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Apple Releases watchOS 3 With App Dock, Instant Launching, New Watch Faces, Breathe, and More

Updating my 6+ and then I'm getting an uber over to Florida mall and visit the Apple Store. Watch will have to wait until tonight. I have waited so long for this!
 
Cogsworth said:
I've been running iOS 10 since the first public beta and now the GM on my iPhone 6 Plus and it's just fine. No slowdown at all. Why would you give up the benefits of iOS 10 and WatchOS 3 just because of a rumor you heard? I'm sorry but that's just silly.
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jtropeano said:
Has anyone got the watchOS3 update while staying on the Beta profile?
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I just went iOS 10 and OS Sierra beta for the GM, currently downloading Watch OS 3, did not reboot either device or remove beta profile.

Download complete, "preparing" stage now.
 
I like this update. I hardly ever used that side button for contacts. This app drawer concept makes a lot more sense. It seems to work well, but some existing third party apps need to be updated to support it, I think?

WARNING: If you work a lot with your Apple Watch on, especially if you wear gloves, turn off the 911 S.O.S. feature, or at least set it to swipe to confirm you want to call. I changed mine right away because I was worried about accidentally setting it off (especially since I have a toddler), and when I was framing a wall the other night wearing my leather work gloves, it set off the S.O.S. 6-7 times from accidental "holding" of the side button. Like I said, I was lucky I had turned on the "swipe to confirm" functionality or the police would have made an unpleasant visit.
 
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The update for my Watch is displayed. Will update once the servers are not congested.
 
Going great so far, 6 minutes left of the original 45. No stops, no slow downs.
 
Ok, removing watchOS beta profile and rebooting watch finally made update showing. On crappy hotel wifi now update says "About 3 days remaining". :p Checking out tomorrow so maybe it could be updated by the morning
 
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macduke said:
WARNING: If you work a lot with your Apple Watch on, especially if you wear gloves, turn off the 911 S.O.S. feature, or at least set it to swipe to confirm you want to call. I changed mine right away because I was worried about accidentally setting it off (especially since I have a toddler), and when I was framing a wall the other night wearing my leather work gloves, it set off the S.O.S. 6-7 times from accidental "holding" of the side button. Like I said, I was lucky I had turned on the "swipe to confirm" functionality or the police would have made an unpleasant visit.
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Good point. When I saw the watchOS 3 intro, my first thought was that emergency responders around the country (and maybe world) are gonna be ticked off when they start getting all of these accidental calls from watches! How do I turn this off? Isn't holding the side button how you turn the watch off? I can even see people trying to ApplePay accidentally calling 911!

EDIT: Just found how to turn it off!

http://www.applewatchgeek.com/disable-emergency-services-sos-apple-watch/
 
Well crap...my watch is acting funky now. After all the reboots and removing the beta profiles and it still not appearing...now my watch says "connected" but anything I do on the watch app says not connected......

Update: it's working again...but even with profile removed on both devices it says 2.2 is current (this is on 10.0.1 GM)
 
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BruiserB said:
Good point. When I saw the watchOS 3 intro, my first thought was that emergency responders around the country (and maybe world) are gonna be ticked off when they start getting all of these accidental calls from watches! How do I turn this off? Isn't holding the side button how you turn the watch off? I can even see people trying to ApplePay accidentally calling 911!
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macduke said:
I like this update. I hardly ever used that side button for contacts. This app drawer concept makes a lot more sense. It seems to work well, but some existing third party apps need to be updated to support it, I think?

WARNING: If you work a lot with your Apple Watch on, especially if you wear gloves, turn off the 911 S.O.S. feature, or at least set it to swipe to confirm you want to call. I changed mine right away because I was worried about accidentally setting it off (especially since I have a toddler), and when I was framing a wall the other night wearing my leather work gloves, it set off the S.O.S. 6-7 times from accidental "holding" of the side button. Like I said, I was lucky I had turned on the "swipe to confirm" functionality or the police would have made an unpleasant visit.
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This is a big concern for me as well since law enforcement is required to show up at any 911 call.. you can't really call it off because there could be a hostage situation trying to contact police. That's one feature I really don't want or need.
 
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The waiting is the hardest part. (Sounds like lyrics to a song) :)

Looks like for me it is going to take every bit of the 2 hours to complete this update when I started.
 
Four oF NINE said:
This is a big concern for me as well since law enforcement is required to show up at any 911 call.. you can't really call it off because there could be a hostage situation trying to contact police. That's one feature I really don't want or need.
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And how many people are going to set up this "swipe to confirm" thing? I'm glad you guys told me about it, I know I'd end up calling by accident.
 
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Is anyone still not seeing the update? Because I don't seem to have it yet. I'm running iOS 10 GM, which in theory should be the same as the release, right?
 
There is something not clear to me in advertising the 911 features: does this mean that the 911 call is placed on cellular network? From my understanding you would need at least a WiFi connection or a working iPhone close-by, right? Can anyone confirm, please?

Just wondering since Apple pushes the (very welcome) 911-feature everywhere so much ...
 
Dana W said:
And how many people are going to set up this "swipe to confirm" thing? I'm glad you guys told me about it, I know I'd end up calling by accident.
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Really seems like the default should be "Swipe to Confirm" with the ability to simplify it for an elderly relative or someone who may have trouble with the two step process.
 
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Is anyone still not seeing the update? Because I don't seem to have it yet. I'm running iOS 10 GM, which in theory should be the same as the release, right?
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I'm not seeing it on 10 GM as well...removed the beta profile on the watch and on the phone and rebooted and still nothing.
 
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