After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

uwcatprem wrote:

Nonsense. Hands resetting from 10.09 every swipe looks ugly and primitive. .

In your opinion. I like it. It is always a good idea to keep in mind that not everyone has the same needs or preferences.

Dah•veed wrote:

It is a tradition of very long standing that watchmakers take advertising photos of their watches showing 10:08, 10:09 or 10:10, including Apple. This is a play off of that tradition.

As Steve Wozniak observed, Apple is in the jewellery business now. This is the way faces are shown in the Face Gallery on the iPhone Watch app.

It amazes me that someone thought the user would like to see a half-second glimpse of the Face Gallery as they swipe to a different face.

I can’t wait for WatchOS11.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

…. Little flourishes that some of us really do appreciate. Sadly, they've gotten much more serious lately. I wish they'd do more like this.

Me too. But I think half a second is too short. It’s Glances taken too far. The length of time the gallery face is displayed should be an option. Ranging from (say) zero to five seconds in steps of one hundredth. So those who don’t appreciate little flourishes can turn it off.

Northern-Survivor wrote:

Me too. But I think half a second is too short. It’s Glances taken too far. The length of time the gallery face is displayed should be an option. Ranging from (say) zero to five seconds in steps of one hundredth. So those who don’t appreciate little flourishes can turn it off.

Haven't we talked about Apple's long history of not giving options? ;-)

Yeah, I'm happy to have the swiping back, but I don't appreciate the delay before I can see the correct time and data on the screen.

I get that it might make sense to have to load data that isn't currently loaded, but most of it should be instant. And if you switch back and forth between faces, everything should already be current.

samacur wrote:

……. And if you switch back and forth between faces, everything should already be current.

I suspect, and I know I could easily be wrong, you’ve highlighted a fundamental difference between WatchOS 9 and 10 in the underlying architecture . Which means regardless of how changing faces is accomplished there is a slight delay in displaying current information in OS 10, which didn’t happen in OS 9. As I said, just a guess.

When I go to clock as suggested now I’ve installed watchOS 10.2, there is no choice to restore the sideways swipe to several watch faces. I found this very useful as watch faces are very limited in the complications they show.

Do you have a solution please?

Thank you

Philip Iszatt UK

Leoli217 wrote:

If you press the watch face and hold it, it will trigger the faces to appear and you can swipe.

It took me a while to discover. Annoying but at least it’s still there.

If you go to Settings on the Watch (not on iPhone). , scroll to Clock. There’s an option to “Swipe to Switch Watch Face”. Toggle on and you can swipe like Watch OS 9.

watchOS 10.2 has the option.

Settings -> General -> About

can tell you the watchOS version.

If you are on 10.2, then…

Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch.

Scroll down and choose “Clock”.

Toggle on the “Swipe to Switch Face” setting.

So many of the tools are cumbersome to use. I wonder who designed this new version… I keep threatening to leave Apple products all together, but don’t because interfacing is easier… was easier than other devices. We’re brainwashed. I think it’s time to look at the Pixal or Samsung, ugh.

Kd800m wrote:

So many of the tools are cumbersome to use. I wonder who designed this new version… I keep threatening to leave Apple products all together, but don’t because interfacing is easier… was easier than other devices. We’re brainwashed. I think it’s time to look at the Pixal or Samsung, ugh.

You are free to spend your money anyway you like.

Now did you have a technical question for this user-to-user technical support forum?

I looked for the setting to be able to simply swipe without having to long press and I cannot find it -- it does not appear to be under the clock setting as noted above. Can you please tell me exactly where to find this setting? I also use multiple faces with difference complications for an easy glance and I prefer the old swipe. Thank you.

Guys don’t panic. You can have your swipe to change face feature right back in a sec. On your watch go to settings, then clock, then toggle on “swipe to switch watch face.” And it’s all back just the way it was. That’s what the very first comment on this thread was saying. It’s all ok.

Not sure I'll go back to analogue, but it's definitely a retrograde step and hopefully one that will get reverted asap.