Series 10 AOD ticking second hand limited to only two watch faces

[nattK]

Did anyone notice that in Dave2D’s Apple Watch Series 10 review, he mentioned that the AOD ticking second hand is only available on the new Flux and Reflections watch faces? Crazy that it’s not available on all other watch faces with a second hand 🤯. Hopefully it’s just a bug that will be fixed soon.

He mentions it starting around 2:17 in his review:

 

[wilberforce]

Well that's lame.
Another "feature" but with a dealbreaker catch

 

[Howard2k]

This was pretty clear from the product session. They never suggested that it was coming to all faces.

 

[the future]

Three faces, actually. Activity Digital as well.

 

[worker73]

I was disappointed as well.

 

[The Doctor11]

This makes absolutely no sense to me. That’s my big reason for considering an upgrade, it should be on every single watch face. I use California and world time frequently, hopefully they’re added in then .1 upgrade ASAP.

But truly, what is apple thinking here?

 

[page3]

This was pretty clear from the product session. They never suggested that it was coming to all faces.

I don’t agree. It was reasonable to assume they’d only demoed one or two. To demo every face would have made a rather dull presentation.

 

[FishyFish]

I hate this! I would have assumed every face with a seconds feature.

This better be in .1 release

 

[Late Night Astronomy]

Yeah, I'm frustrated by this not being a feature across more watch faces as well. I'm currently on the Series 6 and my most used watch face is "California". I had assumed it would be a feature across most watch faces until I started to read reviews yesterday. Is there any idea as to whether this will come to older watch faces in future updates?

 

[Night Spring]

Yeah, I'm frustrated by this not being a feature across more watch faces as well. I'm currently on the Series 6 and my most used watch face is "California". I had assumed it would be a feature across most watch faces until I started to read reviews yesterday. Is there any idea as to whether this will come to older watch faces in future updates?

I'm disappointed to hear this, too, but now I'm thinking about it, it may be pretty complicated to update older faces to show second movements while in AOD. If it was a matter of changing a few lines of code, they would have done it already, so I'm thinking this probably requires major code rewrite. Software revisions are like that -- either something needs a few simple changes, or it requires major rewrite. There aren't many cases that fall into the middle. So I'm thinking the older watch faces may not get revised until watchOS 12.

 

[Just_Kevin]

I saw something about this yesterday. It’s cooled my desire to upgrade, just a little bit.

 

[John_JD_Doe]

I tried it on the store today and the Activity Digital watch face worked in AOD

 

[Just_Kevin]

I want it on the Simple analog. Or similar.