watchOS 27: New Navigation Method to Speed Up Usage
A grid before the grid: Apple is now displaying a Dynamic App Grid before the app overview with all programs. How useful this is remains to be seen.
New Dynamic App Grid: Hopefully not the new Smart Stacks.
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Owners of the Apple Watch will be able to use a new control scheme with watchOS 27. In addition to the previous standard modes Grid and List (German Apple terms: “Raster- und Listendarstellung”), another variant is added, which pushes itself in front of the previous app home screen arrangement. Apple's term for this is “Dynamic App Grid,” and it will appear in the future when you press the digital crown. Whether the display can be switched off remained unclear for now.
New Siri App Right in the Middle
The idea behind the Dynamic App Grid, according to Apple, is to bring out five applications that are currently important to the user so that they don't have to search for them in list or grid view. In the middle, displayed slightly larger, is also the Siri application, which is also available with watchOS 27 on the Apple Watch and lists the previous dialogues with the voice assistant.
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According to Apple, the displayed apps should match the respective context and the usual usage of the computer watch – how good the algorithm used is remains to be seen. Manual configuration does not seem to be intended. To return to the previous app view, you press an icon located in the bottom center. Alternatively, you can turn the digital crown to go directly to grid or list view.
Apple's UI and UX Experiments on the Watch
The restructuring, which initially takes some getting used to, is reminiscent of previous Apple UI and UX experiments on the computer watch. In the past, there have been reassignments of the side button and the introduction of swipe gestures, among other things. Currently, there is still the so-called Smart Stack alias Smart Stack, which is supposed to bring out algorithmically relevant widgets and app shortcuts.
However, many users simply ignore the function and are annoyed when the Smart Stack opens unintentionally or sends notifications. Currently, there is no way to disable the function completely. You can only set it so that it is easier to ignore. watchOS 27 will be released in the fall. The update is only compatible with Series 9 or Ultra 2 (plus SE 3).
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