After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

zeteticos wrote:

I know of no one who uses only one watch face.

I only use one watch face - Infograph, because it has 8 complications, and I now primarily use Siri to access other functions.

In some cases, like Weather, Siri works better than the App

But that's just me. YMMV. And I understand the use Siri may not always be appropriate.

So far there's just over 2000 "me too"s. In my opinion, that's not a large enough group to cause Apple to rethink the watch UI & Navigation.

I have been a committed user of Apple hardware for decades. Not all changes in macOS, iOS and watchOS were improvements. But because of "Swipe-Gate" I researched for the first time whether others have the same problem and how they deal with it.

As suspected, I'm not alone. An update that needs to be explained to the customers so they can understand it is not well designed. Especially not when it replaces a completely intuitive gesture.

Replacing a "swipe" with a "longpress-swipe-press" is simply NOT a useful update for very many people, even if you disagree and strongly defend Apple’s decision.

The other changes to the dock, stack and button assignments aren't a step forward for me either, but at least they don't restrict me excessively.

I agree with you: What is being discussed here by how many people is not representative anyway. All it takes is a few people with a direct line to Tim Cook who want the swipe gesture back. Not every bad decision from Apple is forever (keyword Magsafe on MBP).

I'm sure the swipe gesture will come back. This is just too bad to stick with on principle.

just my 5ct, over n out ✌🏼😎

Doesn’t have to be one or the other.

All everyone wants is an option.  Choose simple swipe, or choose safety swipe method.

We didn’t get a choice, and now I’m stuck with buyers remorse on a watch Ultra 2.

Apparently they came up with « oh ppl complained about « « unexpected faces switch » » and so they nuked a pleasant and easy feature, rather to simply add a locking parameter for those who got « unexpected slidings »…

But what the he k with a simple lock button, to disable IF you want to slide faces?

and if they don’t like their multiple faces, well, trash them! Gosh, I don’t believe you got along with the lame justification.

settings-General-swipe between faces-"on or off"

How hard would that have been? Apparently, way to hard for Apple.

Apparently, as hard as having a default font for composing an email. (I've been waiting for 23 years for that. I still don't use Apple's mail program.)

ramesh200 wrote:

Great ! It works - can swipe across faces - what about the shortcuts like airplane mode, battery , torch

To get to the Control Center, press the side button. It is the oval button next to the digital crown, almost flush with the bezel.

Submitted feedback. I’ve never been so frustrated by an apple software update before WatchOS 10! Seriously thinking about reverting to the old OS

also really annoyed by the moving of control center to side button. Who uses the side button?!

Jnnn wrote:

also really annoyed by the moving of control center to side button. Who uses the side button?!

I use it all the time now that it brings up Control Center. It took me about a week to stop thinking about it.

justacustomer wrote:

…..the new and stupid tap-hold-swipe-tap method.

It’s not “new”.. maybe if you only used the phone for face editing you didn’t notice before.

What’s new is - it is now the only way of changing faces, and it is cumbersome.

After a couple of months of trying I still can’t get the Smart Stack to work fully and well in a way that replaces face switching. My solution is to use Siri (which I know is not for everyone in every situation)

it’s a pity “Favourites “ has also disappeared.

vikki175 wrote:

Me too , thanks for the advise , it’s easy to change watch faces now

Inconvenient though.

I can’t remember anyone on this forum complaining that faces changed accidentally, but then I’ve only supported Watch forum for 1 year

If Apple had to change this, they should have done it with an option right from the beginning.

I wonder how nobody have complained about this during the months of Beta testing?

For me I have some hard months regarding the Apple Watch and I will be very cautious regarding major updates going forward!

mgievers wrote:

If Apple had to change this, they should have done it with an option right from the beginning.

I wonder how nobody have complained about this during the months of Beta testing?

For me I have some hard months regarding the Apple Watch and I will be very cautious regarding major updates going forward!

People who use the public beta may not be a representative sample of all Watch users. Or, they may be and people who changes the faces all the time may be in a a minority. As LD150 said, we don't know.

Also, I suspect a lot of people load the public beta not so they can test it and submit feedback but just because they want the latest, shiniest toy.

Agreed, swiping between faces is critical for me. There is no reason to remove it and not add any additional functionality (swiping not does nothing, what an upgrade!). If anything they could make locking one an accessibility addition for the 1/100 ppl who want that. Smh Apple.

Apple will downgrade to OS9? I tried to get them to do that to my watch and two Apple support folks said they do NOT have the ability to downgrade (not even to the original WOS the watch was shipped with).