Apple Releases WatchOS 2 With Native App Support, New Watch Faces, Nightstand Mode, and More

[muadibe]

According to the documentation, you can make wi-fi calls WITHOUT your iPhone in proximity as long as it's a known network. Sweet!! I like this. Will be testing it as soon as I can. This is only on networks that support wi-fi calling, like T-Mobile.

 

[ru7hl355]

160mb Broadband, 3hours........ wtf?!

 

[heritagehog]

Are you running 9.0 or 9.1 on your iPhone? I deleted the beta profile on my watch but still no luck--I'm running 9.1 on my 6+.

UPDATE: Rebooted my watch and the update was found. Downloading now.

That worked for me also thanks Downloading now

 

[spytech]

Ninja launch! 37 minutes remaining...

 

[PotatoLeekSoup]

Two hour download for me at my office. Stopped by home w/ 60 megabit download, and it said 1 hour, so the bottleneck looks to be on Apple's end. 5XXmb download size.

 

[citysnaps]

Good god there's people on Twitter complaining because the Watch needs to be on its charger in order to update. Seriously you can't wait until you get home to update? Sheesh.

Ha! And I bet a large number of them don't even own the Watch.

 

[chrishawes]

Not showing for me. I'm running ios9.1 Public Beta and am in the UK.

 

[jayiw]

160mb Broadband, 3hours........ wtf?!

"About an Hour" here and I have a 100mb connection. I'd venture to say they do not have nearly as many servers dedicated to this update as they do for iphone/ipad updates.
Jay

 

[AlphaGuitarist]

I'm on 9.1 public beta, downloading the update (555 mb) over my work WiFi right now. 59 minutes left.

 

[kouaich]

Will the update be available for 9.1 beta user?

 

[spytech]

515MB here, looks like everyone's either having 515mb or 12,4mb

 

[Polaroid]

Mine updated without charge ?

 

[jaymc]

Is "verifying" the last step?

 

[GadgetBen]

How come that I was able to download in 20 minutes on my crap 4MB connection? Whats the deal there when people running much high download speeds are getting 1 hour+ timescales?

 

[deany]

According to the documentation, you can make wi-fi calls WITHOUT your iPhone in proximity as long as it's a known network. Sweet!! I like this. Will be testing it as soon as I can. This is only on networks that support wi-fi calling, like T-Mobile.

but thats been available since first day of release on a 'roaming' network ? (I use Time Capsule and an airport express with cat 6)

cheers

 

[spytech]

How come that I was able to download in 20 minutes on my crap 4MB connection? Whats the deal there when people running much high download speeds are getting 1 hour+ timescales?

Folks being late to the party on a ninja launch... probably represents 99% of the population Wish I was camping, lol.

 

[duaneu]

Just got a watch for my birthday yesterday. I hadn't even learned the old OS yet.

 

[kouaich]

I'm on 9.1 public beta, downloading the update (555 mb) over my work WiFi right now. 59 minutes left.

My watch app still say up to date watchos 1.0.1. What did you do to get the update?

 

[spytech]

Just got a watch for my birthday yesterday. I hadn't even learned the old OS yet.

No need for that now

 

[Shpyda]

I was showing that the watch was up to date. I had to go into the watch app, General, profiles and delete the iOS 9 beta profile after which I restarted the watch and phone. Update 2.0 is now underway!!!

So how does one go about removing the beta/GM profile from Apple Watch?

 

[muadibe]

but thats been available since first day of release on a 'roaming' network ? (I use Time Capsule and an airport express with cat 6)

cheers

I think you are mistaken. Wi-Fi calling has not been available on the Apple Watch before this update.

 

[bob2k2]

My watch app still say up to date watchos 1.0.1. What did you do to get the update?

As a previous poster indicated Go into the iPhone watch app to General/Profiles and delete the iOS 9 beta profile and then restart both the watch and phone. Update 2.0 will start after the Phone and Watch are paired. You will have to enter the Watch password to start - I do not have the Watch Os Beta and the d/l is 512Mb and is creeping along at 2 hours.

 

[Gazmanrants]

I'm in the UK 9.1 Public beta and showing my watchOS 1.0.1 - your software is up to date. I've restarted my phone numerous times and been trying for an hour. Was wondering if the 9.1 beta was the issue but appears people have been successful elsewhere. I'm so tempted to try and install iOS 9 if this doesn't resolve soon. Any suggestions greatly welcomed

 

[mattburley7]

are twitter and instagram native apps with watchOS2 or does an update need to be pushed out for those? i know they where updated last week but no mention of being native. also facebook messenger app that was mentioned at the keynote? did this delay prevent native apps from being released? and will start to see a bunch of them pushed out today?

 

[xlost6]

Just got a watch for my birthday yesterday. I hadn't even learned the old OS yet.

Don't worry. You weren't missing anything at all.