It's a feature. Apple seem to want to push focus & have the status there prominently.
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WatchOS 9 Bug? Missing status from watch face
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Since WatchOS9, to unlock my watch while in sleep mode, I have to press and hold the crown button instead of rolling the crown in watchOS8.
I feel like these changes are intentional and forces you to press the buttons more often thus increasing the wear and tear.
On my phone I double tap the screen to wake and double tap the back to lock. This helps me almost avoid having to press the side button.
For my iPad I just use a cover with smart lock magnet so same here never having to use the physical button.
I feel like these changes are intentional and forces you to press the buttons more often thus increasing the wear and tear.
On my phone I double tap the screen to wake and double tap the back to lock. This helps me almost avoid having to press the side button.
For my iPad I just use a cover with smart lock magnet so same here never having to use the physical button.
I just posted this in another thread:
“I too, have no icons for active apps like ‘Now Playing’ or active ‘Training’ at the top of the screen. None at all. Series 7 with watchOS 9. Same with my gf’s Series 5 and watchOS 9. I checked all relevant settings, everything’s turned on as it should. I restarted and hard rebooted iPhone (13 Pro Max, iOS 16) and Watch to no effect. This surely must be a bug that more people are experiencing?”.
This is clearly a bug because this support page which was last updated in 09/12/22 shows all the notifications and active app icons as we’ve known them for a long time:
Status icons and symbols on AW
“I too, have no icons for active apps like ‘Now Playing’ or active ‘Training’ at the top of the screen. None at all. Series 7 with watchOS 9. Same with my gf’s Series 5 and watchOS 9. I checked all relevant settings, everything’s turned on as it should. I restarted and hard rebooted iPhone (13 Pro Max, iOS 16) and Watch to no effect. This surely must be a bug that more people are experiencing?”.
This is clearly a bug because this support page which was last updated in 09/12/22 shows all the notifications and active app icons as we’ve known them for a long time:
Status icons and symbols on AW
Wow! Thanks for making this discovery. I don't think I have noticed that yet, though I have used Low Power mode. Next time I try this mode, I'm going to pay attention to whether the Status comes back.
This is ridiculous! Give us back the now playing icon, Apple!!I found the mystery to the missing “Now Playing” status. According to this Apple support article:
However, according to the same article, the workout status is supposed to show but it isn’t for me:
[Edited for readability. Original was typed on phone]
I found the mystery to the missing “Now Playing” status. According to this Apple support article:
However, according to the same article, the workout status is supposed to show but it isn’t for me:
[Edited for readability. Original was typed on phone
...yea I was wondering about these 'missing' icons to on my S7 45mm watch but this now explains things.
Typical of Apple to remove things that aren't 'broken'.
It 100% is NOT a bug.
The article you yourself linked to explains it clearly:
The icon for Now Playing ONLY appears in Watch OS 8 and earlier - in Watch OS 9 and later, it does NOT appear.
Its like demented gibbons handled watch os 9. So far I haven't found one thing they improved but a lot of things they broke
What’s with the workout icon? Nothing about that on the support page. However, they GOTTA HAVE TO put ‚now playing’ back where it belongs. Pushing a button instead of it just being there. It’s insane.
I don't disagree - they've broken what was already working perfectly fine.
I dunno WTF is wrong with Apple these days.
I just discovered this awfully stupid new “feature” of the missing workout icon this morning while hiking up Waynapicchu. Since the icon is no longer there, you can’t just easily tap it to return to the workout app to see your progress, so then you have to fidget around to get back to the app, but when I did that while climbing up 1200 feet of stairs, I seemed to have accidentally pressed both buttons together, which (also a new stupid feature?) is a shortcut to pause the workout. I didn’t figure out for 10 mins, so lost a chunk of data recording.
There’s a setting to disable the shortcut, I later discovered.
I just discovered this awfully stupid new “feature” of the missing workout icon this morning while hiking up Waynapicchu. Since the icon is no longer there, you can’t just easily tap it to return to the workout app to see your progress, so then you have to fidget around to get back to the app, but when I did that while climbing up 1200 feet of stairs, I seemed to have accidentally pressed both buttons together, which (also a new stupid feature?) is a shortcut to pause the workout. I didn’t figure out for 10 mins, so lost a chunk of data recording.
There’s a setting to disable the shortcut, I later discovered.
Count me among those annoyed with the loss of the perfectly functional "now playing" icon - I spent two days trying to figure out where it had gone.
I had a missing icon on my watch face. I went back into the face setting and had to choose the app for that area and it worked. Its like the face knew what show be there once I updated, however, it had to be re0linked if that makes sense. Go back into the watch face and choose the apps and it will show up and remind
I'm guessing Apple removed the "now playing" icon because they got a lot of complaints. My wife did not like it because she would keep accidentally touching the icon and then would have to get back to the watch face. Or she would try to pull down a notification and switch to "now playing" instead
Ugh. Sorry to hear that. Yeah experiencing similar problems. By the way, pressing the crown and side button together has long been a way to pause a workout.
The workout status is not a complication. The missing icon on your watch face after you’ve upgraded the watchOS is a complication that needs to be relinked
Extremely disappointed in the removal of the active music and workout icon on watch face. Phone call status also missing. That was a top feature for me. Wish I never upgraded software. Hope Apple gives the feature back.
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A number of us have reported via the web feedback bug reporting system, but I have done it through the support system.
Gotcha, thanks! Just curious since they seemed unaware somehow, but pretty common based on threads.
Unfortunately, I’m not so sure if Apple will fix this in time. There’s a Shortcut bug that appeared with WatchOS 8 and this issue still hasn’t been fixed