watchOS 10.2 Beta Reintroduces Option to Change Apple Watch Faces With a Swipe

[MacRumors]

The third watchOS 10.2 beta that Apple released this week reintroduces an Apple Watch feature for swapping watch faces that was initially removed with the upgrade to watchOS 10.

Users can now choose to use a swipe gesture to switch the active Apple Watch face by enabling the option in the Apple Watch Settings app. With the feature turned on, swiping left or right on the watch face scrolls through the available watch faces that have been set up.

Switching watch faces with a swipe gesture was the default in watchOS 9, but Apple updated the interaction because of complaints that it was too easy to accidentally change watch faces. The current gesture requires long pressing before swiping to change the active watch face.

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With watchOS 10.2, Apple Watch owners who preferred the prior method of changing their watch faces can choose to enable the setting if desired. The option is under Settings > Clock in the third beta.

watchOS 10.2 is available to both developers and public beta testers at this time, and it is expected to see a public launch in December.

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[Cobra Kai]

How about they let give us our side button back. Why they moved control center (something I don’t even use) to the side button and removing the ability to have a favorites dock is beyond me. Feels like this years OS’s updates have been worse.

 

[rostehea]

THANK YOU! This change has bothered me SO much.

 

[Osxguy]

Unpopular option but the push side button for control center is stupid!!! What happened in the watch team? Like a new team came in and made unnecessary changes? I’d understand it if it wasn’t a swipe for all the rest of the devices but it’s always been a swipe. At least make it a customizable option.

 

[haruhiko]

Unpopular option but the push side button for control center is stupid!!! What happened in the watch team? Like a new team came in and made unnecessary changes? I’d understand it if it wasn’t a swipe for all the rest of the devices but it’s always been a swipe. At least make it a customizable option.

Totally agree. As if they find that the side button is used too rarely and purposefully force us to use it.

 

[dootskyre]

How about they let give us our side button back. Why they moved control center (something I don’t even use) to the side button and removing the ability to have a favorites dock is beyond me. Feels like this years OS’s updates have been worse.

yknow you could just make complications for those apps in the today view

 

[jman240]

Be sure to leave feedback about control center. The more voices they hear the more chance we have of getting an option to change that back too https://www.apple.com/feedback/

 

[DigitalAR]

I can’t believe it came to this.

Should’ve never got rid of it.

 

[gigapocket1]

THANK YOU!!!

 

[Radeon85]

Unpopular option but the push side button for control center is stupid!!! What happened in the watch team? Like a new team came in and made unnecessary changes? I’d understand it if it wasn’t a swipe for all the rest of the devices but it’s always been a swipe. At least make it a customizable option.

Really don't know why they changed it, it was perfect for many years. The layout is now stupid, you scroll the crown up for the smart stack, swipe up for the smart stack and tap your fingers for the smart stack on the newer watches, so three ways to get to the same damn thing 🤦‍♂️

And then they moved the control center swipe up to the side button which I still hate, ridiculous change.

I would have had it like this, swipe up for the control center as it used to be, crown up for the smart stack and finger tap for the smart stack.

And as as the side button on a single press now does nothing, maybe we could customise it to make it a second shortcut button. Or we could press the side button once to bring up the apps instead of double pressing the crown which is annoying.

 

[eicca]

Apple: We Decide What Works

 

[MrGimper]

Agree with others .... pointless change and glad it's back.

And also agree with changing side button back to a dock and swipe up for CC .... absolute numpty changes!

 

[MallardDuck]

Now all we need is the ability to change the face to red and back with the crown again.

 

[MallardDuck]

Really don't know why they changed it, it was perfect for many years. The layout is now stupid, you scroll the crown up for the smart stack, swipe up for the smart stack and tap your fingers for the smart stack on the newer watches, so three ways to get to the same damn thing 🤦‍♂️

And then they moved the control center swipe up to the side button which I still hate, ridiculous change.

I would have had it like this, swipe up for the control center as it used to be, crown up for the smart stack and finger tap for the smart stack.

And as as the side button on a single press now does nothing, maybe we could customise it to make it a second shortcut button. Or we could press the side button once to bring up the apps instead of double pressing the crown which is annoying.

Best option of all: Let the user customize what button does what function.

 

[alexandr]

Oh thank god.

 

[jz0309]

So, a setting to enable that, I like that!
Are there still 2 (3 with double tap) ways to enable widgets?

 

[dwaltwhit]

I miss time machine where I could turn the dial and it would tell me the weather for the future.

 

[iAppleOrchard]

Next, let us customize the side button, then the scroll from the bottom, and we are good.

Thank God Apple brought it back, hope it's on by default. (Updating my watch now btw)

 

[kalafalas]

I like control center on the button. When in an app the press-and-hold-then-swipe was annoying, and I use the flashlight function all the time

 

[kalafalas]

Next, let us customize the side button, then the scroll from the bottom, and we are good.

Homebar style navigation on the watch would be eeepppiiiccc

 

[Doebldodl]

I rarely switch watch faces manually anymore. I use seven different focuses (home, work, personal, fitness...). Each focus comes with its watch face, so I am mostly switching watch faces by switching focus - which I do by invoking the control center with the side button! But I understand this is a rather elaborate setting, and I'll be very happy to also have the option back of switching watch faces with a swipe.

 

[flybass]

How about they let give us our side button back. Why they moved control center (something I don’t even use) to the side button and removing the ability to have a favorites dock is beyond me. Feels like this years OS’s updates have been worse.

At first I thought I could get used to double tapping the crown for recent apps. It is actually hard to get the double tap on crown right. One needs to pretty much hold the whole watch in hand while trying the double crown tap. In fact, there should be no assigned double crown tap since it is such an inaccurate motion.

 

[irishv]

Great, now bring back the old weather app and I’ll be good.

 

[dootskyre]

Great, now bring back the old weather app and I’ll be good.

the new weather app is better

 

[Jimmie Geddes]

I was wondering how long it would take before the feature would be brought back. It's crazy that Apple removed it in the first place. It's become muscle memory. Glad it's coming back.