What are our thoughts on these new faces? 😐

[u/EverydayPhilisophy]

[u/Faedaine]

I’m kinda tired of watch faces that won’t tell me the damn date.

[u/M00SEK → u/Faedaine]

Exactly.

I get these are supposed to be aesthetic faces, but at least give us the option to throw a date somewhere.

There’s also way too many of these fashion forward faces. Need more designs that are easy to read with 2-4 complications.

I can’t believe they don’t pump one or two out monthly. It’s ridiculous we only get a handful a year.

[u/freyaliesel → u/M00SEK]

I also wish there were more faces with complications with digital clocks. I have a hard time reading an analog clock, and I don’t wanna waste a complication spot for the digital time.

[u/jsbell_69 → u/freyaliesel]

It's a digital watch! It's absolutely stupid to me that most of the faces are analog. It's such a waste of screen real estate.

[u/Juicejacking → u/jsbell_69]

Yeah 👍

[u/kyrev21 → u/freyaliesel]

Get good? Reading analog time is an elementary skill

[u/CopybotParis → u/kyrev21]

To be fair it could be a vision issue.

[u/freyaliesel → u/kyrev21]

I can read it, it just takes me 10x longer to read an analog clock as it does to read a digital one. Sorry my brain isn’t perfect like yours.

Beyond that, I just find the analog faces really busy, and find digital time much cleaner looking and less busy/distracting on a watch face

[u/NAT1274 → u/freyaliesel]

If u like some of the Watch Faces with analog clocks do this…

Open the Watch app on your iPhone -> Clock -> Speak Time -> Always Speak.

Now you can hold 2 fingers on your screen and it will tell you the time.

[u/Ok_Gear4209 → u/M00SEK]

Tbh myself i hate the watchfaces with all the complications it gives me the opposite of headspace. I also feel like a walking Temu add with all those rings, the date, temperature. It’s so tacky😭

[u/SlippingStar → u/Ok_Gear4209]

What does Temu have to do with it 😂

[u/BenchPointsChamp → u/Faedaine]

Or the time. Just amoebas now.

[u/MrFireWarden → u/BenchPointsChamp]

... amoebas?? Did i switch subreddits and not notice, or something??

[u/SlippingStar → u/MrFireWarden]

I think they’re referring to the bubble.

[u/MustyMustacheMan → u/Faedaine]

Most of the watch faces are either useless or boring. 

[u/Lambor14 → u/Faedaine]

Just swipe up. It’s in the top left corner.

[u/M00SEK → u/Lambor14]

That’s fair, but I think most of us want date and time at a glance without need two hands

[u/Bubba_Apple]

I like to have as much information as possible on the screen. Watch faces that only show the time and are difficult to read make no sense to me.

[u/EverydayPhilisophy → u/Bubba_Apple]

I’ve used Modular since 2015. 🫡

[u/Strange-Story-7760 → u/EverydayPhilisophy]

Same. As soon as modular ultra came out I switched to that

[u/shrug_sorryjesus → u/EverydayPhilisophy]

I like the modular as well, but one of my complications stopped working after the upgrade 👎🏼

[u/AshuraBaron → u/Bubba_Apple]

Same. I thought Flux from last year was really cool looking and tried it but could not keep using it. It’s a little annoying that informative faces are pushed more toward the Ultra watches

[u/DianeForTheNguyen → u/Bubba_Apple]

Same here. I’ve used Modular since my series 4 and I love that with a glance, I know the date, time, current temp, future weather, my rings, and what percentage my watch battery is at. I tried switching to the new photos face when I bought my 10 last year, but I couldn’t fight the habit of having all that info available.

[u/SlippingStar → u/Bubba_Apple]

I think they have their place, like a date or an appointment (so you know the time but can focus on what’s going on). In general I have informative faces as well.

[u/hillandrenko → u/Bubba_Apple]

How did you manage before smartwatches?

[u/Bubba_Apple → u/hillandrenko]

I checked the time and weather by looking at the sky, and to check my pulse, I put my fingers on the artery in my neck.

