Had a random reboot with the last beta, but that was the only issue I've seen during betas. I was doing a workout at the time and was afraid I'd lost it, but nope, the workout continued without a hitch after the reboot. Huh.
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Apple Finally Releases New Apple Watch Update, watchOS 3.1.3
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I was snowshoeing back at the beginning of January—running the workout app—and when I looked down at my watch to check the distance, my watch was completely off. I turned it back on, went a short distance, and it turned off again. I think it was getting too cold and shutting down. Anyway, once it rebooted the second time, I noticed the workout app was still running. We continued down the snowy hillside for a bit, glanced at the distance, and it hadn't updated. I paused the workout and then resumed and all was working again. When I look at the "route" it shows a break in the GPS track. I was surprised it was able to essentially pick up where it left off, to a degree.
No ****ing way am I updating after the fiasco that was watchOS 3.0. My Apple Watch was a complete piece of **** for four months until 3.1.1 was released which finally fixed all of the issues introduced in 3.0.
I look forward to installing this. Maps are totally broken on 2.1.2 and I hope this finally fixes it.
I usually jump on the update train but this time I will also hold back. The Watch is in no way user recoverable...
you might want to update or apple will not give you tech support unless you are running the latest OS, I know this because I went into the apple store for help with my iphone and was told i will have to update to ios 10 in order to get help with the problem.
Same here. Not much crashing of apps outside of a few. Some dropped frames here and there (most notably when scrolling though the Timer app) but for Gen 1 hardware, I've come to accept it, especially considering that it doesn't consistently drop frames. Some days it does, some days it doesn't.
Managed to install 3.1.2 on my Nike+ Watch before they pulled the update and my Series 0 Sport Edition has been really slow using 3.1.1.
Updated both last night before work and am happy to report 3.1.3 is great on both watches especially my Series 0.
Updated both last night before work and am happy to report 3.1.3 is great on both watches especially my Series 0.
Installed fine but I made sure iOS 10.2.1 14D27 was installed first.
I like the progress ring when installing. I wish it would show that when rebooting the watch just so I know when it will be ready. It starts up very slow on my series 2.
[doublepost=1485232679][/doublepost]I did a test and turned off my iPhone 6 and Series 2 watch all running latest versions and then turned both on at the same time. The watch beat my iPhone by two seconds. Must have been at least 2 minutes. What ever happened to instant on in the industry?
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I have the same watch. Standard face with three complications: weather, heart and pedometer app. Each day ends at about 48% battery so we'll see if it improves.
I would love to see the day when the face can always be on.
I tested a few days to see how much the display was effecting the battery when I turned off the raise to wake off. I wanted to see how much that was using because when I am driving I can see the screen turn on and off as I use my hand to drive and was thinking its wasting battery.
At the end of several days I ended at about 52% battery so that was telling me that the screen is not too power hungry.
I like the progress ring when installing. I wish it would show that when rebooting the watch just so I know when it will be ready. It starts up very slow on my series 2.
[doublepost=1485232679][/doublepost]I did a test and turned off my iPhone 6 and Series 2 watch all running latest versions and then turned both on at the same time. The watch beat my iPhone by two seconds. Must have been at least 2 minutes. What ever happened to instant on in the industry?
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I have the same watch. Standard face with three complications: weather, heart and pedometer app. Each day ends at about 48% battery so we'll see if it improves.
I would love to see the day when the face can always be on.
I tested a few days to see how much the display was effecting the battery when I turned off the raise to wake off. I wanted to see how much that was using because when I am driving I can see the screen turn on and off as I use my hand to drive and was thinking its wasting battery.
At the end of several days I ended at about 52% battery so that was telling me that the screen is not too power hungry.
Oh. The other day I came home and I realized I took my watch off at work, I thought... so I launched find my phone app and it allowed me to find my watch and it did say it found it right at work where I left it. Cool.
Too bad there isn't a way for locating it when not in my recognized wifi area just in case it got legs and walked off. Almost like a phone home mode if off your wrist for 8 hours or several failed password attempts and it would find any open wifi to ping it's location to the cloud? Work on that Apple.
Too bad there isn't a way for locating it when not in my recognized wifi area just in case it got legs and walked off. Almost like a phone home mode if off your wrist for 8 hours or several failed password attempts and it would find any open wifi to ping it's location to the cloud? Work on that Apple.
Well I don't live in US - there is no Apple Store here - only re-sellers who only know how to sell not to fix things....
On a second note, in the end I updated everything, Macs, TV and iPhone and at the end the watch.
I figured, since I have previously updated the watch and it went well, I might as well run the latest update.
Anyway I updated the phone and everything else before doing an Apple Watch update.
I have also put the phone and the watch on an external power bank to charge since I don't want to risk a blackout ruining things.
I do wonder though, if the update is done via WI-FI.... then probably a power blackout would kill the Watch still...
Very upset. My watch has a tiny scratch on the screen and I had hoped the update would brick it so I could get a replacement. Guess what, everything went smoothly ! I keep an eye on the next release though.
My series 2 watch started registering stand hours whilst I'm in bed asleep. I did notice the following one morning whilst lying in bed: I got the 10 min stand now notification but I didn't get up. I put my arm behind my head and it registered the stand hour.
Seems to me that it should only register the stand hour if it also registers a continuous minutes worth of steps.
So a 3.X.X update is somehow going to be worse? It's bug fixes, not a major release.
Same watch as me.
Charged and updated last night. Put it on my wrist at ~6:30am this morning. It's now 7.5hrs later and mine's showing 90% charge.
...and that's with a lot of use this morning checking my train times as there was lots of disruption due to a derailment!