The watch faces need parallax motion sensing like the iPhone

[dyt1983]

edit: to remove personally identifying information not relevant to the thread.

 

[h9826790]

Agree that the date may be unreadable on the watch face, but I will use glance to check the date rather than force touch. I think it's much easier to read the date from calendar than the watch face selection UI (the date at there is too small).

 

[Armen]

On most analog watches with physical hands and date rings, when a hand is blocking the date window, one can angle the watch so the date can be seen under the hand. I just noticed with the date complications in the middle of the watch face, when they are blocked, the date's not visible. The easiest solution is just force touch the display and it changes to selection mode with the hands at 10:10, and long term I can select another display. But it seems that this would be something Apple would have implemented, they tend to think of little things like this.

I know, first world problem, Date-gate, enough said, etc.

Why? you want motion sickness-gate to happen again?

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Agree that the date may be unreadable on the watch face, but I will use glance to check the date rather than force touch. I think it's much easier to read the date from calendar than the watch face selection UI (the date at there is too small).

The butterfly/flower watch screen has a pretty big date indicator

 

[h9826790]

The butterfly/flower watch screen has a pretty big date indicator

Haha, of course I mean if the user prefer to use those classic watch faces and also only set the date present at that traditional area. Sorry I didn't make it clear in the last post.

 

[dyt1983]

Agree that the date may be unreadable on the watch face, but I will use glance to check the date rather than force touch. I think it's much easier to read the date from calendar than the watch face selection UI (the date at there is too small).

True but generally I need to know the date quickly when I am doing something, and usually that means my hand is occupied. I don't just think, "Hmm, what day is it, let me play with my Apple Watch."

Otherwise then I would have just taken out my iPhone and looked at the date. I guess since so many people don't wear watches now they don't have a need or realize the convenience. Maybe people don't need to fill out or sign forms anyhow because they don't get their cars serviced, or fill out legal forms, or sign anything. I don't know. Maybe now everyone can just remember the date except for me.

 

[simonx314]

Good idea, OP. I wonder if Apple may implement this on future versions of the Watch when the hardware is more capable.

 

[marvz]

Good idea, OP. I wonder if Apple may implement this on future versions of the Watch when the hardware is more capable.

With 512MB RAM it should already do such things or just render the parallax effect on iPhone.

To the OP, very nice idea. Hopefully it will be implemented in Watch OS.