I did not see it with WatchOS 9 or before, but since WatchOS10.2 which reintroduced the Swipe to change faces, the time always displays first as 10:09:31 before setting the correct time one second later. Why is it so ? Is it only me ? Is there a setting to change ? It is really inconvenient.
Apple Watch Series 5
Yes mine does this as well. It definitely didn’t use to happen before OS10. So the new toggle they have put in haven’t actually put the functionality back exactly the same as it was before. It is clearly much better now that you can actually swipe between the watch faces but the implementation seems rushed and very amateurish and annoying. The toggle needs to put it back properly to the way it was before OS10. Perhaps in the next update ?
Be prepared for people to tell you this is normal, that it is expected behaviour for a watch to not tell the time correctly. Simply astonishing this has not been fixed, given it is apparently an unintended consequence of some odd programming choices apple has made.
I think you’ve misunderstood the issue, which I think a lot of people are who read this thread and I understand why. This is NOT about it showing 10:09 when swiping to change the watch face.
The issue is that when swiping to change watch face is set to on, that for a lot of watch faces, EVERY TIME you raise your wrist, you can see the time flick from the correct time (the 1hz display) to 10:09 for a split second, then back to the correct time.
Its a bug, an unintended consequence. The only fix is to turn off the new option for swipe to change watch face - rendering the feature useless.
this bug means the watch tells the wrong time every time you look. It is beyond annoying. I’ve turned off swipe watch faces but it is so surprising that this has not yet been fixed.
As with the others on this thread insisting this isn't a bug - can I please implore you to take the time to understand the issue here?
The issue is not the 10:09 template watch face. It is the fact that it shows 10:09 every single time you raise your write to check the time. Not when swiping (that would not be a problem and would be fine), but the issue only happens when you have swipe watch faces turned on.
This is 100% a bug. How do I know this? Because watches are meant to tell the time, and it is failing on this most basic element! To be repeatedly told it is not is quite frustrating given it is blatantly obviously a bug.
@David M Brewer
How can You say it's not a bug, surely this is bug since iOS 17.x !
I own an Apple since 2015 and never had this issue. The 10:09 time show is only a marketing thing which You can see on all pictures of the watch, but switching watch faces has to show the correct time immediately, as it has the last 8 years since now !!! Sorry, no I can not accept any other explanation.
the topic of this thread is:
Swiping Watch faces always display 10:09 before exact time
-> this is the issue / bug since WatchOS10.2
what for heaven are You all talken about ?????
-> Please Apple: FIX THIS BUG !
For demonstrating this annoying bug a small video....
for example: watchOS 10.4 - Series 6 - Swiping Watch Faces
time always shows 10:09 and then changes to correct time after a half second... bug since watchOS 10.x
The bug is visible for ALL watch faces, not only the analogous ones, but You can see it much better when switching to an analogous...
Sorry, an Apple product for 500,-- EUR has to show the correct time immediately, just like she has done for the last 10 years before the bug was implemented !
Although i don't know for sure, i do believe this is intensional. My dad use to work at a company that imports clocks. When displaying an analogue clock, as an industry standard, they always adjust the hands to 10:10:30. This was believed to be the best way to display an analogue watch or clock. When i was a kid, everytime i visit dad at work and hangout in the display room, ALL the clocks were set to 10:10:30. If you check out all the analogue watch faces on your apple watch, you will notice ALL of them are displayed that way. So i dont think this is an error of glitch.
As for why it’s 10:09:31 and not 10:10:30, i think it is because for a digital time display, apple wants to show more variety of numbers rather than using too many zeros.
claudeFromToulouse wrote:
That's not the point. The question is not about 10:10:30 or 10:09:31. It is about having the watch display a totally wrong hour each time you swipe.
OMG!!!!!! That's so horrible!!!!! I mean, you might get confused and be late for something, you know?. Or early! I can't believe Apple does this!!!!!!
IdrisSeabright wrote:
OMG!!!!!! That's so horrible!!!!! I mean, you might get confused and be late for something, you know?. Or early! I can't believe Apple does this!!!!!!
Believe it. Apple was never like this under Steve Jobs.
Can anyone confirm that the latest version of watchOS fixes this bug???
As far as I remember, this has also been the exact time, as the iPhone has been introduced officially for the first time by Steve Jobs at the Apple Event.
Yep, but it’s only recently it’s been popping up as a major bug that apple has failed to fix in multiple watchOS upgrades now!
Yes, but what you are saying is a bit ridiculous - of course it’s a bug - not sure why you keep saying that! It would take an apple developer 5 seconds to see that!!!
It's not a bug, it's a feature 😀
Ridiculously, we are many months in and apple still haven’t fixed this bug. Astonishing.
Swiping Watch faces always display 10:09 before exact time
