impact, just a sequence of motion, inertia, and sudden deceleration which matched one of the learned patterns indicating a possible fall.

zeteticos wrote:

Even with the bumper I got some pretty good gouges on my old watch face, which is why I got the new stainless watch and was forced to upgrade to 10/17.

I view the watch as a tool. I try to take reasonable care of it (and I have AppleCare) but, I really don't stress too much about it. I don't expect to have it for more than three years. Now, if it were a Patek Phillipe that I wanted to pass down through the generations, I might feel differently!