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!
100% agree with you that this is a huge miscalculation by Apple.
I use one for work and one for when I’m not at work, I don’t find it cumbersome to switch
yes .we have 5 and se . annoyance yeah… and buggy also .
It’s actually annoying cause I need to switch for Certain projects I hate it 😾
Not stopped entirely but I do swap faces way less often. I’ve managed to set up the widgets to get me close enough to how I had it, but I do miss the swipe.
Yes I switched from using 3 to only 1. i wish there was the option to either use the old watch face swap instead the new one.
Me too With my ADHD, long press then swipe is a major friction, so I completely stopped changing my watch face manually And I can’t tied them to focus modes because my life doesn’t really have very compartmentalized moments (except for sleep where I have a dedicated automatic Watch face)
Focus modes don’t have to be specific events or times. I have a “personal” focus that has everything I want on my watch face, iPhone lock and home screens and hides all notifications and apps I don’t want to see at those times. I can then toggle it on and off with a swipe and two taps on my phone or a shortcut run from the action button on my watch. I use it several times a week for different reasons.
Yes but I don’t want to have to turn on different focus modes when the only thing that will change is which watch face is showing. That’s ridiculous.
Then don’t. Set a shortcut or automation to only change the watch face.
Copied from another comment: I work in healthcare, to be clear. I have certain faces which have complications I need in medical emergencies but not otherwise. I used to be able to switch to those one handed while resuscitating a patient. I can’t do that anymore. It’s a niche case but there are certainly circumstances in which being able to change things around in under a second was critical.
Apparently so many people keep accidentally swiping that they had to disable it.
This is has drastically reduced usability for me. I always swiped between watch faces to glance at important information. But bow my primary workflow is broken and I won’t be buying new Apple Watch unless I can use the old behavior.
You can’t press and then swipe? It takes 2 seconds.
the problem is that it takes a lot more, imagine the scenario where you have to change the watchface several times a day, on while doing something with the other hand, I even used to change the watchface with my nose when I hold something with my right arm, now I can’t lol.
I still think 99% of people won’t have a problem with the 0.5 extra seconds it takes and the other 1% are being a bit silly.
You may be an anomaly though they should add a nose mode for you!
I don’t understand the down votes - I agree, it’s still easily doable by just press and holding then choosing a watch face…
Just Reddit being Reddit 😂
I only use one, but have 2 more loaded in just in case.
Snoopy is the only watch face you need. They know it
Ah yes get a smartwatch with lots of useful complications, info displayed and features at the touch of a button… and don’t use them
I’d love to have the snoopy face and then swipe to my complications but they’ve made it take twice as long and twice as many finger inputs
I’ve only just bought my first Apple Watch but this feels so melodramatic. Takes 5 seconds to change a watch face.
And it used to take less than a second. The goal is supposed to be make things more efficient. Not slow them down.
You must be a super busy guy if 4 seconds a day makes such a negative impact on your life
Sounds like you could lose 4 seconds a day the old way by changing back to the watch face you want after accidentally swiping to another one
At least for myself, I would swap faces over a dozen times a day, often one handed and in a setting in which I needed it immediately. A 3-4 second delay is very annoying.
Have you considered setting up an automation/shortcut for this? With the shortcut app you can create a task to change the watch face based on time, location etc.
Because I need to change the watch face not based on time or location or anything other than “I need the other face right now” which can happen without prompting. No way to automate that.
I never get the “it’s a first world problem”
Correct, I live in the first world and now my device doesn’t do something as well as before 🤷♂️
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