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Apple Will Not Release watchOS 2 Today Due to Significant Bug

Chupa Chupa said:
My $ is down for on a security issue a White Hat found. As others have said GM was working fine so leads me to think it wasn't a performance issue.
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This was my thinking too... maybe something to do with apple pay or encryption from the phone to the watch.
Whatever it was it must have been significant enough to make them pull back and not push the update then a .1 update with the patch.
 
I'm guessing the bug is what I've seen the last couple nights - I've kept the watch off my wrist but beside me on my bed. Notifications (texts, emails, etc) are being displayed and I'm able to swipe down and attempt to reply to them without putting the watch back on my wrist.
 
dukejl said:
I'm guessing the bug is what I've seen the last couple nights - I've kept the watch off my wrist but beside me on my bed. Notifications (texts, emails, etc) are being displayed and I'm able to swipe down and attempt to reply to them without putting the watch back on my wrist.
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This has happened to my watch twice since April and I didn't upgrade to the beta.
 
bmat said:
There was speculation earlier in this thread that ios9 will cut off notifications unless you're running os2 on your watch. Was that just made up or true?
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Made up. Likely the person encountered a beta bug and doing usual steps would have resolved it. I was running 1.01 with 9 from beta 1 to GM and all good.
 
I'd rather keep my all-day battery in place of new features since it is the most important aspect of the Watch. I don't need to carry a charger with me since I have the phone. I just put the magnetic charger on before I sleep.
 
I would imagine Apple are embarrassed and have everyone working on the issue to release the Watch OS today or tomorrow. The longer it goes on, the more likely the press will start to make a deal out of it.

jwm said:
I'm thinking it will be next week sometime, possibly toward the end of the week.
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It's that battery drain problem some users may experience. Your battery runs out in a few hours, but it's easy to fix, but that's if you know how. That's not what Apple believes their product should be like.
 
jwm said:
I'm thinking it will be next week sometime, possibly toward the end of the week.
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I don't think that's enough time to implement a change and fully test it. The last thing Apple wants to do is roll out a major update and the new fix actually breaks something else that was not noticed because they didn't test it fully.

When you push something in, something else can pop out, when making changes to code.
 
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maflynn said:
I don't think that's enough time to implement a change and fully test it. The last thing Apple wants to do is roll out a major update and the new fix actually breaks something else that was not noticed because they didn't test it fully.

When you push something in, something else can pop out, when making changes to code.
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i hope its not delayed for weeks.
 
nick42983 said:
Really lame Apple. I hope this and any other bug is squished before its released otherwise it'll be really embarassing.
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No no. You cannot have a go at Apple for this. If they released it and you found a critical bug, you'd still be grumpy. It's the right thing to do, they'll release it when it's ready which hopefully is very soon.
 
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That's a bummer. I was more excited about OS2 than OS9. I'm trying to download the GM..... But, it's taking forever.
 
Apple watch app software update check is failing for me. Yesterday it showed no update available
 
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