Control center via the side button has been persistently frustrating to get used to. Feeling like a boomer (in my 20s?!) but I consistently swipe up, get to the useless screen below the face, curse at my watch, and then hit the side button to open control center.

Every. Single. Time.

And I’ve been using this since the betas started.

Unimpressed. It's advertised as "the biggest update since the introduction of Apple Watch" and I haven't actually noticed any improvements. A few rarely used features are slightly different but I can't think of anything I use that's substantially improved.

There are a few features exclusive to the Ultra hardware that I want, but I'll have upgrade to get them (I probably will, but I'm not particularly happy about having to spend so much money especially since the features I want clearly would be possible without the premium price).

Been running it for a few months now. I like it, but it’s been slightly harder on my S7’s battery, and I’m still struggling to adapt to the UI changes.

Several years of muscle memory is tough for me to break. After 2 months I’m swiping up to get to the control center, then saying “damn it,” because my stupid brain hasn’t learned yet.

I really really need swipe to change clock faces back. It’s made the entire experience that much worse.

Although I have a compatible watch, I can’t update because my iPhone 8 cannot run iOS 17. Just get a message that your phone needs to be updated before your watch can. Which really means “You need to buy a new phone if you want to update your watch, even though your current phone runs fine”. Pretty shitty.

WatchOS 10 is unusable for me. I sent mine back to revert to OS 9.

The vast majority of my interactions with Apple Watch is swiping to change faces to quickly observe a bunch of data in a glance or to launch apps. With this user interface entirely deleted, it feels to me that they've handicapped the OS to a mere shadow of what is has been since this feature was introduced in WatchOS 3.

They should instead add a lock button for the people who are so greatly burdened to have to flick their finger to change from a face they accidentally flipped to.

"Smart Stack" is dumb AF. It looks nice and it's probably usable if you're sitting still crouched over your watch but to try to use it while you've active is a nightmare. It's too small, doesn't show enough information, it's fluid, lacks permanence, isn't possible to always be in the order of intention... it's just a UX bag of turds.

Not a fan of moving Control Center but not the end of the world. It and the previous crown and action button presses were all much more ergonomic as they were.

The Weather app doesn't make much sense. I imagine I'd get used to it but it's certainly a downgrade, as is the rest of the OS, in usability.

It's pretty though. I absolutely admire it for its prettiness. But I've lost count of the ways it's taken a step back in usability. It's a smart watch. Its primary reason for existing is to present data as clearly and efficiently as possible.

People may have their preferences and subjective feelings about things but WatchOS 10 is objectively more cumbersome to use than WatchOS 9.

Like everyone said, really dislike the press side button to show control center changes, used that more than the widgets stack.

But they did bring back persistent icon? On the top of the clock. Now i can go to now playing by just tapping that icon.

Oh yeah i also dislike how i need two more taps to go to music playlists.

Some of the changes that stand out most to me:

• different dock
• no more side-swipes to change watch faces
• different home screen
• control center via button press
• the widgets when swiping up
• new app design

Two things I’m really missing are the app dock (used to be a single click of the side button) where I pinned common apps like LA Fitness for my membership card and double-clicking the crown to jump to the previous app. Otherwise, I like that apps are now laid out with just vertical scrolling and I like the new app designs overall.

Love the new now playing app that shows the album art.

Weather is gorgeous but has too much info and it’s no longer glanceable enough.

Messages is a major upgrade. We finally get profile pictures on the list.

Not a fan of Control Center as the old dock button now. Swiping up made sense. Tapping and holding to swipe up worked anywhere. Guess people couldn’t figure that out?

A dock substitute is double pressing the crown. It’s showing recent apps but it’s showing everything like iOS.