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!
Once you commit to focus modes this ceases to become such an issue.
Eg. When I switch to my ‘fitness’ focus mode my Apple Watch face and iPhone homescreen all change instantly. And so can countless other things.
This is vastly more efficient than manually changing watch faces.
Switching between focus modes takes about as long or longer as switching faces now, and you have that ugly icon on your face indicating you’re in focus mode. This is not a solution for me. It’s even worse.
Yeah but there are many of us who don’t see any utility to focus modes. I have my Apple stuff set up the way I use it all the time, and therefore wouldn’t customize anything in the different “modes”. I only need to be able to change my watch face in under a second. Focus mode isn’t going to do that.