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Apple Seeds Seventh Beta of watchOS 7 to Developers
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The sleep mode and sleep tracking might be useful to me, since I am a light sleeper. (I currently do appreciate my Watch as a tracker for exercise.) Maybe, if I woke up, it could turn on shutdown music or some such if I woke up, ...
But the hand-washing feature seems dumb as rocks to me: when I wash my hands, I take off my watch and slip it into my left pocket, wet, soap, wash, etc., then *dry* my hands and wrists before putting the watch back on. I want that space between my wrist and my watch to generally be dry. Yes/No, that doesn't work in Dallas while on a walking workout outdoors, but that's temporary. As soon as I can, ... I clean and dry. This isn't rocket science, nor is is Houston.
Plus, as many others have discussed elsewhere, I have concerns about how/when to charge the watch, if I am wearing it when I sleep. It's pretty much on my body from wake till sleep, with exceptions for washing/showering/etc. When to charge?
I am sure I could swim with it if I wanted to, but then I would have to clean and dry it and myslef to continue my day.
I keep unpairing/repairing with each beta build
Same here. Amazing how Apple conveniently ignored this major issue for almost the entire beta cycle. Why allow Apple Watch 3 users to download & install beta profile if you knew they will never be able to download & test the beta software!
Let down by Apple 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼!!
why would Apple so that when some features need to be tweaked? Bah.
any findings on this beta that needs to be fixed by Apple, anyone?
Oh BIGG question.
Does removing an Apple Watch still removes it’s recorded Health Kit data from the iPhone? Moreover does unpairing and repairing list the “Watch” as a duplicate source in HealthKit data?! This is a major bug or oversight by Apple and needs to be fixed.
since we cannot NAME our watches like iPhones seeing “Watch” listed several times is VERY confusing.
Does removing an Apple Watch still removes it’s recorded Health Kit data from the iPhone? Moreover does unpairing and repairing list the “Watch” as a duplicate source in HealthKit data?! This is a major bug or oversight by Apple and needs to be fixed.
since we cannot NAME our watches like iPhones seeing “Watch” listed several times is VERY confusing.
Watches can be named in exactly the same way as phones and iPads.
Watch App -> General -> About -> Name will change the name for the currently selected watch.
As DaveMcM76 said, you can rename your Watch to differentiate it in Sources. But what you describe is still an annoying oversight. I've had 3 different Apple Watches (Series 0, 2, and 4), and I have 14 Watch Sources listed in Health, along with 7 iPhone Sources (representing 3 different iPhones). It would be very nice if they would combine Sources based on device ID.
WatchOs 7 dev beta 7 available storage 3.3GB ....
The watch have 8gb ....after watchos 7 storage show 4.2Gb and available 3.3Gb
The watch have 8gb ....after watchos 7 storage show 4.2Gb and available 3.3Gb
I do not have this problem, my AW3 has seamlessly updated from the previous beta to the next, no issues whatsoever with this.
Everyone seems to be assuming that the watchOS GM will be released before or on the day they announce new Apple Watches. Apple does have to have watchOS 7 on the new Apple Watches when they package them up and ship 'em out, sure.. They very well could have done that already or are in the process of doing so now. But they can release an update to watchOS 7 at any time to address any number of issues. I for one have had TERRIBLE battery life on watchOS 7 b7 (dropped from 100% at 7am CST down to 59% at 10:48am CST, or 40% in just under 4 hours). I would assume I'd have better battery life than I am now, or at least be on par to what I've had the last 3-4 betas.. if it was a GM release candidate.
It's pretty clear that the whole remote WWDC worked well, better for more people than normal, even. I'd assume they could do something equally great for a new product announcement, too. And it doesn't seem very "Apple" to me that they'd just put new watches up on their site for order without going into their normal detail about what's new to hype them up. They might keep the watches in hiding until the new iPhone announcement day and then say that the "new Apple Watches are available to order today" or something like that, and then say whatever their staggered release for the iPhone will be. Which, IMO, still puts a watchOS 7 GM into week #38.
It's pretty clear that the whole remote WWDC worked well, better for more people than normal, even. I'd assume they could do something equally great for a new product announcement, too. And it doesn't seem very "Apple" to me that they'd just put new watches up on their site for order without going into their normal detail about what's new to hype them up. They might keep the watches in hiding until the new iPhone announcement day and then say that the "new Apple Watches are available to order today" or something like that, and then say whatever their staggered release for the iPhone will be. Which, IMO, still puts a watchOS 7 GM into week #38.
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I’m glad I’m not the only one with major battery drain on this build. It’s definitely noticeable. I drain 10% an hour while idle on my wrist. I restored my phone and re-paired the watch last night (not from backup) and still have the drain. This is most definitely not the GM build.
Hasn't been a problem for me, I charged my AW3 to 100% almost exactly 24 hours ago and as I am writing this I am currently at 73% left.
This is the kind of battery life I was getting on the prior couple betas, too. I’m down to 51% at 11:36am after being at 100% at 7am.
this occurs even if you reset the same Apple Watch with the same iPhone as well
Thanks for the update.
Battery life for me is awful as well, was great before this latest beta, have reported it using feedback