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

[john991]

My heart rate goes wacky at the start of my workout. Like 150bpm, on my other heart rate monitor it's 110bpm, after awhile both heart rate monitors are close, like 1 to 2 bpm apart.

I'm not going all out to have my heart rate at 150bpm!

Anyone else notice this?

Previous beta I didn't have this problem.

 

[BarracksSi]

How do you lock the screen now?

During a workout?
Swipe right and tap Lock.

Pressing both buttons during a workout pauses the workout recording.

 

[Mlrollin91]

During a workout?
Swipe right and tap Lock.

Pressing both buttons during a workout pauses the workout recording.

No, how to lock screen in general? Before the control center had the lock, but apparently 3.1.1 removes that. Sometimes I lock the watch when in the shower because the water activates complications on my screen.

 

[Watabou]

No, how to lock screen in general? Before the control center had the lock, but apparently 3.1.1 removes that. Sometimes I lock the watch when in the shower because the water activates complications on my screen.

I haven't found a way to other than to take the Apple Watch off your wrist.

 

[Mlrollin91]

I haven't found a way to other than to take the Apple Watch off your wrist.

That's unfortunate. Thanks for replying.

 

[ManicMarc]

Has anyone else noticed that when you use the "Play alert sound" function from the "Find my iPhone" app to make your watch beep, the green LED on the back also flashes. Quite cool. watchOS 3.1.

 

[tivoboy]

Has anyone else noticed that when you use the "Play alert sound" function from the "Find my iPhone" app to make your watch beep, the green LED on the back also flashes. Quite cool. watchOS 3.1.

this USED to be possible from the watch with just a touch and HOLD of the located button in the glances. Used to work on the newer control center screen, but now doesn't seem to work that way any longer.

 

[ManicMarc]

this USED to be possible from the watch with just a touch and HOLD of the located button in the glances. Used to work on the newer control center screen, but now doesn't seem to work that way any longer.

You're thinking of making the phone beep from the watch, that still works. I'm talking about making the Watch beep from your phone. Pretty cool the watch lights up too.

 

[john991]

watchOS 3.1.1 beta 4 is out, but NO OTA update as of yet.

 

[Watabou]

watchOS 3.1.1 beta 4 is out, but NO OTA update as of yet.

OTA out now. This is probably the final build for 3.1.1

 

[john991]

OTA out now. This is probably the final build for 3.1.1

Do you notice anything different with beta 4?

 

[coolbreeze]

Not getting watchOS beta on my Series 1.

Is it only for Series 2 or something? I just updated my iPhone 7+ to the newest beta and installed the AW beta profile on my Series 1. Not showing any updates at all.

Please don't say this is the start of fragmentation between Series 1/2 watches (I don't care about Series 0).

 

[gwhizkids]

Not getting watchOS beta on my Series 1.

Is it only for Series 2 or something? I just updated my iPhone 7+ to the newest beta and installed the AW beta profile on my Series 1. Not showing any updates at all.

Please don't say this is the start of fragmentation between Series 1/2 watches (I don't care about Series 0).

Are you a Developer and have Dev profile on your phone?

 

[coolbreeze]

Are you a Developer and have Dev profile on your phone?

Nope. Thought the public beta was out. No beta at all is installing. Just stuck on 3.1 stable. Thought I'd get at least preview 3. Oh well.

 

[I_ndeed]

Beta program does not exist for AW

 

[coolbreeze]

Beta program does not exist for AW

Eh, I was able to install a beta update on my Series 2 last month. I ended up returning it and got the Series 1. I'm not crazy...it was a 3.1.1 public beta. I'm not a developer.

 

[gwhizkids]

Eh, I was able to install a beta update on my Series 2 last month. I ended up returning it and got the Series 1. I'm not crazy...it was a 3.1.1 public beta. I'm not a developer.

Anomaly then. There is no public Apple Watch beta program as you can't recover from any issue bricking the Watch. It has to go back to factory.

 

[coolbreeze]

Anomaly then. There is no public Apple Watch beta program as you can't recover from any issue bricking the Watch. It has to go back to factory.

Cool. Wonder why the beta profile installs on the AW just fine if it's meaningless. Whatever.

 

[gwhizkids]

Cool. Wonder why the beta profile installs on the AW just fine if it's meaningless. Whatever.

If you obtain the profile it will install. That's not the issue.

 

[coolbreeze]

If you obtain the profile it will install. That's not the issue.

I get that it's not intended for public "normals" consumption, but just allowing the beta profile to install for anyone then it doing nothing is kinda counter-intuitive from a logic standpoint. You just go to the Apple beta site, install the profile and it pops up asking you "phone/watch" and you click whichever you want.

Bob from Missouri, a 25 yr old non-developer installs the beta profile for his watch. It does nothing. Bob is confused, calls Apple.

I mean, just disable the ability to install the beta profile if you aren't a developer? Nah, too logical.

