KFKING46 wrote:
Disappointed. My other watch face was photos of my deceased daughter. I liked showing her to friends when they ask. The long hold edit doesn’t bring it up even though it is another face I have saved. Boo
oh no, I'm so sorry. That sounds like an actual bug and not simply a UI choice- all my watchfaces are still saved.
I'm realising more and more that due to the customization options of watch faces and the ability to swipe left and right between them so easily, AND crucially also the ability to change the order of watchfaces so it wasn't just whichever one was created first- the watchfaces became a quick access carousel or whatever we'd set up. No "smart" order, no needing to concentrate on precise inputs- just swipe.
It feels like apple went "we have these stack things.. we really want people to use them. let's make them appear on a hair trigger. And let's not let them swipe anywhere else." Because have you noticed the stack thing comes up even if you swipe up from the middle or even top of the screen. I can literally swipe up from the top third of the display and still trigger the stupid smart stack.
I was wondering why I kept triggering it by accident- it's because literally any upwards swipe almost anywhere on the display will do it. I still can't get over the fact that the two things they pin to the top of the stack with apparently no customization ability is.. *checks notes* the time.. the date.. and 'now playing'. Like, I hope they didn't strain themselves too badly when they came up with that list of the most redundant information possible. I'm swiping *away* from my watchface which already has the time and date. What is 'now playing", it's literally in my ears at that very moment, I know what it is, and if I wanted quick access to pausing it, I'd use the controls on the audio device.
So in short, they decided that stacks were better than what everyone had already set up- and instead of adding it and letting people decide which added more value to their experience, they instead confiscated the option to do things the way people had already set up. And replaced a useful gesture that quickly and easily delivered a whole screen of highly customizable content with a screen that is not customizable and is locked into showing only redundant information, half the screen literally shows the same information as every watchface does.
"but then you can keep swiping up.."
no, because "smart" stacks order themselves "smartly" (AKA randomly) based on what the watch thinks your pattern is at that time/location/etc. So you can never simply blindly swipe and know where you're at1- you now always have to look, and if you want to get past the first whole-screen-collection of non-customizable redundant info, you have to be precise.
I actually think the stacks are not a bad idea. I'd love to have the option. Or even compose a watchface out of stacks, with only a tiny digital time at the top. That'd be dope. But the way this is implemented I'd literally rather stay on OS9 forever.
