After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

McCarthy Forester wrote:

I find it a problem to long tap (or whatever they call it) then swipe to find the smaller watch face it want, then to press the crown to bring it full size.

So much more complicated than a simple swipe.

is Apple planning something else for left/right swipes?

Apple has access to tremendous amounts of anonymized use data as well as feedback, suggestions and logged support calls. It is quite possible that they discovered that the number of people complaining about accidentally changing faces was significantly larger than the number of people who did it multiple times a day. So, to improve the user experience of the most people, they change it. But, we can't know for sure.

You can let Apple know what you'd like to see here:

Product Feedback - Apple

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Northern-Survivor wrote:

So what do you think is the intention of the New Design Language & Navigation?

Is " New Design Language & Navigation" some Apple policy or procedure? I'm assuming it's a specific thing because you put it in title case. I am not familiar with it.

Familiarise yourself here

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

The press release made it pretty clear this was a new approach to navigation on the watch

Wayn0 wrote:

I am so angry at this change, it's a real step backwards and I'm very surprised that it wasn't addressed in OS10.1.

They probably haven't "addressed" it because it's not a bug. It was done intentionally.

Me too. Especially annoying as I was so looking forward to a more carefree relationship with my new twice-the-price stainless watch.

If accidental face changes "may be" (an unsupported claim) such a problem for "some" people --and how hard is it to swipe that back to that face?-- give those people options such as you suggest rather than depriving the rest of us (I suspect, the vast majority of watch owners).

As for the rest, Apple couldn't have made my watch's non-watch face functions less usable if they'd thought it out with both hands. Everything that used to be simple and convenient is now cumbersome and in the case of the swipe up screen (now only accessed by an inconvenient side button press) substitutes a complication of irrevelancies on the new dumb stack screen. But then, I don't feel I need more than my 3 watch faces and a few essential complications . Perhaps it's the users who have a whole stack of watch faces loaded with dozens of complications who need to rethink. I sure didn't need Apple thinking for me!

Wow! That’s seriously nuts. So nuts I didn’t believe you and called Apple to confirm. You of course are utterly right. Registered a feedback complaint.

Very stupid bad change by Apple. I also use several different faces and now I haveto long press, and manually change between them.

It is a feature in WatchOS 10, and I don't like it. Please bring back the swiping mode, at least as an option.

It’s not a « new » way, swiping by editing already existed. They removed a feature plain and simple, it is not a replacement since both existed. :)

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nanak wrote:

Me too. I want to just swipe between faces.

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

Here's a link to a feedback form for Apple watches. Please save it to Notepad or wherever and paste it into every message you put here.

Hold until you feel the haptic (aka long press) then swipe to the required face then tap.

You can also edit/add a face, or share.

Just hold your finger on the screen and then you’ll be able to swipe.

Hold finger down on screen and you can swipe afterwards!