{"id":464,"date":"2025-12-01T20:19:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/?p=464"},"modified":"2025-12-08T14:50:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T14:50:56","slug":"how-to-make-apple-watch-tick-like-a-quartz-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/01\/how-to-make-apple-watch-tick-like-a-quartz-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make Apple Watch tick like a quartz watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/08\/apple-watch-series-10-gold.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1600\"><\/div>\n<p>We mentioned last week that in iOS 26.1, Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/11\/26\/ios-26-1-makes-a-clever-and-subtle-clock-icon-animation-change\/\">changed<\/a> how the Clock app icon\u2019s seconds hand moves in low power mode. Instead of continuously moving, the seconds hand ticks with each second like a quartz clock.<\/p>\n<p>Analog faces on new Apple Watches have a similar behavior, using a sweeping seconds hand in active mode and a ticking seconds hand in always on mode. If you\u2019re like me and prefer the quartz-like movement, there\u2019s a workaround that can help.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"apple-watch\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"1030828\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/01\/how-to-make-apple-watch-tick-like-a-quartz-watch\/#more-1030828\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We mentioned last week that in iOS 26.1, Apple changed how the Clock app icon\u2019s seconds hand moves in low power mode. Instead of continuously moving, the seconds hand ticks with each second like a quartz clock. Analog faces on new Apple Watches have a similar behavior, using a sweeping seconds hand in active mode [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":465,"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/favorsfavors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}