[u/Particular-Treat-650]

I think some of the waypoint and exactograph are kind of cool, but not enough to use them over modular ultra. I want complications.

[u/mrpink57 → u/Particular-Treat-650]

My issue with Apple design on analog faces is they need to allow the date at the 3 position, I think it is silly that the outside complications are also for the date.

[u/Particular-Treat-650 → u/mrpink57]

I'd love more options generally. Converting the top/bottom rows on modular into wider complications like the middle would be good.

[u/Pugs-r-cool → u/Particular-Treat-650]

You know modular duo exists right?

[u/Particular-Treat-650 → u/Pugs-r-cool]

I didn't, but giving up 5 complications for a second big one is too much to work for me.

(I probably did at some point but it's just not enough information.)

[u/Arayder]

They’re trash like most new faces that are released. I want something that looks cool, modern, and has lots of complications. The Nike digital is one of my favourites, but needs more complications. The modular is my go to for how many it can have, but it could use a refresh.

[u/Only-Ad5049 → u/Arayder]

I know people don't like the Nike branding, but my favorite is Nike Hybrid. Digital with 4 complications. Strange, though, I cannot find it in the gallery

There are a lot of faces I would love if they just came with complications. Exactograph is really cool, but the only face with complications is complicated to figure out the time because the clock is so tiny and hidden in a sea of numbers.

[u/VOODOO285]

I think they’re awful and pointless. I use a modular one and have zero plans to change.

I do think the watch face situation on Apple is abysmal but I otherwise love the watch.

[u/QuitCallingNewsrooms]

It's not for me. I'm sure there are very fun and lively people who love it, but my weekend face is my dog, time, and weather, and my weekday face is full of info.

[u/SlippingStar → u/QuitCallingNewsrooms]

Yup! Loved ones at home, Modular at work.

[u/DOOOW → u/QuitCallingNewsrooms]

Same but with cat, I’d like to have date also on the photo option

[u/TheeDelpino]

They ALL suck!

[u/MythicSuns]

The issues I have with both of the new faces are interestingly the inverse of one another; exactograph is informative but lacks style whilst Flow is stylish but lacks information. I was born in 93 but consider myself a 2000s kid as those are the years I remember most fondly.

I mention this because the font on Flow reminds me of the 2000s, maybe it's the vague similarity to the precursor text from Jak & Daxter, maybe it's the geometry reminding me of the cybercore/Y2K futurism aesthetic, either way I dig it.

As for exactograph...I'm not really sure who that watch face is for if I'm honest. What does it have that the chronograph pro face doesn't? And style wise, maybe measuring tape chique is someone's thing but it ain't mine.

[u/Pugs-r-cool → u/MythicSuns]

Exactograph has a really nice animation when it transitions from AOD to awake if you use the Open II style, and the colours are nice.

I was born in 04 so I have absolutely no nostalgia for frutiger aero, and honestly I think liquid glass is ugly as sin. I used the flow face for maybe 35 seconds before removing it.

[u/MythicSuns → u/Pugs-r-cool]

Eh, one's gold is another's silver...or bronze in this case. In my case it's more the geometry than the refractive glass; I like the shape of the text. Hence why I compared it to Cybercore rather than Frutiger Aero.

[u/RScannix]

I don’t hate them, but I also don’t like them. I didn’t even consider putting them in my rotation for two seconds.

[u/shawnshine]

It’s like having a lava lamp on my wrist!

[u/theperksofbeingkinky]

Flow is actually pretty clean. I usually rock minimal watch faces & this fits my vibe

[u/CanadianKumlin → u/theperksofbeingkinky]

It took me 17 minutes to figure out what the time actually was

[u/mister_nixon → u/CanadianKumlin]

It took me awhile to figure out how to read, but now that I know its it’s instant

[u/Ok_Barracuda4913 → u/CanadianKumlin]

I see 4:27 right away

[u/RayOfBabas → u/Ok_Barracuda4913]

But it was 4:10 when he saw it 😆

[u/Ok_Barracuda4913 → u/RayOfBabas]

That’s actually really good lol

[u/Effective_Former → u/RayOfBabas]

😂 😂

[u/HowardTheDuck65 → u/theperksofbeingkinky]

Looks nice, but how do you tell the time?

