Apple Seeds Fifth WatchOS 2 Beta to Developers

[MrGimper]

quick question. Is there any word on a public beta for the watch. I have iOS 9 PB and it would be cool to get the watch beta as well.

Because the roll-back would be to send your watch to Apple to be flashed back to 1.0.1, I find it unlikely there will be a public beta of WatchOS.

 

[HarryT]

I deleted the existing profile. Installed the new profile. Updated my iPhone to the latest beta and then the Watch beta showed up OTA for me. Just a heads up for those that are still trying.

 

[Tamagotchi]

FINALLY... we needed a more stable version (considering we can't downgrade...).

 

[FlyGuyDEN]

Can someone post the new profile please?

 

[2457282]

Because the roll-back would be to send your watch to Apple to be flashed back to 1.0.1, I find it unlikely there will be a public beta of WatchOS.

Okay that makes sense (unfortunately).

Otherwise, I always fall back or roll forward. Just saying

 

[nutmac]

Can someone post the new profile please?

There's no new profile. There never has been.

 

[albebaubles]

dang the dev site is down. Surprises in store?

 

[birnando]

The update worked a charm for me, no update of profile needed.
iOS 9 updated firstly though, to the latest beta

 

[FlyGuyDEN]

I don't see the OTA update and I have the new beta on my devices.

 

[MrGimper]

So, more importantly, has anyone seen anything new on this beta yet?

 

[macgreiner]

Showed up just now

 

[dazcox5181]

50% installed, hopefully this is pretty much done now

 

[Zirel]

Oh, thank ye gods!!!!
The last beta DESTROYED my battery life & I'd get random occasional reboots.

Thank you for your beta testing, so we, stable users, don't need to suffer the bugs...

 

[AppleTLDR]

Installing and confident this will be a much more stable release

 

[CobraPA]

The stories links to a PDF about downgrading the watch, but that link seems to be dead. Can anyone get to it?

 

[Jukens]

Don't send your watch in to be downgraded. Did so with mine and  sent me a used watch replacement with light scratches on it, dirty, and something stuck in corner of glass. Now I'm going through a fiasco for them to correct it.

 

[sss4r]

I've given suggestions to Dexcom for a complication that includes the blood sugar, with the graph (like a sparkline behind the blood sugar reading) and trending.

For me, that would be awesome!

The ability to create complications and onboard apps are the wins of WatchOS2.

I don't get it, Why is it called "complication" instead of "compilation"? I think we can distinguish between a Watch compilation and a Music compilation; not only is "compilation" more precise, "complication" has a negative connotation.

 

[utsava]

I don't get it, Why is it called "complication" instead of "compilation"? I think we can distinguish between a Watch compilation and a Music compilation; not only is "compilation" more precise, "complication" has a negative connotation.

"Complication" is the term used in horology to describe a secondary function on a watch face. It has a long history that Apple is just continuing.

 

[melman101]

I don't get it, Why is it called "complication" instead of "compilation"? I think we can distinguish between a Watch compilation and a Music compilation; not only is "compilation" more precise, "complication" has a negative connotation.

Off-Topic - Because a watch itself has a simple movement. When you start adding features to it, you are starting to make the watch more complicated.

"A complicated watch has one or more functions beyond the basic function of displaying the time and the date; such a functionality is called a complication."

This is a term from the watch industry, and Apple just used it.

 

[Futhark]

So far so good on Beta 5, Swipe up and down work very fluently again, the only thing i had to do was change my watch face from modular to any other one and back to get my Town name to appear above the weather forecast, before i did that it just said Weather

 

[FlyGuyDEN]

No OTA update available yet. Running the latest iOS 9 beta on my 6 Plus.

 

[birnando]

Early days yet, but this is starting to look like something. Feels much more like something that can be used properly. Muy bueno

 

[zaneliu]

How's Siri? And the jellyfish face?

 

[andybno1]

like everyone else still early days but I am loving the snappyness of this beta nice to have a more fluid working watch compared the the previous watch betas

 

[mygoldens]

I do not know, I have the Apple Watch Sport 42MM and it is fine. My apps run, no glitches, lag, etc. I would like to see the next version of the OS, but there is nothing wrong with this one that I can find with how I am using it.

I have had the Gear S, Moto 360 (battery life problems big time), Gear 2, LG Urbane, wow what a miss mash of crapware they are. The Apple Watch works, syncs with the iPhone and it just works.

To me it is a breath of fresh air over the Android ones.