Not sure what this means, 3rd party apps can already use infographic faces. I have Carrot Weather and Grocery currently on the infographic face. It’s up to the app developer to support Watch complications.
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Apple Watch 4 - Missing complications in either Infograph or Modular watch face?? [MERGED]
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Not sure what this means, 3rd party apps can already use infographic faces. I have Carrot Weather and Grocery currently on the infographic face. It’s up to the app developer to support Watch complications.
Finally a response, it'll be fixed in the next update, no date given
Strava update installed, no option for Infograph complications anymore, looks like they've gotton rid.
Boo. That’s the only one I care about. I like seeing my elapsed stopwatch time as a complication.
Yeah. It just doesn’t make sense why it would be on one and not the other. That’s why I started this thread.
Yeah. It just doesn’t make sense why it would be on one and not the other. That’s why I started this thread.
100% agree!
You know as excited as I am about the new faces - I’m a sucker for a boatload of glanceable information- I can’t help but wonder about the story behind watchOS 5.
I suspect there was a big change of direction quite late in the design process.
It’s seems bizarre to ship while missing half the Apple complications, and bizarre to add some of them back in a dot release.
This cannot have been the plan.
I think late in the game somebody did a mockup of the Infographic on the larger screen and they said that’s too good to wait for watchOS 6.
I suspect there was a big change of direction quite late in the design process.
It’s seems bizarre to ship while missing half the Apple complications, and bizarre to add some of them back in a dot release.
This cannot have been the plan.
I think late in the game somebody did a mockup of the Infographic on the larger screen and they said that’s too good to wait for watchOS 6.
Well, thats a big thuddy disappointment. I upgraded from my v2 to v4 for 2 reasons - the LTE 911 capability with fall detection, and that the infograph faces made room for additional complications so that I could get all of my wanted complications on one face and, thus not needing to switch between my exercise face (to get a workout complication) and a normal modular face that has everything I need minus a slot to launch workouts quickly (no going to favorites with an additional click isn't the solution - the favorites is where I store my quick access but not daily stuff).
So finding that my Reminders complication isn't available on the Infograph Modular layout - thats 1/2 the need gone. For the cost of the thing... I think I'll be returning the series 4 watch and going right back to the series 2 - until Apple fixes this mess.
The missing easy complications is a rather large set; <facepalm> Leave it to Apple to create a watch face with MORE spots for complications that is actually LESS USEFUL because of artificial limitations. Apple support was no use there - as they cannot say if the complications missing will be added in a future watchOS update. Oh well, time to return the series 4.
There isn't any technical reason the simple graphical buttons are not available as a complication other than "didn't think we needed to" that I can come up with. Is this more of self centered "why would you want to" thinking?
So finding that my Reminders complication isn't available on the Infograph Modular layout - thats 1/2 the need gone. For the cost of the thing... I think I'll be returning the series 4 watch and going right back to the series 2 - until Apple fixes this mess.
The missing easy complications is a rather large set; <facepalm> Leave it to Apple to create a watch face with MORE spots for complications that is actually LESS USEFUL because of artificial limitations. Apple support was no use there - as they cannot say if the complications missing will be added in a future watchOS update. Oh well, time to return the series 4.
There isn't any technical reason the simple graphical buttons are not available as a complication other than "didn't think we needed to" that I can come up with. Is this more of self centered "why would you want to" thinking?
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Well, thats a big thuddy disappointment. I upgraded from my v2 to v4 for 2 reasons - the LTE 911 capability with fall detection, and that the infograph faces made room for additional complications so that I could get all of my wanted complications on one face and, thus not needing to switch between my exercise face (to get a workout complication) and a normal modular face that has everything I need minus a slot to launch workouts quickly (no going to favorites with an additional click isn't the solution - the favorites is where I store my quick access but not daily stuff).
So finding that my Reminders complication isn't available on the Infograph Modular layout - thats 1/2 the need gone. For the cost of the thing... I think I'll be returning the series 4 watch and going right back to the series 2 - until Apple fixes this mess.
The missing easy complications is a rather large set; <facepalm> Leave it to Apple to create a watch face with MORE spots for complications that is actually LESS USEFUL because of artificial limitations. Apple support was no use there - as they cannot say if the complications missing will be added in a future watchOS update. Oh well, time to return the series 4.
There isn't any technical reason the simple graphical buttons are not available as a complication other than "didn't think we needed to" that I can come up with. Is this more of self centered "why would you want to" thinking?
Most (not all) of the complications are back in WatchOS beta 5.1.2...ones added are: Earth, Find my Friends, Home, Mail, Maps, Messages, News, Phone, Remote, Solar System, Wind.....at lease with the Infograph Modular face. I will check Infogragh also.
Nice chart BTW, could you send that to me and I will update the complications added in the latest beta.
That’s good to hear. I just received my S4 stainless black and tried adding messages to infogragh modular and wasn’t seeing it.
That's what they've always been called on watches:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complication_(horology)
The etymology isn't explained, but one of the definitions of the word is "a complex or intricate feature or element":
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/complication
Thank you that was interesting to read that it’s always been that way. I never knew that about watches.
Any apps been updated for the complications yet? Only sports alerts and overcast seem to work for it.