Awesome !
this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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This is how I realized I haven’t updated my watch past 9. My swipe never went away.
Now we just need the double crown press to go back to the last app!
Me and my watch series 3 not being able to update past watch os 8 didn’t even know the feature was gone lol.
No idea why they even contemplated removing it in the first place 🙃
Now please bring swipe up for control center back as well
I was glad to see it go. It was annoying.
I hope they bring back the thing where when you press the crown it brings you back to the app list WHERE YOU LEFT OFF, not always at the top. It's so frustrating to always have to scroll down to 'W'orkout
Exactly! I am missing that too. Since most of the apps I launch from there are towards the bottom: Stocks, Sleep, Workout.
Honesty surprised they listened to the feedback. I did bother to file a complaint, didn't think it would make a difference.
Turning crown for night mode next?!?
Jokes on you. I'm still using a series 2 on watch os 6.3. I never lost the feature! This watch is hella slow though
Didn’t even realize they got rid of it
That better be optional.
Yeap hope so too. Used to hate accidentally changing it
It is optional. It’s a toggle under Settings -> Clock.
Now give us better, fancier digital watch faces that are not Nike branded.
great! also please bring back or at least offer an option swipe up for control center back :( after 2 months, I am still not used to the new action :(
I downloaded the beta the second I was made aware that they added it back.
I hope this can be disabled. I HATED the accidental face swaps I always got.
This sucks. I’m going to have to delete all of my watch faces again so that my watch face doesn’t change every time I touch it all because someone can’t tap the face for a half a second without crying.
This was one of the few WatchOS changes I actually liked, but it's great they're giving people the option back. I'd really like swipe up for control centre (I couldn't care less about the widgets) and the old design of the Activity app!
Already talked about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/17w9yaz/watchos_102_beta_reintroduces_option_to_change/
Great news. I used set up a minimal face, and the same face but with extra complications either side of it. Then leave the minimal one selected most of the time. I look forward to returning to that.
Very close to what I did. I used a minimal Watch face 99% of the time, but I had 2 completely unique Watch faces on either side of it, full of apps that one might need occasionally, but needing super quick access. Because it was on a Watch face and thus a fixed position, it helped me build muscle memory to launch those apps or just look at the info on it very efficiently.
My main Watch face just has the time, date/day of the week and a small Activity rings complication (no numbers), with 80% of the face being empty space. Being a number-loving person with ADHD, I really need LESS numbers on my screen at all times.
Some of the things on the other 2 Watch faces are: Weather, time in another time zone, Noise app (to check if it is too loud right now), Compass, Activity rings complication (with numbers), my country's stock market index (graph), my sleep duration for last night, starting my daily walking workout.
Really looking forward to it coming back.
I don’t know why anyone would want this 🤷♂️
Thank god
Changing the watch face is more difficult now than it was in the past. To change the watch face on an Apple Watch, you have to long-press the display and then swipe or rotate the digital crown.
I'm just imagining some apple bro sobbing while trying to hold down the face for 2 seconds, and how miserable their life is that they now have to do that extra step.
THANK GOD
Whaaaaaaaaaatttttt?!?! Yes!!!
I hope this is true. The new way of switching is worse and having the option to turn the swipe back on should have always been there
I am staying on the previous OS Build. I am never going to downgrade to that inferior version.
Did people actually miss that? I found swipe to change faces was awful because it meant it could happen inadvertently. It's much better to just press and hold to then swap between them.
The option to swap swipe up and button functions back would have been a much better qol fix.