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Did Apple Remove the Photo Watch Face?

l.marcus

l.marcus

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I was reviewing the timekeeping portion of the Apple Watch page and I no longer see the photo watch face. (The face that lets you use a photo from your library as the background with the time overlaid on top) Is this one of those features that dropped off in the last few months? Or am I mistaken that it ever existed? I could have sworn it did.
 
I just posted a very similar thread for the purpose of discussing the Timelapse and Photo faces.

I could be mistaken, but I'm not sure that the Timekeeping page has ever mentioned either one of those faces.
 
Maybe the Jellyfish/Butterfly Watch Face will have an option to display a custom user photo…
 
Camusrieux said:
I just posted a very similar thread for the purpose of discussing the Timelapse and Photo faces.

I could be mistaken, but I'm not sure that the Timekeeping page has ever mentioned either one of those faces.
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They did show both Timelapse and Photo faces before they updated the Timekeeping page.

Here's the Photo face:
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Touché, Jay. Looks like I was indeed mistaken.

Boy, I hope they haven't nixed those faces.
 
I have posted on here before about the odd omission of these watch faces following the March event. I wonder if they have been axed or just not being mentioned. Seems odd to remove faces that seemed fairly complete.

There was a hands-on video from the March event that showed an unannounced watch face (it was called something like "Extra Large") in the watch face selector. I can't seem to find the video again, but hopefully this is an indication that they aren't currently marketing all of the watch faces and that the time-lapse and photo ones might still live on.
 
parkds said:
I have posted on here before about the odd omission of these watch faces following the March event. I wonder if they have been axed or just not being mentioned. Seems odd to remove faces that seemed fairly complete.

There was a hands-on video from the March event that showed an unannounced watch face (it was called something like "Extra Large") in the watch face selector. I can't seem to find the video again, but hopefully this is an indication that they aren't currently marketing all of the watch faces and that the time-lapse and photo ones might still live on.
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Well, they could have been just artist mock-ups...but how hard would it really be to do that? Surely they didn't get nixed...
 
JuryDuty said:
Well, they could have been just artist mock-ups...but how hard would it really be to do that? Surely they didn't get nixed...
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Could be...but it in September it was on the demo loop, and was available to select on the operable units.
 

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parkds said:
I have posted on here before about the odd omission of these watch faces following the March event. I wonder if they have been axed or just not being mentioned. Seems odd to remove faces that seemed fairly complete.

There was a hands-on video from the March event that showed an unannounced watch face (it was called something like "Extra Large") in the watch face selector. I can't seem to find the video again, but hopefully this is an indication that they aren't currently marketing all of the watch faces and that the time-lapse and photo ones might still live on.
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Here is the large watch face that you're talking about. I've also attached the link to the video that I found it in, although I have also seen it in other videos as well.

http://youtu.be/Yi0GJNQobdc
 

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Gav2k said:
Bottom right picture
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Yes; as I noted on the other thread, there are a significant number of Apple-generated images that show one or both Timelapse faces and/or the Photo face. (I hadn't noticed the "large" watch face that has been discussed more recently on this thread.)

There's no question that these faces existed at one point; hopefully they still do. It's just odd that they've been removed from the Timekeeping page of the apple.com Watch section, and there seems to be little-to-no additional information available about them.
 
Camusrieux said:
Yes; as I noted on the other thread, there are a significant number of Apple-generated images that show one or both Timelapse faces and/or the Photo face. (I hadn't noticed the "large" watch face that has been discussed more recently on this thread.)

There's no question that these faces existed at one point; hopefully they still do. It's just odd that they've been removed from the Timekeeping page of the apple.com Watch section, and there seems to be little-to-no additional information available about them.
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There showing it on the training video
 
Gav2k said:
There showing it on the training video
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What training video? Do you mean the MobileSyrup.com "Hands-on" posted above? Or do you mean a video for training Apple Store employees on the Watch? Whoa—if the latter has been dug up and made public, it sounds like quite a scoop.
 
Camusrieux said:
What training video? Do you mean the MobileSyrup.com "Hands-on" posted above? Or do you mean a video for training Apple Store employees on the Watch? Whoa—if the latter has been dug up and made public, it sounds like quite a scoop.
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Yes the training in store. Just sit outside apple at 8am and you'll see it playing on the genius wall
 
scwinsett said:
A photo does not use more power than an animated butterfly
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Although it is debatable which one uses more power in this case (I'm no expert) the animation doesn't have to do with it.

Since the  watch screen is OLED, it essentially turns off any pixels that are supposed to be black. This means that that any black pixels use virtually no power, hence black being the main color throughout the watch UI. If you notice, every other watch face has a large portion that is off.
 
scwinsett said:
A photo does not use more power than an animated butterfly
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Yes, it does actually. It's an OLED display. Black pixels use zero energy. The animated flower screen has most of the pixels on the screen displaying pure black. Photos fill the screen with color, which has a significantly larger power draw.


The CPU load for a simple animation is moot.
 
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