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Native apps do not load
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When they launch, native apps show the name in the upper left corner. Non native apps have the name under the spinner.
I must be one of the lucky ones. I have PCalc, City Mapper, Dark Sky, Parcel and iTranslate and they all work fine.
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Is that really the only way to tell? No identifier on the app store or list on the watch... you need to open each individual app? Seems odd. In any event it seems like none of my apps are native yet... a few of them have updates awaiting though so I'll see soon enough
The good news is that Apple is working to quickly phase out remote extension based apps. The section for it in Xcode is gone, and even better, the transition to making an app native is pretty straightforward and doesn't require too much effort on the part of the dev.
I suppose a developer could say in the release notes, but the position of the name while loading seems the only official way to distinguish thus far.
You don't even know if you have the native versions installed so stop trolling with such naive comments here when most of us are having this widespread issue
9.0.1 is out today. Installed and it made no difference.
And I should make it clear that this is only happening for SOME people. I know others here in the office who don't have the problem. And yes, they are using native apps, as they are actually trying out an app I wrote and published on the app store. So we are testing the same releases, the same software apps. Some people have the problem. Some do not.
And I should make it clear that this is only happening for SOME people. I know others here in the office who don't have the problem. And yes, they are using native apps, as they are actually trying out an app I wrote and published on the app store. So we are testing the same releases, the same software apps. Some people have the problem. Some do not.
Guys, frustrating updates.
The day before yesterday, I settled this issue by restoring my iPhone and set it as new.
Right after that, I installed Omnifocus, iTransalte and Citymapper to test if restoring iPhone is a solution.
Yes it is (temporarily), and all 3 apps can be launched without any problem.
I spend 3 hours to re-set my iPhone, tuning all the system setting, syncing apps and music, adjust home homescreen,log in all the apps on my iPhone etc...etc...and finally I got my iPhone ready to use.
The last setup is to re-repair with my Watch, and guess what!
Same issue happened again! Exactly the same symptom!
So, this is it, try another restore is nightmare and I am putting my Watch in the box until Apple provides an official solution.
The day before yesterday, I settled this issue by restoring my iPhone and set it as new.
Right after that, I installed Omnifocus, iTransalte and Citymapper to test if restoring iPhone is a solution.
Yes it is (temporarily), and all 3 apps can be launched without any problem.
I spend 3 hours to re-set my iPhone, tuning all the system setting, syncing apps and music, adjust home homescreen,log in all the apps on my iPhone etc...etc...and finally I got my iPhone ready to use.
The last setup is to re-repair with my Watch, and guess what!
Same issue happened again! Exactly the same symptom!
So, this is it, try another restore is nightmare and I am putting my Watch in the box until Apple provides an official solution.
Yes, I agree this is absolutely frustrating. I will keep it on my wrist without any native apps. The AW is still useful.
Me too. By the way, it is 79 degrees and no rain for the next hour. A cool night!
I hope apple issues an update to WatchOs2 in the upcoming days so we can all start to enjoy all the latest updated apps because otherwise our apple watches are extremely limited since we technically can't run any of the latest apps as most of the developers are updating their apps to be native on the Apple Watch which renders the apps completely broken, I mean at least we have some non-updated working apps right now but if these devs updated their apps they will stop working too. Frustrating to say the least.
Maybe we will see a similar patter to iOS 9 and apple will release a update one week later since the major release.
Monday - watchOS 2.0.1
Monday - watchOS 2.0.1
it seems to be that backup or backup feature is also "broken" so the only way to make it work DO NOT RESTORE ANY BACKUPS, EVEN OLD.
I know that our problem is too small, there are no sites or news talking about this issue so i think they will not fixit it cos even in iOS 9.1 issue is still exist. Apparently we should care myself
Agree, just like the peeling paint issue in some sport black model, the number of case is not significant enough to alert Apple.I know that our problem is too small, there are no sites or news talking about this issue so i think they will not fixit it cos even in iOS 9.1 issue is still exist. Apparently we should care myself
I am getting a 6s plus tomorrow, so I guess I could use the native apps afterwards. But I would still love to see an update in firmware that ultimately solve the problem.
