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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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Mine series 3 LTE does the same. It goes down 5% at a time and you can predict when it will happen as the battery widget on my phone will show the watches exact %. For example, my watch will say 90% while the Apple Watch widget on my phone will show 90,89,88 and then around 87% the watch switches to 85% and stays there until the widget shows about 82%.
Yep you are not alone. I did a drain and recalibrate on my Watch s3 to see if that made a difference in the %. Guess we will have to wait until b3 to possibly get the actual % back.
Just saw my series 1 do this right when I pulled up control center to look at my battery percentage to see if this was correct. It went from 75% to 70%. Very interesting. Would guess it's a bug and not a feature. However, I have noticed that this beta is getting much better battery life for me. 70% left at 11:25PM. Even did some activity with a half hour brisk walk and stretching in the evening. So much better than the battery drainer that was beta 1.
I think Apple said that iOS 11.3 would be available in the Spring. 4.3 should come at the same time. So, late March/early April seems plausible.
I’m guessing they’re very careful about what they add to the developer beta as you can’t roll it back yourself to the public release if things go sideways. So far the developer beta has had the most stable releases of Apple beta software. In many ways it’s more release ready than iOS public releases.
Very interesting. Updating to the 4.3 beta 2 helps me to sync full 500 photos successfully, instead of endless waiting in 4.2.2. The downside however, is I am forced to update my iOS to latest beta as well. I don't like it but I have no choice.
Notes and Known Issues
General
• If watchOS 4.3 beta 1 or later doesn’t install on Apple Watch (1st Generation) [cut]
Clock
Resolved Issues
• The battery complication no longer reports remaining battery percentage in increments of 5. (36558500)
Weather
Resolved Issues
• Weather will now report information for greater China. (37331232)
General
• If watchOS 4.3 beta 1 or later doesn’t install on Apple Watch (1st Generation) [cut]
Clock
Resolved Issues
• The battery complication no longer reports remaining battery percentage in increments of 5. (36558500)
Weather
Resolved Issues
• Weather will now report information for greater China. (37331232)
downloaded OTA in UK. Will let you know how I get on. Battery definately not in 5% increments anymore as showing 96% 
There’s a new loading animation for when you launch an app that isn’t in memory.
On beta 3:
Watch apps seem faster on my s1
The workout app in particular no longer takes 3 to 10 seconds before I am able to actually choose a workout.
On the bad side, I can’t AirPlay from the watch anymore.
Watch apps seem faster on my s1
The workout app in particular no longer takes 3 to 10 seconds before I am able to actually choose a workout.
On the bad side, I can’t AirPlay from the watch anymore.
What do you mean you can’t Airplay??On beta 3:
Watch apps seem faster on my s1
The workout app in particular no longer takes 3 to 10 seconds before I am able to actually choose a workout.
On the bad side, I can’t AirPlay from the watch anymore.
[doublepost=1519273841][/doublepost]The notification that appears when your Mac is unlocked with your Apple Watch has changed:
The notification that appears when your Mac is unlocked with your Apple Watch has changed:
that's so much more pretty!
i wonder does it have an imac icon for a desktop?
Another change, there’s now haptic feedback when you hold down the side button to enter the shutdown sliders screen.
Most random things are being changed lol
Most random things are being changed lol
My S1 SS watch is finally back from the dead. 
May be Apple were secretly throttling the watch... 
Unreal I can actually have the patience for almost all apps to load.My S1 SS watch is finally back from the dead.
May be Apple were secretly throttling the watch...
they probably do man!!! I went from OS4 to OS3 and notice the drastic performance speed on OS3, than Using OS4. Hopefully apple new way of putting out major OS Updates a on 2 year cycle works for them. Cause ios11, OSX high sierra & watch OS4, shows apple is really messing up.
In beta 2, I was able to play the music stored on my watch to an Airplay device. Now only Bluetooth devices are available. Even the watch control panel on beta 3 does not list Airplay devices when tapping the “Airplay” icon.