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I don’t mind the change. It was all too easy to inadvertently change the watch face with earlier versions of WatchOS.
It’s not exactly a long process to change the watch faces now with WatchOS 10. You simply touch and hold on the screen and then swipe. It’s only one extra step which takes all of a couple of seconds more.
Yeah but some of us liked the easy swap and don’t want to take multiple seconds and active pressing to switch them.
I don’t find many of the faces compelling… they are either too basic or too fitness…I only use Solar Dial and metropolitan
me, I used to change mine a lot on the day, now it's no annoying I just stopped doing it
They have reduced usability across the board. Worst Watch update in a very long time, if not ever. I remain convinced that the person in charge had never worn an Apple Watch before getting the assignment, and didn't bother to talk to any one who was a regular user (not just a wearer, but an active user of things like multiple faces, the favorites dock, etc.).
Nope. Still easy to do, harder to do accidentally, which I used to do often.
Glad I'm not the only person disappointed by this change. Would be good if they gave you the option to choose methods.
You can still use the swipe feature. Just press and hold the watch face. It goes into edit. Then you can swipe to the face you want. Takes an extra 2seconds.
yes 1000%
and i always used the swipe up from the bottom to bring up the little control panel thing and tap the alert / ring my phone because i forget where it is.
and i still can figure out how stop one face from turning red after 6pm.
No, I learned how focus's work and now I use more faces than ever before.
When I leave the house, my travel face with my maps and compass come on. When I'm at home casual during the weekend, my snoopy face is on. When I'm working, my productive face is on.
I don't find it all that difficult to tap/hold the screen and then swipe to change faces.
I only use one face now and I never change my iPhone wallpaper because it will take 10 minutes.
My dog kept changing my watch face with her paw, so I’m actually glad it takes a little more effort to change it lol
Watch os10 sucks for a bunch of reasons. All the stuff I’ve done daily since getting my first gen1 Apple Watch is now different. And needlessly different
I am updated to watch is 10.1.1, Far as I see, it takes almost no effort to swap watch faces- tap and hold the face, swipe left or right to select from your saved faces, tap to enable it. Maybe I don’t understand something you were doing before?
I agree with OP. I really miss being able to quickly swipe to a different watch face. Why didn’t Apple make a setting that you can choose which face-switching process you want to have active on your watch? Seems simple enough.
I use one for work and one for when I’m not at work, I don’t find it cumbersome to switch