4.3 has actually improved the battery life on my 1st Generation Watch - it’s been regularly getting about 12 hours until I installed 4.3 and now I’m getting 17-18
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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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4.3 has actually improved the battery life on my 1st Generation Watch - it’s been regularly getting about 12 hours until I installed 4.3 and now I’m getting 17-18
Today the battery had been very good. Probably just some initial syncing that was casing the battery drain.
Does anyone else watch take 2-4 hours to update ?
It is always charged more than 50 %, always on the charger, iPhone always updated first.
It is always charged more than 50 %, always on the charger, iPhone always updated first.
Thanks. I hope it’ll be available soon. If I turn on all the fitness features mine doesn’t last anymore than 8 hours so I have to turn it off. 1st generation, got it brand new in December.
It was sat in a box for at least a year and a half. The battery will have degraded somewhat in that time no matter what the outward condition was.
Are they ever going to release new kind of faces like Micky and Minnie or toy story but with other characters ? Here’s hoping lol
Like how many years was it sitting?? Without being actively used, do you think it still degraded that much?
I use an app I bought ages ago called "Battery Life" on iOS. I didn't realise it has an Apple watch app too.
Thank you for the info! I’ll check it out.I use an app I bought ages ago called "Battery Life" on iOS. I didn't realise it has an Apple watch app too.
Anyone else have issues installing 4.3.1?
When I try to update I get cannot connect to watch. I rebooted watch, phone and redownloaded profile. Same problem.
When I try to update I get cannot connect to watch. I rebooted watch, phone and redownloaded profile. Same problem.
Yup same here too. I updated my phone to the new beta without issue but can't grab the watch beta.
Adding the profile to iphone AND watch and rebooting both worked for me after trying a lot of reboot/restore/re-pair
Can confirm this. Installing Watch OS beta profile on iPhone fixes "Could not connect to Apple watch" error.
Yep... installed the beta profile to both the watch and the phone and now the update is installing.
How do you install the beta for watch on iPhone? It just goes to the Apple Watch app. Under my iPhone settings in profile, it has iOS only