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

[bpseal]

Until they get a messages complication on here ...

YUUUUPPP! Ridiculous. I have to dive into menus to see my messages. Who cares about AQI?

 

[britabroad]

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!

I use Thermo Watch... they updated that one a few days ago.
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That they launched this without all Apple complications available on these faces is ridiculous.

Totally agree - why put those restrictions on it? Why no messages or email complications available? Strange decisions.
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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 does, yes. Noticed that too. Definitely nine.

 

[ersan191]

Do you know of any app that displays the altitude as a complication? And can you display the current heart rate as a complication?

Complications can only update every 10 minutes but for heart rate there's HeartWatch and there's a "Watch Altimeter Pro" app that has an altimeter complication but it has bad reviews, so I don't know how well it works. Apparently it uses GPS location to get altitude rather than the barometric altimeter in the watch because Watch apps can only use the barometer data while open rather than in the background to update the complication, so it's not particularly accurate.
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Who cares about AQI?

People in China and India, mostly.
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It does, yes. Noticed that too. Definitely nine.

It is 8, the text across the top of the clock is part of the middle-top complication.

 

[Trik]

I've been running the Dark Sky complication problem-free on my new Watch 4.

Sorry, should have been more clear, I meant on the new Infographic watch face specifically.

 

[ersan191]

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.

On infograph (not modular) you can display time up to the second in the top center complication if you want.

 

[manu chao]

Complications can only update every 10 minutes but for heart rate there's HeartWatch and there's a "Watch Altimeter Pro" app that has an altimeter complication but it has bad reviews, so I don't know how well it works. Apparently it uses GPS location to get altitude rather than the barometric altimeter in the watch because Watch apps can only use the barometer data while open rather than in the background to update the complication, so it's not particularly accurate.

I guess a similar limitation (ie, only periodic access) would apply to Watch apps that would want to access the barometer readings of the iPhone? There are a good deal of altimeter apps for the iPhone that use the barometer (one of them even has a widget, which has some similarities with a complication). As far as I can tell, they don't have limitations in how frequently they call poll the barometer (well, they could be limited to once per second which for all practical purposes would be unlimited). I checked out the Watch Altimeter Pro, it appears to only display the altitude rounded to the nearest ten meters.

I currently use a Fitbit Charge 2 displaying the heart rate at all times (when the display is on). And occasionally a Suunto Core (a ten-year old watch) that can display the altitude (based on a barometer) at all times. I had hoped the Apple Watch 4 (with its large number of complications and the second generation with a barometer) could consolidate those two. But we are apparently still not there.

 

[hortod1]

We need more third party complications!!!

We need third party watch faces

 

[irj]

Does anybody know where I can get this watch band from the video?

It's not related to the article, I know...

I also have this question.

 

[Vjosullivan]

No messages as complication, no mail? What a crock.

It shouldn't be necessary to have everything as a"complication on a watch". There should be main faces that are just for email, or pedometer/health, or map view, or to-do list or Pokemon or anything else that designers and developers come up with. If the iPhone, etc. can display time as a few small digits in the corner then there's no reason the watch screen can't.

 

[load97]

No messages as complication, no mail? What a crock.

Yea it is. Those are two important apps to have on the main face lol. Especially messages for me.

 

[ersan191]

It shouldn't be necessary to have everything as a"complication on a watch". There should be main faces that are just for email, or pedometer/health, or map view, or to-do list or Pokemon or anything else that designers and developers come up with. If the iPhone, etc. can display time as a few small digits in the corner then there's no reason the watch screen can't.

Umm... No thank you.

 

[hzayas42]

I just selected ALARM as one of my complications, so.... View attachment 791246

How do you get the temperature gauge and uvi and the complication dial, I don’t see it

 

[Weiser878]

Do you know of any app that displays the altitude as a complication? And can you display the current heart rate as a complication?

HeartWatch is what I use. It updates pretty frequently

 

[tzmmtz]

It's a shame the Messages and Mail aren't available in the new faces

Exactly. No mail and no messages. Apple needs to wake up and get those added.