Getting used to the shape and design of an operating system brings momentary joy. Versions constantly add, overwrite, or remove features. In the case of iOS, iPadOS and WATCH We have precedent and know that Apple can remove features even when users are happy with them. An example of this is the Force Touch feature that arrived in 2014 and Apple removed it a few years later. In the case of watchOS 10, Apple removed the gesture to quickly switch dials and it seems that This feature will return in watchOS 10.2.
Apple resurrects the gesture to change faces in watchOS 10.2
Gestures allow the user to perform tasks more quickly without spending a lot of time entering long menus. As I mentioned, one of the functions most valued by users before the arrival of watchOS 10 was the possibility of changing spheres directly by sliding your finger to one side or the other. The spheres changed depending on the number of them we had stored in our library.
watchOS 10.2 beta 3 adds back the feature that allows you to swipe between watch faces!
This feature was removed in watchOS 10.0 pic.twitter.com/7OWgdMkp72
- Aaron (@aaronp613) November 16, 2023
The arrival of watchOS 10 It meant saying goodbye to this function without any explanation from Apple. Although the reason is clear. A movement like sliding your finger on the screen is so common that we could modify the sphere without meaning to. This made Apple take this function to be modified. In watchOS 10 if you want to change spheres you have to press for a while to access editing mode and then slide between the spheres you have.
However, A user has analyzed the watchOS 3 beta 10.2 code and it seems that The feature will return with this new version. In one of the analyzed excerpts you can read "Switch between your spheres by sliding the screen." It is undoubtedly an explanation of the function that was available until watchOS 10. And do you miss this gesture?
With version 10.1.1 changing spheres by pressing on the screen now works
The idea is to return to the gesture of swiping on the screen directly to move between spheres, without the need to press on the screen as you say, which is something that was maintained in watchOS 10.