I’ve been pretty neutral about the changes on watchOS 10. I understood that people don’t like changes -

but it’s been 2 months now and I still try to bring up the control center the old way, I still try to access my most recently used apps the old way and I’m still annoyed by having submenus everywhere where watchOS 9 was straightforward with everything. watchOS 10 is the most unintuitive Apple experience I ever had.

Old top menu bar, one line leaving space for the actual content

New top menu bar with huge buttons at the top, pushing down the actual content

Probably the worst part on my 40mm SE is that the colorful backgrounds made all app icons on watch faces smaller (there has recently been a post about this) and I keep missing icons when clicking them. I sometimes need to click an icon 4 times until it registers, along with the colorful backgrounds and unnecessarily huge flashy other buttons this feels like a $50 knockoff Watch to me now.

Also what did they think when changing the menu bar at the top? It used to be one small line (picture 1) but now on my 40mm Watch about 1 fourth of the screen is covered by each app’s title or clock (picture 2). I know what app I’m in, I don’t need half the screen (exaggerating yes) covered to be reminded of the app I’m using.

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watchOS 10 must’ve been designed by someone who doesn’t really use their Apple Watch much I assume. I’m not blaming them, everyone can make mistakes when the goal was progress but it’s not like a mistake has to be set in stone. Just roll it back or give us a choice between design and functionality - I personally prefer functionality, it’s not like watchOS 9 was so ugly that it needed a re-design to begin with.

  • natie29@alien.topBEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    Hated it until I realised where the recent apps shortcut was then I was happy again. I like the UI change, just would have been nice to have a quick tutorial to show where things had moved.

  • DJ_Link@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    the buttons to close the apps are super tiny, navigation is not easy at all, mistap a lot. it seems like the areas are less forgiving then before. Yesterday I wanted to press the microphone button on message and kept pressing something else, this never happened before. big downgrade imo. I don’t see them going back though.

  • sinuhe69@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I feel your pain and I’m in the pain, too. In the old design, one can zoom in the app grids, but not WatchOS 10. But even without zooming in, the old app icons are bigger (yes only small changes, but noticeable), so I could click on the app I want. Every time. Not on the WatchOS 10! To start training, I have to at least click twice, yes every time! The weird thing is other app like the watch is not affected, but many are. At my age, working on the watch is hard enough without my glasses, but with WatchOS 10, it becomes a burden. Apple’s product should just work. That’s the compelling design philosophy of Steve Jobs! But not any more. I hate the feeling of having to fumble about. And I can not understand why the apps need second to start and response.

    I don’t see any benefit of the new design, only trouble and annoyance. I cannot think of any other reason than it’s the Apple way to force its customers to buy new a watch :( I just wish I can roll back!

  • plazman30@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    This is my first Apple Watch. It came with WatchOS 10. I don’t know any better.

  • Jitsoperator@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    What bothers me is when it’s in a app it doesn’t go back to Home Screen automatically

    And my battery sucks now

  • BONEZ024@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    Right here. It’s annoying af that they changed key functionality/navigation.

  • Onepaperairplane@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I thought the OS increase my usage of the watch other than just tracking but it is so cumbersome to use. When the redundancy of bringing up Smart Stack by moving the crown and/or swipe up? Please return to the old swipe up for control centre

  • EnragedFerretX@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    I forget the stacks are there most of the time, which negates most of the changes they made. The new look of the stock apps is fine with me though.

    • wheelie89@alien.topOPBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      For what are you using the stocks app tho? I’m into stocks and I always found the stocks experience to be worse than literally any third party stocks app. Can you have a watchlist with your purchase price yet? Or a widget on the iPhone that shows more than like 5 entries (because Apple prefers form over function which makes it an unreasonable choice for most investors?)