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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]

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iBlazed said:
Would be cool if you could just draw out the letters with your finger and the watch converted it to text
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Yea! That would be perfect. Sometimes I just want to enter a short quick message, instead of talking into a watch when im with someone.
 
LD Curb said:
That is the feature I want most! Half the beauty of any watch is the face. Most of the time my face is just a dark screen. I would like the option to leave it on for various amounts of time.
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Agree...shuts off too early. I never had my watch on anything other than wOS 2 but really wished Apple would extend it. Even a few extra seconds would help. Maybe we'll see that over summer but wouldn't hold my breath as longer screen on time means shorter battery life which is already gonna suck once apps can start running their logic on board.
 
I think this is new in watchOS 2.0:

When you plug your iPhone into an unknown computer:

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And this propagates to the iPhone, and doesn't trust or trust the computer depending on your choice. Pretty convenient.
 
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bh85 said:
Yea! That would be perfect. Sometimes I just want to enter a short quick message, instead of talking into a watch when im with someone.
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This literally needs to be implemented. Would be so much more useful than those doodles...
 
Does Watch OS 2.0 finally allow developers to access/utilize the HRM in their apps yet?
 
Hey, anyone on the beta, does the motion watch face (specifically the jellyfish one) appear faster on 2.0? I love the jellyfish watch face, but feel that I've already checked the time 3 times before a jellyfish appears.
 
cmChimera said:
Hey, anyone on the beta, does the motion watch face (specifically the jellyfish one) appear faster on 2.0? I love the jellyfish watch face, but feel that I've already checked the time 3 times before a jellyfish appears.
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Nope most of the time you just see a black background and then your displays shuts off. :mad:
 
I think it's pretty telling that they need to increase the screen on-time by at least a little bit, when the jellyfish won't show when you check the time. :D It's almost like a complication. I checked the date, I checked the day, now where is that damn jellyfish?!

I would be happy with at least 15 seconds of screen on-time, 30 seconds when you press the digital crown. My watch on 1.0.1 used to have a lot of juice left over so I wouldn't mind at all. Should at least be a setting so we're in control of that.

I filed a radar asking for this though, on watchOS 2.0
 
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Watabou said:
I think it's pretty telling that they need to increase the screen on-time by at least a little bit, when the jellyfish won't show when you check the time. :D It's almost like a complication. I checked the date, I checked the day, now where is that damn jellyfish?!

I would be happy with at least 15 seconds of screen on-time, 30 seconds when you press the digital crown. My watch on 1.0.1 used to have a lot of juice left over so I wouldn't mind at all. Should at least be a setting so we're in control of that.

I filed a radar asking for this though, on watchOS 2.0
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Agree that screen time is too short, it would be good to have an option to set the delay on the screen turning off the same with the nightstand mode but as this doesn't work in portrait I probably won't use it due to my stand.
 
I've just unpaired and repaired my watch with my iPhone as the notification for the Starbucks card in my wallet wouldn't go away. On the upside the notification has gone and my weather complication seems to be working more reliably. Can't wait for beta 2.
 
bh85 said:
Yea! That would be perfect. Sometimes I just want to enter a short quick message, instead of talking into a watch when im with someone.
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That's the big thing for me. The Watch would literally be perfect if I could just answer my texts on it, which 90% of the time are just one word. But I think T9 would be faster than drawing letters one at a time. If it had that, I'd more or less never need to pull out my phone.
 
JustinDaigle said:
That's the big thing for me. The Watch would literally be perfect if I could just answer my texts on it, which 90% of the time are just one word. But I think T9 would be faster than drawing letters one at a time. If it had that, I'd more or less never need to pull out my phone.
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Hahaha -- these T9 comments crack me up! The Apple Watch has been reduced to my old Nokia candy bar phone.
 
HowlinAl said:
No kidding. Not in a million years will Apple reintroduce the world to the horror of T9.
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Being able to scribble the letters one by one on the watch face would do just fine and be a fun way of doing it too. I'm going to get seriously frustrated if they don't implement this.
 
Oohara said:
Being able to scribble the letters one by one on the watch face would do just fine and be a fun way of doing it too. I'm going to get seriously frustrated if they don't implement this.
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I'm sure we will see some form of this eventually. I don't think a keyboard would be too practical, even though it would be useful to have one.

Scribbling would be good if it converts that to plain text and sends the mail/message. For this, there should be a good predictive text box and stellar handwriting recognition to be useful.
 
Watabou said:
I'm sure we will see some form of this eventually. I don't think a keyboard would be too practical, even though it would be useful to have one.

Scribbling would be good if it converts that to plain text and sends the mail/message. For this, there should be a good predictive text box and stellar handwriting recognition to be useful.
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Yeah, it would an effort work to make it really work. But it certainly can be done, the handwriting recognition on the Note series for example is actually stellar.

This being Apple I know it may take some time, they won't release such a functionality before it's really slick. But it would only be used for shorter messages anyway (at least for starters) so I really wouldn't mind if the predictive text box for instance wasn't that versatile, I just wanna be able to scribble short responses... I hope they see this opportunity and release a function like this STAT. It certainly would be a good selling point for the watch and look good in commercials too...
 
nheilweil said:
Agree...shuts off too early. I never had my watch on anything other than wOS 2 but really wished Apple would extend it. Even a few extra seconds would help. Maybe we'll see that over summer but wouldn't hold my breath as longer screen on time means shorter battery life which is already gonna suck once apps can start running their logic on board.
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And Apple wonders why anybody would want to jail real a Apple product.
 
With watchOS 2, Does anyone else only get some notifications (messages for example) on the watch?

I noticed when i looked at my iPhone a little later and realize i got a text 30 mins ago but nothing ever showed up on my watch as a notification
 
I'm assuming you've looked in the Watch app and have confirmed your settings are good (like set up "Mirror My iPhone" for Messages)?

I have noticed some weirdness in that most of the time:
- if I'm using my phone, notifications will show up on my phone and won't show up on my Watch
- if my phone is locked, notifications will show up on my watch and not my phone.
All of which makes sense. Except that it's not 100% consistent. Just now, for instance, while using my iPhone to type this response, my watch (rather than my iPhone) just alerted me to a Calendar reminder. So it's a little wonky.
 
nheilweil said:
I'm assuming you've looked in the Watch app and have confirmed your settings are good (like set up "Mirror My iPhone" for Messages)?

I have noticed some weirdness in that most of the time:
- if I'm using my phone, notifications will show up on my phone and won't show up on my Watch
- if my phone is locked, notifications will show up on my watch and not my phone.
All of which makes sense. Except that it's not 100% consistent. Just now, for instance, while using my iPhone to type this response, my watch (rather than my iPhone) just alerted me to a Calendar reminder. So it's a little wonky.
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Double checked the settings everything is set to "mirror my iPhone"
Maybe just the beta software hopefully a fix with next beta rollout
 
Wiki said you can keep the watch on all the time..."
  • If you want the clock face to stay on, keep rotating the digital crown or hold a finger on the edge of the display
I tried this method and it doesn't work...anyone have any luck
 
wratran said:
Wiki said you can keep the watch on all the time..."
  • If you want the clock face to stay on, keep rotating the digital crown or hold a finger on the edge of the display
I tried this method and it doesn't work...anyone have any luck
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Not really -- rotating the crown on a clock face invokes Time Travel and changes the time and complications accordingly -- so that's not a solution to just lengthen the display on time.

Holding a finger on the edge of the clock face does work but isn't great as you've got your finger on the screen and have to play around with not mistakenly selecting something.
 
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