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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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For comparison purposes, on WatchOS 2, with similar time frame for usage, I'm at 39%. So I'd say you're doing pretty well!!!
Thanks again for the tip to do a hard reset. I lose my watch faces every soft reboot. Two button hold reset brings them back with no need to fiddle.
Not sure if mentioned yet, but there are new watch face colours in Beta 2. Not sure if my translations are correct, but there is apricot, mint, and violet... There's two violet colors now. Not sure if it's translation issue, or naming issue. The new violet is more like sky blue. And the other colours are light colours too.
Is it just me, but when I hold both side buttons to reset the watch, I lose my watch face and what comes up is the activity watch face. My custom utility watch face gets reset to the stock watch face.
Anyone report this to Apple yet?
I have noticed this as well. Quite annoying.
I also found that using the unlock my Mac feature drains the battery rather quickly (even after unpairing and not restoring a back-up). Simply not using the passcode so the Watch doesn't search for the Mac resolves the issue.
Noticed this as well. How do you mean not using the passcode? Disabling the passcode on the Watch? Or disabling password on Mac?
Disabling the passcode on the Watch causes the "Unlock my Mac with Apple Watch" to deactivate. Unchecking the box on your Mac is not enough.
If you unpair your watch and re-pair it, you will get a prompt if you want to utilize this feature or not after setting a passcode. It's the Mac unlocking feature that drains the battery. With this activated my battery drained from 100% to 0% in about 5 hours. With it deactivated my battery is at 75% with moderate use after 11 hours.
Disabling Breathing and SOS and rebooting seems to have fixed the extreme battery drain for me. Before it used 10% an hour... now it's gone almost two hours with about 4% each hour.
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Anyone notice that the workout app on the iPhone don't show all the workouts, but the history shows the proper rings for the workouts.
Anyone know how to show all the workouts? Toggling the filter doesn't seem to show the workouts.
Anyone know how to show all the workouts? Toggling the filter doesn't seem to show the workouts.
I started my day at 4am watch on at 5am. I use Watch OS 3 beta 2, new analog watch face three apps in dock. I had to work until 12:30 am and had 20% on watch. 19hr day wasn't bad for watch battery. Granted from 4pm -12:30am I didn't touch the watch but only to see the time. I'll take that. SOS off, passcode off, breath off.
Beta 2 for the iPhone was a step forward, but in my opinion, Beta 2 for the watch was a step backward. Normally I would burn about 10-12% per hour during a workout, but with beta 2 it has been pretty consistent at 20% or slightly more. Yesterday during golf, the two hour workout recorded the entire workout, but it recorded it as a 30 minute exercise and 350 calories. It acted as if I didn't set the workout, but it recorded normally and had two hours of workout time and heart rate readings. It also showed 3 miles for the distance. The little route map was there that could be expanded and had the entire layout of the golf course though I brought my phone along.
Shutting down the watch and powering back on again removed all my watch faces and had the generic faces. In the watch app, all my custom faces were there but you couldn't use them and had to delete and start over.
There have been some nice improvements, but it is definitely a step backwards.
Shutting down the watch and powering back on again removed all my watch faces and had the generic faces. In the watch app, all my custom faces were there but you couldn't use them and had to delete and start over.
There have been some nice improvements, but it is definitely a step backwards.
Just my impressions from testing WatchOS3...
In testing on my 42mm AW Sport, I have been fairly impressed with the beta's stability so far. This is a pretty reliable/stable release, only requiring a reset once every few days for me. App compatibility has been pretty good as well but, I have had issues with some Phone + Watch apps under iOS10 - specifically those that need to write to Health. These issues appear to be related to the changes in Health and the new API's so it is understandable. Sleep++ is no longer writing to the new Health app in iOS10 on the paired iPhone and Sync Solver does not appear to work correctly in iOS10 either. Overall compatibility has been very good though and I'm sure these will be updated with the release of iOS10/WatchOS3.
As far as battery life, I've been testing apps as complications versus Docked apps. Overall, most Apple native apps perform the same (drain battery at the same rate). However, I have noticed that (as of Beta 2) the battery seems to drain faster with Activity as a Docked app rather than as a complication. For comparison, Now Playing did not have any noticeable difference/impact to battery life whether it is running/launched as a Complication or a Docked app. Using the Activity watch faces also appeared to maintain the standard rate of battery drain so this only appears to be affecting Activity in the Dock.
In testing on my 42mm AW Sport, I have been fairly impressed with the beta's stability so far. This is a pretty reliable/stable release, only requiring a reset once every few days for me. App compatibility has been pretty good as well but, I have had issues with some Phone + Watch apps under iOS10 - specifically those that need to write to Health. These issues appear to be related to the changes in Health and the new API's so it is understandable. Sleep++ is no longer writing to the new Health app in iOS10 on the paired iPhone and Sync Solver does not appear to work correctly in iOS10 either. Overall compatibility has been very good though and I'm sure these will be updated with the release of iOS10/WatchOS3.
As far as battery life, I've been testing apps as complications versus Docked apps. Overall, most Apple native apps perform the same (drain battery at the same rate). However, I have noticed that (as of Beta 2) the battery seems to drain faster with Activity as a Docked app rather than as a complication. For comparison, Now Playing did not have any noticeable difference/impact to battery life whether it is running/launched as a Complication or a Docked app. Using the Activity watch faces also appeared to maintain the standard rate of battery drain so this only appears to be affecting Activity in the Dock.
Interesting. I'll have to try that the next time. Thanks. Bottom line is this beta version is probably a step back. Maybe one step forward and a few steps back. Some great improvements, but more oddities.
Out of interest, how many watch faces you have? And what are they?
I have three (Analog Activity, Numerals, Modular) and I haven't had this happen to me once, even though I have rebooted my watch few times during Beta 2.
Does anyone know if the Do Not Disturb glitch (which has been here since OS 1) is still present? Basically, if you enable it for a group conversation on iPhone, you still get notified of new messages on your watch.
Before you ask, yes I made sure everything that needed to be enabled is enabled. Messages are still going trough!
Before you ask, yes I made sure everything that needed to be enabled is enabled. Messages are still going trough!
THIS. This "bug" has been infuriating my wife a ton lately. I can't believe in 2 major releases it has yet to be fixed.
I typically have about 8 faces but only three varieties. The same three you mention. Just specific faces for work and exercise and sleep and a few other weekend choices.
It has happened to me about three times and it was the hard reset and a simple power off and on.
Beta 3 fixes the issue where if the watch was rebooted, your clock face arrangements get reset to the defaults.
Finally
Finally