How foolproof to return to watchface?

[dmaxdmax]

88 year old grandma has a knack for clicking at random or messing a setting. It only takes a month for all of her radio presets to be set to the same station. Or her kindle to be on a random page. However, the entire family is getting watches and I don’t want her to feel left out. That digital face should be easy to read even without glasses but if she pushes a button or spins the crown she won’t be able to get back to it, if it’s not a standard sequence that always works.

What do you think?

 

[BarracksSi]

Leave it as the only watch face, and remind her that pressing the crown once or twice will always get back to the watch face.

If my mother ever relents and replaces her flip phone with an iPhone, we'll simplify it for her in a similar way by putting just one or two apps on the first home screen.

 

[dmaxdmax]

At least on the phone there’s a physical home button (except the X) that always gets you back.

 

[Julien]

Pushing the Digital Crown (sometimes 2x) will get the watch face back.

 

[BarracksSi]

At least on the phone there’s a physical home button (except the X) that always gets you back.

Yes, like we say, the Digital Crown gets you back to the watch face.

it's been like this since watchOS 1.

Here's another idea: Remove complications from the watch face. Each Complication also works to access its related App, right? Like, when you tap on the date, it takes you to the Calendar. Simplify the face even more by just showing the time. You can take this to its extreme by using the XL face, too.

I've got a bigger-picture question, however:

If you want to get her one so she doesn't "feel left out", what is she going to do with it once she's got it?

Thinking about your other thread (bands for small wrists and arthritic fingers), maybe she'll actually get a lot of use by using Siri and voice dictation. Do you have your own AW already? See how much you can do on the watch without using your fingers. It might turn out to be quite a lot.

 

[dmaxdmax]

what is she going to do with it once she's got it?

Great question! Her 30 year old analog watch just bit the dust so she needs a timepiece of some sort. I’d love for her to have one she can check at night without needing glasses or a flashlight.

I just ordered her a series 1 from Walmart for $199. She’ll either like it or she won’t.

 

[Mansu944]

Buy her a luminox or an Indiglow. Sheez...

 

[dmaxdmax]

Buy her a luminox or an Indiglow. Sheez...

Seriously? She's as entitled to an overpriced toy as any of the rest of us.

 

[Julien]

Seriously? She's as entitled to an overpriced toy as any of the rest of us.

I guess a better way to look at it is: Why buy her a confusing and complex multi-functional device when all she wants to do is tell the time?

 

[BarracksSi]

Seriously? She's as entitled to an overpriced toy as any of the rest of us.

I guess a better way to look at it is: Why buy her a confusing and complex multi-functional device when all she wants to do is tell the time?

Why not both? ;-)

Overpriced toy that just tells time (although this one’s kinda small) —

 

[dmaxdmax]

She really liked her dearly departed watch but she needed reading glasses to use it. Also a flashlight in low light. I just picked hers up - there’s a 50/50 chance that a week from now I’ll bring it back.