Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of watchOS 4.2 to Developers

[MacRumors]

Apple today seeded the fourth beta of an upcoming watchOS 4.2 update to developers for testing purposes, four days after seeding the third watchOS 4.2 beta and over two weeks after releasing the watchOS 4.1 update.

Once the proper configuration profile has been installed from the Apple Developer Center, the new watchOS 4.2 beta can be downloaded through the dedicated Apple Watch app on the iPhone by going to General --> Software Update.

To install the update, the Apple Watch needs to have at least 50 percent battery, it must be placed on the charger, and it has to be in range of the iPhone.

watchOS 4.2 brings support for Apple Pay Cash, Apple's new peer-to-peer payment service that is designed to let users send money to one another. Apple Pay Cash can be used to send and receive money through the Messages app on the Apple Watch.

Aside from Apple Pay Cash, watchOS 4.2 appears to focus primarily on under-the-hood bug fixes and security updates.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fourth Beta of watchOS 4.2 to Developers

 

[pnoyblazed]

build 15S5102B

 

[Westside guy]

I will be curious to see, once 4.2 releases, whether the battery life improves. It's not terrible on my Series 1; but definitely worse than it was under 3.x (now typically 1.5 days versus ~ 2 days before).

 

[mactectom]

Question. I have never been able to update past 4.0 on my watch. Iv downloaded the profile several times with no luck. Any one ever heard of this? I have the Series 1.

 

[Rickjames74]

Question. I have never been able to update past 4.0 on my watch. Iv downloaded the profile several times with no luck. Any one ever heard of this? I have the Series 1.

Probably using the wrong profile. Make sure you aren’t using watch OS 4 beta profile

 

[newtestleper]

Probably using the wrong profile. Make sure you aren’t using watch OS 4 beta profile

And use which one instead?

 

[DeepIn2U]

I will be curious to see, once 4.2 releases, whether the battery life improves. It's not terrible on my Series 1; but definitely worse than it was under 3.x (now typically 1.5 days versus ~ 2 days before).

I’d like to have responsiveness of my Apple Watch S2 Nike+ restored back to normal as was 3.1.3.

Strong workout app
Music playing playlist (2 synced, under 2GB total music) under 25 apps.

3 second lag to invoke top shade for motivations,
2 second lag from pressing crown to get to home.
Screen presses 7 second and multiple attempts.

 

[GIZBUG]

Do we have more freedom with the Siri watch face (ie 3rd party app access) with 4.2?

 

[MrGimper]

Try an un-pair and re-pair and see if that improves things.

 

[Kievreece]

I’d like to have responsiveness of my Apple Watch S2 Nike+ restored back to normal as was 3.1.3.

Strong workout app
Music playing playlist (2 synced, under 2GB total music) under 25 apps.

3 second lag to invoke top shade for motivations,
2 second lag from pressing crown to get to home.
Screen presses 7 second and multiple attempts.

I hear ya man. For me on my Series 2 performance is ok...tolerable compared to WatchOS 3.x but battery is for crap

 

[icewolf247]

Any sign of iPhone music library control or still removed?

 

[Kievreece]

Any sign of iPhone music library control or still removed?

I don’t expect that back until maybe WatchOS 5 then Apple will act like it’s a brand new feature lmao

 

[jonnysods]

I’d like to have responsiveness of my Apple Watch S2 Nike+ restored back to normal as was 3.1.3.

Strong workout app
Music playing playlist (2 synced, under 2GB total music) under 25 apps.

3 second lag to invoke top shade for motivations,
2 second lag from pressing crown to get to home.
Screen presses 7 second and multiple attempts.

It's horrible isn't it?

Almost as if they did it on purpose.

Longing for the speed and battery life of 3.1. I should have left it there...

 

[DeepIn2U]

It's horrible isn't it?

Almost as if they did it on purpose.

Longing for the speed and battery life of 3.1. I should have left it there...

I thought I was going crazy or that something got inside my AWatch. Glad and sad to hear others are facing this issue as well.

 

[SoundJudgment]

Question. I have never been able to update past 4.0 on my watch. Iv downloaded the profile several times with no luck. Any one ever heard of this? I have the Series 1.

And of course it *has* to be on the Charging-Pad when attempting to update. They insist upon this, even if the Watch is fully charged already.

 

[Rickjames74]

And use which one instead?

Oops. Meant ARE.

 

[jonnysods]

I thought I was going crazy or that something got inside my AWatch. Glad and sad to hear others are facing this issue as well.

Yesterday, in a dramatic fit of despair over watchos and iOS I wiped my phone and watch completely and redid everything from scratch. Seems to have helped speed it up (a little)

 

[DeepIn2U]

Yesterday, in a dramatic fit of despair over watchos and iOS I wiped my phone and watch completely and redid everything from scratch. Seems to have helped speed it up (a little)

I personally would love to avoid doing this. I have information in history of iMessage I’d want to keep (a special woman in my life used to always do this and prior I’d laugh. Now I fully understand just how special going back is sonetimes). Also historical health data on my workout journey via watch idfully loosesven if I restore. I learned this before as Watch is listedtwice from a restore and if not careful you’ll delete the one that has historical data while deleting new data oppositely occurs. When Apple gets iMessage in iCloud and fixes Watch I’ll try desperately to hold out.

 

[Craiguyver]

I personally would love to avoid doing this. I have information in history of iMessage I’d want to keep (a special woman in my life used to always do this and prior I’d laugh. Now I fully understand just how special going back is sonetimes). Also historical health data on my workout journey via watch idfully loosesven if I restore. I learned this before as Watch is listedtwice from a restore and if not careful you’ll delete the one that has historical data while deleting new data oppositely occurs. When Apple gets iMessage in iCloud and fixes Watch I’ll try desperately to hold out.

You can go into the iPhone and delete the old Watch backups.
Settings > General > iPhone Storage > click on Watch app. Think there's an option to delete individual backups but definitely one to remove all backups. A new, current backup will create when you next un-pair.

 

[DeepIn2U]

You can go into the iPhone and delete the old Watch backups.
Settings > General > iPhone Storage > click on Watch app. Think there's an option to delete individual backups but definitely one to remove all backups. A new, current backup will create when you next un-pair.

Thank you.

I don’t wish to delete my backup at all. I’ll loose the historical health data.

My current issue is if I restore from a backup the Watch will be listed in the Health App as a source not once but twice with the same name. Unless I go into each listing to view the historical health data I’ll not know which is which. Moreover if I delete the older listing all historical data is gone. Deleting the new one new data from the date of the restore onward is gone. I found this out getting the same Apple Watch S2 Nike+ Back in July this year. So I have to suffer with a slow watch until Apple makes a change or resolves what I and a few others are experiencing with stability and performance.