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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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Only English + Chinese (trad + simplified) has ever been announced. Why would you think that changed in the GM?
Because it's a no brainer since the characters are still the same and the dictionary is the only difference.
Really? You don't make use of ä, ö or ü at all? Huh. Komisch. Sie haben letzte Mal, dass ich Deutsch gelernt.
I have two watches - a stainless and a gold aluminum. I installed the 3.0 beta on my stainless and so far (~6 hrs) it's working quite well. Running the public beta of iOS 10 on my phone as well.
In case something broke, I left my other watch on the 2.2.2 release.
If it were my only watch, however, I probably would have waited until the general release.
I suspect it will come, but Apple needed to cover their 2 largest markets first. I'd watch for additional languages in 3.1 and beyond.
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I decided to wade in based on inputs here and on Reddit, including from an apparent Apple employee. Worked like a charm. Awesome OS. Really does make the Watch feel like a completely different product! Going to take a while to re-train myself not to swipe down for Glances, though.
It'll be fun when Scribble reads 한글. But I'm not very good at it, so I wonder if it'll be patient enough to wait for each stroke (and if it follows correct penmanship).
For all of you OS 3.0 beta testers:
Is it now possible to have a BT headset connected to the watch, so when you receive an incoming call and you answer it on the watch you'll get the audio in your BT headset?
This must be fixed, crazy that it's not yet possible. You don't want the call audio on your watch's speaker, of course you want it in a connected headset.
Is it now possible to have a BT headset connected to the watch, so when you receive an incoming call and you answer it on the watch you'll get the audio in your BT headset?
This must be fixed, crazy that it's not yet possible. You don't want the call audio on your watch's speaker, of course you want it in a connected headset.
There's now a new view in the calendar app called "Next" (or how ever it's in english). This view shows only one event at a time in a card like view and you can scroll to see previous or next events/"cards". As a bonus, it very clearly shows the actual date of said event, for example today's date as "Today 8" or "Friday 9" for tomorrow. The other two views shows today's date as just "Today", which I find annoying.
Not sure when this was added. Noticed it today after updating to the latest version (GM/final).
Not sure when this was added. Noticed it today after updating to the latest version (GM/final).
Anyone getting terrible battery life on watchOS 3 GM? I am already at 50% (took off the charger about 8:45 AM eastern). Normally I would still have about 70% easily. Seems both watches of mine are affected. Restarted both, but it's still pretty bad.
Besides the fact that those are not how the letters are presented in a dictionary, nor is there a precedent for letting two separate letters combine into one, that's not the issue here. The scribble feature takes into consideration grammatical context when you scribble letters. It's not as simple as letting you make up letters into words.
First of all, before there were ö,ä & ü, the people in Europe used the double character representation.
And why does the scribble feature recognize traditional Chinese but can't process "German Umlauts", "Castellano" (Spanish), etc.? Cmon, this is ridiculous.
When you say "before" you are talking prior to the 8th century, so I'm guessing we should start clamoring for runes to be accepted next huh?
8th century? lol. Whatever man. Could you please stop talking bs and get this back to topic and just answer my question or just be silent if you have nothing to say?
I just wanted to know if this feature is enabled in the GM version.
But if you are unwilling to help by just enabling another language on your iOS device and head over to your watch, but start a conversation about my language, then I don't know what else to say.
Instead of whining about it, submit your resume to Apple and offer to help write the code to enable another language.
Then, after you've contributed to the codebase, come back and tell us what you succeeded in doing. After that, we can whine at you for not adding even more languages.
Are you on dope?
I don't know if it's working unless it's released. I was just asking if anyone has tested it on the latest build which was released yesterday.
I also explained how to test it in three easy steps, but whatever.
Nope.
I just understand that there are people on the other side of that thing, writing code to build into the OS, who have gotten this far in the Scribble feature and are working on compatibility for more languages.
There was an old Steve Jobs video where he says, "Every thing you see was made by people no smarter than yourself. And once you realize that, the whole world opens up."* Point being, you are just as capable as anyone else of building the things we use.
So, like I said, get cracking on learning how to code and go work on this watchOS thing. Otherwise, you sound like a teenager complaining about Mom not making brownies this week.
*(may be an inexact quote, but I'm going off the top of my head)
In the case of ae, that ligature was first used in manuscripts in the 8th century, when Christianisation happened in Scandinavia, and old norse was translated from runes to the latin alphabet. The umlaut-a arose in Germany sometime after 1100 A.D. I have answered your question fully twice over, so how you keep whining about a feature that you somehow imagine would be "enabled" from the last beta to the GM (hint: it's not) is beyond me.
I am fluent in five languages and would love to see my native language (Norwegian) supported. However, instead of whinging and having unrealistic expectation I understand why these things take time to develop and often do not work as well as when applied to English. There are different set of grammatical rules (hello multiple tenses and gendered subjectives!), special characters and letters and different cultural modes and sociolects to take into consideration.
But do go ahead and tell me how I'm BSing you.
You know that it was enabled in some beta stage and worked well? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-is-the-scribble-feature-on-the-watch-os-3.1977621/page-2
And I just made a question here. No reason to be such a ********. Plus you're still not helping, just trying to troll, but I have no ****s to give.
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FINALLY! You've answered m question, thanks! Have you actually tested it in different languages?
You mean while playing? The + to the left of the volume button adds it your library. Or you click the ... button to the right to have the options to add/remove to library, like or dislike.