Series 6 owners — read before upgrading

[Eric_WVGG]

One of the things that makes me really happy to be an Apple user is: long-term support for older devices. Typically speaking, older Macs run newer OS releases just fine, given that they have enough RAM. I recently upgraded an old 2012 Air all the way up to Monterey (a ten-year-later release), went great! Likewise, I rode the original iPhone SE through an insane number of releases.

The Apple Watch Series 6 and WatchOS 11, though… I wonder if it was a mistake to support it. Immediately seeing lag for simple operations that used to be instantaneous (say, checking status of daily fitness rings). Also my battery (still on the original, there’s a story about that) went from “barely able to last one waking day” to “lol”

I was already planning on getting a Watch 10 in a month or two, but that decision just went from a “maybe” to a “must.” Yikes.

 

[Propine]

I agree, last year update really made my aw6 unpleasant. Really buggy and slow. Also the notification center issue, that apparently was around for while, started happening to me after the last major update.

 

[kitKAC]

I upgraded my Series 6 on Monday to watchOS 11, it's been absolutely fine. No lag anywhere.

 

[watchthisspace]

One of the things that makes me really happy to be an Apple user is: long-term support for older devices. Typically speaking, older Macs run newer OS releases just fine, given that they have enough RAM. I recently upgraded an old 2012 Air all the way up to Monterey (a ten-year-later release), went great! Likewise, I rode the original iPhone SE through an insane number of releases.

The Apple Watch Series 6 and WatchOS 11, though… I wonder if it was a mistake to support it. Immediately seeing lag for simple operations that used to be instantaneous (say, checking status of daily fitness rings). Also my battery (still on the original, there’s a story about that) went from “barely able to last one waking day” to “lol”

I was already planning on getting a Watch 10 in a month or two, but that decision just went from a “maybe” to a “must.” Yikes.

The real winner at the end of the day here is Apple

 

[Eric_WVGG]

Alright, I just figured out a thing.

I have a complication in the corner that loads the Activity app. My habit is to tap the very edge of the screen to bring it up.

I could see the complication sort of bounce when I touch it on the edge of the screen, but otherwise nothing happens. I was interpreting that as the OS being flakey and slow.

I think it's actually a "feature" for the newer edge-to-edge screens. When I tap closer to center of the widget, it launches the app without fail.

This ought to be an option in Settings IMO, or maybe should only affect newer watches, but whatever.