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

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4.2 has been great so far. Raise to wake is far faster to engage when I bring my wrist up. Apps load quicker (tested mainly with carrot weather and fantastical launched from a complication). This isn’t just “you restarted it” syndrome; I’ve restarted my Watch plenty of times.

I can’t comment on battery life yet.

Anyone else seeing noticibly better performance after updating to 4.2?
 
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christophermn said:
4.2 has been great so far. Raise to wake is far faster to engage when I bring my wrist up. Apps load quicker (tested mainly with carrot weather and fantastical launched from a complication). This isn’t just “you restarted it” syndrome; I’ve restarted my Watch plenty of times.

I can’t comment on battery life yet.

Anyone else seeing noticibly better performance after updating to 4.2?
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Yes, I am as well. Scrolling is smoother and tap to wake is faster (I have rise to wake off).
 
I’ve also experienced faster more responsive raise to wake. Not sure about the battery tho.. I had 85% when I went to sleep with Airplane mode engaged and woke up with 75%. Where exactly did 10% percent go while standing still in airplane mode not being used at all.. hmmm..

SS Black Series 2, 38mm
 
Series 3 LTE 42mm last night at 100% - 8 hours later it was 98% with only theatre mode enabled while I slept. Did a one hour and 10 minute other workout and battery was at 91% when finished. Pretty impressive.
 
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AW Series 2 here. Battery life for first day after install was pretty dismal - Down to 53% after only 6 hours YIKES!

Later that evening, I recharged to 100% and turned watch off, then restarted it.

After 14 hours off the charger - down to 93% (that's 1% for each 2 hours!!!) Now that is more like it!

With wrist wake off, I just might be one of those who gets 3 days from battery!

I had a car one time that took forever to use the first 1/4 of a tank of gas, then used remaining 3/4 tank in same length of time. (I think it had a funnel shaped gas tank.) Hope watch isn't like that, but, so far, it's looking good.
 
I posted this on another thread, but will post here as well. I have not been getting breathe reminders either. Then I read this on the apple support site:

"If a reminder coincides with an event in your calendar, like a meeting, if you're moving or exercising, or if you start a session on your own, your Apple Watch reschedules your reminder. You’ll get the reminder a short time after your event is over or you stop moving." https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206999

So, the way I'm reading this is if you have anything on your calendar, or you are moving around, you will not receive a notification. I guess that explains why I never get any!! There's always something on my calendar and I'm usually moving except when I'm asleep. So that also explains my 2am random breathe notifications!

At any rate, I really hope they change this back to the way it was:(
 
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It could be a coincidence (and probably is), but I had those detector things at Belk's go off several times (at more than one entrance) after upgrading to 4.2. I took my purchases to car anyway, thinking cashier had not de-activated RFID chip. But when I entered store, they went off again. Could Apple Pay be causing this? Has anyone else set off shoplifting alarms after 4.2 update? I would not think the frequencies for shoplifting devices would match Apple Pay, but who knows?

Most likely a coincidence, but curious if anyone else has had this happen?
 
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It could be a coincidence (and probably is), but I had those detector things at Belk's go off several times (at more than one entrance) after upgrading to 4.2. I took my purchases to car anyway, thinking cashier had not de-activated RFID chip. But when I entered store, they went off again. Could Apple Pay be causing this? Has anyone else set off shoplifting alarms after 4.2 update? I would not think the frequencies for shoplifting devices would match Apple Pay, but who knows?

Most likely a coincidence, but curious if anyone else has had this happen?
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Great, now I'm going to be worried about this every time I walk into a store. lol. (Haven't had this happen yet). :)
 
I truly hope this is caused by something else, and not a bug!! Really much more likely this is a coincidence. Even if it is a bug, I'm sure Apple would fix this really fast!
 
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It could be a coincidence (and probably is), but I had those detector things at Belk's go off several times (at more than one entrance) after upgrading to 4.2. I took my purchases to car anyway, thinking cashier had not de-activated RFID chip. But when I entered store, they went off again. Could Apple Pay be causing this? Has anyone else set off shoplifting alarms after 4.2 update? I would not think the frequencies for shoplifting devices would match Apple Pay, but who knows?

Most likely a coincidence, but curious if anyone else has had this happen?
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I had this issue multiple times at a local Target entering and leaving prior to 4.2, since 4.2 I have not experienced the detector sounding off, never knew if it was my iPhone, Watch or my Pacemaker, or if the store adjusted the sensitivity of the alarm, as an experiment I left my iPhone in the car and still got the alarm so guessed it was my watch, never left both in the car and experimented to see if it was my pacemaker
 
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PPCMike,

I ordered from Best Buy online, so never went through detectors with it new in box.
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I walked out of Best Buy with mine and it never went off so I guess I should be ok.. but other stores might have different settings.
 
Quite possibly a fluke then. I haven't been in a store since this happened. I'm going later today to Lowe's. I'll see what happens there.
 
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