If anyone has the watch OS 7 beta installed and is using the hand washing reminder where it will alert you when your home, will you let me know if it’s working? I can’t even enable the option because it says I have not added my home address to my card in contacts. I absolutely have my home address in my card so I don’t understand what the problem is. If anyone has any advice it would be appreciated. Thanks
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Mine has worked fine since day 1. Although I thought it was broken because it wasn’t working. But then i realised i hasn’t switched it on
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Mine won’t even allow me to switch it on. It’s grayed out. Says I need to add my home address to my card in contacts and I’ve already done that so I don’t know what else to do.
Why on earth would you need your home address to enable a hand washing feature???? That simply does not make sense.
FWIW mine has worked since day 1 - I enabled it and it just works. However, if i come home and wash my hands immediately (well within 1-2 mins) it doesn't remind me.
Hope this helps AW5 WatchOS7 B3.
Hope this helps AW5 WatchOS7 B3.
Supposedly it will remind you when you come home to wash your hands. As of right now, I don't have the option to enable it because it says that I have not added my home address in contacts under the "my card" but I have added it so I don't know what is going on. I have gave up on this for now. The handwashing feature itself is working so I am just using that.
Same here. I have a home address listed on my card in contacts (and have deleted and reentered that address just to see if that helped) but I can’t select the option for reminders on my Watch either and have same error as you.
Yeah it is really weird. I guess as long as the handwashing feature is working which mine is, that is the most important thing but I just can't get any reminders.
Turned it off cuz it would keep activating while riding my bike on gravel ground. I am guessing the watch thinks the sound of the bike riding on gravel + the shacking wrist comes from running water 🤷🏽♂️
It's working fine on my S5 and I'm in the UK and on the Public Beta 7.0 (18R5350e)
I'm keeping my S3 on watchOS 6 as a fallback so I can't tell you if it's a series thing.
I don’t know if there is something to activate in the Health app on the iPhone, but I can’t find any toggle about hands washing
Unfortunately, it does not. WatchOS 7 skipped a couple features for the Series 3 due to hardware limitations. Much like WatchOS 6 where the Series 3 did not get the ambient noise monitor.
Why on earth would anyone ever need a hand washing feature in the first place? When did people stop teaching their children to wash their hands as soon as they get home? Was it on the same day they stopped teaching them to take off their shoes?
Seriously, do people really need reminders for everything? We've already got that stupendously braindead breathe reminder, so what's next? "Hey, about about a nice, long poop?" "Hey, have you brushed your teeth lately?" "Hey, don't forget to shower!"
This is how the world ends.
It has a feature to remind you when you get home to wash your hands.
Handwashing is not supported on the series 3.
For those with the beta and the aforementioned feature, is it possible to set a handwashing alert for every 20 minutes?
You’re really opening yourself up to heavy criticism with this post. Here’s a thought...why don’t you do some research first? What is the major worldwide event happening in 2020? How does this relate to hand washing? Why would you need to wash you hands when you get home?
As for children - well, we don’t live in Pleasantville anymore.
Oh and...the breathe reminder is to remind you to stop and take some time for mindfulness during a busy day. Not to actually “breathe”. Again. Research helps here - though I can’t imagine you as a person interested mindfulness.
I'd never have thought I'd read this sentence in connection with an Apple Watch. 😁
@Defender2010 Pandemic or not, the way I was raised by my parents is to do two things first as soon as I get home: 1) take off my shoes, and 2) go wash my hands. Apparently, that doesn't seem to be the norm any longer (or maybe it never was, no idea). I find it sad that as a society we've gotten to the point where people need to be reminded of the most basic principles of human hygiene.
And yes, that mindfulness nonsense can go where the sun never shines. Quite frankly I couldn't care less about this kind of esoteric new-age nonsense.
And yes, that mindfulness nonsense can go where the sun never shines. Quite frankly I couldn't care less about this kind of esoteric new-age nonsense.
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Well, I was also taught this along with changing out of my school uniform as soon as I got home. I understand where you are coming from.@Defender2010 Pandemic or not, the way I was raised by my parents is to do two things first as soon as I get home: 1) take off my shoes, and 2) go wash my hands. Apparently, that doesn't seem to be the norm any longer (or maybe it never was, no idea). I find it sad that as a society we've gotten to the point where people need to be reminded of the most basic principles of human hygiene.
And yes, that mindfulness nonsense can go where the sun never shines. Quite frankly I couldn't care less about this kind of esoteric new-age nonsense.
I agree it’s probably not the norm to do this now - some people have lousy self hygiene no matter what is going on. I think it’s a helpful reminder given the world we currently live in. It’s sometimes easy to forget when you are busy just living life.
I practice mindfulness but i turn off reminders as i believe once you do it you don’t really need a reminder. There’s a time and a place for that.
Mine is greyed out also, Mine was ON by default and hand wash counts down and detects very well, just the at home reminder won’t work due to the home address issue on my card, it’s greyed out as i mentioned and do have address on my me card, if I am using my watch and go into handwash tab for split second as it flicks from handwash tab in watch settings to being in the handwash sttings, I can time it correctly where i can turn home reminders on before it greys out, but it remains grey even with toggle on for home reminders but soon as i exit it turns toggle back to off and greyed out again,
I’m curios to see if the posters on here saying there’s work, are on “PUBLIC/DEV” watchOS7?¿ I’m on the Dev beta, using series 5 watch in Aussie
I’ve also tried wifi and also cellular on my watch and this makes no difference either
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I’m curios to see if the posters on here saying there’s work, are on “PUBLIC/DEV” watchOS7?¿ I’m on the Dev beta, using series 5 watch in Aussie
I’ve also tried wifi and also cellular on my watch and this makes no difference either
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