I completely agree!
I work around it by temporarily tethering my iPhone to my cellular iPad, so it thinks I’m on WiFi. 😂
But there is really no good reason to have to do that.
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Apple Releases watchOS 6.1.3 Update With Heart Rhythm Notification Bug Fix
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I completely agree!
I work around it by temporarily tethering my iPhone to my cellular iPad, so it thinks I’m on WiFi. 😂
But there is really no good reason to have to do that.
watchOS 5.3.5
This update includes improvements and bug fixes, including a fix for an issue that prevented the irregular heart rhythm notification from working as expected for Apple Watch owners in Iceland.
This update includes improvements and bug fixes, including a fix for an issue that prevented the irregular heart rhythm notification from working as expected for Apple Watch owners in Iceland.
ummm, where did you get that? I responded that you can opt out of automatic updates on both Apple Watch and iPhone. quotes from the posts: " I wish we could opt out" and "You cannot even opt out when updating your phone". So yah, you can opt out, pretty easily.
Update using only your mobile data? I have never even tried, so while I would assume so, I have no idea. I don't have unlimited on my mobile, so I use wifi for all updates.
oops, my bad. Now I see what you said. Never mind!
Calm down, he wants to 'opt out' of using wifi for updates and use cellular only.
Never mind?? Perhaps an apology for you saying "Do you really know what you are talking about?" is in order?
Still no ECG in MX? I live in TJ and have a S4 SS, I have to cross to San Diego to activate that feature last year, I thought that on S5 will activate in MX
Most likely this isn't an Apple holdup but a clearance issue for countries without it... Apple had to get FDA clearance before releasing the feature. The equivalent in Mexico might be what's causing the delay.
What the Apple Watch’s FDA clearance actually means
The FDA-cleared features aren’t supposed to be used by those under 22
www.theverge.com
Are you seeing active energy / steps /etc sync delays (more then a few mins) between the watch and the phone? Does it get worse towards the end of the day and/or are you seeing multiple healthd CPU overuse logs under Settings/Privacy/Analytics loosely correlated with it?
oops, I was a complete jerk to you for no reason. Never mind!
Or, you know, you can go to Settings -> General -> Software Update directly on the Apple Watch.
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- Because the watch face is displayed all the time and if not written perfectly could drain the battery extremely fast.
- Because opening a Watch Face Store would lead to a morass of copyright violation watch faces, people copying the IP of other watch makers as well as well as, well, everything else (figures from pop culture, superheroes, sports teams, etc.). They'd probably have to reject 90% of the submissions, but they'd still have to spent time examining all those submissions before rejecting them.
- Because the Apple Watch designers (wonder who that is now that Jony Ive is gone) fancy themselves to be the best watch face designers and feel they give you everything you could possibly need. (Basically, they think they know better.)
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Apple needs to provide detailed information regarding this immediately. Is it regulatory compliance or an error in the apps algorithms?
Good point. My battery life is the best it's ever been, even with all those features enabled.
Does Iceland get ECG on the S4/S5 watch? Here in New Zealand we're a bit behind on things too although not that bad! Only last month did the Apple watch get cellular support from one of NZ's carriers. No ECG. Can't buy HomePod here even though it is available in Australia with the same plug and voltage.
never underestimate the “Army of me”
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this isn’t about complying with regulatory restrictions this is about removing something broken
aka “...addressing an issue that could prevent the irregular heart rhythm notification feature from working properly for Apple Watch owners in Iceland.” What you stated doesn’t not apply in this aspect.
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We did get ECG together with other European countries. No LTE watches though. The Homepods for sale here are from the US but without Apple Music enabled, most of it is useless.
And yet it will happily let you download updates on an iPad over cellular if the cellular you use is a tethered iPhone which will chew through your data plan just as quickly... I know the iPad sees tethered as WiFi but it obviously knows that it isn't "proper" WiFi as you get the different symbol in the top bar.
I can understand not automatically downloading updates over cellular, but allowing a manually initiated download - even with a "this will use lots of data" warning and confirmation - would be really useful at times.
The well known bug that impacts on Apple watches paired with iPhone SE (see threads about this) is still present. A real shame. It’s 5 months now. In the absolute Apple’s silence. Face this scenario: this morning I was listening to some music with AirPods (1 gen). I’ve received an iMessage. I wanted to Answer with Apple Watch and dictation (as I used to do successfully prior ti watchos 6). Now: music stops. My Apple Watch goes to black screen and “Siri wave form screen”, I dictate the message but nothing happens. I try more and more,nothing! So I go back to watch faces: music doesn’t resume, AirPods are disconnected. This happens since September 19th. I can’t use Siri on Apple Watch, I can’t listen to music and use Siri, if I do it AirPods disconnect. A mess. 5 months!!
I think it may come to this year's watch OS 7. Just not exactly as you may expect. Meaning you won't be able to slap some Swiss watch faces on it. But you may be able to customize the existing one by adding images of your choice on the background or creating new ones in a specific way that Apple may allow (example: the same way you personalize memoji from the scratch). This is just what I think may happen.
I may be a bit off base, maybe wrong, but I think this whole wifi requirement started to limit the traffic for the cellular networks, not to protect the customer with unlimited data. Imagine everyone updating their iPhones on the same day. It would really congest network traffic.
Wifi sync still works in macOS Catalina, it's just in the Finder now.I understand about data usage but for me its the app updates themselves... Not the core iOS/Watch updates. Despite most I still miss iTunes, I would perform all app updates and then when significant or time to backup did over my Mac so wouldn't impact data usage. As a family of 7 having to plug in your device synch an update your apps. Now have to perform step-step across multiple devices... sighs