Apple watch ultra night mode not working

I’m sick of it. They have ruined then whole behaviour of the watch that I bought.

I used to swipe up the screen to change settings. This is now the side button.

The auto mode for night mode does not work. I sat in a taxi and watched it have some type of attack as it could not decide if it was day or night. I only like to use night mode in pitch black and preferred to manually switch. It had a satisfying feel to it with the crown.

Apple have seriously messed up in my opinion. Whoever’s decided this new interface should work this way should probably be sacked.

Its almost 3 weeks now and my muscle memory is still not used to the changes. I actively hate it how as I am forced to think about it so regularly.

Apple needs to add back the manual option for Night Mode. I found it very useful when using the Wayfinder face. My eyesight isn’t as good as it used to be so I need to adjust the brightness without turning night mode completely off. From a usability and accessibility standpoint, Apple fails to follow a fundamental standard for visually impaired users.

Post in the diving communities - those are the folks that need to hear this. Apple's marketing research cares about the target audience/buyer - we've already fallen for it.

Warn others to stay away (or make noise) until Apple re-enables this as a feature (or at least monitizes it;)

Ok Folks what do we all do about this, Apple are quite happy messaging me to tell me how helpful my post is to others and how many times it has been “upvoted” whatever that is, but NO response from Apple about the woeful downgrade of the Ultra watch. So I propose for those of us in Europe we write on paper (yes I know it’s old fashioned) to complain in writing directly to the head office in Europe, does anyone know who the European CEO is ?

address below

Apple Customer Support Hollyhill Industrial Estate Hollyhill, Cork Republic of Ireland

Exactly what I was about to post! Thanks for sharing this tip, I was about to type the same thing and then scrolled to the last page to see your message. It’s the only way I can see the darn time at night. Swipe back to go back into night mode 👍

For me as well. Pathetic.

Hope apple brings back this feature, I don’t want it automatically- it was great using the crown.

Same. I actually hate this update. It’s changed the behaviour of the entire watch. It’s no longer intuitive.

This is a major and intrusive fail from Apple.

The new upgrade took the option away. I would upgrade to Ultra 2 but I can’t justify it with all the negative changes with this last update.

I would love to see replies that say how much they’re sick of being stuck with what Apple says we have to use, and that they should quit changing things based on their opinions and let us have access to what we’ve been using. I prefer having my watch in night mode all the time, not when they want me to have it. Just saying.

I really wanted to keep an open mind and “get used” to this new update, but the usability is such a step back. I tried for a few weeks but it is still just as frustrating.

night mode ruined for ultra watch

app screen went from one nice blob to having 3 pages to scroll through

the crown scroll is the same as an up swipe, waste of an intergace

rhe widgets are useless and they took up two interfaces to access them. Apple was probably so proud of them they wanted to make sure we could get to them, ugh. Also closing apps takes more actions now also.

I specifically bought the ultra for this feature as my eyesight is not that good. At night I would turn the dial and be able to see the time before going back to night mode.

Why would apple remove this accessibility feature? Is t accessibility one of their ‘things’? Please add this function back in - even under accessibility.

I’m also trying to rally the community as I was bragging about this feature and how well though through it was for the visually impaired.

maybe apple re-thought their market placement for it and didn’t want folks to use it as an accessible feature.

Removing it was a bad move in my opinion.

Incredibly dumb of apple OS team to turn off the ability to manually change watch ultra color/night mode using the crown. It was the most used feature for me as I had to do this many times when watch gets very distracting.

any way to go back to older OS? I am going to stop using this watch otherwise

So annoying. Also the stopwatch is way too bright now and there’s no way to put it on dark mode. I don’t want a bright white screen when I’m using the stopwatch… they also got rid of the hybrid stop watch which was my favorite one. Massive L… Bad update. Feels like my watch got nerfed.

I agree, this is the one thing I used the crown for and it was awesome. Why would apple take that away from us, it was so simple and effective and I loved turning it on during the day depending on my mood, by just turning the crown. Apple, please give us back the option to turn it off/on by using the crown. At least make it an option to turn it off/on by using the crown in the face settings. Taking away options from people is rarely a good idea.