Apple

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 🤷‍♂️

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 😾

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.

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.

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)

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.

I only use one, but have 2 more loaded in just in case.

Snoopy is the only watch face you need. They know it

I’ve only just bought my first Apple Watch but this feels so melodramatic. Takes 5 seconds to change a watch face.

i barely use my watch anymore since os 10 it annoys me

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.

Jeez, the visceral hate in this sub towards people who dislike that something they liked has changed. My two cents, I dislike that I can’t swipe between faces. I never changed them accidentally. I have now stopped changing faces altogether. Changing faces by long press is just not as good. It’s the reason they added swiping in the first place. For the haters, how about just don’t change faces accidentally. Something something fat fingers, something something boomer /s

Same for me. I kept a super clean one in the middle with a complication heavy one to one side, and a bright colorful one to the other, basically giving me a control center and a quick switch for certain outfits. I still swap when needed but I find myself just checking info on my phone more.

For sure. Not really in any conscious way, but I would just randomly swipe through different faces while I was waiting for someone to answer the phone or while a web page loaded. Now just leave it on the one face. The little extra friction is just enough to stop me bothering.

You just have to tap and hold for a second and then swipe to choose your watch face. It's really not that big of a deal.

Long press, swipe, don't make unnecessary dramas.

100% agree with you that this is a huge miscalculation by Apple.

yeah how often do normal people change faces. i hated how easily it could happen. best feature.

oh no now you gotta hold AND swipe to change faces? 😢 thats ONE whole extra step, now I will NEVER change watch faces again‼️ 😾

I used to swap between 2, but now I just take out my phone instead. It's less of a hassle.

I’m swapping watch faces even more. I have them tied to different Focus modes which activate automatically.

All the people suggesting to use focus modes are assuming that the reason you want to swap between watch faces is predictable and based on time, day, location. What about when you just want to see info that’s on a different screen? Access a different complication on the fly?

I’d have no problem taking 5 seconds to change my screen when I go somewhere else, or on a weekend morning. It’s the dynamic “I need something from my other screen right now” situations where you want the quick swapping and that’s exactly what they’ve made clunky and awkward.

Yes, I actually like stylish faces without complications now. If I want to see my fitness metrics I simply turn the dial

I wear mine inside the wrist half the time: now not having accidental switches. Took about two minutes to get used to the new setup.

I don't change faces as often anymore. Not because of the one extra step to swipe, but because I finally turned on AOD and have been using the Snoopy face. Those animations make me smile no matter what kind of mood I'm in.

I’m with you. OS 10 significantly degrades my personal experience with the watch to the point I might look at non Apple Watches when this one needs to be replaced next year. Even quickly glancing at the weather or fitness or heart data is more cumbersome because they made once scrollable data into a series of slow moving single screen views. The fitness ring is a great example of this change. I also have to press PHYSICAL BUTTONS more than ever in this version (the crown or side button) and that doesn’t feel like an Apple product to me at all.

No. I'm not a child and can adjust to new ways of doing things quite easily. That being said, the addition of the stack negates most of my old need to switch faces since now even the most bland face has instant access to anything I would have needed to swap to a face with complications for. So yea... I switch less, and that's a good thing.

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.

No, because I never used multiple watch faces. I found one that I liked and stuck with it.

I don't generally change my watch face. I ended up liking Modular enough that I'm sticking with that one 99% of the time. It's easy enough to change the watch face on the iPhone app if I do decide to change it.

I never even knew you could swipe to switch faces

I use focuses and set different watch faces for different focuses. That scratches the itch for watch face variety.

I don’t like using many watch faces.

I use one for focus settings when I need to see what’s up next in my calendar, and one for times when I don’t.

I switch watch faces even more now. The change got me to look into utilizing focus and automations more. Now my watch face changes automatically at least 4 times each day based on time or location. That doesn’t count the times I switch it through a shortcut or manually.

I use automations and shortcuts to change watch faces

Hmm I don't seem to have lost the function. I use the modular ultra face primarily. I long press on it and can still swipe to other faces I've configured. Is this not what you mean though? I could be misunderstanding