When you have this face active on your watch, tap the center white circle to return the watch to not reporting elevation (in other words, do not leave it on all the time) and let us know if the date returns as it should. I believe what you think is a bug, is actually normal operation. There really isn't a reason to have your watch constantly checking elevation.
You can edit the Modular Ultra and Wayfinder watch faces on Apple Watch Ultra to provide the information you need most. Open the Apple Watch app on your iPhone, tap Face Gallery, swipe up to the Modular Ultra or Wayfinder watch faces, then choose complications appropriate for your run, hike, or dive.
To help preserve your night vision, the Modular Ultra and Wayfinder watch faces can automatically turn red after dark. Touch and hold either watch face, tap Edit, swipe to Night Mode, then choose Auto.
Look for software updates; the set of watch faces that follows might differ from what you see on your Apple Watch Ultra. Not all watch faces available in all regions or on all models. To see the latest set of watch faces, make sure your software is up to date.
Tap the outer edge surrounding the main 12-hour dial on this watch face, and it transforms into a chronograph. Record time on scales of 60, 30, 6, or 3 seconds. Or select the tachymeter timescale to measure speed based on time travel over a fixed distance.
This watch face gradually changes to highlight the current hour. The numerals are a custom font designed to fit into the edge of the display and move seamlessly from one hour to the next. Tap the watch face, then turn the Digital Crown to expand numbers other than the current hour.
To set a second time zone, tap the watch face, then turn the Digital Crown to choose a time zone. Tap to confirm your choice and return to the watch face. The red hand shows you the hour in the second time zone.
This classic, type-driven watch face features custom-designed numbers that dynamically change in style and weight when you tap the watch face, then turn the Digital Crown. The numerals rotate to become pills when your wrist is down.
To hear Mickey Mouse or Minnie Mouse tell you the time, open the Settings app on your Apple Watch Ultra, tap Clock, then turn on Speak Time. Raise your wrist, then place two fingers on the watch face to hear the time.
This watch face offers seven complications and six options for the size and layout of the time. A large complication in the middle of the watch face makes it easy to see important information such as your compass heading or a running stopwatch. You can choose to show real time depth or elevation data, or the seconds counting up to a minute on the outer edges (the bezel).
Create a Photos face on your Apple Watch Ultra: With the current watch face showing, touch and hold the display, swipe all the way to the right, tap the New button (+), then tap Photos. Or, while browsing in the Photos app on your Apple Watch Ultra, tap , scroll to the bottom of the screen, then tap Create Face.
Create a Photos face on your iPhone: Open the Photos app on your iPhone, tap a photo, tap , swipe up, then tap Create Watch Face. Choose to create a Portraits watch face, Photos watch face, or a Kaleidoscope watch face.
The Portraits watch face uses photos from the photo library on your iPhone. Layer effects are applied to photos of people, dogs, cats, and landscapes. You can choose from three different type styles and select up to 24 photos. A new photo appears each time you raise your wrist or tap the display.
By default, when you tap the outer edges of the Wayfinder watch face (the ring that displays minutes or hours), it becomes a compass and your current latitude and longitude coordinates appear within the ring. To show Elevation/Incline instead, touch and hold the watch face, tap Edit, swipe left to the Bezel screen, turn the Digital Crown up, then choose Elevation/Incline.
Ultra watch wayfinder face keeps swithcing to compass bezel. Can not turn off teh compass bezel on phone app, nor watch . Choose "NONE" on both app and watch and it remains, and inner bezl choice goes away in lieu of compass. Worried this will chew up battery life. I have rebooted the watch and connected iPhone-12 several times.
What confuses some Apple Watch Ultra users is that the Wayfinder watch face doesn't automatically show this information. Rather than showing the points of the compass, it shows minutes or hours around the dial instead.
Switching to the compass display actually couldn't be simpler. If your Wayfinder watch face is showing minutes/hours, just tap the bezel to reveal the compass. Tap it again, and the minutes/hours will return.
