After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

You obviously did not do the update days ago. It’s fixed.

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

On Dec 12th, I posted that it has been fixed. Why isn't the solution coming to the top of this page for others to see, and make the changes to their watches?

Reposting my original solution:

** IT HAS BEEN FIXED! ** New 10.2 UPDATE ALLOWS SWIPE, but you have to go to Settings ON THE WATCH itself:

1. Hit Crown

2. Scroll down to Settings

3. Scroll down to Clock

4. Toggle Swipe to Switch Watch Face so it's green, that means it's ON.

5. Try swiping.

We’re just assuming this was why. They will consider changing features if enough people complain about it. There’s always going to be things we don’t like. It’s frustrating if it was something you depended on and had got used to. On the introduction of WatchOS 9 last year, they changed how you snoozed or stopped an alarm - you had to tap the face. This was all fine and dandy if wearing short sleeves but to those of us in the northern hemisphere we are wearing long sleeves (or ski gear) and we had lost the ability to just put our hand up the sleeve to feel for the button to do it. A couple of updates later they put it back. We can assume again that enough people complained this was an inconvenience.

Yes I agree, the new Smart Stack is a poor experience, and I don’t use the crown to navigate , there’s no way of stepping backwards, for example. Although it’s customisable I’ve yet to figure out the logic behind the dynamics. (It doesn’t look that “smart”). It certainly doesn’t replicate or replace the multi watch face navigation.

And I don’t see any reason for removing the ability to swipe between multiple watch faces (I have 7). It wouldn’t be incompatible with smart stacks.

But that’s Apple. I’ve lost count of the useful features, functions, and applications that have fallen by the wayside over the last 40 years.

What a dreadful change, and why not provide the option to go back to the old swiping. Like others here, we've gotten used to the ease of switching between desired watch faces for the conditions we are into. How Apple's usability testing never saw this coming is a big negative surprise. Apple seems to be going their own way more and more and snubbing their customers. I'm very much into the ecosystem so will find it hard to exit, but never wanted to 5 years ago. Now? I do want to.

FIX THIS!

No that was not removed, that would have been completely stupid of them to do that. It is in the same place in control center as I had it before upgrading to watch os 10. The control center being moved is annoying though, but I can get use it.

Cannot swipe between watch faces after installing watch os10. This is a critical feature for me as I use it continuously every day to access different faces with different features and complications. This is a major loss of functionality and makes my Apple Watch almost useless.

While I understand the intent of the change, I really do not understand why Apple did not make this feature a *toggle*. I never had an issue with unintentional face switching and I did occasionally switch faces to access different complications or information. I fully support having the *option* to lock the gesture, but removing it outright is wild.

I feel generally the same about every other change in WatchOS 10. Great if it had been optional… definitely feels like this update took a step back, though.

I imagine that could be the case, I personally will try setting the Smart Stack up to show the data I need and see how I get on with that, but it still seems like a simpler design to swipe left or right..

Im also still getting used to the control centre now being on the a single bottom button click when it was a swipe up before!!

Change always hurts for a bit.

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

In addition, the control center is not accessible anymore by swiping up from the bottom right corner to the center.

To do so now you need a single click on the lower button which causes confusion between it and the Apple pay Cards...

For me same problem. Key feature - for switching between data screen, analog or digital screen. One idea is to renew from backup watchOS 9.6.

For apple: please, repair this BUG. We miss that features.

I have like three faces that have very distinct type of information, like Health face, Weather face, some photography apps face, etc. I probably switch between then constantly, simple things like check steps and temperature it was a gesture away... now it just becomes several steps... it completely breaks my fast workflow with the watch for me.

Locking the watch face is an unfortunate UI decision and a BIG mistake. It could have been made a Settings option. The Smart Stack is close to useless, and it disables the functionality of watch faces like the Solar Dial. Like everyone on this thread, I scroll through watch faces all the time and find this change to be a real disappointment. I hope Apple will come up with a dot release that changes this back to the way it was.