It’s really slow and sluggish and draining battery. They’re probably working extra long to improve performance.
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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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Do you that from previous experience?
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Maybe I should just deal with it then? My Series 0 took a hit. Should have just updated my iPhone to iOS 11 and not my watch.
Was definitely thinking this was a (bad) joke considering the time and day, but sure enough, it's out!
Here's to hoping for some performance and battery life improvements.
Shouldn't there be a thread for each beta, as there are changes, new bugs, bug fixes etc.? OP lists just new features, it doesn't mention any bugs or anything of importance. Having all watchOS releases (final and beta) isn't that convenient.
Oh praise be to the Apple Developer God, hallowed be thy name, etc., etc.
I was thinking for sure they were going to skip this and the next week. Let’s hope they have focused on improving performance for Series 0
Perfect timing, my watch with beta 2 started rebooting randomly since yesterday with no third party apps installed!
Let’s hope beta 3 fixes battery issue.
Let’s hope beta 3 fixes battery issue.
For one thing, this thread is NOT for bugs, though people seem to forget this and post bugs anyway. It’s for the “little things” that Apple hasn’t mentioned in the keynote or featured it on Apple.com. I do list the main features as well for easy reference.
For the other, watchOS doesn’t have big releases as the mac or iOS, so I don’t see the real point of having a separate thread for each beta, because most people will just post the bugs, and won’t feature the “little things”. Although, point releases of watchOS don’t really contain too many “little things” anyway.
I did state in the previous pages that someone else is free to take on a new thread like this and maintain it and ask the mods to sticky that thread instead, but I haven’t seen anyone do this yet, and I won’t do it myself.
Having problems installing the latest beta. When I click on search for updates it says that can't connect to the watch but I checked the watch is actually connected.
Have tried restarting both the watch and phone still getting the same error. Am on iOS 11 beta 3.
Have tried restarting both the watch and phone still getting the same error. Am on iOS 11 beta 3.
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Installed. Initial impressions on a series 0, much much better. The animations are smoother and apps open and close quicker. The dock now seems different. The "cards" are now more spaced out to allow easier tapping. Haven’t noticed any other new things yet. I switched on location services for Watch faces in phone settings but the geofence triangle came up and stayed there for 15 mins. I turned it off again as I think this is what was causing battery drain in beta 2, which for me was fine after I turned this off.
So, out of all the complaints -- or "bug reports", if I'm generous -- that you guys have about the beta software...
How many are discovering fixes after posting here? Can you share what you changed in the OS code?
Or is this just another post-count-boosting conversation thread?
How many are discovering fixes after posting here? Can you share what you changed in the OS code?
Or is this just another post-count-boosting conversation thread?
Took mine forever to find the update too...eventually I did a hard restart and the update was there when my phone rebooted. Then it took like 2 hours to download/install
Did you figure out how to get past thisHaving problems installing the latest beta. When I click on search for updates it says that can't connect to the watch but I checked the watch is actually connected.
Have tried restarting both the watch and phone still getting the same error. Am on iOS 11 beta 3.
Mine got stuck there too. Then it completed the circle and got stuck there for like 45 minutes. I eventually did a hard restart and it booted fine.