Please share your 3.0 impressions

scottct1 said:
I like OS 3, however battery life is terrible. I take my watch off the charger at 7:30am and wear it all day and place it on the charger at 6am the next day and this has worked fine... with OS 3 I took my watch off the charger at 7:30 am and I got the 10% battery life warning at 7pm at night.

Lets hope this gets better.
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My battery life was horrible too. I unpaired and re-paired and now it's actually better than when it was on WatchOS2. I'm at 93% after three hours of use. Try re-pairing. Bad battery draining is not normal with this beta.
 
Last night I did the unpair, repair, and then restored instead of setting up as new. Battery has been better than it ever was on watchOS 2. So glad someone mentioned doing that and I tried it. Now when beta 2 comes out I hope I don't have to redo the process, but even if I do it's not that bad. Thanks for the help!
 
Cam Johnson said:
Last night I did the unpair, repair, and then restored instead of setting up as new. Battery has been better than it ever was on watchOS 2. So glad someone mentioned doing that and I tried it. Now when beta 2 comes out I hope I don't have to redo the process, but even if I do it's not that bad. Thanks for the help!
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For real? if Beta 2 doesn't come out tomorrow I am definitely going to try this. Thanks for posting man.
 
xaqt93 said:
For real? if Beta 2 doesn't come out tomorrow I am definitely going to try this. Thanks for posting man.
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I swear on my life! I mean, it's not like I tripled the battery life, but I would say I ended the day with an extra 15% battery life than I usually do.
 
When you do the unpair and repair, do you lose the data that you've accumulated since getting the watch? I've thought about doing that but worry about losing my achievements, watch face configurations, etc.
 
ladytonya said:
When you do the unpair and repair, do you lose the data that you've accumulated since getting the watch? I've thought about doing that but worry about losing my achievements, watch face configurations, etc.
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It should be saved in a back up that the Watch creates when you are restoring.
 
ladytonya said:
When you do the unpair and repair, do you lose the data that you've accumulated since getting the watch? I've thought about doing that but worry about losing my achievements, watch face configurations, etc.
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If you restore the watch from backup everything should be about the same you had before. If you set up the watch as new you'll lose everything that is on the watch including achievements.

Do note that if you backup your phone to iTunes you must have encrypted backup turned on or the backup won't contain anything health or fitness related. So if you restore the watch from such backup it won't contain any health or fitness related data. If you use encrypted iTunes backup or iCloud backup you are all set.
 
I don't back up my phone to iTunes or via wifi, I just back it up via iCloud. Will that effect anything?
 
I honest say now from using scribble for a few days it has been a massive improvement to the watch and I am enjoy using the watch a lot more Siri was never really the full answer to the watch don't get me wrong a good feature but I think personally as a whole I think scribble is better and it has changed a lot how we use the watch and make it more user friendly

One thing I enjoy the most is been able to leave my phone some where in the house and have my watch on my wrist and be able to answer messages via scribble so I don't have to have my phone near me all the time I just use my watch
Which is a lot better for me sometimes if someone is watching tv they don't want you using Siri so scribble wins

I think the dock is very good needs a little work doing to it so things do refresh quicker me think but of coarse only the
First beta we cannot expect miracles on the first attempt

I never really used Siri a awful lot just for a quick reply anything in depth always dig my phone out and type something now I would just use scribble to sort this out

Overall very impressed so far and I really do enjoy using the watch a lot more then on os2
 
My biggest bugbear is that Apple force 3rd party apps to sleep when you turn your wrist away. In particular, it means the metronome apps are useless to me. Does anyone know if this is addressed in OS3?
 
It only just occurred to me that with the App Launcher, the Apple Watch just introduced the main interface of the nearly 6 year old 6th gen iPod nano.

Amazing how technology progresses :p
 
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iZac said:
It only just occurred to me that with the App Launcher, the Apple Watch just introduced the main interface of the nearly 6 year old 6th gen iPod nano.

Amazing How technology progresses :p
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Yeah, because the AW can run apps while the Nano didn't.

(I have both)
 
ladytonya said:
When you do the unpair and repair, do you lose the data that you've accumulated since getting the watch? I've thought about doing that but worry about losing my achievements, watch face configurations, etc.
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When you unpair your watch it makes a backup on your phone. When you re-pair your watch it will ask if you want to use that backup or set up as new.
 
Is it just me or is the watch screen not very sensitive? Soooo many times I have to swipe down the notifications a second time because the first time doesn't register. Or I'll tap a complication and I'll have to tap it again because the first time didn't work. Probably my biggest gripe and I'm not sure if it's software related or not.
 
batting1000 said:
Is it just me or is the watch screen not very sensitive? Soooo many times I have to swipe down the notifications a second time because the first time doesn't register. Or I'll tap a complication and I'll have to tap it again because the first time didn't work. Probably my biggest gripe and I'm not sure if it's software related or not.
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The watch is at times very unresponsive. Will hopefully improve with new betas.
 
batting1000 said:
Is it just me or is the watch screen not very sensitive? Soooo many times I have to swipe down the notifications a second time because the first time doesn't register. Or I'll tap a complication and I'll have to tap it again because the first time didn't work. Probably my biggest gripe and I'm not sure if it's software related or not.
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yup i noticed this too. have to swipe two or three times sometimes for it to register
 
(Not sure if these have been mentioned before but...)
Just realised that when you tap the screen with the Mickey or Minnie watch face, they speak the time out loud! (Providing your watch isn't on mute) Pretty pointless but had me in stitches! My work colleagues, not so much...

Also found that if you have the music complication on your watch face, then use time travel to go back in time you can see what songs you have listened to and at what times.
 
In beta 2 the watch faces are a lot easier and more responsive to swipe through. Beta 1 it would sometimes take some extra swipes to change a face.
 
Battery life on beta 2 is really really really bad. I'd advise not updating. I'll try repairing again but this beta 2 is a dog.
 
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