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Yea, I totally dig this face, and I especially love that I can have live AQI.

I agree with others that we could use more 3rd-party complications.
 
Exactly this. If Apple would put the same effort into the digital faces that they do into the analogue faces, the watch would be many times better than it is.



I like digital time too since it has seconds, but unfortunately you can't have it on the digital face.

see i dont think having seconds is necessary, just a blinking colon is enough. I just wish they gave the digital watch faces more love. Those water fire vapor faces are gorgeous let me use digital time with them. Digital time is far quicker for me to read. Probably like 3 or 4 times as fast. Then again maybe i just suck lol
 
They sure look great. If they ever manage to implement an 'Always On' screen that doesn't drain the battery, that's when I'll most likely get one (instead of wearing an analogue watches).
 
I’d love to use the Infograph Modular face for all the data it can provide, but can’t get seconds to work with it. So I am stuck with the Activity face with the dumb rings that mean nothing to me. That is my only complaint about the otherwise wonderful S4.
 
Too bad the Apple Watch still requires an iPhone. I’d buy the watch in a heartbeat, but at $800, + a watch data plan, + tacking on another $1000 for a pointless phone just to turn it on, + $2000 for a plan as required for that useless phone, makes that watch a needlessly belabored purchase.

With every Apple product there’s some huge catch, some extremely obvious fundamental functionality that’s overlooked or denied. The decision to require watch owners to also own an iPhone, when the combination of watch+iPad makes a phone uneccesary, is ridiculous and unnecessarily self-limiting.

The watch isn’t at the point that it can stand alone. The number of folks who want ipad+watch as an option are so minuscule the development effort isn’t worth it.
 
That word is used by traditional mechanical watch makers. If it's not the time, it's a complication.

Yup, second this. Complications are not used to describe additional features on top of hours/minutes indicators on a quartz watch and by extension an electronic watch...

Nothing mechnically complicated about moving a bunch of pixels on a OLED screen.
 
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.
Do you know of any app that displays the altitude as a complication? And can you display the current heart rate as a complication?
 
Yup, second this. Complications are not used to describe additional features on top of hours/minutes indicators on a quartz watch and by extension an electronic watch...

Nothing mechnically complicated about moving a bunch of pixels on a OLED screen.
I think it's just Apple making an acknowledgement to traditional watchmaking. I don't mind Apple using the term as long as they don't get stupid and try to apply a tradmark to it.
 
Too bad the Apple Watch still requires an iPhone. I’d buy the watch in a heartbeat, but at $800, + a watch data plan, + tacking on another $1000 for a pointless phone just to turn it on, + $2000 for a plan as required for that useless phone, makes that watch a needlessly belabored purchase.
Plus the need to replace it every year or two in order to keep up with the latest features or not drop out of support.
 
Once people get used to this face, I think it's incredibly useful to have a lot of information on screen.
It would be infinitely better if they'd just open up the damned face to developers. The results would be a lot more useful; better looking faces, faces not being limited dull watch imitations, etc.

The Apple watch is a multi-purpose screen that you strap to your wrist. It's so much more than a watch that it is really galling that Apple can't get past the "watch with complications" mind set. Equally galling is just how dull the majority of their face designs are, given how much Apple goes on about its design prowess.
 
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"Supports 8 Complications"

Doesn't it support 9 on the "Infograph" one?
e.g. I set it to these as a test: 1 heart, 2 calendar, 3 weather, 4 date, 5 earth, 6 solar, 7 wind, 8 market, 9 activities.

It sounds as though you're summoning Captain Planet...
 
OK the framework has been laid. So now improve the complications themselves!

I would love lots of options per complication in terms of information given, color scheme, etc etc.
And a photos complication, showing ever changing faces of my family.
A weather complication that shows both conditions and temperature.

Better complications will make the difference between Series 3 (which I current have) and Series 4 (which I will upgrade to once the complications have improved)
 
I would love to know why there's no Notes app on AW? That seems crazy to me.
 
Actually, I think it’s more convoluted than anything. I think it’s not necessarily about getting used to it, I just don’t need all complication information displayed all the time. I prefer a cleaner look on the watch face personally, but I do like the customization aspect of it.

Reminds me of this scene from Achorman 2. Waaaaay too much going on.

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Why the heck Apple mutilated the Astronomy Face? It was so nice to be able to go from Earth to Moon to the Solar System directly from the Face itself... :(
 
Just a goofy thought: If Apple opened the faces up to developers, I can only imagine the holiday themed complications with Santa/Hanukkah Harry flying around the dial, snow falling, and all kinds of crazy lights blinking all over the place. Kind of like the control panel Kaleidoscope of olden times (Mac OS 7-9) but for a watch. :eek:
 
I don't understand why they would set limits on Which complications can be used in a certain spot. Sort of frustrating
 
Until they get a messages complication on here ...

Exactly...and a few more complications that aren't worthless to a majority of the customers. Macrumors sucking up to Apple with this review, even though countless threads of peed off customers..?
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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.
Right on!
 
The Infograph faces are really great but need updating. They feel like strong betas or the free version of some apps that require paid upgrades to access all content.
 
It still seems strange to me that there are so many faces that don't even give you an option to see the number of seconds.

I love the Modular for example, but in spite of a huge area for details the missing seconds means that the "worlds most accurate watch" shows you the the time that is up to 59 seconds wrong.

Want to grab a snack before that new show starts?... it's 7:59... plenty of time... Oops, it was actually 7:59:55 and you walk back to miss the big opening. New Years countdown... nope.
 
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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.

Actually, having more complications in one watch face is very helpful. I love my Infograph modular watch face. I currently have it showing the date, time, walkie-talkie, Calendar, Music, Weather, and world clock for Seoul because i have some contacts there. It's super useful to have these at a glance at all times. For me the novelty definitely hasn't wore off at all and i'm in awe everyday how useful my watch has become. I wish they can bring these watch faces to the Series 3 as well because my bf has one of those. The AW3 has now become a part of my day-to-day for sure.
 
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