I recently got the 42mm after having a 38mm with Watch OS 1.01 already installed. My 42mm still has 1.0. Should I upgrade to 1.01 considering the blowback with heart monitoring? Will it make that much difference with battery life and performance?
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To 1.01 or not?
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Isn't the change in HRM intentional by Apple? (meaning all future releases will act the same way).
Are you really going to leave your watch on the 1.0 software and lose out on all the new features (and applications) that are coming and will only run on 2.x and higher?
Just saying, if you stay on 1.0, it won't be for very long. Future iOS versions above 9 may drop support for it as well.
Are you really going to leave your watch on the 1.0 software and lose out on all the new features (and applications) that are coming and will only run on 2.x and higher?
Just saying, if you stay on 1.0, it won't be for very long. Future iOS versions above 9 may drop support for it as well.
It is intentional, but there has been enough of an uproar I could see where they would make it optional going forward. I wasn't sure how others felt the update improved other areas of performance and if the loss of desired HRM was worth the improved performance.
There were some nuisance bugs introduced with the update, the HRM wasn't one of them, but the improvements were necessary and should be implemented. Otherwise wait until the fall for 2.0. My guess, only a guess, is that there will be another 1.0 update before then but maybe not.
When people say general performance, do you mean apps load quicker? I don't have my watch yet, but keep reading about slow apps or app not working? I dont know, maybe that was with 1.0?
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I guess I don't understand what the blow back was all about. Granted, I never had 1.0 (mine arrived with 1.0.1 installed), but it seems to me that the HR monitoring has no impact on the activity rings at all. I mowed the lawn last weekend and completed my exercise ring and then some for doing so without using the Workout app. This seemed to be entirely based on movement and not HR.
The blowback is due to HR being measured every 10 minutes and ONLY if your arm is not moving at all. I understand the every 10 minutes, but the not moving makes no sense.
My watch is prompting for an update and I'm ignoring it.
My watch is prompting for an update and I'm ignoring it.