Apple Watch Ultra Wayfinder face not working properly?

[wherewuz]

For anyone else who has the Apple Watch Ultra and has tried the Wayfinder face, is it working for you? Based on this Apple promotional video, the face has a compass that goes around the circular watch face and updates in real-time. It looks super cool, but mine doesn't do that. It's just a blank red circle. Anyone else?

 

[Zonck]

I was just about to start a similar thread. Not for the compass but for the Lat/Long or Incline. I've selected the Lat/Long bezel option but I too just get the thin orange line

 

[wherewuz]

I think Lat/Long is the compass feature? But yeah, I can't get either to work. Weird, they got mentioned in the reviews as working, I'm pretty sure...

 

[drew0020]

You need to tap the face (literally on the circle - not anywhere) on the watch and it changes.

 

[Zonck]

10 points to that person.

 

[ckurt25]

You need to tap the face (literally on the circle - not anywhere) on the watch and it changes.

Nice catch! I was thinking it might be from not activating the cellular service, but I was wrong.

 

[wherewuz]

You need to tap the face (literally on the circle - not anywhere) on the watch and it changes.

Thank you! I wonder why that is? Too expensive a battery hit to always be on?

 

[ckurt25]

Hmmm... My Longitude and Latitude won't update. It's been "updating..." for a pretty long time. I do not have cellular service turned on for the Ultra.

 

[Zonck]

Hmmm... My Longitude and Latitude won't update. It's been "updating..." for a pretty long time. I do not have cellular service turned on for the Ultra.

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Have you opened the compass app and allowed location access?

 

[ckurt25]

Have you opened the compass app and allowed location access?

I had not. I did just open the Compass app and it did ask. I now see that info in the Compass app but it's not showing up (yet?) on the watch face.

 

[CharlesShaw]

Thank you for this thread. I’ve been too busy admiring how good my old bands look on the new case to read the user guide yet and was thinking that I needed to troubleshoot that face. YAY, I finally have a compass! (coming from a Series 4)

edit: and wow, now that it’s working it’s sort of fancy new toy from Santa cool.

 

[Asiatic Black Hebrew]

You need to tap the face (literally on the circle - not anywhere) on the watch and it changes.

Lifesaver right here. I never would’ve figured this out.

 

[Tokenfreak]

What are these green dots suppose to be and why don’t they show on my watch with Wayfinder?

 

[roger.dalal]

Turn off WiFi and your iPhone to put your watch into Cellular mode. You'll get the signal dots then.

 

[roger.dalal]

You need to tap the face (literally on the circle - not anywhere) on the watch and it changes.

This bugged me all day. Thanks so much!

 

[Zonck]

View attachment 2077777What are these green dots suppose to be and why don’t they show on my watch with Wayfinder?

It’s mobile signal strength. Unless you have a cellular plan, are not on Wi-Fi and not in range of your phone they won’t show.

 

[ckurt25]

I figured out my problem. I could see Lat / Long in Compass but it only said “Updating” on the watch face. Turns out that I turned off (set to Never) location services for Apple Watch Faces on my iPhone.

 

[CodeSpyder]

Press on the white portion of the bezel to toggle between compass and time.

 

[TLY]

Thank you for this thread. I had the opposite issue where it was displaying the compass and I couldn't get the date to display on the top complication unless the screen is in the always on display screen (when watch is basically in sleep mode), tapping on the circle part worked!

 

[zorro4u]

You need to tap the face (literally on the circle - not anywhere) on the watch and it changes.

Thank you, I was going crazy trying to fix that.

 

[tivoboy]

I do like this face, but MY GOSH the numerals are very very tiny indeed and nearly impossible to read. I’d like a face with maybe a few fewer complications, but larger over font on the important digits.


don’t say boomer, it’s X’er to you!

 

[CodeSpyder]

And the following was pointed out to me on the Apple Developer's forum. I put in a bug report on the the Wayfinder watch face. Note that longitude has N after the angle. I think this image is in their guide. Not possible except with buggy software.

 

[CapeTownMac]

Nice catch! I was thinking it might be from not activating the cellular service, but I was wrong.

You need to tap the face (literally on the circle - not anywhere) on the watch and it changes.

Thanks for this! Great solution. It is still an error because, logically, if you set the bezel to hours or minutes or whatever it should carry over from the settings to the watch face. If you select "bezel" "none" then it should not show the compass or elevation at all but it does if you tap on the bezel which is confusing.

 

[mikemj23]

You need to tap the face (literally on the circle - not anywhere) on the watch and it changes.

Well sir, you win the prize. This was bugging me to no end. Thanks!!!!

 

[dsampley]

I have learned more in this thread in 5 minutes than anything else I have read on the watch for a while. Thanks for posting!