This is what the general public sees. While you can simply install the beta profile, it doesn't do...anything...

 

[BarracksSi]

The "general public" doesn't see any of that.

 

[coolbreeze]

The "general public" doesn't see any of that.

This is a silly argument, but I'll chime in and shut up. The general public absolutely does. It's the page for public beta releases...Apple puts it right out there for anyone to jump in and try. Now, is your average 45 yr old housewife going to say "ooh, I want to beta test!" Hell no, of course not, but people do use beta software (breaking news).

My point is, offering the beta OS profile for the Apple Watch to non-developers when it doesn't do anything at all is silly. Feel free to disagree, but it's true. If there isn't public access to the WatchOS beta, then why even offer the profile at all? The phone profile installs fine and updates fine...

Anyhow, guess I'm wrong here, cool. Installing a non-functional beta profile on an Apple Watch is so logical. K.

 

[Mlrollin91]

I get that it's not intended for public "normals" consumption, but just allowing the beta profile to install for anyone then it doing nothing is kinda counter-intuitive from a logic standpoint. You just go to the Apple beta site, install the profile and it pops up asking you "phone/watch" and you click whichever you want.

You have to tell the device what profile you are installing. If you install the Public beta profile for iOS to your watch, nothing happens because its not compatible. You know what profile you are downloading and trying to install. Its not counter-intutitve, you just have to specify the profile that you are installing.
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This is a silly argument, but I'll chime in and shut up. The general public absolutely does. It's the page for public beta releases...Apple puts it right out there for anyone to jump in and try. Now, is your average 45 yr old housewife going to say "ooh, I want to beta test!" Hell no, of course not, but people do use beta software (breaking news).

My point is, offering the beta OS profile for the Apple Watch to non-developers when it doesn't do anything at all is silly. Feel free to disagree, but it's true. If there isn't public access to the WatchOS beta, then why even offer the profile at all? The phone profile installs fine and updates fine...

Anyhow, guess I'm wrong here, cool. Installing a non-functional beta profile on an Apple Watch is so logical. K.

How are they offering the beta profile for the watch to non-developers? Public beta users do not have access to the Apple Watch profile. They do not offer a profile for public beta. That is merely a popup asking where you want to install the profile you have downloaded. It is the iOS 10 profile, not the watchOS 3 profile. iOS does not know what the profile is until you click install, but you have to select the destination first. Its just like installing software on your computer, you select the installation destination first, then it tells you what you are about to install.

You are not installing a non-functional beta profile on to your watch, you are installing an iOS profile on your watch.

 

[coolbreeze]

I'm running iOS 10 beta on my iPhone 7 Plus just fine. When I click Apple Watch it installs a beta profile onto my Apple Watch app and prompts to reboot the watch after. That's the entire misunderstanding here is it sets up the Apple Watch app for the beta profile and reboots to provision the watch itself for the beta, however there's no beta update despite the profile being installed. Since it's restricted to developers, why is the profile available on the general beta page for the public?

I understand your point about installing an iOS profile on the watch...but what logic in the world does that have? What's the goal of Apples beta page offering to do that? Isn't it reasonable for end users to expect it to do something?

Anyway I really don't care, I'm out.

 

[dictoresno]

What the hell are you guys arguing about?

There are basically 3 beta profiles I think everyone is confusing here. Two for iOS (public and dev) and one for the watch (dev only). Both of the iOS profiles can be installed on the watch but won't do squat, they will NOT invoke a beta update. However installing the watchOS dev bet profile to the watch will.

Months ago, someone shared the watchOS and iOS 10 dev profiles publicly and people were able to install the watchOS betas on their devices. I'm one of those people. I think some of you are confusing the iOS dev beta and installing it on the watch and confused why it doesn't do anything. It shouldn't, it's for iOS. But I promise you, the watchOS dev beta does indeed grant you access to the dev beta watchOS versions. I myself are and always have been running them and I'm not a dev.

Coolbreeze, you are installing the iOS beta profile to your watch. Of course it won't work. The only misunderstanding is your assumption that this profile will do something for the watch. It won't. And the fact it won't isn't because it's "restricted to devs only" it's because it's not the correct profile. The profile is available in the public beta page because it's for public iOS beta testers.

Just because the round peg fits through the square hole, doesn't make it a square. You have confused two different profiles.

Below is what the watch profile looks like, installed on the watch app. Clearly, different than yours. To the watch and the phone, a profile is a profile. It doesn't discriminate what it's installing. As long as it's an apple verified profile, it will install. What it does on that device will depend on the hardware. An iOS profile on a watch won't do anything.

Edit: after rereading your thread, looks like you grasp the concept I just reiterated. My guess on your question is that as I stated, Apple devices see the profile just as that.....a profile. It can't understand the name of the profile and prevent it to install on an incorrect device. All it knows is it's a valid profile and installs it. Guess they depend on people being smart enough to install the correct profile on the correct hardware.