![]() WatchOS 10 is currently in developer beta. Lowering your wrist summons the always-on display version of your watch face. Unlike watch faces and apps, widgets do not have an always-on display mode yet.Digital clock watch faces include a digital clock widget at the top of the widget stack analog watch faces use an analog clock.You can tap and hold to pin, add, or remove widgets directly on the watch.MoreĪ few other tidbits to know about watchOS 10 and widgets: The Siri watch face just doesn’t have access to widgets. So does the new widgets system in watchOS 10 supercharge the Siri watch face with even more expansion? Not in beta 1. You have control over data sources and can cycle through tiles by scrolling up and down. The new widget system is most like the design of the Siri watch face. Frankly, this is more useful than the spin-the-crown-to-manually-trigger method. While Night Mode has been buried by widgets, watchOS 10 does include a third option, “Auto.” After a quick test in a dark room, it’s clear that this is based on ambient light sensing. The bright side? The chance of accidentally going in or out of Night Mode is now basically zero. That is definitely not as simple as originally designed. Night Mode is still present, but you have to long-press the watch face, tap Edit, swipe to the third customization option, and spin the crown to toggle between modes. How do you invoke Night Mode? Scroll up on the Digital Crown! That behavior will have only lasted a year. It also requires less eye adjustment when going from the watch display to, say, the stars in the sky. ![]() This replaces the watch face color with a red and black theme that’s easier on the eyes in the dark. One of its unique features is Night Mode. This presents a conflict with one face on some watches.Īpple Watch Ultra includes a hardware-exclusive face called Wayfinder. While you can swipe up from (almost) any watch face to reveal your collection of widgets, the more mechanical method is scrolling up on the Digital Crown. Watch face conflictsīack to the impact of widgets on the user experience. It’s in great shape now, as the honeycomb has become a vertical stream of app icons instead. If you’ve preferred the list view for a more manageable experience, you may want to revisit the grid. Unrelated to these changes is the revamp of the grid app layout. This has switched back to long-press and swipe or scroll to move from face to face. You can dismiss apps from this multitasking interface by swiping from right to left to reveal an X button.Īlso no longer present in watchOS 10 beta 1 is the ability to switch between watch faces with an edge-to-edge swipe. WatchOS no longer refers to the Dock, however, and it no longer appears to be customizable. ![]() ![]() In watchOS 9, an upward swipe opened Control Center, the side button opened the Dock, and double-clicking the crown lets you jump to the last used app and back.Īll this shuffling is primarily in service of summoning widgets, which can also be pulled down by rolling the Digital Crown clockwise. Double-clicking the Digital Crown takes you to the Dock (if we still call it that).Clicking the side button animates in Control Center.Swiping up from the bottom on a watch face pulls up widgets (most of the time).WatchOS 10 has you relearn a few things about what buttons and swiping invokes, and an updated tutorial during setup guides you in the right direction. The addition of widgets comes with a shuffle of how you navigate around watchOS 10, and some watch faces are even affected. Glanceable data is no longer constrained by watch face customization. They know that they are re-creating / imitating what is already been done, but as a project for themselves, and more importantly, to do things as friends and share a common interest.The biggest change to watchOS this year is probably the introduction of widgets. I think you're also kind of missing the point of this exercise. I know for myself, I'll sometimes use an existing scene as a reference (say, something like that of what's shown above or one of the great grand landscapes that has been shot to death) as a starting point, but will then work from there to get my own unique compositions. I'm sure the images they created are similar, but I"m sure they also have some that are unique to them or their trip. ![]() But at the same time, this also challenges people to see things differently too. There are many a few photographers that truely can create something unique (such as Bryan Peterson) that very few people have done. Pretty much everything everyone does these days in photography is a recreation (in some fashion) of something someone else has done before. ![]()
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