This has probably been mentioned, but has anyone noticed that the heart rate monitor is taking readings more frequently? It’s doing it about once every 5-10 minutes, whether I’m resting or moving.
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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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Did someone edit the wiki list? There was a lot more "little things" listed a few days ago. Hopefully someone didn't decide it should be a best-of...
I discovered this earlier while listening to a podcast in Overcast. watchOS 4 seems to automatically switch to either ‘Now Playing’ for Music or a corresponding Watch app, if you’re on the Watch face. Here's a video.
Hey Pommie, I've been experiencing the same problem with the Powerbeats 3, which also have the W1 chip that the AirPods have. I've found that I can simply turn the Watch to Airplane Mode and then back off of Airplane Mode, then go to Settings --> Bluetooth, and tap on the Powerbeats button to quickly connect. I find this a lot quicker then restarting the Watch. Hopefully this works for your AirPods as well!
Hey Markciz thanks for the tip i am going to give that a try later on because switching the watch on and off all the time can be a bit of pain because it can take a good five minutes to come back on again
Thats cool. What about starting music on your iPhone then raising your watch to check the time. Will the iPhone controls still be there or is it just the normal watch face? Do you need to have the watch display active for the controls to work?
Whenever I’ve done it the music controls are still present and not a Watch face.
The watch display does not need to be active for it to work.
Do any of the music compilations work for you if they are on your watch face? Does it show what is playing? As in the attached image at the bottom of the face.
Also, if you're using Apple Music on iOS 11, does all of your album art show up? Mine only populated some of it, and when I turned off the iCloud music library and attempted to turn it back on, the toggle switch just kept turning itself back off.
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Since iOS11 DP1 on iPhone 7 and watchOS 4 DP1 on my AW2 I cannot launch Apple Pay anymore by pressing the side button on the AW2 twice. I can still launch it on the iPhone 7. In the AW app I do not see wallet + Apple Pay anymore.
Any thoughts on this?
Any thoughts on this?
Series 1 owners, are you able to use the digital crown to change AirPods volume while the screen is off? I believe this works on series 2 with watch OS 3, series 1 needs the screen on (and the now playing app) to control volume with the digital crown.
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I assume it works the same on watchOS 4 on the series 2, but hoping they added the same functionality to the series 1.
My watch isn’t doing this. Is it supposed to be automatic or is there a setting somewhere to enable it?
Today is my birthday and this didn’t happen for me. Did Apple send the message or was it from another person?
Are you on watchOS 4? I would check to see if you have set your birthday on your Apple account.
And no, I don’t think it was sent by anyone, otherwise it would have had the Messages icon.
Toy Story characters have landed in Beta 2!
I’m struggling with this too. I having a hard time switching to playlists on my iPhone, and Siri gets confused and can’t find the music I want to play. I have 180gb of music on my phone and I have to go to my phone to play it. occasionally, l an able to toggle between watch and phone by tapping the top left corner of the watch screen. There has to be a simple trick that im missing,
So I didn't have any problems with Beta 1 at all other than your usual sluggishness and battery drain. I updated to Beta 2 this afternoon and it appears that my watch is no longer tracking any movement whatsoever. It hasn't marked me as standing, exercising, burning calories, or contributing and distance to Health even though I just did a 3 mile jog. I even had the workouts app running and noticed shortly in that the only thing that was changing was my heart rate and the elapsed time.
Trying everything I can to fix it now. Tried turning off and turning back on every movement/fitness setting I could find on both my phone and watch. Tried restarting both devices several times. Just put it through an un-pair/re-pair cycle and it doesn't seem to have fixed anything. Quite frustrating since it looks like this will cause me to lose my move streak. If anyone else is currently or has previously experienced something similar please let me know if there's a method to fixing this, it would be greatly appreciated.
In case anyone is wondering, unfortunately yes, this is my daily device. Believe me, I know the risks, however it's my only watch to test on so it's either this or have no idea if my apps work on a real device.
Device Details: Series 0, 42mm Sport - Paired with an iPhone 6s - Both running latest betas.
Trying everything I can to fix it now. Tried turning off and turning back on every movement/fitness setting I could find on both my phone and watch. Tried restarting both devices several times. Just put it through an un-pair/re-pair cycle and it doesn't seem to have fixed anything. Quite frustrating since it looks like this will cause me to lose my move streak. If anyone else is currently or has previously experienced something similar please let me know if there's a method to fixing this, it would be greatly appreciated.
In case anyone is wondering, unfortunately yes, this is my daily device. Believe me, I know the risks, however it's my only watch to test on so it's either this or have no idea if my apps work on a real device.
Device Details: Series 0, 42mm Sport - Paired with an iPhone 6s - Both running latest betas.
I can't get watchOS 4 beta 2 installed.
I tried to update earlier but it just stalled for hours and didn't go anywhere.
Eventually tried again, and I just get "Can't Connect to Apple Watch" in the Apple Watch App.
I've already unpaired and repaired the watch, reinstalled the Beta Profile, and same issue!
I tried to update earlier but it just stalled for hours and didn't go anywhere.
Eventually tried again, and I just get "Can't Connect to Apple Watch" in the Apple Watch App.
I've already unpaired and repaired the watch, reinstalled the Beta Profile, and same issue!