From all reports, yes. I stopped doing the betas about 30 days ago when my warranty expired. Not worth the risk.
Although I don't know this, there's a decent chance the release version of 3.1.3 lands today or in the next several days.
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Apple Watch: All the Little Things! [watchOS 4.3 beta]
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From all reports, yes. I stopped doing the betas about 30 days ago when my warranty expired. Not worth the risk.
Although I don't know this, there's a decent chance the release version of 3.1.3 lands today or in the next several days.
Anyone else noticing that Bluetooth keeps cutting in and out or turning on and off. I think this happened awhile back too. I'll look at my watch and see the disconnected icon or be looking at the phone and notice the Bluetooth icon disappear, come back as grey and flicker and then turn on as normal. Seems to only happen with the watch, nothing else. Maybe it's a watchOS 3.1.3 beta issue.
Watch wasn't even working over wifi either during the Bluetooth disconnect and had to toggle airplane mode once to get both back.
Watch wasn't even working over wifi either during the Bluetooth disconnect and had to toggle airplane mode once to get both back.
How is battery on Series 2? Sometimes my watch on 3.1 drops to 99 after 1,5 hours and other times after 4 hours. If the 1,5 hour thing happens my watch'll be at 50-55 percent at the end of the day while if the latter happens it'll be at 65-70.
Does this sound familiar? (Both days include a 30 minute workout with GPS, Music on airpods and Heartrate monitor on via the nike plus app)
Does this sound familiar? (Both days include a 30 minute workout with GPS, Music on airpods and Heartrate monitor on via the nike plus app)
My Apple Watch series 0 doesn't last a full day anymore before the battery dies. Is anyone else experiencing this? I used to be at 50% charge at the end of the day, when I first got the watch at launch. I'm not sure if it's just the beta or it's something else.
No. Not at all. Are you running beta? And how long have you had your first generation Apple Watch?
I haven't seen a lot of general reports about the first generation Apple Watch suffering from any battery issues. Perhaps it's the beta and/or the glitches within the beta.
In the meantime, try powering on and off your Watch. Sometimes you have apps or rogue processes running in the background that consume battery life. Power cycling may stop those. If that doesn't work, unpair and re-pair your Watch. That will almost certainly help.
I've since tried tweaking a few things. I've turned off background app refresh, removed a few things from the dock and powered off/on like you suggested. It seems a lot better at the end of the day so far.
watchOS 3.1.3 has bought Theater Mode and SiriKit support.
I can't find the setting to turn on Theater Mode though. Nothing in Settings referencing it that I could find.
I can't find the setting to turn on Theater Mode though. Nothing in Settings referencing it that I could find.
Same here, can't find anything about it. Nothing looks different on my Series 0 Sport.
Apparently Apple's documentation has a typo. SiriKit and Theater Mode are apparently coming with watchOS 3.2 beta. The SiriKit documentation on Apple's developer website references watchOS 3.2.
I find it very odd that they have the watchOS 3.2 information on the dev site but no sign of the beta yet, 24 hours later.