I cannot change watch face by swiping after upgrading to WatchOS 10
My watch is Series 6
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iPhone 6, iOS 12
My watch is Series 6
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iPhone 6, iOS 12
I sympathize with the person who said Apple deleted the "entire user experience," even though that is overstatement. Swiping between faces is an extremely central part of the user experience. My watch is actually five neighbopring watch faces. The center one is simple with no complications and probably color coordinated with the band. The two off to each side are information rich. Full of those ugly info-speedometers and such. I keep these busy looking screens out of sight. Where once I needed only to swipe, read, and swipe back, now to check the air quality, I have to long-press, swipe, tap, read, long-press, swipe back to my home face, and tap again (and feel mad at Apple instead of merely curious about the air quality). This takes even more steps if the info I seek is two screens over.
The loss of this feature is not something I will likely get used to since I do this action many times a day. I don't want to feel mad many times a day, so I will be switching back to my analog watches unless Apple comes to it's senses and fixes what they broke. I'll keep the Apple Watch on a charger to keep the battery healthy and occasionally use it (to the extent one would an analog watch). It'll be in the rotation of my many watches, instead of being on my wrist all the time. The watch isn't a critical piece of the ecosystem like the iPhone, it's just handy - until it isn't.
Silly me - of COURSE the only people in the entire world that hate this are the 87 people here.
ilittlewood wrote:
Silly me - of COURSE the only people in the entire world that hate this are the 87 people here.
That’s quite alright, don’t feel bad.
I have exactly the same use case
And I frustrating too
Patrick1268 wrote:
I have exactly the same use case
That’s an upgrade on “me too”
LD150 wrote:
That’s an upgrade on “me too”
But it sounds so much cooler!
As the new hold is about 1 second and was previously zero seconds, that is a change ratio of 1/0 and we all know how big a change that is. 😎
Hold your finger on face to get to exit mode for face and then swipe left or right to change faces.
Edit mode, not exit
It's also rather foolish to assume that I was suggesting a simple reversion instead of an OPTION to switch between the two modes.
That’s not to mention the battery draining problem. IOS10 is a big FAIL!
Yeah that’s super bad
I can’t get to use lots of functions without face switching
pls bring it back
mamoon777 wrote:
Yeah that’s super bad
I can’t get to use lots of functions without face switching
pls bring it back
You can still switch faces.
I also dislike it. Greatly slows down use of the watch. Wish I had never upgraded the OS.
Not really. More frustrating
Yep, take that ‘functionality’ back…please.
I cannot change watch face by swiping after upgrading to WatchOS 10