Apple Watch Series 7 early adopters complain about missing app icons

Apple today began open sales and shipping of its new Apple Watch Series 7 smartwatch to pre-order customers. Reviews for brand new watches are not always enthusiastic, and the first complaints about them appeared.

Early adopters of Apple Watch Series 7 are facing an issue where many, if not all, installed third-party apps do not have an on-screen icon. And this, you see, is very inconvenient.

Initially, the developer of Pcalc and Dice, James Thomson, drew attention to the strange glitch, who showed on his Twitter page how the problem looks in real life.

There is space for the icons in the grid on the watch screen, but the icons themselves are not displayed. If you click on such a pass, the application opens, however, users have to guess and remember where which application is located. The problem only concerns third-party applications, and Apple’s native solutions work correctly. As a workaround, you can switch to displaying applications as a list. In this case, the missing icon is supplemented with the name of the application.

Thomson noted that in the Xcode simulator, as well as on other watches, application icons are displayed without interruption. At the moment, the cause of the failure is unclear. However, the issue can be attributed to the new screen sizes and resolutions of the Apple Watch Series 7. The issue is not observed on Apple Watch Series 6 and earlier running watchOS 8.