My watch battery life is MILES better on B3 than it was on B2. I'd be at about 60% right now on B2 (it's 0750ET, I wake up at about 0400). I'm at 92% now.
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Apple Seeds Third WatchOS 2 Beta to Developers
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Is your haptic working? Release notes say it's disabled, but folks are saying it works.
I haven't paid much attention this morning, so I just scrolled to the end of my Messages list to see if I get the haptic feedback, and it seems to be working.
Went into General>Reset>Erase on the watch , mine didn't sync either but I assumed it would just pick up the messages that were sent or received since iMessage on the watch was active.
Taptic working for me. I can confirm too, at least for me that the dreadful battery experience on B2 seems to have dramatically improved on B3
This makes it very clear that you have never worked in software development.
Bugs happen. Always. It's a guarantee. But for you to especially complain about unreleased software... Well that's just plain silly.
I have beta 3 installed on both my watch and iPhone. Battery is draining at about 1% per
Minute. Any suggestions?
Correct. I have done a restore on my iPod Touch 5th Gen with no problem getting it back to prime time. The iTunes Restore overrides all the rollback blocks. From that, then you can set to an earlier beta if desired.
Incorrect. An iPod is not the same thing as an Apple Watch and the Watch doesn't use iTunes for restoring.
Just wanted to give another battery life update. Yesterday, on B2, my watch was dead at this point in the day. (1330 ET)
On B3, I'm now looking at 71% life left, and I've been using it quite a bit going through some of the B3 updates, installing apps, even using maps for directions at lunch.
On B3, I'm now looking at 71% life left, and I've been using it quite a bit going through some of the B3 updates, installing apps, even using maps for directions at lunch.
You have no idea how software is written. The best public essay on the subject is "The Mythical Man Month" by Fred Brooks. I use this book as a litmus test over whom I choose to work with in this business. Brooks' best statement is that software development is a serial process where adding more people to software development will in fact slow it down. I have worked with too many managers who see a project is behind schedule and makes the mistake of placing more people on the project slowing it down even more.
Hey guys, I have noticed this since beta 1. My glances will work after installing each beta updates and then, the moment I restart my watch the glances doesn't work and my battery finishes so fast mainly because it is loading glances all the time. There will be this tiny loading bar on top right each time I Look at the glances. Anyone knows how to ensure the glances work properly.
Yeah it's a lot better than Beta 2 and it's generally not that bad at all. But there are a lot of bugs still so unless you're willing to put up with weirdness I'd wait.