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Take a Closer Look at the Apple Watch Series 4 Infograph Watch Face, Which Supports 8 Complications

bacaramac said:
Infograph is dead to me until they add all the basic complications like Phone, Messages, etc. completely ridiculous that this was not available day one. Love my series 4 otherwise, but using my old face from series 3 until they fix this glaring gap.
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Good point. You can not put in a complication that just phone or just message... but you CAN put in a picture of specific contacts (mine is my wife) that you tap and then call or message that person. I do find that semi useful, at least in flattering my wife (I can always raise my phone and say 'call wife' or 'message wife' so its a tad redundant).

What I do like is looking at my watch and seeing in a single glance what the temp is, what the battery is, what the date is, what the time of my colleague in London is, my calendar events, and oh yeah what the time is. :) No way can I go back to my old face from series 3.
 
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Trik said:
Do we have a tracking page for apps that have been updated to support the new watch face?
  • Things
  • SleepWatch
Are two I'm using now. I wish DarkSky and Fantastical would update to support it!
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We updated Weather Gods to support the new Infograph complications with our smart weather conditions.
 
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The new face is fantastic to show off to people who dont have access to it. But in actual use.... its information overload and the novelty wore off within a few days.

I know we’re supposed to make excuses of how future app updates will make more complications more useful. But considering the track record of Apple Watch Apps then I just dont know if we’re actually going to get anything more than UV Index or an icon telling me that the sun is out and its still daytime.
 
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Trik said:
Do we have a tracking page for apps that have been updated to support the new watch face?
  • Things
  • SleepWatch
Are two I'm using now. I wish DarkSky and Fantastical would update to support it!
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Carrot has infograph complications and uses Dark Sky for data. Fantastical definitely needs an update, 3 of the 4 calendar replacement apps on AW have been updated since AW4 came out and NONE of them added infograph complications... It's mind blowing.
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urkel said:
The new face is fantastic to show off to people who dont have access to it. But in actual use.... its information overload and the novelty wore off within a few days.

I know we’re supposed to make excuses of how future app updates will make more complications more useful. But considering the track record of Apple Watch Apps then I just dont know if we’re actually going to get anything more than UV Index or an icon telling me that the sun is out and its still daytime.
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Speak for yourself, I could use even more than 8 complications if it were feasible.
 
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I tried it for a few days and it was fun, but...

...sometimes simpler is better - the same is true in my opinion with mechanical watches

...and I think some of the complications I experimented with were running processes that made a small but noticeable dent in battery runtime.

I went back to Activity Digital, which really reflects why I bought and love the Watch in the first place. Not to replace my phone, and not to replace my mechanical watches, but as a health/fitness wearable.
 
I wish the world time complications could be either analog or digital.
The analog clocks are too small for my eyes to read without readers on. Also I don’t prefer reading an analog clock.
 
I was extremely disappointed to see the limitations on which complications could be used on the Infograph face. Why have room for eight if you can’t add the ones you regularly use? Doesn’t make any sense to me.
 
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yoavon1 said:
great faces, but lack so much!

How is it possible that on the "modular" face, you cannot even select ALARM CLOCK as any of your complications?!?

But hey.... at least I can see the status of our SOLAR SYSTEM, this is critical for my day to day activities.

Also - I would like it if I could use Starbucks' complication in the 'Infograph' face. I find it useful.
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But you can I think. Alarm.
 
pmbooks said:
Can't be just the size, since the previous series larger version has a larger face than the small series 4.
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No. The S4 40mm is larger than the S3 42mm. But you’re correct it’s not likely just the size that’s the issue. Keeping 8 complications updating simultaneously in real time with the watch face probably takes a lot of processing power.
 
So, so stupid that Apple continues to disallow 3rd party watch face development. I have last year's model and I guess I get nothing new on this front. My 1st gen Moto 360 allowed 3rd party watch faces and there were some beautiful watch faces developed. Also, the squarish watch face still looks geekish compared to the round faces that dominate Android Wear. I can't help but believe that Apple would have adopted a round display had Android not gone that way first.
 
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Trik said:
Do we have a tracking page for apps that have been updated to support the new watch face?
  • Things
  • SleepWatch
Are two I'm using now. I wish DarkSky and Fantastical would update to support it!
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Please, I'm disappointment i can't put on Pokemon Go, Strava or outlook on any part of the new watch faces.
I don't need updated information, i just need 1 tap access to my most used things. Pressing the digital crown is actually a really big inconvenience, as it requires 3 steps to get what i want.

Raise your wrist
Tap Crown
Tap or find app

Or if you don't raise your wrist,

Tap Button to wake screen
tap again to view all apps or recents
scroll to find app
tap app to open.

Too many steps!
 
I'm just sitting here wondering why my calendar complication in the bottom left corner shows a static picture of a calendar rather than, I don't know, today's date?!
 
Trik said:
Do we have a tracking page for apps that have been updated to support the new watch face?
  • Things
  • SleepWatch
Are two I'm using now. I wish DarkSky and Fantastical would update to support it!
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Carrot
 
omihek said:
I'm just sitting here wondering why my calendar complication in the bottom left corner shows a static picture of a calendar rather than, I don't know, today's date?!
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Some themes show a static calender shows and some show the correct date. I can't use a theme with a static calender. Love the new AW though, too it won't work with my galaxy.
 
I absolutely love the new Watch. It's simply great. The new infographic faces are perhaps one of the best improvements that came along with the larger screen.
 
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yoavon1 said:
great faces, but lack so much!

How is it possible that on the "modular" face, you cannot even select ALARM CLOCK as any of your complications?!?

But hey.... at least I can see the status of our SOLAR SYSTEM, this is critical for my day to day activities.

Also - I would like it if I could use Starbucks' complication in the 'Infograph' face. I find it useful.
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I just selected ALARM as one of my complications, so....
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The additional complications is my number one reason for wanting this watch. It almost had me, but the price increase (yeah I'm a broken record on this) held me back. Seems I'm going st least another year with my s3. Butnin looking forward to more exiting additions next year. And if not, a used s4 should be pretty affordable.
 
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