After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

Actually, changed my mind. Just less than a second press on watch face and you can swipe. No need to go into edit. I think this is a good change! Easy and no chance of face changing by accident ( which has happened to me). This is as easy as just swiping. I like it

found this and it works.

To switch faces in WatchOS 10, long press on your current watch face. Then, swipe right or left to see the available faces. Tap on a clock face that you want to set as a default watch face.

i did multiple resets and updates and reboots and no swipe! Been working on this issue for hours on end

looks like apple does not help either!

you must hold tap and then choose the face

the programmer and QA director should be fired

This not only about removing the feature to swipe through multiple watch faces.

Watchos10 introduced a new design language and navigation. The old way is having multiple watch faces each with multiple complications. The new way is accessing information from any watch face by a turn of the crown. The new watch faces (like Portrait ) have very few , if any, complications .

It’s all in the June press release.

The problem is the new way isn’t fully functional. A Smart Stack with 7 widgets and only 3 complications, with no “Favourites” simply won’t do, no matter how ‘smart’ it is. And to make matters worse Apple have hobbled the old way by removing the ability to easily and quickly move between multiple faces.

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.

András Puiz wrote:

This needs to change ASAP. I’ve built up a habit of fast-switching between faces as a matter of routine, and now the swipe gesture is instead used for… absolutely nothing. The long-tap-then-swipe-then-tap gesture doesn’t look, feel, or work like business as usual: it’s frustrating and complicated and looks like a rarely-used edit feature, not something you’d do multiple times a day.

This is a very obvious mistake and needs to be reverted immediately.

Tell Apple via

https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch

McCarthy Forester wrote:

Fully agree.But why did they do away with swipe Left and Right on watch faces, when there is still a swipe down for recent messages/notofcations?

Swipe for notifications doesn't leave the watch in a different state. If you do it accidentally, it goes back to your previous watch face. Swiping to change faces leaves the watch, potentially, looking quite different. This can be confusing to some and just plain annoying to others.

I hated it when my watch face got accidentally change. I had gone so far as to remove all but two faces in my Face gallery. Now I'm comfortable having several again. Yay, Apple!

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.

Moody-Judy wrote:

Watch OS10 update has no ability to change the face with a swipe. Please give it back. I use the face change swipe all the time.

This is a user-to-user technical support forum. The volunteers here do not have the power to give you back the ability to swipe.

But you can tell Apple your desire via

https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch

if enough people actually send feedback, the eventually the decision makers will see the feedback.

Thank the Gods the 10.2 update brought back the swipe!!! Oh that squeaky wheel!!

thank you!!! it works. press till you see current face then swipe left.

No! Just hold finger on watch face and your different faces will come up and then swipe until you get the one that you want.

Thank you for the tip: Settings > Clock > Swipe to Switch Watch Face.

I agree Bob, it will be forgotten - like Mobile Me, iWeb, iPhoto Journals and all the other features and functions that users liked but fell by the wayside. But in the meantime this is raising users blood pressure!

I had 6 faces in vers. 9, 3 Infograph and 3 Modular; that’s a lot of complications. I’ve spent hours rearranging stuff to use one face and Smart Stacks.

Although Smart Stacks is a good idea and it’s very fast, we don’t need two ways of invoking it (swipe up and Crown) . Unfortunately there are not enough widgets or individual complications, so I had to prioritise and I have to launch the missing functions from “All apps” which again, there’s two ways of invoking (a button at the end of the Smart Stack, or single press of the crown) . Pity Favourites has also disappeared. These issues were raised in Beta .

Smart Stacks is a good idea , but a disaster of an implementation. It’s as though Apple believes no one needs quick, easy access to more than 10 functions. (7 widgets & 3 complications)

Thanks for all your efforts to try to get people to use “Feedback”.

They just made a change. The up swipe for the control panel has been changed to a press of the lower side button!

Another change is to change the watch faces just touch and hold in middle of watch face and it will shift to the mode of changing watch faces and you can slide left and right to your different saved watch faces.