Don’t update if you like swiping between watch faces!!
My biggest regret is updating my watch.
They took away one of the best features and that was swiping between watch faces. On a day to day basis I would use 2-3 depending where I am, what time it is and what I am doing. I had set them up for different things. My main was in the middle and then one to the left and one to the right.
Now in the last few days of having the update I’ve stop using the others watch faces because when I need to quickly do something it’s not quick anymore, I actually have to stop and manually change faces and I never realized how handy it was before because if I need something on those other faces except the main one I just no longer use it.
Yes I realise that it’s first world problems but removing that one feature has given me such a massive distain towards using my Apple Watch for anything besides fitness.
I have the 5 and I was planning on getting the 10 next year because maybe more features I could put across the three faces that I use but now, unless they bring the feature back I’m not buying a new Apple Watch until mine disintegrates.
And yes I realise I may be over reacting but swiping between faces was such an important feature for me!
All the people suggesting to use focus modes are assuming that the reason you want to swap between watch faces is predictable and based on time, day, location. What about when you just want to see info that’s on a different screen? Access a different complication on the fly?
I’d have no problem taking 5 seconds to change my screen when I go somewhere else, or on a weekend morning. It’s the dynamic “I need something from my other screen right now” situations where you want the quick swapping and that’s exactly what they’ve made clunky and awkward.
Good point, it was often quicker to swipe and use a complication than to scroll through the app list.
Create a shortcut allowing you to select a watch face and then put that on your watch screen. Then you only have to press the button to select from multiple watch faces the one you want.
Yes… the button will take up valuable real estate on your watch but it’s an option towards a solution.
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a93110faaac349f5804c6d6f8a91168d
They just not willing to accept apple took away a perfectly working and amazing feature to settle with some mid ui experience
It wasn’t perfectly working and amazing to a lot of people. I am certainly in the camp where it would get changed accidentally frequently enough to be annoying. Now we just have a slew of post from the vocal minority impacting by the change for the negative. Also it is not that difficult to change still but less prone to be done so accidentally.
Now if they could do a similar change for iOS with pressing and holding the screen…
Well, basically yes. More folks do this for example if you go gym or run, you have a face with the needed complications, if you’re at night on sleep time, you get a darker face (I have mine red with blank bg), when I’m working mine have work related complications. That’s the thing, you put usability based on the context. It’s not like you’re going to randomly pull your Snoopy face for gym. Got it?