I think the benefits of SWR30 have lost by the new update version 5.

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Since I have used my SWR30 for a few months, and I think I love it, I was expecting much on the new software update that has been launced recently. However, after updating my SWR30, I realized this update is quite terrible to me, and I would like to share my thoughts here. 1. One of the big changes is about the Notification/Alarm for the incoming messages. Showing the sender's photo/image may look good at first, but it spends too much space on the display, and so, I often have to push the volume button to see the whole message. As a matter of fact, seeing the sender's image is not that important. Just showing the sender's name (as before) is enough. Recall that the benefits of the previous version is that I DIDN'T HAVE TO PUSH THE BUTTON TOO MANY TIMES + JUST BY TOUCHING I COULD READ THE WHOLE MESSAGE (and dismiss the message by touching again). 2. In the previous version, after the message is read, I just touched again and the message was dismissed, which was simple. Now, I have to push the DOWN button a few times to dismiss the message. Maybe the intention was to enable repling the message from SWR30, but I think it's way too much. I prefer to just receive the message by SWR30, and if I want to reply, then I would use my phone instead. Even though I can't reply by SWR30, I love SWR30 because it is just the role of the watch, not any more! Similarly, in the previous version, some message is lost if I don't read it for a while or if too many messages are incoming. In fact, I liked this since, if there too many messages, I often want to pull out and use my phone instead of SWR30. (Just showing there are messages that I didn't read on top of the display may be enough.) 3. In fact, I loved receiving message by SWR30 because many messages to me are often not that important, and so, I could just ignore them. Only when I think I got important message, I could just use my phone from the pocket. I think this is important. Just playing the role of watch, not going over to the role of the phone, is actually the benefit of SWR30 before. Although there are a few good things in the update, such as reading the message in the vertical mode and improved voice search, I'm just afraid that the watch is losing its simplicity, compactness, and usability (by doing the role of the phone). So, I rolled back to the previous version in my SWR30.... and I wish the engineers at Sony listen to the customers. vinvin 

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Totally agree with this post. I like my swr30 a lot less now. Some ideas of the updates are good, but the execution is poorly and unusable. How do you do a roll back as you mentioned?