Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of watchOS 9 to Developers

[drak22]

I realize it's pretty quick turnaround regarding an opinion on this latest beta, but besides what initially scared the heck out of me being fixed, I'm seeing a bunch of improvements. Generally speaking, battery life is poor to abysmal during the Watch betas, and I've been getting excellent battery life. Charged up to 100% yesterday around 4pm, wore it to bed and woke up with 57% battery this morning. I set it on the charger just now to top it off and roughly 10-15 min later I'm back to 100%. I've also had issues with my S7 Watch not remembering my wireless SSID here at home, and if it does, it keeps that 'Private' setting enabled which then triggers my Xfinity app to let me know a 'NEW' devices has connected.. I wish they'd just give us an option to turn that off all together. But, anyway, it's remembering my SSID and that I had Private turned off..

I came to say this, the battery life in this beta version is dramatic, at least in my series 7. Tonight, in 7 hours it has spent 26%. Also if I put it to charge, it seems to me that it charges faster than it should. I think that's why it didn't come out at the same time as the rest of the betas, maybe there are problems in the charging system, because for example, I don't have apps on the watch that can drain the battery. also, yesterday I turned it off with 100% and connected to the charger off and when it started, it had 91%, something is wrong.
It seems to me a serious error, I would not be surprised if they launch something this week to mitigate it. I have already sent the feed, to see if they solve it quickly, because two weeks with the clock like this, it will be the death of the battery, I will do more cycles than in the previous 6 months. I have also restored it twice, I don't know if continuing to restore the clock will help me in any way.

 

[drak22]

I'm noticing that sleep stages data is not being reported on this beta; it worked on pervious betas. I have 2 Apple Watches (S4 and S6) and neither one reports sleep stages. Anyone else experiencing this?

Neither do I, I manually activate sleep mode, and if I activate it from the watch, it doesn't save my sleep phases or anything. however, if I activate it from the iphone, it does. This beta 4 is a major disaster, I don't know how Apple came up with the idea of launching it, especially if we don't have the option to go back to the previous beta.

 

[chickeneaster]

I downloaded the most recent public beta of WatchOS and the battery seem as good as the WatchOS 8. I have Apple Watch Series 6

 

[chickeneaster]

I don´t care to test a Beta in my Iphone, as I can revert easily. But I have never tried in my Apple Watch.

The first time I tried a beta on my watch was for WatchOS 7 but I waited until the beta that released in late July (because I knew it was harder to revert back on the Watch) and right now is the second time I'm trying a beta for the Watch

 

[0134168]

Everything went nice?

 

[Fordski]

Neither do I, I manually activate sleep mode, and if I activate it from the watch, it doesn't save my sleep phases or anything. however, if I activate it from the iphone, it does. This beta 4 is a major disaster, I don't know how Apple came up with the idea of launching it, especially if we don't have the option to go back to the previous beta.

I did little digging and checked the data sources for my sleep data and it appears that my phone is not picking up any sleep data from either of my watches. I didn't notice it as the health app is using the data generated by the Autosleep app to report my sleep. I turned off Autosleep as a source and the Apple Sleep app shows no sleep data since installing beta 4. I tried repairing one of my watches but it didn't make a difference last night. I want Beta 5 soon!