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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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That's most likely not coming back.
The iPhone music control has been switched to the Now Playing app where you can favorite and add music to your iPhone library (haven't tested it in beta 4 but wasn't working till beta 3).
It's a damn shame though.
Yeah, the Now Playing complication was removed from beta 3 in order to leave place to the "Auto-launch Audio Apps" functionality
Battery wise, I'm using it for 4 hours now and it is still at 100%. We'll see if it last 3 days like it would in watchOS 3.
Why on earth would they split now playing and the music app? I use my Apple Watch as a music controller daily. It was super useful being able to see what song it playing and be able to select a song and have all of the controls available as soon as I select a song or playlist. Now whenever I try to select a song on the watch music app it wants to connect to Bluetooth headphones where it used to start playing music on my phone directly.
I don't think there are enough changes or improvements to jump on the beta. I'd wait until release and keep OS3 which runs solidly. Of course if you need to test OS4 for app development, then beta 4 has been the best of the betas.
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Beta 4 came out this week, update it
Beta 4 seems pretty good battery life wise so far on s0. Will charge for a full day tomorrow and report back.
Do you have the beta profile for the Apple Watch installed on your watch? Under general / profiles?
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Battery is better. I did a 2 hour golf workout and burned from 98 to 87.
AutoSleep is working again. Worked on the first two betas and then beta 3 said I slept 1-2 hours a night and now it is back to normal.
Icons are still not working.
Anyone getting duplicate notifications when getting emails on your watchOS 4 beta 4?
Seems one email account get duplicate notifications and other email accounts don’t.
Seems one email account get duplicate notifications and other email accounts don’t.
So I took the plunge and installed WatchOS 4 yesterday. I noticed this evening that the “Now Playing” complication shows what is playing on my Sonos. Fancy.
Seriously? I have Watch OS 4 latest beta. Series 0, 10 hours and 40 mins standby. 84% left. No third party apps installed.
Wow, I wish. Never had battery life as good as that. Series 1 had it about 4 weeks after launch.
I listen to music a lot, I’m wondering if it’s the Now Playing App.
I haven’t had a full day of battery life for over a year. I might try uninstalling third party Apps then.
Does your notification centre always show the location arrow ?
I definitely have found, on both series 0 and series 1, that using the Now Playing App runs the batter down relatively quickly. I hope that this can be fixed eventually in WatchOS 4.
i'm having the same issue - i've reinstalled the beta profile but that doesn't seem to fix the issue.
Just double checking. You show on the watch app under general a profile option and then the WatchOS Beta Software Profile?
looking at the watch app on my phone in the profile section it says IOS Beta Software Profile - is that the wrong profile? when i download it i picked watch.
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did you download the public beta or the developer beta? Is there a public beta for Watch os?
No, there is no Public Beta program for the Watch. You should have a profile entitled "WatchOS Beta Software Profile". Sounds like this is the the problem.