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A small new thing - or at least haven't noticed before:

Watch Glimpses - the maps glimpse now shows three icons instead of a map. One for home and one for Work address navigation. And a search icon.
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I want my watch to alert me when I leave my phone behind!!! How long is it gonna take???

Or at least an alert when your phone has been out of range for XX minutes...
 

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A small new thing - or at least haven't noticed before:

Watch Glimpses - the maps glimpse now shows three icons instead of a map. One for home and one for Work address navigation. And a search icon.
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Or at least an alert when your phone has been out of range for XX minutes...

Not to be pedantic, but they're Glances, not Glimpses
 
Apparently watchOS 2.2 and iOS 9.3 allow you to pair to multiple watches in the Watch app

And why Apple don't let people sync their Apple Watch with multiple iPhones?

For example a kid wearing an Apple Watch don't want to always wear his iphone to all places, or sometimes the kid could not haven even an iPhone, but use the father or mother iPhone to use his apple watch.

By letting people sync their apple watch with multiple iPhones suddenly Apple is opening the market for more people to buy an Apple Watch. You could limit the info you want to sync with a given iPhone, or let the Apple Watch use only some features like access to network.
 
And why Apple don't let people sync their Apple Watch with multiple iPhones?

For example a kid wearing an Apple Watch don't want to always wear his iphone to all places, or sometimes the kid could not haven even an iPhone, but use the father or mother iPhone to use his apple watch.

By letting people sync their apple watch with multiple iPhones suddenly Apple is opening the market for more people to buy an Apple Watch. You could limit the info you want to sync with a given iPhone, or let the Apple Watch use only some features like access to network.

Except that's not in Apple's best interest. You should buy one watch for each phone. ;-)

The good news is, then you can use whichever watch you want with whichever phone.

I fully expect once the watch is more autonomous (and it's darn close now), that Apple will allow people to pair with iPads, iPods (if they're still around), and Macs, which will also open up the market for new potential sales where there were none before (not everyone has an iPhone -- in fact most don't). Once that happens, then Apple may be open to allowing pairings among multiple devices. I can't see any reason why it wouldn't be possible, since there's not really anything stored on the watch anyway, and all the Apple devices will share the information anyway.

As to your example, it's kind of messy right now. What if dad and mom and Jr., all pair their watches to the same device? All the data would be confused. It seems to me that with Apple's move to offer multiple accounts on the iPad for education, they are planning a solution to eventually address this problem. I certainly wouldn't want to give my kid my iPhone without the ability for him to use his own account and not accidentally screw up anything on mine.

Right now, Apple is addressing the thing that brings them the most money and helps satisfy customer choice. Once they have an elegant solution for dealing with multiple device pairing, then they will implement that.
 
Cool too is that each watch face is represented correctly with its currently layout.

I hadn't noticed that!

Is that how it works in practice?

Will each watch be a separate entity with its own faces and so on?
 
but the space grey band is black surely? that's a confusing name scheme you have.
You do have a point, I may have to rethink this
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I hadn't noticed that!

Is that how it works in practice?

Will each watch be a separate entity with its own faces and so on?
So far it only shows the digital watch faces. The time doesn't update, always 10:09. The complications are what they were when the watch is re-paired.
 
Is this working flawless with your activity rings? They go further where the other watch stopped?
I haven't checked that yet. Will be interesting to watch it and see.

Update: Yes they all stay synced
 
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You do have a point, I may have to rethink this
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So far it only shows the digital watch faces. The time doesn't update, always 10:09. The complications are what they were when the watch is re-paired.

oh ok so it's a one time thing upon pairing to make the image? do all three watches operate as if they are the same then? for example if i switch to a simple face from modular, and then take off my watch and have a shower (to give the poor thing chance to sync and stuff) then put a different one on - is it going to be on simple or on modular?
 
oh ok so it's a one time thing upon pairing to make the image? do all three watches operate as if they are the same then? for example if i switch to a simple face from modular, and then take off my watch and have a shower (to give the poor thing chance to sync and stuff) then put a different one on - is it going to be on simple or on modular?
So far all I have seen is modular. Ill update if that changes
 
oh no i don't mean on that screen. i mean on the watches themselves. does what i do on one sync to the others
Oh no the watches stay with whatever they are set with so you can keep them all different.
 
How is the stability? I want to update but I don't want to go thru the watchOS 2 fiasco. Anyone can tell me how it runs? Like Siri, battery, etc. Thanks in advance!
 
How is the stability? I want to update but I don't want to go thru the watchOS 2 fiasco. Anyone can tell me how it runs? Like Siri, battery, etc. Thanks in advance!
I have had a couple of random reboots. Siri seems fine. Battery life is the same as 2.1 All on 3 different watches.
 
I have had a couple of random reboots. Siri seems fine. Battery life is the same as 2.1 All on 3 different watches.

Here's a question ... how does it handle pairing an Watch that belongs to someone else? Will it pair your wife's watch for instance, and if so, what happens to all of her contact information and fitness data sync? Seems like it would get all jumbled ...
 
Here's a question ... how does it handle pairing an Watch that belongs to someone else? Will it pair your wife's watch for instance, and if so, what happens to all of her contact information and fitness data sync? Seems like it would get all jumbled ...
The watch still needs to be un paired before it can be paired to another phone. Multiple watches can be paired to one iPhone but not the reverse.
 
Its always riskier with the watch because you can't go back and we are talking Beta 1 here. That said I did it with all 3 of my watches and have only had little annoyances. All I can say is I don't regret taking the chance.
 
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