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Anyone enjoying os2?
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Install took ages - over two hours - and I had to unpair and repair (losing all my apple pay cards), plus loads of reboots of both phone and watch. All worth it though! I hope the next update is easier.
I had that. I put the watch on the charger and said update was available. Might have been a coincidence though. It does say you need 50% charge and watch on charger to update.
Cheers mate. I deleted my beta profile and then restarted both devices and it's now downloading.
No problems, but I would not say I am "enjoying" it. The only difference I notice/care about is nightstand. Everything else seems the same.
Until 3rd party apps take advantage of being native.
Until 3rd party apps take advantage of being native.
I'm loving it tbh. Creating new watch faces is a lot of fun and and the OS is generally snappier. I'm particularly liking that Siri is much faster and more reliable, I didn't really use it before but now I'm learning new things to do with it and it's making my whole use of the watch smoother.
Yes, I definitely understand that and I also take everything I hear with a grain of salt.
Download the Sync Solver app. There are two; you need the one that syncs info from Health into FitBit.
Because the vast majority of people that don't have problems don't come to a message board usually and tell everyone they have no problems. The only people you hear from are people that had problems and are looking for help, or to just complain. They are a tiny minority, but if you think a message board reflects the real world it would appear that lots of people are having problems.
For me its seems a bit better but native apps or not I still find it slow and clunky. Im tired of seeing the spinning (whatever its called) when I pretty much access anything. Im really looking forward to a couple of generations down the road when its just smoother and faster. Don't get me wrong I do like it and try to wear it once or twice a week in rotation with my Sub and Speedie. Sorry dandy mean to hear of the OS2 topic towards the hardware side of things.
Only issue I've run into is Location Services weren't working, causing some apps not to work properly. I solved it with an unpair-repair and it's working fine now.
Otherwise, totally positive experience. watchOS 2 is leagues better than version 1.
Otherwise, totally positive experience. watchOS 2 is leagues better than version 1.
A little late to the thread, but overall I'm happy. I've not incurred the battery drain issue others have. I did at first, but that's when iOS9 came out (not watch os2). I rebooted both the watch and the phone and that seemed to fix that issue.
I like OS2. I like that there are fewer crown clicks required to get from a third party app back to the watch face. I was very annoyed that it took 3 clicks before. I don't like that many of the clock faces that involve photos only have the time and possibly the date. There should be at least 1 or 2 complications so I can add data that is viewable at a glance without touching my watch. While I like Astronomy, Motion, Photo, Photo slideshow (sp?) and animated wallpaper, I don't use them because I want more than just the date and time on the watch face of a smart watch. I mean if Mickey can display my next appointment and the outside temperature, surely ALL watchfaces can do it.
For me the update was painful and while I've already covered this in another thread I can mention here that it took over 3 hours, caused me to cut short on one of my practice runs, and almost made me late for a meeting. In fact the watch finally finished rebooting as I walked in the door to my meeting which means I was wearing a mere decoration on my wrist as I drove to the meeting.
I also have mixed feelings about iOS9. I like the new low power mode. I like the possibility of wifi calling though it appears At&t (and possibly the FCC) have flubbed the rollout. What I don't like is having to reset my phone to get audio during a call and constant loss of bluetooth to my headsets (2 different ones). I don't like instability with apps crashing almost daily. In iOS9, I like the lowercase/capital keyboard. This was one of the few things I liked about Android and I was glad to see iOS finally pick this up. Why am I discussing iOS 9 in a WOS2 thread? Because AFAIK you need iOS9 to get WOS2 and I've gone so far as to warn several friends to hold off on iOS9 due to my mixed experience with it.
I don't have any third party apps yet (that I know of) but I'm sure they are coming soon. Overall I like my Apple Watch and I like OS2.
For me the update was painful and while I've already covered this in another thread I can mention here that it took over 3 hours, caused me to cut short on one of my practice runs, and almost made me late for a meeting. In fact the watch finally finished rebooting as I walked in the door to my meeting which means I was wearing a mere decoration on my wrist as I drove to the meeting.
I also have mixed feelings about iOS9. I like the new low power mode. I like the possibility of wifi calling though it appears At&t (and possibly the FCC) have flubbed the rollout. What I don't like is having to reset my phone to get audio during a call and constant loss of bluetooth to my headsets (2 different ones). I don't like instability with apps crashing almost daily. In iOS9, I like the lowercase/capital keyboard. This was one of the few things I liked about Android and I was glad to see iOS finally pick this up. Why am I discussing iOS 9 in a WOS2 thread? Because AFAIK you need iOS9 to get WOS2 and I've gone so far as to warn several friends to hold off on iOS9 due to my mixed experience with it.
I don't have any third party apps yet (that I know of) but I'm sure they are coming soon. Overall I like my Apple Watch and I like OS2.
