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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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Can you rename workouts? Like if you use the other workout, change the name to something else?
Am I the only one who dislikes the fact that there is no Glance now? This is annoying to me because I used to be able to read top news on CNN, see the latest posts on Instagram, see Top Trending on Twitter, see the latest scores on OneFootball but now it's all gone.
The Dock isn't as useful, cos it displays the actuall app screen, which is not suitable for glancing information. For example, now OneFootball displays the 'EURO 2016 2 matches' instead of the latest scores.
What is more, I have my bank app installed on my watch, whenever I open it, it stays there on Desktop under 'Recent' showing how much money I have on my account without being able to remove it.
Plus, I'm in New Zealand and there's no emergency contact feature when you hold the side button. It will only display power off button and my medical ID. Can someone else, perhaps non-US residents, confirm that this is also the case for you?
And we can't force close app now, right?
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The Dock isn't as useful, cos it displays the actuall app screen, which is not suitable for glancing information. For example, now OneFootball displays the 'EURO 2016 2 matches' instead of the latest scores.
What is more, I have my bank app installed on my watch, whenever I open it, it stays there on Desktop under 'Recent' showing how much money I have on my account without being able to remove it.
Plus, I'm in New Zealand and there's no emergency contact feature when you hold the side button. It will only display power off button and my medical ID. Can someone else, perhaps non-US residents, confirm that this is also the case for you?
And we can't force close app now, right?
Thank you
How to we force close apps now? And also, if I slide the medical ID which comes up from pressing and holding the side button down , and sliding the option over, will it call 911? Or just show my medical ID on the screen instead? Just don't want to call the police for no reason.
And we can't force close app now, right?
Thank you
There is a way to force quit.
As I mentioned in my previous posts, I added that to the first post in this thread.
In watchOS 3, now hold the side button until the power off button appears, then hold the crown. Force quit accomplished.
The developer of that app just has to update their app to support it.
One small 'hidden thing' is that you can use the Digital Crown to scroll through the items in the Dock. So it's much faster to navigate than Glances was.
The emergency contact button has not been enabled yet in this beta.
I saw them mention it in an old keynote and have experienced the tap when your results are ready many times in watchOS 2. It is true, however, that it is much more functional in watchOS 3 with the "hold on" text. Previously, if you viewed the screen from start to finish, Siri would tap when activated, tap when done listening/transcribing, tap when done computing. It's always tapped when done computing, regardless of the screens state. It would only tap when done listening/transcribing if the screen was awake. In watchOS 3, it taps twice when viewing the screen from start to finish: hey siri (tap), "hold on", [results](tap). Previously when viewing the screen from start to finish it was: hey siri (tap), [transcription] (tap), [results] (tap).
The difference is that now it does not do a transcription & tap, but instead says "hold on" without a tap nor transcription. watchOS 2 and watchOS 3 both tap when results are ready.
Yea, I noticed that we can browse through the apps with the Digital Crown now, which is more convenient than swipe, swipe, swipe on Glance. But still, I personally think Glance gives me a lot more information at a glance (that's the point) than the Dock. Perhaps it's just because I've been so used to using Glances all this time and never actually opened apps, except perhaps some games.
YES! I had suggested this some months ago somewhere either in this thread or elsewhere. Glad to see Apple listened.
If I'm not mistaken, one of the things that they mentioned (either on stage or in some documentation) was their idea that developers should sort of rethink and redesign their watch apps to be more glance-able by default, essentially making the default view of the app be similar to a glance when viewed in the dock. If most devs follow this new model, then glances shouldn't really completely go away, they just won't be called that anymore. They'll be glance-able apps now. It'll still be a bit different and take a bit to get used to but I'm already loving the changes. The apps I have in my dock really do seem to launch almost instantly and I'm hoping that when devs can take advantage of more frequent updates it'll be even better. I love using Dark Sky on my watch and that would be nice to always have up to date.
I know that I was planning on adding in some watch functionality to a project of mine and I like this new model a good deal more. I don't have to debate what is essential for a glance and what's better off being in the app anymore. Now I can think from the perspective of what should be up front when you first open the app and how any buttons and other data should be organized either on another page or on a scroll. Also, from a user perspective, not having to worry about ordering glances in addition to the apps themselves every time I want to add a new one is nice. Surprised and happy to see them put in a way to organize the dock on the watch itself.
I've read through the comments on watchOS 3 and haven't seen this yet. Does anyone know if you can move the time around on the photo face so its not always on the top right?
I red somewhere that there should be a way to label workouts somehow, but I haven't figured out how.
Also not sure if new feature, but Activity app on iPhone now shows your route in the workouts. It doesn't work properly currently, but there is a small map with the route highlighted.
You can have it in the top or bottom right corner. Has one small complication above time (limited amount of complications available) and one large/wide below.
Press down both the buttons together, like how you would take a screenshot on watchOS 2?
He's wrong - you totally can move it to the bottom right!
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Sorry, I misread the initial post - I thought it said Watch battery/signal, not iPhone battery signal - which wasn't available on wOS 2 as far as I know.
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So good to hear! Speed improvements were an absolute must!I love the workout app. Everything is so much faster. Previously it used to take several seconds when you pressed Stop on a workout and show the summary. Now it's instant. Also the heartrate monitor also seems more accurate. This is only the first day of me using it so it may just be a fluke but it seems like it was reading my heartrate much faster and I barely got the 'reading' heartrate indicator. Seems like watchOS3.0 is worth it just for the new workout app. Other features are just cherries on the cake!
Of course!