Cannot switch Apple Watch faces after 10.0.1 update

Swiping faces without the extra step is now an option with the recent update to watchOS 10.

The option has been posted several times in this thread; on the watch Settings>Clock>Swipe to switch...

myranda163 wrote:

I too had the same problem! In order to be able to swipe to change watch faces you must press the center of your watch to activate. The face will become smaller, then just swipe right or left to get to the face that you want. Then press the center of your watch again to set the desired watch face in place.

Then you haven't updated your watch to WatchOS 10.2. If you had, you open the Settings app on your Watch (not your iPhone), and find the Clock app, which when you tap it, you'll see Swipe to Change Watch faces.

Thanks so much for this! I would have never figured it out. I also figured out that if you press and hold a little bit longer, you can slide which watch faces you want to be in their particular order.

I found a tube video that tells the fix. You press on the face and hold. The window shows a smaller face and the EDIT underneath. Now just swipe left or right to change the watch face. Tap on the face to get out of edit mode and your selected watch face goes full screen.

Unfortunately the Genius Bar guys sometimes are well behind the community of users.

the only way now is to touch and press a face for a second and then slide it until you find your other face you want.

orville208 wrote:

Bring back old way to change watch face

I have no power to do that. Nor does anyone else reading this forum. You should tell Apple what you want to see:

Product Feedback - Apple

new way doesn’t work on a consistent basis

I haven't heard that from too many people. Press and hold until you feel the haptic feedback and the screen changes to the edit mode. You can then swipe to other faces.

THAROOZ wrote:

How on earth can you like it more now?? Before you could easily swipe to change face. Without causing any issue. And now you have to press and hold instead. Btw press and hold to swipe was possible even before. But to disable swiping makes it harder to change faces.

There are users, that for whatever reason, find that the watch face keep’s accidentally changing when they do not want it to change.

Those people like that it is no longer a simple swipe to change faces.

These forums have seen some very heated posts about unintended watch face switching.

Now, in comparison, the current UI changes have generated a great deal more heated posts.

I encourage you to tell Apple your opinion at

https://www.apple.com/feedback/watch

Then why does Apple say it's how you're supposed to do it in their published documenation.

Touch and hold the watch face, swipe to the one you want, then tap it.

Change the watch face on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

Whoever you spoke to was either wrong, or trying to placate you (they're probably sick of this question) or you misunderstood them.

Personally, I find it a welcome change. I hated having the face change accidentally.

The Apple Ultra change watch face did not work by touching the

middle of the watch screen after upgrading to version 10.

I could add watch faces from the iphone but not switch to another

face using the watch.

Rebooting the watch and the iphone did NOT help.

This is for the Watch 10 version of the watch software and 17.1.1

for the iphone SE.

However, I toggled the LEFT vs RIGHT wrist setting and then the

BUTTONS on the LEFT then back to right which flipped the image

on the watch upside down and then the watch change face started

working. Apple has a glitch in their watch software.

I could touch the middle of the watch face and the current face would

shrink and I could swipe left or right.

My watch face would not swipe, so I went to Settings, scrolled down to "clock" and clicked on "Swipe to switch watch faces" and it worked!!!

In the new update on the clock screen you can press and hold to change/edit clock faces much like you can on iPhone Home Screen.

Robo-Grandpa wrote:

That doesn’t work

Seems to work just fine for most people who updated to WatchOS 10.2 and who opened the settings app on their watch (not their iPhone) and looked for Clock. Then tapped Clock and turned on swipe to switch watch faces.

What part of that doesn't work for you?

Press your finger on the current face and it will get smaller and allow you to swipe.

Not sure it applies to series 4 but it does on my series 6-8. It’s not working that way anymore. just tap one face and hold it down for a second and then slide it to the face you want.

Yes, tap and hold then swipe to change watch faces also works on Series 4

Thanks