watchos 10 is the worst, how do I go back to os 9?

dominodojo wrote:

I hate it too. I absolutely hate it every time I have to switch watch faces

You know that you can revert the way you change watch faces back to a simple swipe, right? On the Watch, go to Settings>Clock>Swipe to Switch Watch Face and turn it on.

dominodojo wrote:

I hate it too. I absolutely hate it every time I have to switch watch faces and have to click the side button to get to the control panel. What in the world were they thinking? Who in the world made THAT decision? I wish I can just downgrade to watchOS 9.

As IdrisSeabright says, you can get back left/right swipe:

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.

And the side button gets you to the Control Center no mater what screen is displaying on the Apple Watch, vs having to return to the watch face before you could swipe up in the past.

As to why, the volunteers here in the user-to-user technical support forum do not know, as Apple does not tell us that kind of information (they don't tell us anything that they do not tell you). But if I had to guess, the left/right swap change was because customer support was getting lots of complaints from users accidentally having their watch face switch, but did not know how that happened, nor how to get the watch face they wanted back in place. Now maybe if Apple had an H.G. Wells Time Machine, they might have predicted the complaints they got from users that dislike any change that they did not decide to make on their own.

But you can send Apple your feedback via

Feedback - Watch - Apple

This awful update has now lost my Indoor Cycle workout and all my workout heart rate zones. The fall detection app has moved all the buttons around so I nearly accidentally made an emergency call when it randomly decided I had fallen over (I was sitting down at the time). Getting to recent apps is apparently now a click, a pause then a double click which only works intermittently and recent apps half the time aren't there anyway. Apps have been made generally LESS readable so to use the stupid watch I have to put glasses on. This is 10.2, so they've had 2 update attempts.

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ficelles wrote:

This awful update has now lost my Indoor Cycle workout and all my workout heart rate zones. The fall detection app has moved all the buttons around so I nearly accidentally made an emergency call when it randomly decided I had fallen over (I was sitting down at the time). Getting to recent apps is apparently now a click, a pause then a double click which only works intermittently and recent apps half the time aren't there anyway. Apps have been made generally LESS readable so to use the stupid watch I have to put glasses on. This is 10.2, so they've had 2 update attempts.

Tell Apple:

Product Feedback - Apple

I hate it too. I absolutely hate it every time I have to switch watch faces and have to click the side button to get to the control panel. What in the world were they thinking? Who in the world made THAT decision? I wish I can just downgrade to watchOS 9.