Is watch os10 just cosmetic stuff?

[InvertedGoldfish]

So I did the watchos10 install, biggest innovation since the Apple Watch they claim, so what’s the difference, they changed the button for toggling through your apps, added a few faces, so it’s just cosmetic fluff?
Does it actually do anything differently?

I thought it had VPN capabilities, turns out not

Anything I’m missing here?

 

[Bichon]

Why would you need VPN capabilities on a watch?

 

[deeddawg]

Support for third party VPN capabilities was for tvOS 17, not watchOS 10.

 

[Howard2k]

What’s new in Apple Watch and watchOS 11

New features in Apple Watch and watchOS 11.

support.apple.com

 

[InvertedGoldfish]

Why would you need VPN capabilities on a watch?

Safety reasons


I trust my phone company about as much as my ISP, which I trust about as much as my government, which is less than I trust gas station sushi

 

[InvertedGoldfish]

Support for third party VPN capabilities was for tvOS 17, not watchOS 10.

Introducing watchOS 10, a milestone update for Apple Watch

Apple previewed watchOS 10, bringing Apple Watch users redesigned apps, a new Smart Stack to show relevant widgets when needed, and new watch faces.

www.apple.com

 

[Howard2k]

Do you have MDM?

 

[deeddawg]

Introducing watchOS 10, a milestone update for Apple Watch

Apple previewed watchOS 10, bringing Apple Watch users redesigned apps, a new Smart Stack to show relevant widgets when needed, and new watch faces.

www.apple.com

Cool.

Are you having trouble downloading a vpn client?
best to ask the company providing it.

 

[Apple_Robert]

Terrible idea running a VPN on a watch. If it even works correctly, it will be terribly slow.

 

[Abazigal]

So I did the watchos10 install, biggest innovation since the Apple Watch they claim, so what’s the difference, they changed the button for toggling through your apps, added a few faces, so it’s just cosmetic fluff?
Does it actually do anything differently?

I thought it had VPN capabilities, turns out not

Anything I’m missing here?

I guess the cosmetic changes change how you interact with your watch.

For example, the widget view means I no longer have to rely on Siri watch face just to access my calendar. I can use another watch face, and still quickly access my widgets by rotating the digital crown.

Kinda indifferent between pressing the side button and swiping up for control centre. But cool that it now has its own dedicated button, I suppose.

The new app grid means I no longer have to navigate through a blob of apps, though I had spent some time previously organising my apps into 4 quadrants. I basically just put my more frequently accessed apps at the top and don't bother with the rest.

Everything feels like it can be done with just a little less friction than before.

 

[deeddawg]

Terrible idea running a VPN on a watch. If it even works correctly, it will be terribly slow.

I’m just here to find out what somebody’s doing on their watch that they need to hide behind a VPN… 😁

 

[InvertedGoldfish]

I’m just here to find out what somebody’s doing on their watch that they need to hide behind a VPN… 😁

Being American

 

[InvertedGoldfish]

Do you have MDM?

I asked, even if I buy that crap it won’t work apparently

 

[manu chao]

So I did the watchos10 install, biggest innovation since the Apple Watch they claim, so what’s the difference, they changed the button for toggling through your apps, added a few faces, so it’s just cosmetic fluff?
Does it actually do anything differently?

Anything I’m missing here?

Here is a decent review of watchOS 10: https://www.macstories.net/stories/watchos-10-the-macstories-review/

The main 'innovation' is the smart stack of widgets that you now get by swiping up (or scrolling up via the Digital Crown). By default it is populated by automatically selected items but you can pin as many of the 'widgets' to the top as you want to get your own chosen list of widgets.

Widgets are summarised versions of apps (ie, they show a portion of what the actual app would show) as well as means to launch the actual apps. You can also have a widget that shows three complications.

In a sense, where previously you could swipe left and right to get to different watch faces that, via complications, showed content from different apps and thus also served as a way to launch apps via this, now you you swipe up to see a set of sort of larger 'complications'.

Why they had to remove the left-right swipe method to add the up-swipe method, however, is a mystery (well, some say that too many people accidentally swiped left or right and unintentionally changed their watch face and that is the reason why they removed this functionality).

 

[InvertedGoldfish]

Here is a decent review of watchOS 10: https://www.macstories.net/stories/watchos-10-the-macstories-review/

The main 'innovation' is the smart stack of widgets that you now get by swiping up (or scrolling up via the Digital Crown). By default it is populated by automatically selected items but you can pin as many of the 'widgets' to the top as you want to get your own chosen list of widgets.

Widgets are summarised versions of apps (ie, they show a portion of what the actual app would show) as well as means to launch the actual apps. You can also have a widget that shows three complications.

In a sense, where previously you could swipe left and right to get to different watch faces that, via complications, showed content from different apps and thus also served as a way to launch apps via this, now you you swipe up to see a set of sort of larger 'complications'.

Why they had to remove the left-right swipe method to add the up-swipe method, however, is a mystery (well, some say that too many people accidentally swiped left or right and unintentionally changed their watch face and that is the reason why they removed this functionality).

So it remapped the buttons


Having had it for a few weeks, I’d happily trade back my battery life for a button remap