Did Suunto Actually Kill Complications by touchscreen in latest update?

[ExtremeTMM]

So now instead of using the old method to change upper left icon from steps to date, for example.

Old way:

1. Hit middle button once.
2. Press upper left icon to switch to date.

We now have to do this:

1. Hard press middle button.
2. Press bottom button 1 times to Customize
3. Press bottom button 2 times to Complications
   4, Press middle button 1 time to see watch face.
4. Press upper left icon.
5. Best guess to scroll up or down to find date.
6. Scroll until date appears.
7. Select date.
8. Swipe several times to return to watch face.

And Suunto actually thought this was a better solution?

I was constantly changing the icons on the fly depending on my situation. For me, this is a game changer. Going to research converting back to old OS. Otherwise, I don’t think the Vertical will be practical for me to use anymore.

[enriqueescoms]

@ExtremeTMM It is not a big issue for me, but I do prefer the old double tap mode too.

[Mff73]

And if all new users are posting the same messages, we will be very buzy readers

[Łukasz Szmigiel]

@ExtremeTMM said in Did Suunto Actually Kill Complications by touchscreen in latest update?:

And Suunto actually thought this was a better solution?

If your use case depends on the preset complications, and you were fine with them - it will be a downgrade.

But in my opinion, it had very little sense, as the complications were arbitrarily preset and were different per watchface with no way to customize them per user preference.

There was no watchface that would allow me to have both the barometric trend and the weather on one screen in 9PP.

Previously - I had to click the button in other to wake the watch up and click through the complications in order to see the data. Now I can just look on the watch to see what I need. And as a bonus - If I hold the complication, a related widget will open.

Also, keep in mind that this is only the first iteration. Who knows how it’ll evolve in the future.

[dreamer_]

Personally, it makes me even sad to think that Suunto is asked to waste their important development time in these kind of useless things, and instead of making their products better with real and important things (accuracy, bugs, important missing things…).

I bought this watch just for sports, not to configure the watch as an smartphone. I don’t understand why in the hell I should pay for an ultra endurance watch to just think that if the icon X is not in the screen I don’t like the watch.

This is a personal opinion, of course. But I want this watch for sports and in my personal case, for ultra races. And the Vertical is exactly that watch, and in fact, probably the best one in the market.

So the only thing I need in a watch face is the time and date. Simple, functional and battery saver. The rest is smoke, nothing. I have my phone if I want to see emoticons or drawings in the screen.

[enriqueescoms]

@dreamer_ I can not say better

[Egika]

So now we have three opinions in a row.

• old was better
• new is better
• why touch it anyway instead of doing something else

🤪

Anyway. Rest assured that there will be more changes coming to watch face handling in the future. Let’s see who will like and who will hate it then 🥳

[sartoric]

This topic is being discussed in many threads, and the OP posted this message in multiple places ,so I’m closing this one to avoid duplicates

[Brad_Olwin]

@dreamer_ You have my vote! Unfortunately, we are likely not a sufficiently large group to power profit for sales.