I am an automatic updates on all my Apple devices, and tonight my AW SE got WatchOS10.
I am shocked and disappointed.
The most basic and used feature has disappeared, you cannot swipe between watchfaces anymore! Is this not the core feature of the Apple Watch? Configure yourself a bunch of watch faces, stylish or packed with information, whatever fits the situation, add complications freely, and then swipe between them with ease?!? This is the core functionality of my Apple Watch, the feature I use at least a dozen times per day. Poof, it is gone. Decide yourself for one Watchface, or go into the menus every time to change it.
Honestly, this change has moved me from thinking about what is going to be my next Apple Watch to thinking about which brand of smartwatch I want to try next. If I wanted a product where the manufacturer was making changes for change’s sake, I‘d use my Windows machine.
There are some improvements in WatchOS 10 that you can see as better.
But where is the improvement in not being able to swipe between watchfaces anymore? How is taking something away without replacement an improvement? It’s not like the gesture has been replaced with some other great feature. Swipping left and right now simply does nothing at all. So please do explain me how it is for the better.
The new OS stops the user from inadvertently swiping to a new watch face. It now only requires a simple push to swipe.
Who suffered from inadvertently swiping to a new watch face? And even if that happens to you, you simply swipe back. It is also not push to swipe, but push, swipe, tap. Three interactions instead of one.