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The new watchOS is bad enough that I've delayed buying any new Apple Watches. Some are just bad implementations (the new stack stuff), and others are mind-boggl

The new watchOS is bad enough that I've delayed buying any new Apple Watches. Some are just bad implementations (the new stack stuff), and others are mind-boggling -- I'll keep complaining about it -- you can't swipe between watch faces anymore. I literally had a work face, a workout face, and a Tesla watchface. I moved between them frictionless-ly, and now it's a press-hold-swipe-close movement. And yet, there's no swipe feature replacement -- you just can't swipe anymore. The gesture has no associated action. I know some people hate the swipe, because they accidentally swiped between watch faces (it never happened to me), but if the swipe gesture is dead, why not offer it as a feature flag? And it's like they don't want you to think your watch has multiple watch faces anymore. They macbook-keyboard-ruined watchOS for me and it's worse because they took something away that had been there this whole time -- a cardinal sin. Bah freakin' humbug.

mgkimsal 3y ago
I never knew you could do it without the press-hold-swipe. That's the only way I ever knew how to switch faces.
- semireg 3y ago
  And we used to be able to board an airplane without taking off our shoes! (US-centric hot take)
semireg 3y ago
I really hope this is enabled again through an "advanced" setting. Swipe to Change Watch Faces: YES
wlesieutre 3y ago
I'm missing the old "double press crown" action, which toggled between the two most recent apps. Now it brings up the recent apps menu, which got kicked off the side button to make room for control center, which got kicked off of swipe-up to make room for a stack of widgets. It also takes much more precise scrolling to check whether I've gotten the current Stand hour. Used to be continuous scrolling and you just had to get one small bar somewhere within the screen. Now it's a bunch of fullscreen pages and you need to scroll down to the exact page and no farther. The new UI is prettier, but it's definitely not as efficient. EDIT - I'd also like to be able to kick the date/time off of the widget stack so that I could have two useful widgets immediately on screen. I'm not swiping up to look at the date and time, I have both of those on my watch face. This should really be a widget from the Clock app if someone wants to have it there, but otherwise let me delete it. Trying to tap widgets further down the stack also behaves weirdly. In the iOS app switcher cards you can tap on the background cards near the left side of the screen to open an app from further back in the stack without having to scroll to it first. The one to the left of the current app is a pretty easy target, the second one to the left is a bit of a narrow line along the edge. But it works, you tap either of them and they activate. Not so with the watchOS 10 widget stack. You can see the next two widgets in the background along the bottom of the screen, but if you try to tap on them they just disappear. They're past due for an iOS 12 style polish pass on all of their platforms. But now their attention is going to be focused on launching and iterating a whole new one (visionOS) so it's hard to get optimistic.
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warp 3y ago
100%, it's extremely annoying. I've had to set up focus modes with schedules so that my work and sleep faces are activated automatically at certain times of the day, this has helped a bit with reducing my frustration with this change, but I really hope they revert this in an update (unlikely, I know).

mgkimsal 3y ago

I never knew you could do it without the press-hold-swipe. That's the only way I ever knew how to switch faces.

semireg 3y ago
And we used to be able to board an airplane without taking off our shoes! (US-centric hot take)

semireg 3y ago

I really hope this is enabled again through an "advanced" setting. Swipe to Change Watch Faces: YES

wlesieutre 3y ago

I'm missing the old "double press crown" action, which toggled between the two most recent apps. Now it brings up the recent apps menu, which got kicked off the side button to make room for control center, which got kicked off of swipe-up to make room for a stack of widgets. It also takes much more precise scrolling to check whether I've gotten the current Stand hour. Used to be continuous scrolling and you just had to get one small bar somewhere within the screen. Now it's a bunch of fullscreen pages and you need to scroll down to the exact page and no farther. The new UI is prettier, but it's definitely not as efficient. EDIT - I'd also like to be able to kick the date/time off of the widget stack so that I could have two useful widgets immediately on screen. I'm not swiping up to look at the date and time, I have both of those on my watch face. This should really be a widget from the Clock app if someone wants to have it there, but otherwise let me delete it. Trying to tap widgets further down the stack also behaves weirdly. In the iOS app switcher cards you can tap on the background cards near the left side of the screen to open an app from further back in the stack without having to scroll to it first. The one to the left of the current app is a pretty easy target, the second one to the left is a bit of a narrow line along the edge. But it works, you tap either of them and they activate. Not so with the watchOS 10 widget stack. You can see the next two widgets in the background along the bottom of the screen, but if you try to tap on them they just disappear. They're past due for an iOS 12 style polish pass on all of their platforms. But now their attention is going to be focused on launching and iterating a whole new one (visionOS) so it's hard to get optimistic.

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warp 3y ago

100%, it's extremely annoying. I've had to set up focus modes with schedules so that my work and sleep faces are activated automatically at certain times of the day, this has helped a bit with reducing my frustration with this change, but I really hope they revert this in an update (unlikely, I know).