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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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for me only "airplane mode" is the solution for battery draining
Unfortunately not for me. With airplane mode my battery went from 11% to 5% in 15 minutes.
Only option is to unpair and repair once my battery is at 100%.
If they don't fix that by the final version I'm gonna get really mad at this ****! Having control of my whole library on the Apple Watch is the feature I use the most on a daily basis!!!
I unpaired and re- paired my watch and now the battery drain is gone. Also my activity is back to normal.
Trying this.
A re-pair seems to have fixed the battery for my watch, actually. Leaving the location going doesn’t seem to have an effect on the watch, but I think it might be draining the phone a bit faster.
Did you restore from backup or setup the watch as new once you repaired the Watch?
Thanks
Speaking about restoring watches, watchOS 4 has a new syncing UI.
Walks through the watch basics like display, side button and the crown:
Walks through the watch basics like display, side button and the crown:
I'm sorry folks, I should’ve written re-prairing! Apparently you can restore from a backup as I did and certainly glad that it did the trick for you guys!
Unpairing and repairing also fixed my battery drain!
Now the worst feature for me is the music showing when I’m playing a song on my phone. So annoying. I don’t know how they consider this a feature.
After trying unsuccessfully like 50 times to get software update to recognize beta 2 (kept saying watch on beta 1 was up to date), I reinstalled the dev profile on my watch and bingo that worked like a charm!
You should be able to start from beta 2 just make sure you have the beta profile installed and are currently on iOS 11 beta 2.
Update to Developer Beta 2 launched automatically during the night while charging. From wakup 6.30am after 3 hours, battery is 90%. Played with new Toy Story Face for 2 minutes, otherwise nothing. Using dock / app switcher seems faster and less buggy.
⌚️ Series 2, Modular face (with Date, Calendar, Weather, Weather Conditions and Workout complications). Will post battery status at evening...
⌚️ Series 2, Modular face (with Date, Calendar, Weather, Weather Conditions and Workout complications). Will post battery status at evening...
No third party apps installed and to be honest, everything works the same as before, activity, stand, apple pay, etc. Battery life about the same too.
New feature: Choose heart rate complication on the SIRI and Toy Story watch face and it shows the last recorded heart rate! At last! Only the top complication.
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After doing this, I noticed messages icon is not listed in the list view but shows in the grid view.
Also, if you go into watch settings on iPhone e do you see all the icons? Ie my music, stock, weather and maps don’t show the colour icons. Only a dotted circle.
Yes, my icons show the dotted circle on a few of my apps in the watch settings app.
I can confirm after removing my watch and pairing it again as a new watch the terrible battery drain has stopped.
I'm trying to do this now and have done it in the past. This time though, the watch does not respond to touch on the step to create a passcode. The code appears on the screen but does not let me enter one. I selected the option to go without to continue but wonder why its broken on that step. Tried twice now, same thing.
Aside from the terrible problem with the battery initially, does it seem to be running better on this beta?
Just my opinion...it seems to me its been the same for the most part since WatchOS 2. OS 1 was the slow version but since 2 it has been about the same speed and feel. Features have been added through release 3 and 4 but day-to-day the watch is basically the same. Not a complaint mind you, just nothing to point at that stands out. Maybe when I go to the next hardware version I will see something but not in a hurry to update yet.