I have both of the newest dev betas on iPhone 14 Pro and AW Ultra 2. No such setting.
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watchOS 10.2 Beta Reintroduces Option to Change Apple Watch Faces With a Swipe
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I use control center all the time, I love it being the side button.
YES THANK YOU! Apple should not have taken that option away, and could have instead made it a toggle to enable/disable.
Yes, they should have gotten rid of it but it should have been done with a configuration like this so you could switch back. It was always frustrating to the rest of us that our watch faces would frequently change to a different face with just an accidental swipe while putting on a jacket. I ended up deleting all other watch faces to stop this. I only added another face when this was fixed in Watch OS 10.
Glad to see Apple catching up with the Pixel Watch. This "feature" has been on Pixel Watch since day 1
What catch up? This was a feature in pre-10 Watch OS but it caused problems for some people, so Apple changed to a two step process. Now they are giving us the option for an easy change or a two-step change.
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It’s an option so just don’t enable the swipe-to-change option and nothing will change for you.
Just maybe this is a sign that Apple is finally waking up to the fact that a watch is a very personal device and different people will want to set up aspects of their user interface quite differently, e.g. now that this swipe-to-change debate seems to be about to end people are now complaining in this thread about control centre on the side button and the moving of the dock to the crown double-press.
I don’t care about where control centre or dock are because I use them so little but I feel other people’s pain so if Apple does “fix” this issue I hope continue to adopt a more configurable approach and don’t simply put the dock back on the side button but instead make the single-press on the side button, the double-press on the crown and the upward-swipe configurable so that people can choose to put the dock and/or control centre where they want or, for people like me, use those actions to quickly get to apps I use frequently that I don’t have space to dedicate a complication to.
Julian – calling to mind a few examples of previous defaults which eventually became user-facing choices, I don't think it's a change of attitude at Apple. I can understand the stance that other companies make so many things settings that the "80 percent" find them too complicated or aren't aware of the settings they'd actually want, so I think Apple exercises a lot of caution before "promoting" something to be one, and even their iOS and macOS "Settings" apps have a lot of settings. I'm just glad they finally decided that swiping to change the watch face qualified.
I was right there with you after the release, as apparently were others. Keep it up, I say.
Absolutely. It's the first time with the Watch that I've had the feeling of a device beginning to forget its identity.
This calls to my mind other companies' systems and apps that make so many things options, even to the point of exposing lengthy files, that setting them feels akin to manually doing taxes or something. That's great for enthusiastic nerds like me, but I know that doesn't describe plenty of Apple's customers, so I can understand the predilection for pronounced caution before "promoting" something to a setting. They do ultimately promote many things like this gesture, and I'm glad it was one that made it.Not sure why I’m being downvoted here. Options means you can have it either way. Seems like a win-win to me.
Because it was too easy to accidentally switch watch faces. Many of us were frustrated to look down and find the wrong watch face showing as a result of a casual brush against something. I frequently had to change my watch faces after putting on a coat. In Watch OS 10, Apple changed it to require a long press before you could swipe to change the face. That seems to have been a problem for some. Now they have created a setting that lets users choose one or the other behavior to satisfy both groups of users.
Well, technically they didn't change it, just removed the quick method, as the long press method was always available as it's the setup mechanism too of course.