Marco ArmentRE: https://mastodon.social/@caseyliss/116131870233125130
OK. No joke.
I literally just updated to watchOS 26 yesterday, and did my first workout with it today.
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Seriously, I may stop using the Apple Watch over this
Jason Snell@marcoarment @caseyliss it's mind-bogglingly bad
Paul Tower@jsnell @marcoarment @caseyliss I’m not sure where all the hate is coming from. I double click the crown, pick the workout app, then start my workout. It’s not great (the app takes forever to start up) but that’s nothing new.
What am I missing?
@hokiewalrus @marcoarment @caseyliss scrolling is slow, animations are lengthy, and you have to wait for the zoom out to get the controls. It sucks. Do you only do one workout?
@hokiewalrus @marcoarment @caseyliss basic UI rule is, don't make people sit and wait for UI to appear as you dazzle them with an animation. That app breaks it every time. I scroll to where I went to go, then I have to wait for it to draw its stuff before I can tap to start a workout. The old version was instantaneous.
@jsnell @marcoarment @caseyliss Ah, got it. Thanks for the explanation. Yeah I only 2 kinds of workouts in the app, so it’s always either the first or second choice.
Having to wait for the animations does suck, definitely agree. I have a series 10 and it rarely feels snappy as it is, anything that makes it feel even slower is bad design.
Karan J@hokiewalrus @jsnell @marcoarment @caseyliss why is it that I need to hit that small green arrow on the bottom curving edge of the screen and not the picture of the workout, which is a reasonable touch target when I'm moving around. I literally can't do anything with that massive image/icon/title.
This UI is fine if wasteful when you're sitting at a desk. When I'm moving around, I can't tolerate its requirement for precision.
Chris@hokiewalrus @jsnell @marcoarment @caseyliss same here, but maybe I’m not concerned about getting that much info out of it? Just start workout, end workout, fill rings haha
@chris_colvin @hokiewalrus @marcoarment @caseyliss waiting to start the workout is where it fails though. I guess if you never change workouts.
@jsnell @chris_colvin @marcoarment @caseyliss Ok, so I just did my workout and I noticed I do something to account for this subconsciously: I open the workout app on my watch, then start the treadmill, then go back to the watch and start the workout. So I was accounting for the delay without realizing it.
Is it possible for your brain to outsmart you? Cause that's what this feels like.
But now that I'm paying attention to it, yeah the delay sucks and is bad.