Yes, Facer is automatically blocking faces that could work. Whatever their criteria of determining what faces will work or not is blanket across the platform. If you go into settings on your phone and change your watch to non OS6, the faces now show as available. FACER is systematically and on their own blocking the Faces. I have faces purchased through Google Play and have not been updated in a very long time that work just fine. Watchmaker is another app for faces that I have for years before transitioning to Facer and all those OLD faces still work just fine. At least let us attempt to send the face to our watches and see if they work.
See the attached screenshot of another app and how they notified their customers. Why did Facer not do the same? I’ve been a product director for over 10 years. I would have been fired if I did what Facer did, which is NOTHING.
I was not aware of that. I have created several thousand faces. Facer has not blocked any of them. As far as I know, the designers have been converting older designs for WFF compatibility. Maybe some type of blanket conversion would actually be a good thing for designers who do not have time to update their work.
As far as i know many watchfaces were automatically converted en masse - at least those that didn’t use the tags that don work with WFS. At the least that was the case with mine…but then again i don’t have the number of syncs like you guys
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I haven’t checked on every one of mine since I have over 3K faces. But looking through the last year or so about half of mine have been automatically converted to WFF.
I wonder if it is just the free faces. Otherwise, Facer would eventually be left with a lot of incompatible faces that won’t work on all the updated and new watches.
Edit: I still cannot find a premium designer who had any faces automatically blocked.
So let’s not make general statements saying emphatically that “FACER is systematically and on their own blocking the Faces.” unless we have absolute facts on exactly what has been blocked(?) and why. I’ll await documentation.
