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Apple Releases watchOS 10.2 With Health Data Support for Siri, Swipe to Change Watch Face Option and More
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Can confirm, the compass app is still as laggy as before. Not that anyone asked or apparently cares, including apple.
True, I wonder if they actually test these updates properly, before releasing them. No matter the bug, so happy it is back, even though it took me awhile to find the setting ...
Yeah really annoying. Thought my watch wasn’t updating properly til I realised this
It wasn’t like this before. It basically seamlessly let you switch without any strange watch hand movements.
It has nothing to do with this clock historic fact that most people know.
It is a problem with watchOS 10.2. They first removed the watch face swipe that worked perfectly fine and smooth.
Now 10.2 reintroduces the feature (yay!), but with a very disrupting and jerky animation every time you swipe (only AFTER the swipe is complete).
From a developer’s perspective, it looks like they changed the whole watch initialization code with os 10, whereas in previous versions they kept the other faces ready in the background. Maybe they needed to free up resources and only have one watchface at a time in memory. Therefore the development team had to remove the swipe between wachtes, because they couldn’t provide the smooth transition anymore that we had in watchOS 9.
Now too many people complained, so we have the option to swipe again for those long term owners who are used to it (like me). But Apple is not really proud of the disrupting animation so they hid the option far away in settings 😄
It would be worrying indeed if you didn’t have great battery life on the newest AW with the largest battery of them all.
I would love to be able to tell Siri on iPad that I have taken my 10 PM medicines and have her log it for me. Hopefully that will come soon.
I'm sort of in the same boat, i have a few watch faces set up but mainly use two...one for work and one for out of work and they switch automatically based on a shortcut automation i've got set up. The other ones i dont use very often so doing it the newer way is no big deal for me. However i did used to end up on random faces where it swiped when i caught it without me realising so the new way works fine for me.
I guess you didn't read or understand, watchOS 10 introduced that you had to confirm ending a workout, 10.2 makes it optional again, a feature reversal, just like swiping to change watch faces
Yes, this was in the beta too. I reported it. Please also report it and hopefully it will get some visibility.
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This is brilliant! Who would have thought this would add so much functionality to Apple Watch. I love this feature. They should have done this years ago.
Yeah, took me a bit looking for it on my iPhone watch app. Very annoying.
So glad to have this feature back.
I sent a message to support!Yes, this was in the beta too. I reported it. Please also report it and hopefully it will get some visibility.
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This feature is limited by language at the present time - go to Siri settings and change the language to English (US), English (Canada) didn't work for me for instance. You probably have already made the correct changes to your settings, but just on the off chance that you haven't, one needs to allow Siri to access health data before using the feature. On iPhone, go to Settings > Health > Data Access & Devices > Siri, and toggle on “Access Health Data.” On Apple Watch, open Settings > Health > Apps and Services > Siri, and toggle on “Allow Siri Access to Health Data.”
Then wait 10-15 minutes after you change your settings - I think it needs a bit of time to populate. Initially I had the I thought it didn't work, but after checking my settings and waiting a while it did. It displays the data, but doesn't read it out loud. Hoping they change that, since we're using voice to access it. Hope that helps.
Well aware of that, I also posted that in this thread stating that if Macrumours had bothered to read the information on the link they posted they would see that it was limited to only American English and Chinese.
Changing the language is *not* a suitable solution.
Thank you very much. Spent far too long looking and had given up haha
I believe the 10:09 watch face bug (when you swipe) started with 10.2 beta 2 or beta 3. Can't remember. I noticed it right away. It was NOT present before at all at any time since it was introduced forever ago. Once they removed the swipe feature, enough people complained, so they slowly brought it back and clearly there is a coding bug. I see it with every single face I have. A quick 10:09 on the watch dials/digital numbers, then it glitches back to the regular time as it should... Hope they can knock out a fix with 10.2.1 so we don't have to wait for 10.3 or later...
Yeah I think I meant to reply to a different comment with that, sorry
