How to customize the clock face in iOS 26?

1. we should be able to change the clock face on our phones.
2. We shouldn’t have to pay for every single app that is on iPhone! I am sick of it the fact that Samsung you can get free apps and yet you guys charge it per day per week per month per year is disgusting don’t say it’s the app’s fault because if you can get it free on Samsung then you can get it free on iPhone

pctrchk wrote:

1. we should be able to change the clock face on our phones.

2. We shouldn’t have to pay for every single app that is on iPhone! I am sick of it the fact that Samsung you can get free apps and yet you guys charge it per day per week per month per year is disgusting don’t say it’s the app’s fault because if you can get it free on Samsung then you can get it free on iPhone

What are you prattling on about? You bought the phone. You didn't have to pay for the clock app. You got a load of apps included with the phone, you didn't have to pay anything for. But own iOS, you don't. Apple does and if they choose to change the appearance of a free app, like the clock app, it's their decision and absolute right to do.

pctrchk wrote:

I am sick of it the fact that Samsung you can get free apps and yet you guys charge it per day per week per month per year is disgusting don’t say it’s the app’s fault because if you can get it free on Samsung then you can get it free on iPhone

I think the best solution for you is to get a Samsung, as you clearly think it’s a better product.

Complaining about Apple app pricing and bringing up Samsung is not helpful. This thread is hoping to get Apple’s attention and provide us with options for the clock face. It’s a minor first world issue and not worth slinging mud about.

Apple - how about bringing some of the existing watch face designs into IOS and restoring the option for original clearly readable and elegant Swiss watch face? Thanks!

You are clearly responding to the wrong person. IdrisSeabright most definitely did not complain about Apple pricing or bring up Samsung.

You also seem to incorrectly believe you are writing anyone at Apple here? You're not. This is a user to user ONLY forum, which Apple neither participates nor reads for user feedback. Asking Apple to do anything is pointless.

You can tell Apple what you'd like them to do here --> Feedback - iPhone - Apple

Honestly, I simply cannot believe the consternation over an app icon change? Are people's lives really this disrupted by a simple change? The App still works as it did before. It just looks different.

Gd56 wrote:

Complaining about Apple app pricing and bringing up Samsung is not helpful. This thread is hoping to get Apple’s attention and provide us with options for the clock face. It’s a minor first world issue and not worth slinging mud about.

I believe you may have meant to respond to pctrchk

Apple - how about bringing some of the existing watch face designs into IOS and restoring the option for original clearly readable and elegant Swiss watch face? Thanks!

Tell Apple.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

Honestly, I simply cannot believe the consternation over an app icon change? Are people's lives really this disrupted by a simple change? The App still works as it did before. It just looks different.

I know!

IdrisSeabright wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

Honestly, I simply cannot believe the consternation over an app icon change? Are people's lives really this disrupted by a simple change? The App still works as it did before. It just looks different.

I know!

I find it sad how people are simply unable to adapt to change.

Apologies- I was having trouble posting as I was logged off multiple times so ended up replying to the wrong post. I’ll unsubscribe. As you say, if no one at Apple looks at this, there is no point to this thread. Asked and answered early on.

IdrisSeabright wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I find it sad how people are simply unable to adapt to change.

Indeed. I believe it's key to (my) cognitive health to keep learning new things and adapting to change.

Me too! And if the day ever comes I can't adapt to little or big changes, it will then be time to incinerate me and put me in the urn.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

And if the day ever comes I can't adapt to little or big changes, it will then be time to incinerate me and put me in the urn.

Just make sure it's somewhere the cats can't knock it down...

IdrisSeabright wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

And if the day ever comes I can't adapt to little or big changes, it will then be time to incinerate me and put me in the urn.

Just make sure it's somewhere the cats can't knock it down...

That would be up to whoever is in possession of my urn!

The old Swiss face and the current “70’s cheap alarm clock” face DO show the correct time. Even the second hand moves.

The new face is just more difficult for some of us to read while the previous face was fine.

and many of us don’t want a widget that takes the space of 4 icons on our hole screen.

derekfromtoledo wrote:

The old Swiss face and the current “70’s cheap alarm clock” face DO show the correct time. Even the second hand moves.

The new face is just more difficult for some of us to read while the previous face was fine.

and many of us don’t want a widget that takes the space of 4 icons on our hole screen.

I must have amazing eyesight. I'm in my 70s' with astigmatism and nearsighted (I do wear glasses) and yet, I have no trouble reading the new clock on the app icon.

Either way, expressing what you think is wrong with it here, on a user to user only forum, where Apple neither participates nor reads for user feedback is pointless.

Use the link IdrisSeabright provided and tell Apple what you think.

I just Downloaded the iOS 26.1 Update into my iPhone 14 & noticed the “Odd” Change for the Clock & the User’s Inability to Change it Back to the Original Clock Face!

Hopefully, with All this Discussion from Apple Users, the IT Department will Have a “Fix” for this in a Future Update.

Thank you to everyone for your support.

Happy Holidays! 🎄