Swipe-up no longer shows the same features/functions on Apple Watch after the update

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Helipilotbishop12 wrote:

We need the swipe up to work like it did before the update!!!!! That was the most convenient function on the whole watch. The side button did not work for me. Do Any work arounds exist

Send your feedback to

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

Hope they switch it back, or give us the option to choose what happens when we swipe up. the swipe up was the easiest and most used feature for me, now it’s just a wasted function I won’t use. I can put the one or two modules I use on a watch face.

JosNR wrote:

Hope they switch it back, or give us the option to choose what happens when we swipe up. the swipe up was the easiest and most used feature for me, now it’s just a wasted function I won’t use. I can put the one or two modules I use on a watch face.

Tell Apple via

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

Hi, I frequently and I mean frequently swiped up on my Apple Watch to see the battery percentage, to ping my phone, turn sounds on and off, etc. Now I have to change those settings by pressing the side button 😞 Is there anyway I can change back to a swipe up to see those settings? I have also turned my automatic updates off, so this will not happen again. I believe this happened when my Apple Watch updated to the new operating system.

DiDi4949 wrote:

PLEASE switch these back or give us the option to do so. You can't just make such a major change to the interface

This is a user-to-user volunteer operated forum.

Tell Apple via

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

Atmanick wrote:

Why did apple change how their watch worked? What advantage does that give to someone who was used to years of the same control? Just to have something to change?

As this is a user-to-user technical support forum, we do not know the reasons for the change. But based on prior posts to these forums of accidental screen changes by users that did not understand how it happened, we can guess Apple was getting a lot of support calls from unhappy customers.

HOWEVER, based on the outpouring of complaints about the watchOS 10 changes, I suspect they never anticipated the huge outcry that has occurred.

You can express your opinion to Apple via

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

Cobggirl wrote:

I agree that the swipe up was the easiest and most efficient way to get to the options before this latest upgrade. It’s so annoying when apple makes these ‘forced’ changes with no option to maintain the former layout. Does apple even seek customer feedback? There is really nothing that exceptional about this watch so constantly frustrating your customer base w unnecessary changes seems pointless. Let us have options for layouts we prefer. Thank you.

Sure. They even provide a URL so you can provide feedback. Tell Apple why you dislike watchOS 10 and tell them how they can make it better via

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

Trekker007 wrote:

Apple NEEDS to re-activate the SWIPE UP MENU on the I watch ! Why remove USEFUL function ! Why push God awful UPDATES ! Turning off all updates !

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If enough users send feedback, it is more likely a decision maker will see it.

Cobggirl wrote:

Are YOU, reading the thread?? We know the function is there BUT the point is, it’s inconvenient, a horrible change and nobody likes it, so change it back to Swipe Up!

Please tell Apple what you would like to see in a future watchOS update via

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

If enough users send feedback, it is more likely to reach a decision maker.

Bryce Thompson wrote:

I agree change it back so swipe up has the options not apps

This is a user-to-user technical support forum with unpaid volunteers answering questions.

The most effective way to get this changed, is to send feedback via

Feedback - Watch - Apple

If enough users send feedback, it is more likely to reach a decision maker.

mcurry1401 wrote:

Some one should let people know that this is an option! Just saying

Apple is not here. This is a user-to-user technical support forum. And the volunteers here did tell anyone that asks, such as the replies in this thread.

But as Apple is not here, if you want them to change their messaging, you need to send feedback.

Feedback - Watch - Apple

If enough users send feedback, it is more likely a decision maker will see it, and maybe take action.

echoout2 wrote:

Bummer. Pretty major change for them to not let us simply switch back. I mountain bike with my watch and the old functionality was ideal.

Apple is not here. This is a user-to-user technical support forum.

But you can send Apple feedback via:

Feedback - Watch - Apple

If enough users send feedback, it is more likely a decision maker will see it, and maybe take action.

On my iPhone, I have to swipe down from the upper right corner. Swipe-up on my iPhone displays the running apps.

So your view of the world is colored by the hardware you are using.

In any event, Apple does not read this user-to-user technical support forum for feedback.

But you can send Apple feedback via:

Feedback - Watch - Apple

If enough users send feedback, it is more likely a decision maker will see it, and maybe take action.

karyn29 wrote:

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Your inference that different Apple devices with different operating systems shouldn’t work the same way is a logical fallacy that entirely negates one of the prime motivators for brand loyalty; namely, the ease of use created by continuity across products.

It is nice when things work the same, and I encourage you to send feedback to Apple with your arguments, as the volunteers here cannot change anything

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But while the same is nice, it is not always practical because the devices are a different form factor. A Mac has a keyboard and pointing device for input, where as an iPhone has up/down volume, power, and mute buttons, plus a good size touch screen.

An iPad has similar controls to an iPhone, with an even larger touch screen and the option to use a pencil for input.

An Apple Watch has 2 buttons for the Series and SE lines, and an extra button on the Ultra. The touch screen is rather small, and limited in the things you can cram onto the screen, and in some cases the screen is too small for easy tapping on a button.

How the devices are used is different, so sometimes what is a useful way to interact with one device is a waste on another.

So given the limited number of input options on the Apple Watch, there is only so far you can keep the UI features identical to the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, etc...

The people developing the Apple Watch UI are trying to maximize the things they think are most important to the user based on all the feedback they get from the above feedback link, the Apple Support calls, the Genius Bar visits, and developer bug reports.

And they also make decisions on new features they want the Apple Watch to perform in the future, that may not fit into the current UI model, and are looking for a way to get these new features into the product and accessed in as easy a way as possible.

NOTE: I am not saying I like all the UI changes. If nothing else, it is a pain, as a forum volunteer, to keep repeating myself on how to access the features users think they have lost. (Thank goodness for Keyboard -> Text Replacement)

I am just telling you that developers have to live within constraints of the hardware they are working with. I am sure that a college grad did not decided to change everything on a whim. I'm sure there were meetings about these changes, with mock-ups and lots of management decision makers in the mix. I am sure, because, while I have never worked for Apple, I have worked for several Fortune 500 companies as a software developer, and meetings are a pain in the ....

Again, put your arguments together, and send them to Apple

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