Cannot switch Apple Watch faces after 10.0.1 update

It really works. Just press a face for a second. When u get the small face slide it and choose the face u want. Just a little inconvenience but works in my series 6,8,9.

Press on current watch face. It will get smaller. Then you can swipe.

You don’t have to edit anything just because edit is an option. You just press, the watch face gets smaller, then you swipe and press again.

Dah•veed wrote:

WatchOS 10.2 is out and the swipe to change the watch face is now an option to toggle on and off.

Oh, thank the stars!

Try reading the comments!

The instructions for how to restore the previous function is scattered throughout this thread multiple times!!

Settings>Clock>Turn on Swipe...

WatchOS 10.2 is out and the swipe to change the watch face is now an option to toggle on and off.

Go to Settings>Clock.

I went to the Apple store/Genius bar, it appears the only solution is after you have upgraded your watch to osi 10, uninstall your watch from the app and reinstall. This is what the tech did and the app is working as designed, I was able to change the face. Good Luck

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.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

It honestly was no big deal to me either way. Push on the screen and then swipe between the faces, or just swipe between the faces. Real world problems, for sure!

I was always swiping accidentally, and it was just one of those niggling things that you didn't realize how much it annoyed you until it stopped. Definitely first world!

Robo-Grandpa wrote:

That doesn’t work

Change the watch face on your Apple Watch - Apple Support

watchOS 10.2 re-enables left/right watch face swiping

• Open the Settings app on your Apple Watch.

• Scroll down and choose “Clock”.

• Toggle on the “Swipe to Switch Face” setting.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Dah•veed wrote:

WatchOS 10.2 is out and the swipe to change the watch face is now an option to toggle on and off.

Oh, thank the stars!

Thanks to everyone who complained to Apple directly, it does work.

Gelaine wrote:

I’m very frustrated with this change. I designed my watch faces to be able to switch quickly while taking care of kids, cooking, biking, working out… having to press and hold is actually unsafe for some of my uses.

So disappointing that they took the option away instead of leaving the choice.

I hate it, and this is less of a useful device for me now.

Not recommending it anymore. Not when you can’t rely on it to function as you need it to from update to update.

This seems to be typical of Apple. Give us tons of features that no one actually wants, but don’t check in before removing features we actually need. (Laptop ports, ability to control iPhone interface layout, etc)

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

Which is true. Did they specifically state that you didn’t first have to press and hold on the current face?

In the phone app, the change exists, too. In the watch tab, there was never the statement, “Set as Current Watch Face.” You just added the faces in the order you wanted them. They are all still there. You can edit them. Rearrange them. But you can only set one as current.

The change is intentional. Maybe the agents you talked to were voicing their opinions ~ or they are not aware of the change.

Yes, I understand that I don't have to edit anything.

But I don't understand why I have to press and hold to go to the edit face interface in order to switch to another face. It's an unnecessary step which increases the time spent doing this simple action by an order of magnitude (maybe more).

Updates to the OS should make things MORE convenient, not less.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

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Bob, they did take action and the behavior people complained about in this thread has been taken care of. There's little reason to provide feedback for an issue resolved with the WatchOS 10.2 update.

I was suggesting they send feedback because DeamWorld thinks Apple is making it more difficult and that it makes zero sense.

It is important for Apple to understand the consequences of their actions, and for users like DreamWorld to have an outlet for their frustrations.

If Apple knew then what they knew today, they might have just added an option to disable left/right swipe, for those users, such as IdrisSeabright, that find their watch face switched when they did not intend for it to be switched.

So, yes feedback did help in getting an option to put it back, but sending feedback on the users frustration on the original change can be useful in avoiding this bad publicity because they changed the UI, and did not do it in such as way that users that did not want to change, did not have to change, but users that wanted something different had the option to enable the change.

Personally, since I spend so much time in the discussions.apple.com forums, I know what to do, you know what to do, IdrisSeabright knows what to do. It is the users with less than 10 points where we keep answering the same UI change questions over and over, that need to let Apple know, they need to do better about UI changes when there are several hundreds million Apple Watch users that are used to the original way the Apple Watch worked.