- I like the switch of the control center to the side-button; I use control center regularly, and almost never used the dock. I also like the general concept of scrolling in widgets, lowering the number of must-have complications on a face, but haven't gotten used to using it yet.
- Confirming workout-ending is great, because I occasionally mistapped starting a new segment and wound up instantly canceling my workout and needing to restart it, which was super-annoying.
- They just reversed the direction of the app switcher. The bottom is now the "front", and you scroll back in time towards the top ("into the distance"?), with the previous app occupying most of the center space of the display. I'm neutral on this compared to previous behavior; it's just a change, and needs to be adjusted to, and I can see an argument for it being more physically intuitive.
- Was the app switcher ever behind a double-tap of the side button? I thought that has always been the trigger for Apple Pay. The change this year was moving it from a single-tap of the side button to a double-tap of the crown. (Where formerly double-tapping the crown was an instant switch to the previous app.)
- Can't speak for Maps, since I've not used it for anything yet, but I like the Weather change. The initial screen is simpler than it used to be, and I find it easier to absorb information from it.
So, some matters of taste, I guess. :D
What's actually annoying me about WatchOS 10 is that they seem to have done something to mess up the raise-to-speak behavior. It's super-finicky now, and I'm hoping that's just a bug they'll be fixing, because it's really annoying having to try multiple times before it works.
- I like the switch of the control center to the side-button; I use control center regularly, and almost never used the dock. I also like the general concept of scrolling in widgets, lowering the number of must-have complications on a face, but haven't gotten used to using it yet.
- Confirming workout-ending is great, because I occasionally mistapped starting a new segment and wound up instantly canceling my workout and needing to restart it, which was super-annoying.
- They just reversed the direction of the app switcher. The bottom is now the "front", and you scroll back in time towards the top ("into the distance"?), with the previous app occupying most of the center space of the display. I'm neutral on this compared to previous behavior; it's just a change, and needs to be adjusted to, and I can see an argument for it being more physically intuitive.
- Was the app switcher ever behind a double-tap of the side button? I thought that has always been the trigger for Apple Pay. The change this year was moving it from a single-tap of the side button to a double-tap of the crown. (Where formerly double-tapping the crown was an instant switch to the previous app.)
- Can't speak for Maps, since I've not used it for anything yet, but I like the Weather change. The initial screen is simpler than it used to be, and I find it easier to absorb information from it.
So, some matters of taste, I guess. :D
What's actually annoying me about WatchOS 10 is that they seem to have done something to mess up the raise-to-speak behavior. It's super-finicky now, and I'm hoping that's just a bug they'll be fixing, because it's really annoying having to try multiple times before it works.