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I've got a better headline for you that should be making news..... watchOS 10 is abysmal and nobody should upgrade before Apple fixes it.

You guys are running articles about the volume level of iOS 17 notifications meanwhile no mention that watchOS 10 gimps your Apple Watch and takes away useful features and gives you the worthless "Dumb Stack" and a Snoopy watch face.

I think the tech reviewers really missed the boat on that.

chr15h said:

gregoriusm said:

chr15h said:

Bug?

Just updated to WatchOS 10 and I now can’t swipe to my other watch faces. I can see them on my iPhone Watch app, and change them on there but can’t on my watch. 

Anyone else seeing this?

You have to tap and hold and then swipe right or left to get to each watch face. 

Thanks! You are right! 

Problem solved, but just confirm I’m not going bonkers…. You didn’t need to do that before the Watch IOS update, right?

I would hardly say "Problem Solved".... for anybody who swiped through watch faces like iPhone Home Screen pages, this is horrendous.  Can you imagine trying to swipe to another Home Screen page on iPhone and having to enter the Home Screen Edit Mode and then swiping and then exiting that mode to use the other page?  I had 3 favorite watch faces, each with different complications and layouts (much like each Home Screen page has different app icons and widgets).  I had my most-used watch face in the center of the #2 and #3 most used.  I would swipe left or swipe right to get to the watch face I needed.  Now I have to tap and hold and hope the tap registered because it has about a 30% success rate of registering as a tap-and-hold.

Worse yet.... the Siri "Dumb Stack" is worthless.  There is hardly anything (err.. nothing at all) you can put in there that is readable and useful for me.  I delated EVERY card (I cannot call them widgets because they are cards) just so I could access the "mini dock" at the bottom.  I need this because they threw away the App Dock and now left us only with "Recent Apps".  Unfortunately, the Dumb Stack mini Dock cannot be configured with any app -- for some reason only some apps from watch can have an icon that lives in the mini dock.  Excluded from this is the August Smart Lock app -- why?  No clue.  Clearly Apple could render the app icon and make it a button to launch the app, but they don't.

So I have no way to get to the App Dock anymore and two (count them 2) ways to get to the Smart Stock (just swipe up or spin that Digital Crown).  Glad they forced me to access something near useless from 2 of my controls and took away left and right swiping gestures.  I feel like they just gimped my Apple Watch.

Reviews keep saying the display is 49mm on the Ultra.  It is NOT.   The “case” is 49mm.  That means the height of the case, NOT the diagonal of the display, is 49mm.   This is how watches are measured.  By the height of the case.   Take a gander at the bezels on the Ultra…. they are HUGE.   The display size is roughly the same as 45mm Series 8 with a slight increase for not having the curvature at the edges of the display.