Can’t swipe watch face since update. Fix was to press on screen and swipe to face desired but that doesn’t even work anymore. Turned off watch and done with iWatch for awhile till this silly update is dealt with. Feels good actually to go back to an old school watch.
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Your Apple Watch was Working As Designed. The 1 second firm press to change mode and allow swiping is the new way in WatchOS 10. I have no idea why it might have stopped working, but a reboot fixes many glitches so it should still work when you power up again. Chances are that was a one time glitch.
Apologies if my post was confusing. I'm glad that Apple addressed the issue. I also stand by my original statement that I'm frustrated that I had to go hunting for a solution due to Apple changing a feature that in my opinion wasn't broken to begin with. And I stand by the statement that it's skewed to say "the masses have spoken" when, in fact, the masses didn't speak, only the ones who accidentally swiped their faces unintentionally.
Either way, I've implemented the setting to allow me to continue swiping between faces.
Have a blessed day.
I think it's a great, long-overdue change. I hated looking down at my watch to discover that the face had gotten changed accidentally.
And curious, does anyone know how Apple would think introducing an extra step in the UX is a good thing?
I find that very hard to believe.
If people were happy about it, they’d be talking about what an amazing feature it is… like you apparently think it is… only you. Lol.
Best asnwer so far! I totally second this. I like swipe-changing faces and I used it all the time to use different complications. I find the extra pressing step extremely annoying.
This is my third Apple Watch. I always have multiple watch faces enabled and I have NEVER had an accidental switch. I also find it very hard to believe Apple really got that many complaints.
+1 Please add back option to single swipe between watch faces. I used this every day.
I did! Have not heard from them so far :(
Thanks. Have submitted the feedback to Apple via the link above.
That doesn’t work either and if you expected anyone to want to do that ????? So awkward
Just allow both, keep your 'improvement' as the default for the trigger happy swipers and let us set it back to the original swipe mode which is very useful!
From a User standpoint -- changing faces is an intentional act, therefore a two-step process is more than acceptable. I found my watch face inadvertently changing, as well. That is annoying.
It’s not two steps, it’s three, with inefficient time delay involved .
Silly and inefficient UX. Poor decision on this one. Three wasted steps for a heavily used function
Apple Watch face won’t swipe since update
