I’m not mad that watchOS 10 has changed the interface dramatically, I’m mad that all the changes feel arbitrary, and lack spacial consistency
The watch face is the primary interface for the watch, but is the secondary interface supposed to be widgets? Apps? Notification Centre?
Why does Control Centre get a dedicated button. Am I expected to interact with it more than widgets or apps?
I feel like watchOS is just completely failing to tell me how I’m supposed to use it
@8379395e the weirdest one for me (and might be because my series 4 is slow now?) is double clicking the side button shows the control centre for like 2 seconds and then my apple pay card appears
@8379395e While we’re on this subject, can you help clear something up for me? I use the watchOS 9 style Dock a lot. Is the “recent apps” thing similar enough? (From double pressing the crown.) This is the biggest hang up I know of for me because I am a constant Dock user. Can you “pin” apps there?
@8379395e Agreed. I’ve been using the beta since its public release and I think it’s a mess. The whole “widget” thing when you scroll the crown doesn’t make sense? Why would I want to see the date and time as the first thing on the list to scroll when I’d just been looking at the watch face? And I’m struggling to find widgets to put on? Maybe there isn’t enough 3rd party widgets? There’s still no overcast widgets available….
@8379395e also with the 3D transforms they’re using on the new recent apps / dock (which got buried behind a double crown click which it took me days to realize was even there) it feels so much less usable and glanceable than the previous one
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