Apple Watch improvements I would like to see in watchOS 27.
WWDC is right around the corner, and there are quite a few Apple Watch niggles that need to be addressed. The good thing is this year has been unofficially dubbed, “the year of stability” for Apple software releases, and Apple Watch is definitely in need of stability and improvements. I’ve discussed them in detail in the past, but I’ll link all my wish list items below:
1. Smoother Swipe to Switch Watch Face
Still a broken experience that needs to go back to its watchOS 8 roots. You can see the difference between watchOS 8 and watchOS 10 onwards. It still looks like a beta feature in its current state. Notice how the time in watchOS 8 stays in sync and doesn’t have to refresh every, single, time you switch watch faces.
2. Dynamic watch face complications that utilize the 1 Hz refresh rate of the display
From a previous post:
To complicate things further, there are plenty of complications such as the digital time and digital seconds complications that would make this feature pop even more on the watch. Your always on display would look more realistic, with ticking “components” constantly updating every second without sacrificing battery life. That “magical” touch would sell more watches, because we are visual creatures, and to see the Apple Watch acting like an actual watch that ticks and doesn’t stop moving will blur the line between digital and traditional watch faces.
Watch enthusiasts will appreciate it even more, and won’t scoff (as much) at us digital watch wearers. They will still scoff at us when they notice its quartz-like movement, but appreciate the technological step forward and will purchase one, probably a more expensive model to boot.
3. A more apparent “Apple Watch is disconnected from your phone” icon.
Dear Apple, watchOS 8 would let us know immediately when our iPhone was disconnected from the watch - please bring that back.
4. General stability
My Ultra 3 and Series 10 are very slow and have slow frame rates when going into Control Center and when using the Digital Crown to scroll rapidly between watch faces. This is more apparent on my Ultra 3 even though I set it up from scratch to see if that would fix it, to no avail. Why is the experience on my Series 5, released almost 7 years ago, smoother than a brand new “Ultra” watch?
5. Better watch face representation in Smart Stack
All new watch faces in the last 2 years have had this update and older watch faces would benefit.
WWDC is right around the corner, and there are quite a few Apple Watch niggles that need to be addressed. The good thing is this year has been unofficially dubbed, “the year of stability” for Apple software releases, and Apple Watch is definitely in need of stability and improvements. I’ve discussed them in detail in the past, but I’ll link all my wish list items below:
1. Smoother Swipe to Switch Watch Face
Still a broken experience that needs to go back to its watchOS 8 roots. You can see the difference between watchOS 8 and watchOS 10 onwards. It still looks like a beta feature in its current state. Notice how the time in watchOS 8 stays in sync and doesn’t have to refresh every, single, time you switch watch faces.
2. Dynamic watch face complications that utilize the 1 Hz refresh rate of the display
From a previous post:
To complicate things further, there are plenty of complications such as the digital time and digital seconds complications that would make this feature pop even more on the watch. Your always on display would look more realistic, with ticking “components” constantly updating every second without sacrificing battery life. That “magical” touch would sell more watches, because we are visual creatures, and to see the Apple Watch acting like an actual watch that ticks and doesn’t stop moving will blur the line between digital and traditional watch faces.
Watch enthusiasts will appreciate it even more, and won’t scoff (as much) at us digital watch wearers. They will still scoff at us when they notice its quartz-like movement, but appreciate the technological step forward and will purchase one, probably a more expensive model to boot.
3. A more apparent “Apple Watch is disconnected from your phone” icon.
Dear Apple, watchOS 8 would let us know immediately when our iPhone was disconnected from the watch - please bring that back.
4. General stability
My Ultra 3 and Series 10 are very slow and have slow frame rates when going into Control Center and when using the Digital Crown to scroll rapidly between watch faces. This is more apparent on my Ultra 3 even though I set it up from scratch to see if that would fix it, to no avail. Why is the experience on my Series 5, released almost 7 years ago, smoother than a brand new “Ultra” watch?
5. Better watch face representation in Smart Stack
All new watch faces in the last 2 years have had this update and older watch faces would benefit.