Finally, finally, I made it to work.
1. Backup your iPhone using iTunes. (I don't know if an encrypted backup is necessary, because my friend didn't do that but I did.)
2. 'Erase All Content and Settings' from Settings app in your iPhone (Do NOT erase using iTunes! I've tried it and it doesn't work!)
3. 'Erase All Content and Settings' on your Apple Watch Settings app.
4. Restore your iPhone from backup using iTunes
5. Pair your iPhone with your Apple Watch.
Everything should work as you expect.
Good Luck.
1. Backup your iPhone using iTunes. (I don't know if an encrypted backup is necessary, because my friend didn't do that but I did.)
2. 'Erase All Content and Settings' from Settings app in your iPhone (Do NOT erase using iTunes! I've tried it and it doesn't work!)
3. 'Erase All Content and Settings' on your Apple Watch Settings app.
4. Restore your iPhone from backup using iTunes
5. Pair your iPhone with your Apple Watch.
Everything should work as you expect.
Good Luck.
So which is it? one person got it working from a backup and another person says that if you restore any backup it will stop working again?
I don't think this is necessarily true. You know a iphone app built to support iOS 9 can have both native and non-native apps bundled with it? This is so that developers can support users running 8.4/watch 1 or 9.0/watch 2 versions. Xcode 7 supports both apple watch target types, Watch OS1 and Watch OS2.
This is probably why the best way to tell which style of app you are running is to look at the name when it launches (upper left or under the spinner.) The iphone app can have both a watch OS1 and a watch OS2 app attached to it. The OS2 watch app should be installed if the watch has the newer software installed. But maybe there is something wrong in that install process.
Can someone please confirm if making a backup of the iPhone and then restoring to the backup fixes the issue? If it does then I guess I'll do it tonight because I want to use some of the new watchOS2 apps and I'm getting sick of having all the latest watchos2 apps not working on my Apple Watch
In re-reading this thread, I want to go back to this post by Bbqthis:
I agree that the best course of action is for everyone experiencing the issue to file a radar. I've had success with this in the past and the more people that file a radar here, the more visibility Apple will have on the problem.
I agree that the best course of action is for everyone experiencing the issue to file a radar. I've had success with this in the past and the more people that file a radar here, the more visibility Apple will have on the problem.
Didn't for me. I restored my iPhone twice. First time without wiping first. Second time wiped via phone first, then a complete restore. (80gb... Took hours.
Both times watch was wiped. First time watch was restored from backup. Second time, set up as new.
Didn't work either time.
It's obviously not affecting every watchOS2 user, as my friend has one updated fine. And in fact any google searches for our problem turn up nothing. I only stumbled onto this thread thanks to Reddit. I strongly suggest as many of us as possible that are experiencing this report it to Apple. As thus far, it could only be the two reports that myself and BBqthis have reported that they know about.
Both times watch was wiped. First time watch was restored from backup. Second time, set up as new.
Didn't work either time.
It's obviously not affecting every watchOS2 user, as my friend has one updated fine. And in fact any google searches for our problem turn up nothing. I only stumbled onto this thread thanks to Reddit. I strongly suggest as many of us as possible that are experiencing this report it to Apple. As thus far, it could only be the two reports that myself and BBqthis have reported that they know about.
I can't believe but it's really magical.
Yesterday, my friend and I had same issue that native apps crash and can be load in any way. He made those steps and successfully made everything work again.
Last night, I erased the iPhone using iTunes but no luck. Today, I followed his steps and erase directly from the iPhone and everything is perfect.
Both of us restored from the backup(so the bottom line is you won't lost any data), he did a normal backup while I made an encrypted one(so I don't think it makes any difference).
Note that our entire process is on company's macbook. So even we restored the data from backup, every apps seemed to be downloaded from iCloud(automatically). We had to wait a few hours before we can use iPhone again.
Hope the above helps.