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Running iOS12 Beta on watchOS 4
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Yes and yes. When I (outdoor) run or bike using my iPhone too I don't get a GPS connection (I believe because there is no mapping). So in order to use GPS/mapping you can't have your iPhone with you.
See this thread I started for more info.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/activity-map-on-all-workouts-now-coming-in-ios12.2124090/
See this thread I started for more info.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/activity-map-on-all-workouts-now-coming-in-ios12.2124090/
So you are saying you have a Series 0 on watchOS 4 and running Public Beta on iPhone and you notice lower battery on the watch?
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Will have a look. Thanks!
Yes. I’ve actually been on the Developer Beta: same software as Public Beta, but I’ve been on it for 3 weeks (both beta versions, of course) and so have had a longer time to observe the effects on the Watch. It has had a definite significant negative impact on the Watch battery life. This could improve over the course of the iOS 12 beta process. My guess, however, is that it will not improve much.
Here is my experience with WATCH OS 5 using a series 2 AW.
I would not recommend updating for now until more BETAS come out.
Here is two reasons why you should not update.
The first BETA totally made my watch lose over 50% of its charge overnight just from wearing it to bed and using a sleep tracking app. I'd normally lose 20-30% back on Watch OS4. When working out I also would lose a lot of battery even-though I set my AW to not use its built-in heartrate monitor since I use my own external heart rate monitor, the heart rate monitor would literally stay on for the entire duration of my work out.
The second biggest reason why you should not update is this, it is in my opinion very important...calorie burn caculations are totally off. If you are use to go on a 3 mile run and know exactly how many calories you usually burn during those, your new calorie burn calculation will be totally off, by about 40%.
It is very annoying because I am used to a workout regimen since I've used AW from the very beginning and have also used gym equipment which is usually spot on with the AW..not now.
You will lose a lot for barely any new features....it looks pretty much the same...you'll just get the Walkie Talkie,podcast apps and two new workouts....nothing else worth upgrading for now.
I hope this helps.
Thanks. A lot. I won’t update AW. But I’m still interested on iOS 12. And for now I think it has a lot of bugs. And it is also important the battery hit on an AW with watchOS 4.
Why do you think it won’t be solved too much when golden master is released??? What kind of new things iOS 12 does with AW to be so high affected?
I can't update my watch from an early beta of 4.3.2 to a newer version, running iOS 12b2 on my phone. Tried restarting, airplane mode, LTE vs wifi but no difference. I had no problem updating by watch on iOS 12b1.
I can’t update my watch to 4.3.1. Fails saying I’m not connected to WiFi, when I am. After trying the update multiple times it reset my watch. Now I can’t set up the watch again since the 4.3.1 update fails.
Series 1 here, same problem. No clue why the large impact but it is HUGE in my case... 10-15% per hour.
Factory reset the watch + unpaired/repaired and I’m good to go. Battery life is back to normal thank goodness.
My GPS is way off. iOS 12 beta 2 and watchOS 5 beta 2. So my outdoor runs are useless with mapping.
I just got the Apple Watch Series 3 and everything synced except for my contacts. I’m wondering if this is a bug. I’ve read to reset sync data in the Watch app on my iPhone but when I do nothing happens
Just an FYI for everyone. I read on reddit that there is a bug in iOS 12 beta 3 where it won’t sync contacts to Apple watches. I am currently downgrading to beta 2 then once my contacts sync I’ll upgrade again.