After WatchOS 10 update I cannot swipe between watch faces

I also wondered why Apple would do such a thing, and had been astounded till I saw the event on the 12th. Because that’s when I saw the new module face for the ultra, and realized it’s clearly become a paid functionality thing to actually have quick access to more than 6 complications.

It’s a real dirty move by Apple, and literally makes me not want to upgrade past the watch I have now- especially considering how much less functional it is now than when I bought it xD

The Infograph face has up to 8 complications, but even so - A single face with 8 complications , plus 7 widgets in the new Smart Stack, plus 3 more complications - still isn’t enough for me .

In os9 I had 3 Infograph faces and 3 Modular faces , that’s 42 complications.

It’s impossible to reconfigure my 6 faces to fit the new os10 UI with only one face plus full use of the Smart Stack. Unfortunately, using more than one face, the swiping limitation really ruins the whole experience.

I discovered that I was wrong about not being able to use the dial to work with watch faces like Solar Dial or Lunar. Simply tapping the face enables the dial so that it will interact with the watch face.

I’ve tried to love Smart Stacks, tried to forget swipe to my (many) watch-faces. I’m left dazed and confused.

New UX’s are sometimes a painful transition to something better. Not this time.  Try navigating through stacks in the middle of a run in bright sunlight.  Or press-hold-swipe a few times while you run. You will look and feel ridiculous. 

I was using 4 different watch faces and switched between them all day to access various complications. This change turned a single swipe into a press hold, a swipe, and then another press. Who came up with this and how was this even approved?! And it’s not like they did anything useful with swiping left or right.

Apple is bad at software but this takes the cake. To eliminate watch face swiping. I used all day everyday. To eliminate swipe up to find my phone. WatchOS 10 is an epic fail. Time to cancel the Apple watch 9 order. This upgrade killed a great product.

I will come back and say it isn't quite as bad as I thought. Swipe is gone but I thought it impossible to move on watch from face to face which is still here. They just added extra steps which is one of Apple's specialties. Ever try to take a picture ? remember just being able to click once to do things ? Steve is rolling over in his grave watching one click regularly turn into 15.

I can swipe between faces, but my complications for Weather are totally screwed! There’s nothing but a (_ _ _) in the comp area. I have wiped my watch, clean twice, didn’t help on and off, didn’t help I don’t want to go and do the always on button which may have said because I don’t want my battery dying down fast, but I did try it and that did not help anything at all. Hopefully a fix will come soon.

Exactly, that's the strangest thing about the whole thing. Swiping left and right has no function at all now. And the argument about accidentally swiping is ridiculous. It's never happened to me and if that were the reason, swiping up and down should also be a problem, right?

We already know your « solution ». Long press has always been there, this is not a new feature and it was meant to edit the face. This is completely worse than the old fast swiping and not the same ergonomics at all.

Yeah, and that it is worst than before, something that took less than a second takes now several. I was switching between faces several times during the day, several times during the hour, to check different information in preconfigured faces.

Oh, I took a video, but I guess I cannot insert it here. I do not know how I can share it. So: Long touch directly on face, then swipe small icon of watch face ..keep swiping like before til you get the one you want. then quick touch it .

I timed, takes less than two seconds. You CAN edit from there, but you do not have to touch edit at all. Just touch and swipe and touch again. These are first world complaints you guys:-). This watch is amazing, and I am glad that when I am moving a lot or sleeping, that the watch face no longer changes.

Tell us how turning a single intuitive finger-flick into a process of taps and holds and selections is better or easier.

No video needed. We are all aware of how editing a watch face has been done for years.

We're discussing the removal of the user interface that enabled users to observe numerous data points with a few precise and predicable flicks of a finger tip and the ability to open apps from a concise personalized screen.

Apple has taken steps to complicate the Apple Watch user interface. This is an unambiguous measurable fact. If you and others prefer a slower and more complicated user experience, that's fine. For those of us who use this device to acquire a lot of data with a simple glance and an unimpeded finger flick or two, the changes have made it prohibitively more difficult to use the watch at all.

Right. Something that took less than a fraction of a second now takes two seconds. Now repeat that three or four or five times a dozen times a day. It now takes up to ten seconds to observe multiple watch faces where it used to take a second or two. This is the problem.