Apple Seeds First Beta of watchOS 10.1 to Developers

[Ntombi]

Public beta available now.

Side note: I like the confirmation on ending workouts, because I’ve hit it by mistake a few times.

 

[manu chao]

I hope they bring back at least an option to change between watch faces by swiping left and right. I am seriously considering buying a used Apple Watch that still runs watchOS 9 just to get that feature back. I launch all my apps via complications spread over three Watch faces.

 

[mrmax86]

I hope they bring back at least an option to change between watch faces by swiping left and right. I am seriously considering buying a used Apple Watch that still runs watchOS 9 just to get that feature back. I launch all my apps via complications spread over three Watch faces.

Oooooh, I hadn't thought of that hack. Great idea! Seems as if I can't implement it though, haha.

 

[whiteashsaturday]

I’d love to see this update return the Control Center to where it belongs and re-add a Dock in some workable form (the slippery recent apps list you get when double-clicking the Crown is not the same thing, and you shouldn’t have to double-click anything to get to most-used apps).

One thing that would help considerably if Apple is really glued to widgets would be to allow the current three-favorites widget to be expandable to 6 or 9 favorites. Even so, widgets should be under the side button, and the Control Center should be a swipe-up gesture.

It would also be nice to have the swipe-to-change-faces feature back.

I sent in Apple/feedback on these exact challenges. The one thing I have forced myself to get used to is "resting thumb for a second on the screen to switch clock faces" instead of simply swiping. I liked swiping quickly between all sorts of "dashboards", I'd set the same watch face with different widgets and simply scroll left and right. That feature is now lost, an replaced with the vertical scroll feature that limits you to the BIG widget features, which many apps cram too much stuff into, and it is hard to read on a 41mm watch face.

I told Apple they need to break apart ultraOS from watchOS so that they can give the LARGE 2' ULTRA3 the changes they want while leaving the current watchOS features in place for the original form factor. We'll see.

The new dock is a pain, and no where as useful.

Control center need to come back.
- Drag-up for Control Center
- Scroll-Crown up for new Widget features.

Note: Modular watch face lets you "drag-right-to-left" to activate the app that is in the middle, but that is the same as tapping on the mile widget, so why waste the drag feature?

 

[bluespark]

I sent in Apple/feedback on these exact challenges. The one thing I have forced myself to get used to is "resting thumb for a second on the screen to switch clock faces" instead of simply swiping. I liked swiping quickly between all sorts of "dashboards", I'd set the same watch face with different widgets and simply scroll left and right. That feature is now lost, an replaced with the vertical scroll feature that limits you to the BIG widget features, which many apps cram too much stuff into, and it is hard to read on a 41mm watch face.

I told Apple they need to break apart ultraOS from watchOS so that they can give the LARGE 2' ULTRA3 the changes they want while leaving the current watchOS features in place for the original form factor. We'll see.

The new dock is a pain, and no where as useful.

Control center need to come back.
- Drag-up for Control Center
- Scroll-Crown up for new Widget features.

Note: Modular watch face lets you "drag-right-to-left" to activate the app that is in the middle, but that is the same as tapping on the mile widget, so why waste the drag feature?

Good idea -- I just left feedback as well.

 

[manu chao]

Oooooh, I hadn't thought of that hack. Great idea! Seems as if I can't implement it though, haha.

I actually got a used Apple Watch (same model, same colour) that still had watchOS 9 on it. Couldn’t restore from a backup without first updating to watchOS 10. I thus had to configure it manually. The watch faces weren’t too much of an effort but wading through all settings to ensure I have set everything up the same was a bit of a chore.

 

[manu chao]

I sent in Apple/feedback on these exact challenges. The one thing I have forced myself to get used to is "resting thumb for a second on the screen to switch clock faces" instead of simply swiping. I liked swiping quickly between all sorts of "dashboards", I'd set the same watch face with different widgets and simply scroll left and right. That feature is now lost, an replaced with the vertical scroll feature that limits you to the BIG widget features, which many apps cram too much stuff into, and it is hard to read on a 41mm watch face.

I've also set up the same watch face several times with different complications. I've used different (background) colours on each face though to get some visual differentiation that helps with knowing where I am.

(And my solution to buy a use Apple Watch still runnung watchOS 9 means I am still can use this tactic.)