Apple Watch

I love the widgets. I always used an ugly watch face because it supported a bunch of complications, and now I can use one of the nice analog ones and still have all of that information right at hand. Wish there was more third-party support for them but presumably that will come.

Agree with you that I miss swiping from face to face. I used that a lot. And it’s not like swiping horizontally does something else now.

All UI is scaled down. On the same watch screen it looks less readable.

Pro

• new watch face modular ultra. Lots of complications. I love seeing statues without having to interact.
• app overview. Much better in that new vertical layout than one large area.

Cons

• I have the feeling some apps take a second longer to load. But that might be just a feeling or dependant on initial startup.
• the weather app is totally bloated and with an awful usability. No UI indications for horizontal swipe nor tap gesture. Lots of animations and colors. Needs lots of exploration and time to understand. I mean: it’s the weather!

Overall I think it the visual refresh throughout the is very nice.

I have 2 major gripes:

I really like being able to quickly swipe around to different watch faces. This should be brought back with a control center toggle. So those who get lots of accidental swipes can lock it down. Sometimes I would get them too but not as frustrating as the loss of quick swipe for me.

Second, the changes implemented as a result of widgets. Getting to widgets is just a simple swipe up! Oh also just a simple scroll up with the crown! Why does this need two different ways to access from the watch face? This has resulted in loss of old function on the side button. It also has resulted in loss of function with the Digital Crown: for example on the metropolitan face you could play with the height of the numbers with the crown.

I really hate that you can’t swipe for watch faces anymore. So stupid, I use it almost every day.

Also the weather app is not really user friendly.