After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

rectangleartist wrote:

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?

Apple is not read this.

Apple most likely made the change because less sophisticated users did not understand swiping, and got their Apple Watches into modes they did not know how to get out of. At least with buttons, users are likely to push them and discover the advanced features.

Tell Apple your option at

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

The thinking behind watchOS 10 was revealed in the June Press Release.

Introducing watchOS 10, a milestone update for Apple Watch - Apple (NZ)

The implementation of the New Design Language has clearly surprised and disappointed some users.

This is the best answer I can find to your question of “Why do this change Apple?”

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

If we all put the feedback link on all our messages would it speed up the fixes we yearn for? (Or should that be "un-fixes?)

Feedback - Watch - Apple

All very valid observations. The New Design Language implementation is a shambles.

I suggest you make your views known to Apple (because only Apple Community Specialists and Moderators read this forum) at

Feedback - Watch - Apple

Kmwats wrote:

I use my watch faces all the time for work, workouts and home. Why would they take away a convenient switch and make it less simple? An update should make things easier not harder. If people have trouble with the faces accidentally switching give them an option instead of taking it away from everyone else.

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

Ken_Kodama wrote:

I also can't stand OS10, primarily because I swiped between watch faces all the time. Now it's simply too laborious to do so (hold down face, get to edit screen, swipe to face, get out of edit screen)....ughhh!!!! What was apple thinking?

I also don't like the new version of the weather app. I would quickly enter the weather complication and see what the temp and rainfall probability was over the next several hours...that's all I wanted to know...what's the temp, will it rain? instead I need to page through visibility, wind speed, humidity....who cares!!!????

I hope Apple will come to its senses and restore the swiping between faces, at least. I can learn to live with the weather app......I guess.

Don't just hope. Tell Apple via

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

There's no cure or fix other than to hope enough of us make enough and loud enough noise that some rational person will pay attention. What bothers me more than the long press is the other functions that come with the long-press screen (face?). 'Upload' my watch face? (Press it and you get phone numbers, perhaps for sending a text.) Why on earth would anyone want to do that? Accidentally or out of curiousity pressing 'Edit' leads to a number of possibilities, including deleting the watch face. Do you find it as hard as I to imagine why anyone would want to delete the watch face they so painstakingly set up with appropriate 'complication' functions?

This link will get you to a feedback form specifically for your watch. Please, all readers, save the link and post it in every message here.

Feedback form, Apple Watch

You have to wonder if whoever it was who are implicated in the design of the upgrade had actually ever worn an Apple watch or figured out how to use any of the existing features.

I don't use the weather app, but bloat seems to be the name of the game with the new up (or down-) grade. So many features that used to be simple to use and even elegant have become more like nuisances. Again, here's a link to the feedback form.

Feedback form, Apple Watch

zeteticos wrote:

>which others may have complained about

I can't buy that "others" "may" have complained about accidentally switching faces without supporting data. Has anyone seen an actual complaint about accidentally switching faces? Where? When? Has anyone seen anything said about accidental switching other than vague gossip?

There are 10 Apple watches among my family and no one will admit to having EVER switched faces accidentally.

Users that are unhappy with the way the old UI worked called Apple Support, post here, and other places, and visit Apple Store Genius Bars. They are voting with their support calls and visits.

Users that are happy with the way things are DO NOT call Apple Support, and do not go into Apple Store Genius Bars, and do not post how happy they are with the interface.

So Apple sees the complaints, but not the joy. The Silent Majority opinion is no heard.

Of course now that the UI has been changed, the users that used to be happy with the old UI, are hopefully letting their voices be heard by sending feedback to

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

In answer to your question “what was Apple thinking?.” It’s all in the press release of 6 June. A new design language and new navigation.

Introducing watchOS 10, a milestone update for Apple Watch - Apple (NZ)

Secondly, I agree, the new weather app is overly complicated and difficult to navigate . I suggest you use Siri. You can simply say “Hey Siri, weather”. That does not launch the weather app.

You get the current conditions and temperature and an hourly “clock” of conditions .

I wouldn’t suggest looking for a third party weather app given the difficulties in navigating to third party apps in watchOS 10.

TheWonderBoy wrote:

I don’t agree with them changing this feature at all. At least give us the option. That swipe feature was the centerpiece of the theme I gave my watch. I made my watch into the Omnitrix from Ben 10 so I could swipe through the different alien faces just like the show. Now I can’t do it anymore. Not happy about that.

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claytonfromdonvale wrote:

I think it is because they introduced the new widgets option with a swipe up. But that is so limited and does not replace the usefulness of multiple watch faces.

Worst design decision ever.

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markfromlandolakes wrote:

All they really had to do was add a setting to disable swipe. This would please anyone that had the problem. Since constantly I have issues with hitting buttons and turning on random alarms, etc. I’m surprised I never accidentally swiped to a different face. So, certainly none of the issues I’ve had have ever been fixed. Some issues that started 20 years ago right after macOS 9. Still not fixed in the latest version of macOS.

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Tdurmusoglu wrote:

This is a very bad interface “improvement” decision. Easy swipe between watch faces was something I had used all the time. They were like different desktops for me, for different complications. I used to have 2-3 different versions of my favorite watch face with different complications, and even when walking my two dogs, it was an incredibly easy way to access any app I want. Neither the new widget feature, nor the new app layout is close to that experience. Please bring it back, at least as on option. If it ain’t broken…

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The app layout hasn't changed on my Watch.

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.

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