Remove Siri from Watch home screen

Ron Goodman1 wrote:

There are six icons shown when you display the home screen by touching the crown, five surrounding a central one with an icon for the full list at the buttom. Five of the six are the most frequently used, as all six used to be, but now the Siri icon is pinned in the middle. It turns out that is a "feature" of Siri AI. Turing off Siri on the phone and restarting it as Siri Classic and then restarting the Watch will revert to the old behavior.

You mean the Dynamic App Grid, not the home screen (not sure that term is even used for anything on the watch). It's not just the most frequently used apps. It's the "most popular and frequently used."

There are no settings to adjust it. If you're happy with Classi Siri then you seem to have found your solution.

Well, granted, that was how it used to be referenced, but that isn’t what it is called now. Regardless, you can’t do anything about the particular feature you are concerned via settings. It respond to you usage and will adjust to that use.

You can offer Apple feedback: Product Feedback - Apple

That’s not a “home screen”, nor is there any user settings for it beyond what you have done.

Mac Jim ID wrote:

Are you unable to use Grid View as shown here for using Watch OS 27?

Organize apps on Apple Watch - Apple Support (KE)

For some reason, that page in the manual doesn't show the Dynamic App Grid. It appears when you first press the digital crown. You then either have to tap the grid icon on the screen or scroll with the digital crown.

Use apps on Apple Watch - Apple Support

Can you provide a more meaningful description or even a photo? It isn’t entirely clear what you are referring to. I use Siri on my watch quite often, but there’s no “Siri on my home screen” (and I assume you mean watch face).

Ron Goodman1 wrote:

If you do a search on "Apple Watch home screen" you'll get pages of hits. It used to show the apps in either Grid or List View, it changed to the current configuration with Watch OS 27.

If I search "alien abductions," I also get pages of hits. And yes, I'm quite aware that it changed with watchOS 27. That's why I explained what Apple calls it and a little bit about the functionality. I pulled some of that information right from Apple's support documents. If you use the correct name, you'll also find lots of hits.

Ron Goodman1 wrote:

If you do a search on "Apple Watch home screen" you'll get pages of hits. It used to show the apps in either Grid or List View, it changed to the current configuration with Watch OS 27.

Are you unable to use Grid View as shown here for using Watch OS 27?

Organize apps on Apple Watch - Apple Support (KE)

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Well, they did, but they didn’t 🤷🏼‍♂️. I think we got it worked out. I personally like the new design. I never use the Grid View, so the Dynamic is welcome, BUT, I agree what shows up is something of limited use. Currently I see an airline app, which was useful last week, but I am no longer traveling so, not so much this week.

Kilgore-Trout wrote:

Well, they did, but they didn’t 🤷🏼‍♂️. I think we got it worked out. I personally like the new design. I never use the Grid View, so the Dynamic is welcome, BUT, I agree what shows up is something of limited use. Currently I see an airline app, which was useful last week, but I am no longer traveling so, not so much this week.

Years ago, when you went to search on the iPhone, it brought up apps and people it thought you ight be looking for based on recent use, time of day and location. I loved it. However, many people found it very creepy. Apple seems to have dialed back a bit this time and made it less "smart."

I wonder if this feature will get any improvements or if it will languish until Apple removes it. At that point, there will be people who will be furious.

Yeah, I think this thread kinda went off the rails (I take some of the blame 😁).