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

Updated both my Phone and Watch today to iOS10 and Watch OS3 and wanted to see if anyone else has been experiencing faster than usual battery drain on the watch? I was navigating around the watch for about a minute or so and i dropped 3% in power in just the minute or two i was looking at it. Will be giving it a full charge to see how it does throughout the day. Anyhow just noticed this since I started looking at the watch and navigating around. This was observed on a 42mm watch in case any one else was wondering..

Would like to ask any users, or fellow developers, that is using WatchOS3 to note your usage & battery consumption throughout the day to see if you notice it draining faster than what i was use to seeing.
 
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I'm having a bit of a problem with my Watch and iPhone pairing, I had the public beta (iOS 10) and installed the GM last week. Last night I started the update on my watch and this morning my iPhone went through the verification process (didn't update that) requesting all WiFi, iCloud and emails password and then I noticed that now I can't connect watch and phone. The Bluetooth on my iPhone is doing an endless search without finding my watch! :(
Anyone with the same problem?
 
caipirina08 said:
Finally done, delayed my morning gym visit by 2h!

But to my surprise, the first thing I see is this (and the watch is connected to the original cable it came with!)

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I doubt it can sense that the original cable sits in a 3rd party wooden cradle ...
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[doublepost=1473849576][/doublepost]I got the same thing!! Unplugging the USB cable from power source and reconnecting seemed to solve the issue.
 
nsayer said:
The auto-unlock feature was the one thing I waited most fervently for with the combined iOS, watchOS and Sierra updates.

It doesn't work at all. Not even a little.

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you need to adjust a setting in iCloud to allow the mac to wake p with the watch!
 
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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Can you turn the feature complete off? I can only find it to swipe to confirm the call.
 
jef82 said:
Can you turn the feature complete off? I can only find it to swipe to confirm the call.
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I guess not. I'm not seeing it either now that your comment reminded me to go check. Hopefully someone finds a work-around or Apple issues an update. I have no need for this feature, but I know my two year old will somehow find a way to activate it.
 
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PaulRustad007 said:
you need to adjust a setting in iCloud to allow the mac to wake p with the watch!
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Duh. If you don't do that then it doesn't even make the attempt as shown in the video.

I was born on a Saturday, but not last Saturday.

And, actually, that setting is in the Security preferences.

You need to do that, turn on 2FA for iCloud and make sure everything is signed into the same Apple ID and on the same WiFi network.

And even if you do all of that it still doesn't ****ing work.
 
Macisperfect said:
This might seem really silly but be sure to have deleted any beta profiles from inside your watch.

Mine wasn't and I deleted the watch profile... managed to update and BOOM!
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I've had a look on the watch app and I can't see any Beta profile. Unless I'm looking in the wrong place?
 
If you unpair, and then repair, you won't lose anything as the iPhone creates a backup in the process. When you repair, you'll be offered the option to restore from the backup.
 
testcard said:
If you unpair, and then repair, you won't lose anything as the iPhone creates a backup in the process. When you repair, you'll be offered the option to restore from the backup.
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Unpair/repair worked!! Thanks for all the help/suggestions guys. Now just to wait 5 hours for the update to download ha!
 
nsayer said:
Duh. If you don't do that then it doesn't even make the attempt as shown in the video.

I was born on a Saturday, but not last Saturday.

And, actually, that setting is in the Security preferences.

You need to do that, turn on 2FA for iCloud and make sure everything is signed into the same Apple ID and on the same WiFi network.

And even if you do all of that it still doesn't ****ing work.
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Sorry dude. Just trying to help.
 
I'm using an iPhone 6 running iOS10.0.1 and watchOS3.0. I'm missing some settings in the Watch App. There is no Breathe settings, no Workout View to change metrics nor Running Auto Pause in settings. Anyone else has this problem?
 
TommyBoyAZ said:
Updated both my Phone and Watch today to iOS10 and Watch OS3 and wanted to see if anyone else has been experiencing faster than usual battery drain on the watch? I was navigating around the watch for about a minute or so and i dropped 3% in power in just the minute or two i was looking at it. Will be giving it a full charge to see how it does throughout the day. Anyhow just noticed this since I started looking at the watch and navigating around. This was observed on a 42mm watch in case any one else was wondering..

Would like to ask any users, or fellow developers, that is using WatchOS3 to note your usage & battery consumption throughout the day to see if you notice it draining faster than what i was use to seeing.
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Posting and update -
Not seeing any significant drains on battery.. Going to have to strike up my previous experience/comment to me possibly loosing track of time when playing around with all the new watch stuff :). Ended up giving it a full charge and at the end of the day i was down to 50% and that was with moderate use. So Far So Good.
 
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