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Here's How Apple Watch Widgets Work in watchOS 10

CarAnalogy said:
This is bad. They made it harder to access everything else. This is just the Siri watch face with a few more options.

It looked good at first but all the other changes they made in favor of it are worse.
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I disagree, yeah they moved a few things, but they moved them to better places for example control center is much easier to bring up now.
 
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Is someone at Apple a Flight of the Conchords fan? 11:30AM seems pretty early for "Business Time" tbh, but who's judging. :D
 
Along with not being able to swipe from watch face to watch face, as many other others have mentioned. I'm not able to use the widgets in the Siri Watch face. I'm hoping both of these issues are just beta bugs. Also I love the snoopy watch face, and the Mickey faces, but I really need complications in those faces, at least one in the corner more medical devices I need to keep an eye on.
 
Kind of neat, like the old iOS where you had the separate widgets page (which I highly preferred). I always have the max number of complications on my AW, so now I can do something fancy like put a picture of my kids there and still have access to "complications" in widget form, at least that's how I'm understanding it.
 
gank41 said:
Not only did they remove the ability to swipe between Watch Faces, but they also added redundant ways of bringing up these new Widgets while removing the Favorite Apps option completely. You used to swipe up on the Watch Face to bring up the Control Center (Which is Great!), but they now moved that to the Side Button in lieu of the Favorite Apps. So now the only way to navigate to a commonly used app, like Settings, is to press the Digital Crown and then scroooollllllllll all the way to the end of your list of apps. I'm not sure how long things will stay this way, or if maybe we'll see options to choose what the Side button does? Doesn't seem like there needs to be two ways to do the same thing while removing something else.
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Yep. Need the dock back on side button, widgets on crown scroll and CC on swipe up.
 
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spazzcat said:
I disagree, yeah they moved a few things, but they moved them to better places for example control center is much easier to bring up now.
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I hope you’re right. From the way I read the article, everything has been shuffled around. They seem to be making it harder to reach the dock and apps screen. I’ll withold judgement until final release and I can try it myself, but the article worried me.

Thanks for actually replying instead of just smacking disagree, by the way.
 
KOTN91 said:
So wish they dropped support for the watch 4. It’s like the iPad 2 or iPhone 6S of watches
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I bought the Ultra thinking this was the year, and still returned it and went back to the S4 because I noticed no difference in speed or usability for the apps that I use. As somebody who gets the latest iPhone annually, I see no reason to do the same for the watch and have no current plans to buy the Series 9 this year either!
 
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bluespark said:
Exactly. This seems like the right way to integrate widgets. I would also change the dock so that when you press the side button, it simply shows a grid of nine favorite apps on the watch face -- no scrolling or "cards" required.
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Depends if the tap target is too small to work. If you think that CC has 6 items…
 
gank41 said:
Not only did they remove the ability to swipe between Watch Faces, but they also added redundant ways of bringing up these new Widgets while removing the Favorite Apps option completely. You used to swipe up on the Watch Face to bring up the Control Center (Which is Great!), but they now moved that to the Side Button in lieu of the Favorite Apps. So now the only way to navigate to a commonly used app, like Settings, is to press the Digital Crown and then scroooollllllllll all the way to the end of your list of apps. I'm not sure how long things will stay this way, or if maybe we'll see options to choose what the Side button does? Doesn't seem like there needs to be two ways to do the same thing while removing something else.
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The app drawer has been moved to double pressing the crown. But it looks like the favorites feature has been taken out entirely which is not great.
 
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Adamov said:
What I really don't like in watchOS 10 is that Apple removed the ability to swipe between watch faces. Now you have to long press on the watch face to enter edit mode and then swipe :(
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I agree. I can also see the other side of the argument, people who are happy about this because it stops them accidentally changing faces with a “false” swipe (a sleeve or whatever). What I find disappointing is that Apple didn’t make this an option to make everyone happy.

I haven’t seen anything is any WatchOS 10 reports that suggests an alternative use for the left and right swipes so either Apple is just being Apple and refusing to make this behavior an option or else they have some future use of those left and right swipe gestures in future. If they do intend to repurpose those swipes at some point in the future then I wonder what their plans are there.
 
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Verified Whiskey said:
The thing that was a little jarring at first for me was the new Home Screen layout. I use the honeycomb grid on my app layout, and before it just expanded out like a spider web but now it doesn’t scroll horizontally at all. It’s just vertical! So I have to learn where all my apps are now.
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Me too. I hated honeycomb for about my first 3 years of ownership and kept to list view but about a year ago I realised the power of the honeycomb. It puts a lot of icons on the very first screen, I’m perfectly happy clicking on even the tiniest edge icons to reliably launch something, but also I have things set up by category so I know that all my less-used health apps are off to the left, for more travel and weather apps I go up, for system and system-like apps I go down and for other less-used miscellaneous apps I go to the right. It works really well for me and the new one-dimensional scrolling will stop me doing this.
 
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Long live the pebble!

JulianL said:
I haven’t seen anything is any WatchOS 10 reports that suggests an alternative use for the left and right swipes so either Apple is just being Apple and refusing to make this behavior an option or else they have some future use of those left and right swipe gestures in future. If they do intend to repurpose those swipes at some point in the future then I wonder what their plans are there.
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I think it was mostly to bring consistency with the Lock Screen on iPhone. The swipes actually do things there, though…

QuarterSwede said:
Oof. I use Favorites a lot.
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I think the widgets are supposed to be the stand in for favorites. If you like them so much, surely you want to see content from inside of them before even tapping? Still needs work apparently.
 
It would be nice if they still had Force Touch and you could press hard to enter "edit/swipe" mode instead of awkwardly waiting for a long press to be recognized.
 
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I always liked the concept of the Siri watch face, where you could scroll through a list of relevant information cards, but they kind of abandoned it. Happy to see this new take on a similar idea. Hope it's implemented well.
 
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