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"Doctor, whenever I make a weird face like this, I get a headache. What should I do?"

"Don't make a weird face like that."

On 17.1.1 on my phone, and 17.1 on my iPad, my outlook.com email account has been a PITA all day today. I finally removed it from my phone, and I think I will just depend on the Outlook app for that account, and all apps that I use with that account as an email address I will switch to another. This isn't the first time my Outlook email address has done this; none of my other accounts ever do.

Watch app / General / Auto-Launch or, on the watch itself, Settings app / General / Auto-Launch. Turn off Auto-Launch Audio Apps in that setting.

I believe that Auto-Launch was in a different place from General prior to watchOS 9 or watchOS 8.

My watch does seem to be better since installing 10.1.1. I'd consider trying a simple power off/power on of the watch just to see if that helps. In the past when I've had unexplained high battery drain (rare, though 10.0 through 10.1 were definitely draining faster than usual), restarting always fixed it.

I'm also ok with the changes, but some of them still wrangle.

I still try to access my most recently used apps the old way

Yes. I was a huge user of the customized dock. I hardly ever use control center, and would be fine with it being a button on the Smart Stack of widgets, just as an example. The double-click of the crown for the new "dock", which is really the watch version of the iOS app switcher, is not enough for me - I want a list of my most important apps to be able to access quickly

For me, so far the biggest issue, besides the loss of the dock, is the change in behavior when single-clicking the crown when you have list view. Now it always returns you to the top of the list when you access it from a watch face, which is alphabetical; before it remembered where you were between uses (it still does this if you access the list while you are in an app, which to me is inconsistent behavior), so if I often use the list to open my 2FA app , it would almost always be there waiting for me when I press the crown. Now, it's back to the top and scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll.

For a while I have been trying to use watch faces with few complications, and trying to use the Smart Stack to see that sort of info that I used to get from complications. As of now, though, after almost a couple of months of trying, I am back to using a watch face with the complications that I like to see and hardly ever use the Smart Stack, and, of course, hardly ever use control center. Really the only times I ever see it are when I unthinkingly click the side button in order to open the dock.

watchOS 10 must've been designed by someone who doesn't really use their Apple Watch much I assume.

I don't think so. I think that you and I (and lots of others who post here) are power-users of the watch, and the likely fact is that almost everyone else likely is not. I think these changes were designed for people who are not power users who were probably often confused by the UX of watchOS before version 10. Apple collects usage statistics by people who share diagnostic information, so I am sure that they have a very strong idea of how people use the watch, what they are often unable to figure out easily, etc.

I hope that these changes are just the beginning of a change that will evolve over time.

Also what did they think when changing the menu bar at the top? It used to be one small line (picture 1) but now on my 40mm Watch about 1 fourth of the screen is covered by each app's title or clock (picture 2).

I'm not seeing that at all in your example, which shows two different apps anyway. Really I am fine with the visual changes to most apps, and honestly think that a lot have changed for the better. (Perhaps that's because I have an Ultra, which always had a lot of wasted screen space.)

I am not. Is this happening only with specific contacts? If so, is it possible that you have set that contact up with an emergency bypass text tone, which will always make a sound on the watch (or phone) even in silent mode? (I have my wife and kids set up this way so that I always know when they are texting me without having to look.)

I will say that I had to factory reset and restore my iPhone 3 weeks ago, which meant unpairing and repairing both of my watches (I have a spare), and it wasn't all that bad - the worst part was having to add the Apple Pay cards back to the watch, plus I had a few watch faces duplicated for some reason when it restored.

Even if you leave the top center complication blank.

Just to clarify, there is no such thing as buying an Apple Watch with Family Setup - it's a choice that you make when you pair the watch. As /u/marcelocampiglia suggests, the solution is to unpair the watch and then pair again, chosing "Set up for myself" rather than "Set up for a family member".

I believe that Apple removed the corner Blood Oxygen complication, but the circular complication for BO still remains - so, for Modular, Meridian inner dial, etc.

For many notifications, you can go into Watch app, Notifications, turn off "mirror iPhone" and turn off sound. Apps like Calendar and Mail give you more discrete options for different options, but they can also turn off sound.

However, some you cannot (Activity, for example.) So that will get you almost all the way there.

I've been journaling every day for the last 5 years in a third party app. So, yes, I think at least a few people will use it.