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

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Watabou said:
Yep, that's how the feature is supposed to work. Recovery rate after each workout. But maybe it also depends on the length of each workout too. How long was your 2nd workout?
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2nd workout was 30 minutes. Seems like a bug. On the iPhone activity app it shows a recovery graph for the 2nd workout but it has no values. On the watch the 2nd graph is just missing. The 1st workout looks fine. I'll send apple feedback.
 
ceparker27 said:
So let's say I have music playing from my iPhone into my AirPods, but I want to skip a track and turn the volume down. However, I don't want to pull out my phone, or I left it in another room. I can turn the volume down and skip ahead with my Watch on wOS3. However, a few pages back around the time beta 5 came out, someone said that the Watch can only control music on its own storage in wOS4. If that's true, is there still away to control the music on your iPhone? I don't have  Music and don't plan to get it, so I want to be able to control the music I have on my phone. Hopefully that makes more sense.
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In wOS4GM the AW controls the AirPods regardless of whether the music is on the AW or the iPhone. Controlling volume, skip, pause, etc. all work normally.

The only thing that is weird is the double tap feature. When the music is on the AW, the custom settings of double tap (iOS 11 feature) are not recognized.
 
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Is the control centre in watchOS 4 customizable?

I don't know why Apple placed "mute" in the 4. row, so it's hidden all the time -.-

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nicho said:
I'd guess that's because the vast majority of users touch it once to enable it and then never use it again.
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I'm not sure about that. I used it quite often.
More often then the theater mode, because during meeting it's okay when the watch is mute, but after a raise of the wrist you can see who is for example calling you.
With theater mode you will see nothing when you raise your wrist.
 
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doerrmann said:
I sit corrected - I never went looking for it before. Always initiated calls via Siri - if I was going to talk to my watch, that's the way I started the call.
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So did I. Which makes me wonder: If the Watch had always used a dial pad since watchOS 1, would we have been as eager to use Siri instead?

rodknocker said:
Is the control centre in watchOS 4 customizable?

I don't know why Apple placed "mute" in the 4. row, so it's hidden all the time -.-
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I would really like Control Center to be customizable. I always use Theater Mode (it's what I use when I wear it to bed now) and toggle Mute and the screen lock often. I don't use Find My iPhone enough to want it in the main view, so I'd like to push it to the bottom row instead.
 
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nicho said:
I'd guess that's because the vast majority of users touch it once to enable it and then never use it again.
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I'm definitely in this camp - I have it disabled all the time so it's silent and I only get taps/vibrations. I suspect Apple would have consulted their analytics to figure out which items are used most often, plus wanting to promote the new flashlight feature.
 
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Hey guys, I have the iOS 11 GM installed on my iPhone 7 plus, i am officially registered in the Apple Public Beta Program with my AppleID and i have been involved in it for about 2 years now,

I really want to install the WatchOS 4 GM on my Apple Watch Series 2 but is there a possibility Apple will ban my AppleID if i install it because technically i am not unauthorized to install the WatchOS 4 as its ment for developers only and not public testers? I have the Beta profile needed to get WatchOS4 on my Apple Watch
 
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Benz63amg said:
Hey guys, I have the iOS 11 GM installed on my iPhone 7 plus, i am officially registered in the Apple Public Beta Program with my AppleID and i have been involved in it for about 2 years now,

I really want to install the WatchOS 4 GM on my Apple Watch Series 2 but is there a possibility Apple will ban my AppleID if i install it because technically i am not unauthorized to install the WatchOS 4 as its ment for developers only and not public testers? I have the Beta profile needed to get WatchOS4 on my Apple Watch
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Go ahead, there isn't such thing as banning someone for using a beta.
 
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gwhizkids said:
There’s nothing wrong with quoting something you’re replying to, but that particular post is incredibly long. If there’s something in there you want to quote, I would cut the rest.
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Yes, that makes perfect sense, I was not thinking, I can see how quoting such a large piece clutters the site, again my apologies, I am learning however!!
[doublepost=1505670899][/doublepost]As WatchOS 4 and iPhone OS is coming out on Tuesday I was wondering the best order to install? Do we have to update the iPhone OS first and then do the watch or can we do the watch first?
 
I use the stopwatch face and I noticed that sometimes the start button on the top right of the face is blue, sometimes white. I have no idea why. Also when I actually use it, sometimes it opens the stopwatch and others it just does it on the watch face like it’s suppose to.
 
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georgedanton said:
As WatchOS 4 and iPhone OS is coming out on Tuesday I was wondering the best order to install? Do we have to update the iPhone OS first and then do the watch or can we do the watch first?
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That's what I've done -- first the phone, then the watch. I don't think iOS 10 will even offer to update your AW to watchOS 4, because wOS 4 needs iOS 11 to run.
 
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Benz63amg said:
Is the watchOS4 GM build indeed the final version or will I need to update again on Tuesday when watchOS4 is officially released to the public?
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Barring a significant issue, it is the final. You should not have to upgrade.
 
Ok I will install the GM shortly,

Sucks that the Explorer watch face is exslusive to the series 3
 
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friednoodles said:
I'm definitely in this camp - I have it disabled all the time so it's silent and I only get taps/vibrations. I suspect Apple would have consulted their analytics to figure out which items are used most often, plus wanting to promote the new flashlight feature.
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My phone and my watch is on permanent mute and I wish all people would do the same. Rings and notifications going off in my vicinity drives me batty.
 
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rodknocker said:
I'm not sure about that. I used it quite often.
More often then the theater mode, because during meeting it's okay when the watch is mute, but after a raise of the wrist you can see who is for example calling you.
With theater mode you will see nothing when you raise your wrist.
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in 2.5 years i have only had the watch off of mute for a day. . . (launch day after that-- it has been on mute)my wife has never put hers on mute
 
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