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drysdalk

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Jun 18, 2014
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Hi,

Yesterday, I updated my Apple Watch Series 7 (GPS + Cellular) to the recently-released watchOS 11.0 (Build 22R349). The first annoyance was that the Explorer face is now gone - that, it seems, is intentional. But annoying for me, because it was the only watch face on the cellular Apple Watch that had a built-in signal strength indicator.

Now, apparently there should be a Cellular complication that can be added to other watch faces that does the same job. But that does not seem to exist on my watch. If I edit the Complications in watch faces which should allegedly support this complication, it does not appear as an option. I've tried doing this on the watch itself, and also from within the Apple Watch app on my iPhone (also updated to iOS 18, naturally), and whilst I can choose from a wide selection of different complications, the Cellular one is not there.

I can still check my signal strength via Control Centre, so it's not the end of the world. But still, it's strange, and I'd like to know if anyone else has encountered a similar issue. I'm in the United Kingdom using a watch on the O2 mobile network, if that makes any difference for any reason. Given I'm in the UK I thought it might be under a different name (Mobile rather than Cellular, for instance), but whilst i do have a "Mobile Service" complication, that just takes me to the relevant page in Settings to let me turn mobile data on and off, and doesn't show me signal strength.
 
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