Apple Watch face won’t swipe since update

Apple, may I suggest an everybody wins fix? Have the watch face swipe feature a toggle switch in the settings. Having to long press ruins any ease of function for me. I like to quickly scroll through my different faces to see everything I’d like to see. I can understand someone getting annoyed that the watch face changed accidentally, but personally the annoyance and hassle of long pressing, scrolling, and selecting is way more time consuming then simply swiping to get the face I want back. First world problem, I know. I just feel like it could be easily fixed by just giving us the choice.

BillHereHere wrote:

The purpose of the Apple Watch is to increase efficiency

Where does Apple say that? I remember the original announcement for the Apple Watch where the purpose was described to be, among other things, a way to free people of the tyranny of looking at notifications on their phones all the time.

“Freeing people of tyranny” - is a part of efficiency practically speaking. This updated change increases a commonly used function to three or four steps, especially when pressing the watch doesn’t recognize the press. It should be optional to allow the user to configure it back to the way it was.

BillHereHere wrote:

“Freeing people of tyranny” - is a part of efficiency practically speaking.

You are certainly entitled to your opinion.

This updated change increases a commonly used function to three or four steps, especially when pressing the watch doesn’t recognize the press. It should be optional to allow the user to configure it back to the way it was.

Tell Apple.

I just upgraded to a series 9 from a 2 and am bummed by no easy watch face swipe. I was looking forward to this and having more responsive face swapping. There was a setting to give users the option. Why take away the choice to decide how you want it to behave. Bad UX decision Apple!!

Yea, I know the workaround but that’s not what I want. I want to be able to just swipe like I’ve always been able to do. Removing features is a bad idea. Letting users choose if they want it on id a far better option.

I have. It just boggles my mind that they make changes like this rather than just leaving it as an option. For every user that complains about accidental swipes there is likely an equal number that enjoy the feature without issue.

BillHereHere wrote:

Silly and inefficient UX. Poor decision on this one. Three wasted steps for a heavily used function

Posting here does NOTHING to change anything. For the umpteenth time, everybody, if you want to get Apple’s attention you must submit feedback through Apple’s feedback process.

Feedback - Watch - Apple

My previous message referencing reports found across the internet related to this topic has been removed from this forum. Over and over and over again, Apple is making the customer experience as displeasing as possible.

Due to this action, I'll be selling my Apple Watch. Because I love this product so much and Apple repeatedly makes the experience of owning and using it seem like a punishment, I want nothing to do with this product segment.

I can't think of anything Apple has ever messed up so badly. They don't seem to have any clue how great and powerful and life changing this product has been.

Everyone can have their way if Apple wasn’t so keen on dictating to everyone what is best for them. Just put a preference switch in for (Allow Watch Face Swipe.)

Give people the choice rather than removing the feature.

2pamela9 wrote:

I want the ability to have more than one face on my watch, as I always had. Each one of those faces had apps on it, that I could grab in a flash. Who is the genius who thought of this?

Tell Apple, so your vote for change gets counted

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Just updated to 10.2 apple watch OS and turned on swipe to change in settings, but when I do the watch face shows momentarily 10.09 previous time before changing to correct time. That's on all watch faces. Anyone else?

December 12 2023

Drloy wrote:

Just updated to 10.2 apple watch OS and turned on swipe to change in settings, but when I do the watch face shows momentarily 10.09 previous time before changing to correct time. That's on all watch faces. Anyone else?

Yes, that has been observed.

The problem with saying "the masses spoke" is that no one is going to say anything if there's something that is working just fine and they like it, they are only going to comment if there is a complaint. So, I for one, agree COMPLETELY with GernBlanston99 - I have been very FRUSTRATED wondering what was wrong with my watch and why I could no longer swipe to change faces and sometimes even can't swipe to read my notifications!

The reason I stumbled upon this thread is because the change is an UNWELCOME and FRUSTRATING problem that I'm looking for the solution to make it work like it did before the update.

So, NO - THANK YOU, Apple. I did NOT want this.

Then I don't understand your post at all.

The reason I stumbled upon this thread is because the change is an UNWELCOME and FRUSTRATING problem that I'm looking for the solution to make it work like it did before the update.

So, NO - THANK YOU, Apple. I did NOT want this.

This would indicate, at least to me, you were complaining and you weren't aware Apple did address this.