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Apple Releases watchOS 9.5.1 With Bug Fixes

terrapinjess said:
View attachment 2209809For f sake… please make it so that the watch hands stop covering up the complications. The hand should go opaque or something… or just let me shut off the watch hands. I can’t be the only one who like digital time. How stupid is it that I can’t even see how much time is left on my timer in the attached example.
Yes, I reported this to Apple multiple times.
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YEP!!!!!!!This drives me crazy as well. I use the same watch face and at certain times I can see the wind speed or tide levels. It's really annoying and IMO a poor design.
 
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t0rqx said:
Common practise for forced upgrades. Every update slows down the device to a point where a user gets triggered to upgrade. If the upgrade curve does not go as planned, they introduce updates that remove, decrease or distort hardware functionality. (Airpods Max ANC, iPhone camera improvements on last gen iPhones and green tint lcd on devices. Just to bame a few.
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What other things do you believe?
 
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Why do they force us to put the Watch on the charger while updating? My Watch always almost melts... a little more heat and I couldn't touch it. They could simply make a 50 % charge mandatory or something similar. No need to ruin the battery by charging in extreme heat.
 
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t0rqx said:
Common practise for forced upgrades. Every update slows down the device to a point where a user gets triggered to upgrade. If the upgrade curve does not go as planned, they introduce updates that remove, decrease or distort hardware functionality. (Airpods Max ANC, iPhone camera improvements on last gen iPhones and green tint lcd on devices. Just to bame a few.
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thanks for sharing your conspiracy theory ...
 
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terrapinjess said:
View attachment 2209809For f sake… please make it so that the watch hands stop covering up the complications. The hand should go opaque or something… or just let me shut off the watch hands. I can’t be the only one who like digital time. How stupid is it that I can’t even see how much time is left on my timer in the attached example.
Yes, I reported this to Apple multiple times.
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Haha this makes me crazy too, I only use the analog watch face and it drives me nuts!
 
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ss2cire said:
My guess is that this helps to protect the watch from being bricked when updating. I'm thinking 25% would be ok but, again it's probably to make sure the watch doesn't get bricked.
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Honestly, I get the 50% rule because a deteriorated battery might not last long enough if you could start the update with lesser charge than that. And obviously there needs to be enough charge so that the update can complete without the device losing power and potentially getting bricked.

But I feel like they could easily use the battery health info to inform that decision, too. In other words, perhaps require 50% charge; and either, keep it on the charger, or have battery health at or above 80% to be able to install without the charger.
 
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roar08 said:
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Could be worse.

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alexandr said:
It's meant to be life-like! My analog watch does the same thing — both minute and hour hands cover the date window! 😀
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You might be right.

I will say, however, my previous watch, a Rip Curl Tidemaster, placed the tide and height slightly above the 3 and 9 and thinned out the ends of the hands so they wouldn't completely block data. And the moon phase was big enough it was not obstructed. Watch pictured below

FYI that's not my actual watch. That's a pic I got from eBay. But that's exactly what my watches look like except one has a black face and the other a white face.

Honestly, they are great watches and I always got a lot of compliments on them.

Heavy too. Maybe thats why my Ultra feels light in comparison.
 

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If this bring back green backlight tint I will literally spam Apple with calls and emails wanting refund 😛

Yeah, I am probably one of lucky ones which lost Green tint which was on since +- OS 9.2 just after first update of new S8 which lasted up to 9.5 which I updated by mistake…

Edit: All fine on 9.5.1, maybe a bit more grayish but defines neon green is no more there
 
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surfzen21 said:
You might be right.

I will say, however, my previous watch, a Rip Curl Tidemaster, placed the tide and height slightly above the 3 and 9 and thinned out the ends of the hands so they wouldn't completely block data. And the moon phase was big enough it was not obstructed. Watch pictured below

FYI that's not my actual watch. That's a pic I got from eBay. But that's exactly what my watches look like except one has a black face and the other a white face.

Honestly, they are great watches and I always got a lot of compliments on them.

Heavy too. Maybe thats why my Ultra feels light in comparison.
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Of course it's not an excuse, I'm sure they could've found a workaround, but hey, although I've noticed this, I can't say it ever bothered me that much — I mean you can always tap the complication, as opposed to seeing the date (btw I checked and on a GMT II it's just the minute hand that covers the date — hour hand is fine). 🙂 In fact it's about to happen right now!!!
 
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alexandr said:
Of course it's not an excuse, I'm sure they could've found a workaround, but hey, although I've noticed this, I can't say it ever bothered me that much — I mean you can always tap the complication, as opposed to seeing the date (btw I checked and on a GMT II it's just the minute hand that covers the date — hour hand is fine). 🙂 In fact it's about to happen right now!!!
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Good point about just taping it and yeah my complaint can definitely be classified as first world problems 🥲

Would be cool though if they designed that part of the arm to thin out as it passed a complication.

Who knows though, maybe they did and though it looked tacky.
 
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