AppleWatch - slight zoom when awakening/turning wrist

[southerndoc]

I have always on display turned on. When I turn my wrist to awaken the watch to full brightness, there is a slight zoom effect with the clock and text. I have zoom turned off. I've tried every setting but cannot seem to find the one that controls this.

 

[BeatCrazy]

That's normal. It's just the subtle hint your watch is going from it's "always on" mode to fully lit.

If you have a face with second hand, you'll see it re-appears when the zoom effect (really the 'regular' face) activates.

In other words, the 'smaller' face is really the 1Hz version aka "always on".

 

[southerndoc]

Why can't the always on face be the same size?

 

[mavis]

That zoom animation drives me nuts. I install every single watchOS beta just to see if they finally got rid of it, but it's still there. In watchOS 9, they actually got rid of the zoom animation when you use a colored background, but they just leave the text shrunken at all times. Oh, and instead of a zoom animation, you have to watch a background-color-fade-in animation.

I bought an Apple Watch Series 7 because Apple made a big deal about the reduced bezels and I wanted the increased screen area (though minor, it helps with a specific way I use the watch, every day). But then they shrink the watch faces back down to pre-S7 dimensions when you use AoD. So annoying.

 

[Vangeli]

Why can't the always on face be the same size?

Probably reduces burn-in.

 

[mavis]

Probably reduces burn-in.

If that's the reason, why do they only do it with certain faces?