It is very common with any watch update, beta or not beta will have battery issues that an un-pair and re-pair will fix.
The watch updating system is very flakey for that.
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It is very common with any watch update, beta or not beta will have battery issues that an un-pair and re-pair will fix.
The watch updating system is very flakey for that.
Mine has been on for 8 hours. Multiple apps on the dock, multiple uses, many notifications and 77% battery left. It's unfortunate you're having issues but sweeping declarations of being a dog aren't helpful. Perhaps being a dog for you, so far would be a more balanced view.
Also, this
Is good advice.
This may have been mentioned already, but I'm noticing that every time my watch is rebooted, the watch faces change to the stock ones present when you set up as a new watch. Extremely irritating. But I digress, this is what we signed up for!
This just happened to me yesterday when I rebooted because force touch didn't work to clear all the messages. Force touch worked everywhere else. Upon reboot on beta 2, the watch was back to stock faces. In a little while, my watch faces came back but I had deleted the stock so I don't know what stayed ornwhst left. This didn't happen on beta 1
Absolutely people should know it's beta. I certainly do. But after pairing and repairing, it still looks like a dog to me on battery life. It's good to warn other, but I'm glad your watch is working well for you.
Well, it sucks you're still having battery issues. No snark from me there.
Only thing I can think to try is to remove all apps (if you installed any) and add them back slowly if or until you find the culprit. If that doesn't work it's going to be a rough couple of weeks waiting on the next beta
No need to remove any apps. Just remove every third party apps from the Dock and every third party complications from the watch face/faces you use. And at least in Beta 1 the Activity watch faces drained battery really fast. Might want to avoid using those. I have had no problems with battery, other than the Activity watch face.
I updated to beta 2 the day before yesterday (Wednesday). Obviously that day is not a good indication but it was at 100% after upgrading at about 2 pm and was dead by 10 pm. Yesterday I put it on at 8:30 am and it was gone at some point before I got off work, my best indication of when it died is my last stand credited was the 2:00 pm hour so sometime between 2 and 3 pm. Today I didn't put it on until shortly before 1:00 pm. It is now 2:20 pm and I am already down to 75%. I took all 3rd party apps off of my dock, thought maybe carrot, at bat and RadarScope were draining me. Today I am only running wallet, reminders, calendar, maps, and messages. I'll try repairing again but this is beyond frustrating!
Rough that some are having such a bad experience. I'm running several 3rd party apps in the dock and tend to use each a few times a day anyway and also receive a ton of SMS, mail and calendar notifications and am comfortably lasting all day. Could probably even make it two days if I left my Nest alone for 5 mins.
Ouch! I love the activity face. I'm going to switch back to my Utility face and see if that helps with battery drain.
Cheers,
B
Phone and watch both OTA using profile from 9.x and 2.x public betas. Also both restored from backups.
Like I said in the part of my post that you chose to delete from your out-of-context quote, I understand that this is a beta and all the kinks aren't worked out. Plus how do you know I'm not a developer? That being said, my battery life today has been MUCH better! It's been on for 6 hours straight and I have 60% left. I am also reporting my experiences to Apple as all beta testers should.
Just loaded the iOS10 Public Beta and the watchOS3 Beta yesterday.
So far, the watch is doing great. MUCH faster loading the activity app (my most used app by far) and all the other apps in the dock. Love the full watch face customization. And hey, I'm actually using the big side button for something other than Apple Pay
On a related note, I was able to install the watchOS 3 Beta by first installing the iOS10 Public Beta on my iPhone. Then I went back to Apple's Public Beta site and downloaded the Apple Watch beta profile (first to my iPhone, and then to my watch). Then I went to software update on the Apple Watch app and was prompted to download watchOS Beta 3.
I tool a while for it to download and install, but everything has been working great since. Of course, there have been a few beta related glitches here and there, but there's no way (short of a bricking) that I'm going back to watchOS 2.
So far, the watch is doing great. MUCH faster loading the activity app (my most used app by far) and all the other apps in the dock. Love the full watch face customization. And hey, I'm actually using the big side button for something other than Apple Pay
On a related note, I was able to install the watchOS 3 Beta by first installing the iOS10 Public Beta on my iPhone. Then I went back to Apple's Public Beta site and downloaded the Apple Watch beta profile (first to my iPhone, and then to my watch). Then I went to software update on the Apple Watch app and was prompted to download watchOS Beta 3.
I tool a while for it to download and install, but everything has been working great since. Of course, there have been a few beta related glitches here and there, but there's no way (short of a bricking) that I'm going back to watchOS 2.
If it displays the red exclamation point, you are indeed out of luck. If it instead keeps rebooting, you could try letting the battery run empty and then try again. If it doesn't turn on, hold both buttons for at least 10 seconds and see if that helps any.
Every time I reboot my Watch it's stuck in that loading loop with the Apple logo. For the first time I thought I'm done, but it seems like the Watch responds to the iPhone, it just doesn't show UI, so
try to unpair and re-pair
it helped me few times yesterday as I it run out of battery.
It did indeed display the red exclamation point of death once. I'll try running it out of power. It isn't showing up on my iPhone, so I think it's toast. My appointment is on Monday with Apple to have the watch looked at.
The weird thing is it feels strange not wearing the watch. I've had it on my wrist since I got it in November.