With the bigger, brighter display and rugged design, Apple Watch Ultra is the perfect technical tool for adventurers and explorers in a range of environments, from the every day to the extreme. The completely redesigned Compass app in watchOS 9 surfaces more in-depth information and three distinct views. The app displays a new hybrid view that simultaneously shows both an analog compass dial and a digital view. Turning the Digital Crown reveals an additional view that includes latitude, longitude, elevation, and incline, as well as an orienteering view showing Compass Waypoints and Backtrack.
Apple Watch Ultra includes hardware-exclusive faces called Wayfinder and Ultra Modular. These watch faces are capable of shifting its standard color mode to a black and red version. This is how it originally worked in watchOS 9 for Wayfinder:
It takes many more steps, potentially meaning Ultra customers are less likely to use it. On the other hand, displaying Night Mode in the watch face customizer makes it more discoverable than a hidden gesture.
I think that there is a mistake in the Wayfinder watch face for Apple Watch Ultra. Note that in my picture, longitude shows '-81.54327 W', but because W is used, longitude should be either 81.54327 W or just -81.54327.
The Apple Watch Ultra comes with a new watch face called Wayfinder that brings explorer-centric tidbits such as longitude & latitude data, a compass, and a slew of customizable complications into one place. Another cool feature of the Wayfinder watch face is the integrated Night Mode, which turns the entire face red with a black background to be easier on the eyes in a dark environment.
Now that the Apple Watch Series 3 has been put out to pasture, nearly all of the faces in watchOS 10 are available on every supported model of the wearable. The only exceptions are Explorer, which has always been limited to cellular-capable Apple Watch models, and the Contour and Modular Duo faces, which are limited to the Apple Watch Series 7, 8, 9, and the Apple Watch Ultra and Ultra 2 due to their larger screens. The two Apple Watch Ultra models also include a pair of unique faces: Wayfinder, which is geared toward the outdoor adventure enthusiasts who are its target customers, and a new Modular Ultra face that makes better use of the even larger display.
Lunar offers a valuable addition for moon-watchers and folks who like to use alternate calendars. For whatever reason, Apple took away the ability to show a Chinese, Hebrew, or Islamic calendar date on the standard watch faces in watchOS 9, so the Lunar face is the solution to getting that back. You can choose between an analog or digital clock and place up to four complications in the corners.
Metropolitan is a stylish new watch face that provides room for four corner complications and a set of numbers that you can adjust in style by rotating the Digital Crown. This one also takes advantage of the always-on display on newer Apple Watch models to rotate the numbers into pills when your wrist is down and animate them back into numbers when you raise it again.
Chronograph Pro offers a precision timer like a classic analog stopwatch, with modes for recording time on scales of 60, 30, 6, or 3 seconds, or a tachymeter to measure speed based on time traveled over a fixed distance. Tapping the center of the face switches into timing mode, and you can also surround the face with four corner complications of your choice.
In 2021, Apple expanded the colors to represent a wider breadth of diversity with its Pride Edition Braided Solo Loop and new Pride Woven watch face that added black, brown, light blue, pink, and white to symbolize Black and Latinx communities, those who have passed away from or are living with HIV/AIDS, and transgender and nonbinary individuals. This was followed up with a new design in 2022, Pride Threads, a more abstract design that shows the digital time behind a series of threads that shimmer when you tap the face or turn the Digital Crown, and then Pride Celebration for 2023 with three styles mixing the colors of the Pride Flag in a rippling, confetti-like pattern.
You can add faces to your Apple Watch either directly from your wrist or via the Watch app on your iPhone. While adding directly on the Apple Watch is the quickest option, the iPhone app can be better for customizing your watch face and adding complications.
To add, edit, or customize faces directly on your Apple Watch, press and hold your current watch face. This will take you to a left-to-right list of all your saved watch faces. You can edit an existing face by swiping to it and choosing Edit, or create a new face by swiping left or turning the Digital Crown upward until you see New. Select the big Plus button and then swipe or use the Digital Crown to scroll through the gallery of watch faces to find the one you would like to add.
When adding a new watch face or editing an existing one, you can swipe to the left and right to access different customizations such as color, style, and complications, and then swipe up and down or use the Digital Crown to choose your preferences.
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