With the re-release of iOS beta 3 my weather widget and complication started work on my watch. 🎉
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Watch OS 10 Beta Thread
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My temp did that once in the last 24 hours but clicking on it and loading the weather app on my watch made it act right and show data again.
I also had to reauthorize Weather on my phone to ‘Always’ use location after the beta 3 re-release yesterday. Might check that!
I also had to reauthorize Weather on my phone to ‘Always’ use location after the beta 3 re-release yesterday. Might check that!
Ok now that public Beta is available, I’ve installed that and - no, it’s still 10s steps as it was in WatchOS 9. Not sure where you saw 1s steps..?
Installed Public Beta 10 and having some issues
- Battery life - Same usage as before results in much worse battery life
- Overnight (8h) lost 20% battery compared to 10% before
- Losing about 8%/hour while completely idle, compared to only losing about 4%/hour with WatchOS 9
- Switching Watch Faces by swiping left/right doesn't work. Resorted to only using 1 Watch Face now, and adding the stuff I had on the other Face into the new Widgets feature.
- I have 'Raise to Wake' and 'Rotate Crown to Wake' disabled to save battery life, but this is no longer a viable setup if you plan to use the Widgets
- Activating Widgets when the watch is 'asleep' requires Crown rotation, but it's ignored until you wake up the watch via tapping the screen. Guess I have to enable 'Rotate Crown to Wake' now...
- Complications are missing in the My Faces section of the settings in the phone app
On battery life, give it a few days to calm down. It is not uncommon after an install of a new OS, be it beta or not. I don't have any issue swiping watch faces. I am not developer 3 though which I assume is the same as PB1.
The swiping to left/right to change face(s) is gone since dev beta 1, and hasn't come back. It is not a bug, it's just gone, Apple probably chose to remove it.
It’s not gone as such, they’ve just changed it. You now have to press and hold on the watch face until you get the option to swipe.
I‘m not on the beta and yet this already kills me when I think of September and the official release. I change the Watch face quite often during the day and having to go back to that long-press song-and-dance every time will be extremely annoying.
They didn't change anything. The long press that brings the edit menu, with the possibility to swipe between them, has been around since forever. I have an old Series 4 that is still running watchOS 9 and just tried it.
Yes they did change it. Prior to watchOS 10, you could simply swipe to a different watch face. Now you have to press and hold before you get the option to swipe.
The only part of this that has stayed the same is you still have to press and hold to edit. That is all.
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They technically didn‘t „change“ something because the „OS 10 method“ to change a Watch face is actually very old and has been there forever. They „took something away“, though. Which is just stupid and annoying.
Well, personally, whilst I don’t mind this change, maybe if enough people report it via the Feedback app Apple might revert the change…
However, let’s be honest, most people bitching online about it won’t be sending any feedback to Apple, they are just content to moan and wine yet do nothing proactive to reverse the decision.
I can only assume Apple have implemented this change due to a lot of feedback from users not liking the fact they accidentally swipe to a different watch face?
I feel it’s in response to the widgets. There was an idea that you could have multiple different watch faces and swipe between the to see the different complications depending on what activity you were doing. Now with widgets you are able to get more information on a single watch face making it less necessary to quickly change a face. It also matches the behaviour of wallpaper swapping on iOS.
It really should be an option though rather than removed completely.
If I was on the beta, I‘d give them feedback alright.
This is the only reason that makes a tiny bit of sense, but not really. I for one have never accidently changed my Watch face and I have a hard time believing that this would be a) so common that it affects many users and b) so annoying to them that they would actually complain about it.
I would also assume it‘s this, although it doesn‘t make a shred of sense to me.
The info is not on the Watch face, though. It is not glanceable. Which is what complications are all about.
1000% this! Why just take it away? Make it an option in settings. Turn it off at default, if you must. But don‘t just take it away for all the users that like it this way.
I’m absolutely sure this is a bug and they’ll fix it eventually. Right now swiping left/right doesn’t do anything and that would be complete waste…
That said, yes please everyone report this issue.
Reported. Feel free to refer to feedback ID FB12598977 in yours if it adds any weight… 🙂 (meant for anyone who’d submit their report)
I for one didn't even know you could swipe to change faces without a long press first on prior OS's, so I don't know what I am missing.
Maybe I am missing something but this change doesn't sound like that big of a deal or annoying. I guess I'm not ****ing with my watch face as much as you guys.
Maybe I am missing something but this change doesn't sound like that big of a deal or annoying. I guess I'm not ****ing with my watch face as much as you guys.
Probably. One can switch to entirely different sets of complications in a single swipe. Very handy!
I did a run workout today and the export with HealthFit is completely broken. I've contacted the dev and he's looking into it, but I suspect the issue is on Apple's side.
Later I did a 2 hour long indoor walk of about 8km and the watch counted 950 active calories, or 1190 overall. I think that's waaaaay off lol.
Later I did a 2 hour long indoor walk of about 8km and the watch counted 950 active calories, or 1190 overall. I think that's waaaaay off lol.
Which goes to show that „accidental“ Watch face changes aren‘t really a thing …
Exactly. I have a „morning“ Watch face, a „work“ Watch face, a „sports“ Watch face, a „health“ Watch face and several „leisure“ Watch faces, all with different complications (or completely without any). To be able to easily change between them is one of the best features of the Watch.
Yes, I know that option was always there! I’ve never denied that. I have said that the simple swiping to change swap faces has gone and the only way to do it now is to press and hold first (which was already an option in previous watchOS versions).
Absolutely happened to me on a regular basis
Completely see the value to you. I’d imagine though Apple made the change to try to balance the user experience for everyone. Maybe a combination of dedicated faces tied to focus mode and widgets might mitigate some of the change?