Leaked watchOS 4.1 GM Release Notes Confirm Apple Music Streaming, GymKit Support

[bbeagle]

Since I don't have the watch yet I was wondering how do you update the iOS in watch through iTunes or using wifi directly on the watch?

You use the Watch app on the iPhone. Inside the Watch app under General is 'Software Update'. Click that, and then as long as the phone and watch are near each other (and the watch is on the charging cable), it will update.

 

[ErikGrim]

- Resolves an issue where the current stand hour indicator did not appear for some users

So glad this is fixed. Thought I was the only one missing stand hours when I wasn’t.

You can fix this right now by setting Wheelchair option from Not Set to No in your Health settings.

 

[friednoodles]

You can fix this right now by setting Wheelchair option from Not Set to No in your Health settings.

Not for everyone. While I have that set to No and get stand reminders, it doesn’t fix the stand hour indicator for me. Glad to see this fixed as well.

 

[bthomas815]

Just want to say the watch band on the watch pictured in this article is off center and it’s bothering me.

Now that you point this out... me too!
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Not for everyone. While I have that set to No and get stand reminders, it doesn’t fix the stand hour indicator for me. Glad to see this fixed as well.

The wheelchair thing doesn't fix it for me or my wife.

 

[Traverse]

For the love of God bring back the ability to control your iCloud/locally stored music library on your Watch.

This. I didn’t even know it was fine until I was sleeping at the hospital a few weeks ago (mother’s surgery) and I finally got comfortable on the horrid couch and was listening to music on my AirPods from my phone in a bag out of reach. I decided to choose another album using my watch (which I rarely do since the series 0 is so slow) and spent like 5 minutes scrolling and swiping and force pressing and jumping to settings because I could find the local library.

I finally got up and got my phone and googled it only to find they removed it for the stupid Apple Music playlists.

My first reaction was:

 

[xpxp2002]

You can fix this right now by setting Wheelchair option from Not Set to No in your Health settings.

Mine was already set to "No." Still don't see the fading bar.

 

[Kievreece]

Sheesh...bought an S2 Apple Watch this spring...have it on watchOS 4.1 and it’s already feeling like it needs to be thrown in the trash for a S3. Performance is OK but battery life is absolutely terrible compared to watchOS 3. I used to have 80% during a light day on watchOS 3 now I have 30-40% with the same usage on watchOS 4.1. On heavy days on watchOS 3 I’d never go much lower than 50%...it was literally hard to kill the battery. Now I’m struggle to keep it from hitting power reserve on heavy days...I have to be really careful now.

This just ain’t right.

I ran the betas over the summer then had apple do a firmware restore at AppleCare to clear all the beta files after a few weeks and put a fresh copy of watchOS 4.1. That means the beta software should be removed right or is my device permanently damaged with beta software? Either way something is seriously whacked with watchOS 4 right now and Apple has their work cut out for them