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Hmm I don't seem to have lost the function. I use the modular ultra face primarily. I long press on it and can still swipe to other faces I've configured. Is this not what you mean though? I could be misunderstanding

Watch os10 sucks for a bunch of reasons. All the stuff I’ve done daily since getting my first gen1 Apple Watch is now different. And needlessly different

I am updated to watch is 10.1.1, Far as I see, it takes almost no effort to swap watch faces- tap and hold the face, swipe left or right to select from your saved faces, tap to enable it. Maybe I don’t understand something you were doing before?

I agree with OP. I really miss being able to quickly swipe to a different watch face. Why didn’t Apple make a setting that you can choose which face-switching process you want to have active on your watch? Seems simple enough.

I use one for work and one for when I’m not at work, I don’t find it cumbersome to switch

I used to swap between 2, but now I just take out my phone instead. It's less of a hassle.

oh no now you gotta hold AND swipe to change faces? 😢 thats ONE whole extra step, now I will NEVER change watch faces again‼️ 😾

All the people suggesting to use focus modes are assuming that the reason you want to swap between watch faces is predictable and based on time, day, location. What about when you just want to see info that’s on a different screen? Access a different complication on the fly?

I’d have no problem taking 5 seconds to change my screen when I go somewhere else, or on a weekend morning. It’s the dynamic “I need something from my other screen right now” situations where you want the quick swapping and that’s exactly what they’ve made clunky and awkward.

I’m swapping watch faces even more. I have them tied to different Focus modes which activate automatically.

Yes, I actually like stylish faces without complications now. If I want to see my fitness metrics I simply turn the dial

I wear mine inside the wrist half the time: now not having accidental switches. Took about two minutes to get used to the new setup.

I don't change faces as often anymore. Not because of the one extra step to swipe, but because I finally turned on AOD and have been using the Snoopy face. Those animations make me smile no matter what kind of mood I'm in.

I’m with you. OS 10 significantly degrades my personal experience with the watch to the point I might look at non Apple Watches when this one needs to be replaced next year. Even quickly glancing at the weather or fitness or heart data is more cumbersome because they made once scrollable data into a series of slow moving single screen views. The fitness ring is a great example of this change. I also have to press PHYSICAL BUTTONS more than ever in this version (the crown or side button) and that doesn’t feel like an Apple product to me at all.

No. I'm not a child and can adjust to new ways of doing things quite easily. That being said, the addition of the stack negates most of my old need to switch faces since now even the most bland face has instant access to anything I would have needed to swap to a face with complications for. So yea... I switch less, and that's a good thing.

Once you commit to focus modes this ceases to become such an issue.

Eg. When I switch to my 'fitness' focus mode my Apple Watch face and iPhone homescreen all change instantly. And so can countless other things.

This is vastly more efficient than manually changing watch faces.

I don't generally change my watch face. I ended up liking Modular enough that I'm sticking with that one 99% of the time. It's easy enough to change the watch face on the iPhone app if I do decide to change it.

No, because I never used multiple watch faces. I found one that I liked and stuck with it.

I never even knew you could swipe to switch faces

I use focuses and set different watch faces for different focuses. That scratches the itch for watch face variety.

I don’t like using many watch faces.

I use one for focus settings when I need to see what’s up next in my calendar, and one for times when I don’t.

I use automations and shortcuts to change watch faces

I don’t mind the change. It was all too easy to inadvertently change the watch face with earlier versions of WatchOS.

It’s not exactly a long process to change the watch faces now with WatchOS 10. You simply touch and hold on the screen and then swipe. It’s only one extra step which takes all of a couple of seconds more.

I switch watch faces even more now. The change got me to look into utilizing focus and automations more. Now my watch face changes automatically at least 4 times each day based on time or location. That doesn’t count the times I switch it through a shortcut or manually.

I don’t find many of the faces compelling… they are either too basic or too fitness…I only use Solar Dial and metropolitan

me, I used to change mine a lot on the day, now it's no annoying I just stopped doing it

Nope. Still easy to do, harder to do accidentally, which I used to do often.