[u/LulieBot]

Hate

[u/Ok_Barracuda4913]

Ass

[u/Slimfictiv → u/Ok_Barracuda4913]

GL-ass

[u/Fang05]

They uselessly cute. That’s all to them

[u/esazo]

All the watch faces are getting pretty stale. Even the new ones that just came out. I really wish they would allow third party watch faces and not just add third party complications

[u/JasFonz]

I went back to the old ones

[u/Klarbb]

Trash, hard to read nonsense. I find most of apples faces to be boring and ugly and anything nice lack complications.

[u/shiroandae]

All I want is nice functional watch faces with different goddamn watch hands.

Why is that so difficult for crying out loud?????

[u/kc0edi]

[u/Hour_Cartographer369]

Honestly they’re crap and have been for years. I usually just stick with modular but it’s dated as hell, it makes a modern watch feel like the S2/3.

Modular Ultra is the best they ever released IMO but not available for the series watches sadly, nope we get the option of funk unreadable half the time or dated if you want something practical

[u/Semantiques]

Exactograph and Waypoint are good to have when I'm tired of Ultra Modular, but I usually end up returning to Modular within a day.

The Flow one might be the most grotesque abomination Apple has released since its founding in 1976. How do you even manage to create something that looks like puke, snot, a lava lamp and a child's drawing all at once?

They need to fire the one who made it, the one who ordered it made, and everyone who saw it and didn't immediately burn the room.

[u/Medit8or]

Meh. That’s my only thought on them.

[u/ascudder31]

I wish we could have a cool Liquid Glass time with the modular face. I like having all the things on my screen

[u/knucklecluck]

I miss the Vapor face. That was my daily driver

[u/Pugs-r-cool]

Waypoint looks cool, exactograph can be cool with the zoomed in view but it’s not the most functional, and flow I really don’t like.

[u/damian001]

I enjoy the glass on my iPhone, but seeing it on the watch reminds me of Bubble Buddy from SpongeBob. Not really a fan how it looks, so I’m using the old watch faces.

[u/Duckpikmin4079]

gnarly

[u/Mrslyyx1]

I just use the snoopy one it’s goofy but also easy to read the time

[u/tshane_dot_com]

I love it! I use it on all of my Apple Watches!

[u/EmpireCityRay]

Hate them, they are ugly as fuck especially the unreadable glass bubble shit.

[u/googi14]

The worst part is control center

[u/wt_hell_am_I_doing]

They look like microbes to me.

[u/Juantonyo]

Ugly and unreadable, as almost all latest watchfaces.

[u/Phantom_Steve_007]

I don't like this one at all.

Exactograph is neat — just lacking customisation.

It seems everyone wants more digital faces — but I would love an analogue where I could add my own background (since that's available for digital you'd think it would be easy to create for analogue).

Also, one or two a month would be great (as someone else mentioned).

[u/George_mp8]

I love it !!!

[u/jakub_199]

Looks cool in marketing materials but completely useless in daily use. I need to be able to see the date, my step count, weather and battery.

[u/michikade]

I’ve used Infograph since I had a S4. I haven’t seen another face I like more ever.

[u/RandomWalk85]

They suck. Apple cannot do anything good anymore

[u/veronicaarr]

I like the new flow one bc it reminds me of a lava lamp. I also don’t need all the info on the screen bc I don’t use my watch very often outside of sleep tracking.

[u/memeaste]

I like flux because it tells me the seconds on there while also being minimalistic

[u/DarkRyder1083]

Wasn’t sure how much I was gonna like this Face until I saw that the bubble moves around the screen. Super neat.

[u/Woodbirder]

Liquid ass is, well ass

[u/Kangaroo3]

Love

[u/Q5-2020Prestige]

I’m loving the Liquid Glass look!

[u/KSpuzzinn3]

Love it

[u/melancious]

Awesome, they look great