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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]

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In 3.3.1 I'm finding launching and interacting with the Music complication A LOT faster, I definitely notice this as I use it a lot and since 3.0 it has been very slow and clunky. I'll continue to monitor this as it simply be because the watch has restarted following the update which tends to speed things up temporarily.

Anybody else noticed an increase in performance with the Music complication?
 
Anyone else noticing extreme battery drain on 3.1.1? Yesterday my watch barely made it through the day -_- (watch series 0)
 
So, we're now 3.5 days in: how are people seeing battery life/performance on 3.1.1 vs 3.1. I really don't want to move up (esp on a first beta) unless I get more or less the same performance.
 
gwhizkids said:
So, we're now 3.5 days in: how are people seeing battery life/performance on 3.1.1 vs 3.1. I really don't want to move up (esp on a first beta) unless I get more or less the same performance.
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Pretty good so far. Took off the charger at around 9:30AM at 95% (wore it when sleeping), then came home at 6:30 with the battery at 59%. Single outdoor walk workout for 20 minutes.

richard371 said:
Well after I unpaired and repaired it was fine for almost 25 hours. I was swiping through faces yesterday and it rebooted.

Is their a way to restore the OS like you do on an iphone in DFU mode.
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Did you restore from a backup? If so, might want to try erasing the watch completely, and then don't restore from a backup.
 
No issues after a few days with 3.1.1 beta 1. Battery is as it was on 3.1.1 and again the animation and frame rates are increased. Dismissing messages and Scribble are both quicker. It's good to see that as 10.2 irons out speed issues and animations on iOS devices, watchOS 3.1.1 does the same - especially for series 0.
 
So the only real "problem" with this beta seems to be the altered stand recognition during sleep.
Just reported it as a "bug" to Apple. Happened the 4th night in a row now since I installed the beta on my Watch.
 
Has the group message notification been fixed? Every version of watchOS, if you are in a group message with people using both iMessage/SMS, and you have it muted/DND on your phone, you still get alerts on your watch.....
 
Are you guys wearing your Apple Watch when it recognizes your stand overnight? If no, do you guys have a passcode? If yes, when do you charge your Apple Watch?
 
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Are you guys wearing your Apple Watch when it recognizes your stand overnight? If no, do you guys have a passcode? If yes, when do you charge your Apple Watch?
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I wear my watch during sleep for sleep tracking and that is when it has logged the stand hours, though it logged two for the middle of the night at around 6:50am this morning. I was up then and saw the count go up. It had already logged the 6-7 stand hour.

I put my watch to charge about an hour before going to sleep. It's usually at about 65% then and it charges to 100% in time. I then put my
phone to charge whilst I am showering in the morning. It only goes down about 2% overnight.

I always put my watch in airplane mode when I put it to charge. It makes a difference.
 
Just installed beta 2 of 3.1.1. Immediately noticing an improved raise to wake feature. Seems faster and no delay when the screen is turning on. The amount of turn the wrist needs in order to light up the display seems reduced. Series 0 watch by the way. It's only a beta and things can of course slow down with the next one as we've seen before. I'm really impressed with the speed improvements since 3.1
 
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