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Apple Investigating Display Flickering Issue Affecting Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2

BorisDG said:
LCD also. The LEDs are with PWM.
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Not necessarily, there are many LCD monitors without PWM: https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tests/motion/image-flicker

And for example neither the SE3 nor the iPad 10 or Air have PWM:
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The iPad Pro does seem to have PWM, though at a very high frequency: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple...tablet-now-runs-with-the-M2-SoC.671454.0.html

The iPad mini has PWM at brightness settings below 10%, however using an even higher frequency: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple...attractive-small-tablet-with-5G.573625.0.html
 
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I've only ever noticed this flickering on the Overcast app. I happened to capture this video and had sent it off to Marco's Overcast Feedback. Never heard anything back ... assumed it was only this app.
 
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brendin said:
10.1 Beta RC appears to have addressed the issue, for anyone curious.
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Oddly, the first time I saw the pulsing was when going to the software update screen. I’m now running 10.1RC and there is no pulsing on that screen.
 
beanbaguk said:
bugs are released on purpose as the cost of delaying the software release has a much greater impact on the users corporate profits so developers are almost certainly aware of these bugs on release.
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Fixed that for you. Late releases DO NOT hurt users. BUGGY RELEASES hurt users. Late releases hurt profits.

So it's "ship it anyway, screw the users" pretty much everywhere. Gotta get that Snoopy watch face out!
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple is investigating an issue where the display brightness briefly flickers or "pulses" on some Apple Watch models when Always On mode is enabled, according to an internal service memo shared with Apple Authorized Service Providers today.

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The memo does not indicate which Apple Watch models are affected, but the issue appears to be most prevalent on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 models released last month. There are complaints from customers about this issue across the MacRumors Forums, Reddit, and the Apple Support Community website. The issue appears to be present on all watchOS 10 versions, including the latest watchOS 10.0.2 release.

Apple says service providers should not repair affected watches, and instead advise customers to keep their Apple Watch software up to date, suggesting that Apple will eventually make a fix available in a watchOS update. It's unclear if Apple has addressed the issue in watchOS 10.1, which is expected to be released to the public next week.

As a temporary solution, Apple says customers can turn off Always On mode in the Settings app under Display & Brightness → Always On.

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Apple is also investigating an issue where complications like Activity rings on a watch face might "temporarily turn pink," according to the memo. This is another issue that has been reported by some customers online in recent weeks.

Article Link: Apple Investigating Display Flickering Issue Affecting Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2
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Am I the only one that is experiencing a very high level of zoom loss? I keep the double tap to zoom option on because of my 50 year old eyes starting to blur smaller complications and things like compass direction. When doing a quick reference, it is easy to double tap and have it expand large, then double tap back to normal. While it used to expand and have different levels controllable in settings, on my Ultra 2 it originally did fine, but in the last week, any level selected in settings brings it up minimal size increase, none of which is large enough to matter.
 
Victor Mortimer said:
Fixed that for you. Late releases DO NOT hurt users. BUGGY RELEASES hurt users. Late releases hurt profits.

So it's "ship it anyway, screw the users" pretty much everywhere. Gotta get that Snoopy watch face out!
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Apple isn't a charity. It's all about making profit. That's no secret...
 
So, the cartoon is about election software, but it acknowledges a VERY important point about software engineers: They're bad at what they do:

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It's time for software engineering to grow the F up. You want to call yourself an engineer, act like one. Yes, that means new features will be slower to come out. But at this point, with everything connected and every operating system full of bugs and security holes, it's time to stop acting like it's still the '80s and stop shipping broken software.
 
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I definitely have noticed flickering in the stopwatch app on my Series 9. Hopefully software update resolves it.
 
I’ve had this with my S9. Mrs Martinicat has not noticed it on hers. It’s not really the watch flickering, but just one part of the screen being refreshed at the wrong brightness. Another terrible thing I noticed is the new watch is not blue. I liked my old blue one better. Very sad trillion dollar company can no longer offer the watch in blue. 🍸😹
 
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How about they investigate the external display flickering issue with the Macbook Pros, or the fact my TV flickers when it's using the Apple TV?
 
Royksöpp said:
Jesus H Christ. What is going on this year? Did they lose all their top software engineers? Overheating iPhones and Screen Retention are huge issues. Now, one of the headline features of the premium Apple watches should be turned off as a workaround? Simply unacceptable for a company of this caliber.
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Huge issues according to who? Tech sites looking for clicks? Have you ever met or known anyone with these issues? I sure haven't, and everyone I know uses nothing but Apple.
 
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Hey Apple, maybe fix that weather complication while you are in there working on these issues.
 
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yes, in addition to the pulsing, the bigger problem here is the (at least on U2) excess dimness even with auto and night mode turned off. Needs a fix asap.
 
MacRumors said:


Apple is investigating an issue where the display brightness briefly flickers or "pulses" on some Apple Watch models when Always On mode is enabled, according to an internal service memo shared with Apple Authorized Service Providers today.

Apple-Watch-Ultra-2-hero-feature-white.jpg

The memo does not indicate which Apple Watch models are affected, but the issue appears to be most prevalent on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 models released last month. There are complaints from customers about this issue across the MacRumors Forums, Reddit, and the Apple Support Community website. The issue appears to be present on all watchOS 10 versions, including the latest watchOS 10.0.2 release.

Apple says service providers should not repair affected watches, and instead advise customers to keep their Apple Watch software up to date, suggesting that Apple will eventually make a fix available in a watchOS update. It's unclear if Apple has addressed the issue in watchOS 10.1, which is expected to be released to the public next week.

As a temporary solution, Apple says customers can turn off Always On mode in the Settings app under Display & Brightness → Always On.

Apple-Watch-Pink-Complications.jpg

Apple is also investigating an issue where complications like Activity rings on a watch face might "temporarily turn pink," according to the memo. This is another issue that has been reported by some customers online in recent weeks.

Article Link: Apple Investigating Display Flickering Issue Affecting Apple Watch Series 9 and Ultra 2
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You'd think one of the biggest most profitable companies in the world would have a world class QA department, but they seem to have the worst and don't care. They see pushing QA testing off to their customers as another way to increase profit margins.

I work in music and Apple OS upgrades I'm looking at typical six to nine months for issues to be worked out before I can consider upgrade. Actually working in music with a lots of time once people get a stable system that runs all the app's they use then stop updating their OS it's not worth the hassle.

Then hardware issues are really painful because usually requires replacing the hardware.
 
Haven't had any flickering or pink issues on my Ultra 2, software wise overall it's been really good. Only annoying bug that happens very rarely even on 10.1 RC is the haptic feedback mostly stop working when scrolling lists with the crown, doesn't effect notifications, alarms, timers or calls etc, just list scrolling. A hard reboot fixes this but may happen again a few days later. Small software bug but an annoying one. Had a similar bug on my Ultra 1 early on at launch but software updates over time fixed that.
 
mxrider88 said:
Let me guess…. It’s a software issue!

What a bunch of morons they have in the software department. I don’t understand why they don’t give a termination letter to the one in charge of software over there. They terminated Forstall over maps. Why can’t they terminate this one over the mess that the whole ecosystem turned out to be???
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you seem disturbed and very poorly informed.
 
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I know these are apparently isolated, but I don't recall THIS many reported bugs, flaws in the new devices...ever, watches, phones...etc. They havent been out a full month yet!
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