watchOS 4 battery complication

[maflynn]

Is it me, or is the battery complication harder to read now?

It used to be a circle and as the battery was consumed a portion of the circle would disappear

Now at least on my the circle is always complete but it seems bolded on and slowly unbolds


Sorry for the image quality but you see what I mean.

Visually speaking its harder to quickly discern the state of the battery. If I tap it, I get a better image, but I'm just talking how watchos3 seemed to show this better then watchos4

Is there a setting for me get this back to the way it was?

 

[matrix07]

Think the green is just thinner & and the number is grey, which are bad choice.

EDIT: from your picture it appears that way but when I compares my S1 & S2 it appears to be the same.

 

[slappypig]

My colors are white or close to white and I don’t seem to have that issue. Switching faces and colors didn’t really show it the way your second picture does. Hmmm

 

[maflynn]

Its not the color but rather fact that the circle disappears as the battery is consumed, at least with the older version of watchOS but now there's just a slight change in the circle

 

[zhenya]

Agree that it's an odd design choice that just seems to reduce contrast while serving no good purpose. It doesn't even look good.

 

[matrix07]

Its not the color but rather fact that the circle disappears as the battery is consumed, at least with the older version of watchOS but now there's just a slight change in the circle

Mine on watchOS 4 and the circle also disappears.

 

[maflynn]

Mine on watchOS 4 and the circle also disappears.

Odd, mine doesn't

I'll reboot my watch and see if that fixes it
[doublepost=1506095062][/doublepost]Nope, I still have it, no matter what watch face I use, new or old.

Deleting and re-adding it doesn't do anything either. As you can see this is a different watch face, and yet the battery on the lower right hand side shows a full circle even though my battery is at 71%

 

[matrix07]

Odd, mine doesn't

I'll reboot my watch and see if that fixes it
[doublepost=1506095062][/doublepost]Nope, I still have it, no matter what watch face I use, new or old.

Deleting and re-adding it doesn't do anything either. As you can see this is a different watch face, and yet the battery on the lower right hand side shows a full circle even though my battery is at 71%
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Very weird. This's mine:

Are we talking about the same complication? or is it because of that specific watch face?

 

[maflynn]

Are we talking about the same complication? or is it because of that specific watch face?

the same battery complication regardless of what watch face I choose.

 

[matrix07]

the same battery complication regardless of what watch face I choose.

Well, looks like time to visit Apple support.

 

[maflynn]

Well, looks like time to visit Apple support.

I'm going to try a clean install first.

 

[zhenya]

Mine is the same. The background circle is now a thinner green line rather than translucent black. I assumed this was an intentional design change though.

 

[maflynn]

The clean install fixed the issue. I now of course need to configure the watch the way I like it, but now the battery indicator is back to "normal"

 

[zhenya]

Ugh. How long did that all take?

I think I'm going to hold off as other than this one UI bug things work about as I'd expect, and I'll have to go through this process again in a couple of weeks when I get the new model anyhow.

 

[kimhill]

QUOTE="maflynn, post: 25089995, member: 311274"]Is it me, or is the battery complication harder to read now?

It used to be a circle and as the battery was consumed a portion of the circle would disappear. Now at least on my the circle is always complete but it seems bolded on and slowly unbolds.[/QUOTE]

It is totally not just you.

The watchOS 4 battery complication has been wrecked. MUCH harder to read at a brief glance now. I don't believe reinstalling has any effect. This is a design choice by Apple. Another terrible case of function follows form.

Can we please have a 3rd-party guy create an app with a readable battery complication?

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The clean install fixed the issue. I now of course need to configure the watch the way I like it, but now the battery indicator is back to "normal"

Are you sure?- that didn’t work for me. Attached is my screen shot.

 

[co1f]

QUOTE="maflynn, post: 25089995, member: 311274"]Is it me, or is the battery complication harder to read now?
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Looks fine on mine. I even tried diff colors.
It actually looks worse in the screen capture. But not as bad as yours.

 

[Nanotyrns]

Those of you with the battery complication issue... you have your watch set to 'Bold Text'. Without Bold Text and with below...

(not sure if it was easier to read with Bold Text before so this still may be a sort of design flaw)

 

[matrix07]

Should report this to Apple.

Bold text shouldn't do anything to icon. A bug surely.

 

[testcard]

Should report this to Apple.

Bold text shouldn't do anything to icon. A bug surely.

Bold text seems to increase heart rate too

 

[Neo1975]

Definitely the bold setting doing it. I kinda get what you saying, but the number is the most important thing to see not the circle.

 

[Mad Mac Maniac]

I know this is totally not the point, but I have long since stopped using the battery complication. I used to always have it, but now battery life hasn't been a huge issue, and it's so easy to swipe up for control center to see battery life if I need to. Just something to consider. It took me awhile to realize that I didn't need it anymore, and when I accepted that it freed up a complication spot for me. I find it seems to also make me less anxious about battery life because I'm not always staring at it. Haha. Just a thought.

 

[testcard]

With the Series 0 I used the battery complication regularly, but after upgrading to a Series 2 and realising I could get two days between charges, I stopped obsessing and removed it.

 

[Nanotyrns]

Should report this to Apple.

Bold text shouldn't do anything to icon. A bug surely.

Yeah I could see doing a stroke on letters and maybe numbers over a certain size but not an icon that's as small as that. It honestly looks like everything just has a stroke applied without any consideration towards readability/legibility. I'd like to say it's very un-Apple but how long did we suffer through this?

 

[Neo1975]

Should report this to Apple.

Bold text shouldn't do anything to icon. A bug surely.

The bold setting effects everything, not just text. It isn’t a bug.

 

[matrix07]

The bold setting effects everything, not just text. It isn’t a bug.

You're right. I just notice the Activities icon is also bolder. Strange how they think increasing something that shouldn't be there in the first place will increase the legibility.