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Is watchOS 3 b1 stable?
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In this case I don't get why they gave us a nightstand mode with snooze and all
The sleep timer is currently buggy and seems incomplete. I would expect it to come to AW later in the betas. For example it's kind of weird that even the sleep timer notifications doesn't come to your Watch. The sleep timer also has funny behavior: At the evening/night (or how you configure it) it tells you to go to sleep and gives you the choice of either to go to sleep or to remind you in 10mins. If you don't do anything to this message, it will be there in the morning when you wake up and will still tell you to go to sleep.
For the time being Nightsand Mode is broken for me in OS 3 - when I set the watch down it displays the wrong time more often, than not.
It happened with WatchOS 2 as well. There was a very inconvenient 3 week period where ApplePay was broken.
Good question. Seems it's no longer toggleable. You can still find references to it in the iPhone Watch app under General > Usage > at the bottom. It says "Apple Watch will enter Power Reserve when your battery levels near zero."
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*edit to my last post on the Power Reserve*
Found it! Pull up the new Control Centre and tap the battery percent meter and you can toggle Power Reserve (see screenshot)
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I'm trying to installed OS3 and the OS3 beta was installed but when I goes to the SW up in apple watch....it's still showing the previous version.....my iphone is already IOS 10.
Can someone advise me what I should do
Can someone advise me what I should do
Ah bummer. I don't charge the watch on business trips. Just use it for when I have flights. It lasts the whole week when I use it just as a watch when I don't need other features. I doubt it was an intentional omission in that they could've left it off this build with the intention of activating it on a future beta build
Edit: ah the scrolling bug got me. Just saw you found it. thank you!!!
Those of you who have installed the watch beta, how long did it take to download? I installed iOS 10 on my phone and it took maybe 15 minutes. I am work where we have a fast internet connection so I brought my watch charger with me today so I could get it done quickly here rather than on my much-slower connection at home. I downloaded the profile to my watch in minutes and watchOS 3.0 Beta 1 is in the process of downloading but it is PAINFULLY slow! When I first started, it said it had 20 hours remaining!!!!!!!!! After a half hour or so it reduced to 6 hours and now it says 5 hours. I didn't think it would take this long, I started at 9:30 am but I need it to be finished by noon! Argh!
It took way longer than I thought as well. Probably around 2 hours or so.
Yea it initially said two hours then went down to 45 mins left. Then eventually changed to 20 mins left. Total time was about 45 mins.
Mine had been going for over 2 hours. I had to go out to lunch and couldn't leave my phone behind so I just brought my phone and put the watch back on. I restarted the phone thinking it might stop the download and I could just do it again when I got back, at that point it said 5 hours. I got back from lunch and went back into the watch app but it appears to still be downloading, it now says 2 hours remaining. I don't have all afternoon to waste with this mess! Very frustrating.
Took me about 90 mins to download and install the iso worth the wait for just the scribble feature
You seem from Miami, is the thing out in FL? I'm in Gainesville and it won't load up. No clue why. Reset both devices and still can't see it. :/
I have had beta on my watch for months and last week it let me know the gold master was out and i downloaded it, so I can't confirm if the OTA one seems to be up. Did you update your phone to iOS 10?