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watchOS 10.2: How to Change Watch Faces With a Swipe
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Certain personality types simply can’t deal with change and are incapable of adapting. Those types are also bellowing about the change in bringing up Control Center. Formerly swiping up from the bottom of the screen opened Control Center. Now you click the side button. Two actions either way. Swipe up, tap. Click side button, tap. Every added option adds to the complexity of the code and opens up the possibility of faults.
Tap the watch face once and then use the Digital Crown, I found this solution earlier in MacRumors for all watch faces with Digital Crown interaction, that seemed to stop working with watchOS 10.
I don't know about that...it was about consistency in gestures across touchscreen devices for me. I swipe for Control Center in my iPad & iPhone - it was nice to do the same in watchOS.
Although, apparently, people say Apple changed these because of accidentally input; I get that but if it was that big of a deal, why did watchOS have it stay that way for the past several years.
Ah thanks, that works!
Would be better if you could just disable the widget menu, so tapping wasn’t necessary, but it’s an ok work around.
Wow I did not realize the crown now scrolls the widgets menu. Thanks!🍸😺
ps the setting for the swipe change is NOT ON THE PHONE. I looked forever. It’s on the watch. 🍸😹
ps the setting for the swipe change is NOT ON THE PHONE. I looked forever. It’s on the watch. 🍸😹
Now they need to make it harder to accidentally change the home screen on the iPhone. Come on, Apple!
Is there no way to set this from the iPhone's Watch app? The Clock settings there don't match up with what's shown in the Clock settings on the watch. The watch has some settings that can only be set from the watch, and the phone has some settings that can only be set from the phone. I thought everything was always the same between the two, but I guess not.
I’m very happy that legacy users can go back to swiping among our multiple faces in the ”workflows” we developed over the years. I’m also happy that clumsy users can avoid accidentally changing their watch faces. Win Win.
Like what they did with Syistem preferences to system settings. That took longer than expected to remap my muscle memory.
I’m fine when Apple totally changes the UX for my AppleTV, since I only use that at home relaxing, so learning the new UX is not distracting me from anything, but I use AW while cycling, navigating city sidewalks, transit, gym equipment, etc., where fumbling with a change to the UX can be stressful.
Back to the ATV, if I had purchased one for elderly relatives, I’d be completely sympathetic to their frustration of having things changed when they just want to watch TV.
Aside from showing 10:09 during swipes, it also shows 10:09 if you wake up the Always on Display on an anlaog watch face with the digital time complication in the center
Certain personality types think they know what’s best for everyone and don’t care about individual preferences that have been acclimated to for years. A corporation valued in trillions of dollars, that claims to want the user to have the best experience would do well in giving its users options. They can easily afford the resources to write stable code that allows that, but its obvious that’s not really important to them. I’m grateful they have given the option to swipe between watch faces. It was never a problem for me and I never heard anyone complain about it. There was nothing wrong with control center and the action of swiping up to see it. Apple just decided to switch things up. The dock gives me the option of quick access to the apps I want. I don’t want to use a smart widgets function that doesn’t let me edit the list. If Apple really cared about the user experience, why did Apple News appear at the top of my smart widgets? I delete it from every device and yet there it is and I can’t make it go away other than ignoring it until the ”smart“ function realizes I don’t want it.
Maybe if Apple was committed to releasing the software when it was ready and not on a yearly timeline, they wouldn’t feel the need to strip features to keep the code “lighter”. It’s clearly not about the customers best interests when every year its the same process: release new hardware and os and then quickly(or not) try to fix all the bugs that weren’t caught in beta.
This. I can see clearly in the article he's doing it on the watch, but for some reason was attempting it on my phone in the Watch app. Must be Friday
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Leave the feature default-toggled off.
You can leave it off, I'll turn it on, everyone will be ok. ❤️
You have to tap the watch face first, then you can scroll in time. 😃
i really shouldnt care what other people think but.......I get such a great feeling when I come across another person thinking my thoughts. Its like, yes. He gets it!!!! I used to spin the crown when i had the solar system watch face. To view planet position at different times of year. Now thats gone. Ugh.