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Apple Releases watchOS 4 With New Watch Faces, Siri Improvements, Gym Equipment Integration, and More

On GM - AW Series 2 - I got even better battery life than before.

I had a day with Siri Face on - when I had 82% after 10 hours of wearing the watch.
Pretty cool!
 
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The reason why its so slow isn't your ISP/WAN speed, its the speed from your wireless access point / router to the Watch itself. It doesn't feature all that great WiFi antennas and throughput.
 
kissmo said:
So you have GM and an update was shown for Apple Watch?
I also have GM and I see no updates at all.

please confirm.

Thanks!
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Yeah, I tried clicking the update multiple times, and it stayed on the 3.2.3 or whatever it was at before, but killing the process did it for me. Others have suggested rebooting both devices, but mine showed up after killing and relaunching the app.

And to clarify I was on the public beta release track, currently the GM version of IOS 11.
 
RamGuy said:
The reason why its so slow isn't your ISP/WAN speed, its the speed from your wireless access point / router to the Watch itself. It doesn't feature all that great WiFi antennas and throughput.
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it's the slow bluetooth transfer of the update from your phone to your watch
 
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ericg301 said:
it's the slow bluetooth transfer of the update from your phone to your watch
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The update doesn't cache on your phone before going to your watch. I have updated watchOS several times by starting it and moving out of range of my watch and the update still manages to download.
 
The only 2 reasons that would make me buy Apple Watch:

- cellular
- arrhythmia detection

None of these is available yet in Europe and apparently you need to pay monthly fee to get cellular in the watch. Who cares if the Watch apps load 0.1 second faster?
 
I have a series 0 Apple watch. Any chance the new models do the OS update faster? Getting a series 3 Friday. Would be nice if future watch OS updates don't take half a day.
 
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apb87 said:
Yeah, I tried clicking the update multiple times, and it stayed on the 3.2.3 or whatever it was at before, but killing the process did it for me. Others have suggested rebooting both devices, but mine showed up after killing and relaunching the app.

And to clarify I was on the public beta release track, currently the GM version of IOS 11.
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Did you remove the beta profile on your phone?
 
The addition of a flashlight will actually be useful for me - mainly for those times I'm checking the mailbox at night. Right now, if I'm trying to look in our mailbox after dark, I click on the calendar app since that is the brightest option.
 
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