I’m starting to use the new Photos watch face, and was hoping to use a photo shuffle like the old one - a synced collection of the most recent photos in my library (which is auto generated). The new face (and photo sync) recent album is every photo in my library, which syncs a random collection of photos from everything (rather than recent).

Anyone else noticed this, or has a similar issue? Is it simply not an option in watchOS 11?

WatchOS devs with Apple Watch Ultra: is possible to develop a custom bezel complication or is it reserved solely for stock informations such as vitals, time, compass or elevation?

Recently I've updated my apple watch to watchos 11.2 and ever since then the workout app is missing from the app list. When I check in the watch app on my phone it's there. I've tried restarting my watch but it doesn't seem to work. I'd rather not fully reset it so if anyone has any other solutions i'd love to hear them!

This is pretty crazy to me. Why doesn't the AWU have a live map (even drawing on the map as you hike/ride/whatever) that's a scrollable (via the crown) screen during a workout? Garmin has had this for years. I just don't get it. It would be such a simple thing. You have to double push to the app switcher to get to the map. I want to be able to look down and immediately see the map and scroll to metrics if I want.

I submitted this via the beta feedback app but we need a lot of people asking for this before Apple does anything.

Yes I realize WorkOutDoors does do this (you can just leave it on the map and it'll draw your route as your work out), but it would be nice to have this default.

I have the latest official watchOS installed on a new Series 10. Every time I go for a walk, a voice comes on the AirPods asking me if I want to start workout. I disabled voice feedback in the workout section of the Apple Watch app. This has not turned it off. Is there some other setting I’m missing?

Hello, for Christmas I became my mother's old Apple Watch. It's an Apple Watch 5, is there a way to install WatchOS 11 even if it's officially no longer supported, because I need the features very well

The new photo watch face in watchOS 11.2 is horrible. They took a good usable watch face and made it horrendous. You can’t move the location of the time and it seems they think they know the best placement, the top or bottom complication is no longer next to the time. There are complications no longer available in photos that were and still are in other faces. I don’t see anything that actually improved in that face option, instead it looks like they let some kindergartner work on it. They ruined this nice, useful, user configurable watch face.

Since I updated to watchOS 11.2 on my series 10, my touchscreen is constantly unresponsive, to the point where it is unusable, is anyone else experiencing this issue?

I start with the Typography watchface - it's very simple and perfect for AOD. I prefer it over the Modular once I have the AOD activated. What are your recommendations?

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I am facing a production issue with my HealthKit-based watchOS app that plays music during activities based on heart rate. In the production version (TestFlight or App Store), the screen times out whenever the user lowers their wrist, which disrupts music playback and the activity session.

The app works perfectly when run directly from Xcode, maintaining background processing and music playback. All necessary permissions (e.g., HealthKit and background modes like Workout Processing and Background Audio) have been configured, and the app uses HKWorkoutSession and WKExtendedRuntimeSession.

I’ve verified my implementation, but the timeout issue persists only in the production build. Could this be related to app entitlements, watchOS runtime limitations, or other production-specific constraints?

Any guidance on resolving this behavior would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Now that complications are added via a new widget target do we still need a watch app to create a complication for Apple Watch? I have an iOS app with widgets but I'm not sure how to start and test this.

When receiving a text, I get the haptic ding and then I immediately hear the message send noise on my watch. It always makes me think oh no did I accidentally do something? Anyone else?

I recently bought an "Apple Watch Series 10 (46mm)". My current watchOS is 11.0, and I am thinking of whether I should update it to watchOS 11.1.

Is there any new bugs introduced in watchOS 11.1? Does the battery life get improved / does it show improvement in other aspects after updating to watchOS 11.1? Any experience or comment?

Last but not least, I heard of some malfunctioning in "sleep tracking" after updating to watchOS 11.1. Is it real and is it commonly seen?

Please feel free to let me know any thoughts! Great thanks!!

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Yes, I think it should be in the control center. It's definitely very inconvenient to go through the settings because it is a feature that should be switched on/off rather easily and the control center would be the perfect spot for it.

I haven’t used my Watch since WatchOS 9 but now we are on 11. There’s two things using music on the Watch I can’t figure out.

1. What happened to the “On iPhone” section in the Apple Music app? I used to use it all the time to play music from my iPhone.

Now it’s gone, all I can see is about 6 albums as that’s all recents sync on the watch itself compared to like 30 on the phone. Did they remove it?

2. “Now Playing” doesn’t open at all when I wake the watch and it just makes it tedious to use the watch to actually change music. Is there anyway to get that behaviour back?

After the update, I began to notice that when a new dynamic element appears in the stacks, it starts to light up in a locked mode, although I always have to return to the watch face. Is this some kind of bug or new reality?