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Watch OS 1.01
- Thread starter Willy2015
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I am confused. I had these before the update. I've had a few things that others are reporting as new before the update.
Are these really new, or is my watch a freak?
I've removed the battery complication on day 3, it's just not necessary for me to see it all day. Still, I would love to get a confirmation that my battery is fully charged.
This is a bit more than a stability and Siri update.
The biggest (by far) difference is the sensitivity to wrist movements to wake the watch. When my arm is horizontal and resting on my lap, armchair, keyboard tray etc. the watch wakes up with a simple wrist twist. It's not longer necessary to raise and twist to see the screen. This should work the same with hands on handlebars, shopping carts etc.
So far, it seems uncannily accurate. While typing this I have my left hand resting on a gel pad. Without moving palm from pad, I twisted my wrist a mere 25 degrees towards me and the watch activated for six seconds.
The biggest (by far) difference is the sensitivity to wrist movements to wake the watch. When my arm is horizontal and resting on my lap, armchair, keyboard tray etc. the watch wakes up with a simple wrist twist. It's not longer necessary to raise and twist to see the screen. This should work the same with hands on handlebars, shopping carts etc.
So far, it seems uncannily accurate. While typing this I have my left hand resting on a gel pad. Without moving palm from pad, I twisted my wrist a mere 25 degrees towards me and the watch activated for six seconds.
I replaced the fitness circles complication with the battery percentage because I was tired of getting fat-shamed all day.
I can't be sure they were not there before, someone who has not updated would need to confirm, but I thought there were only three 'pages' of options in 1.0. This new one is the fourth 'page' and looks to me just like a huge list of all the latest emojis on the phone. If its not these then I'm not sure what the 'new' emojis are.
They may have tweaked the standing sensor a little too much - twice after updating I've gotten the message saying I met a stand goal while sitting at my desk
Interesting. Admittedly, I hadn't timed it before. Well that proves it -- the placebo effect is real and it definitely exists!
I don't know. I can do the exact same things you're describing with my 1.0 watch. Resting on the palm rests of my MBP, gentle 15-20 degree twist activates the watch face.
We'll see when I update tonight if it feels like it changed, but I've always been able to activate with tiny movements.
I know for certain that I had the 4th page of standard emojis before the update.
Whats odd is for the first few days that I had the watch, I don't remember seeing them (I could have just missed them) but a couple weeks ago was when I first discovered them. I wonder if they could have been added to the watch without an update.
I was downloading the update through wifi this afternoon, it was too slow so I decided to turn off wifi since LTE is faster sometimes, but the download was paused and said I needed a wifi connection. So yes, you may need wifi.
I'm so happy to hear this. Glances were pretty much useless before. Updating now...
Haptic seems a fraction more powerful, and I hear a rattle now where before I did not. (I run in silent mode always, prominent on, haptic at max) Would rather hear it than miss it.
Snappiness and touchscreen response VASTLY improved. Should have shipped like this, mine was claggy, unacceptable and well below Apple standards. Still a bit to go, but makes this feel like a major hardware upgrade. I found that I simply had to pause a second or two before trying to press a button on a new screen - starting a workout was a mess as it would not register taps quickly. I can now start a workout in a few seconds, tap-tap-tap rather than tap........... tap............tap..... The time I have to wait before hitting a freshly drawn button seems under half a second, not 2 seconds. Much better for dismissing alarms.
Hitting wrong app icon has gone from 40% of the time to 5%. YAY. But still too small icons, and frequent ignored taps. (better than wrong taps I guess)
App loading times now average 2-4 seconds on first run, and never longer. Hugely better. Gone from an unusable joke to just crap. Bring on native Apps.
First walk with heart rate - always showed me correct rate - 1.0 would show me half my actual rate about half the time, and often had greyed out rate and looked like it was not getting a reading. Promising.
Siri much better, and today sets reminder about Pluto "in 8 weeks" correctly. They still need to get something on screen quicker to acknowledge when you say Hey Siri, rather than the black for a second that makes you think it turned off and missed
Raise to wrist SO much better, quicker, and even now works lying down in bed about 90% of the time, up from 10%.
Still has bug where Reduce motion disables Crown scrolling intermittently.
Update took about 15 minutes. (no songs)
Run, don't walk to get this update. It is a dramatic usability improvement - look on the bright side folks still waiting for your Watch - you skipped some crap.
Snappiness and touchscreen response VASTLY improved. Should have shipped like this, mine was claggy, unacceptable and well below Apple standards. Still a bit to go, but makes this feel like a major hardware upgrade. I found that I simply had to pause a second or two before trying to press a button on a new screen - starting a workout was a mess as it would not register taps quickly. I can now start a workout in a few seconds, tap-tap-tap rather than tap........... tap............tap..... The time I have to wait before hitting a freshly drawn button seems under half a second, not 2 seconds. Much better for dismissing alarms.
Hitting wrong app icon has gone from 40% of the time to 5%. YAY. But still too small icons, and frequent ignored taps. (better than wrong taps I guess)
App loading times now average 2-4 seconds on first run, and never longer. Hugely better. Gone from an unusable joke to just crap. Bring on native Apps.
First walk with heart rate - always showed me correct rate - 1.0 would show me half my actual rate about half the time, and often had greyed out rate and looked like it was not getting a reading. Promising.
Siri much better, and today sets reminder about Pluto "in 8 weeks" correctly. They still need to get something on screen quicker to acknowledge when you say Hey Siri, rather than the black for a second that makes you think it turned off and missed
Raise to wrist SO much better, quicker, and even now works lying down in bed about 90% of the time, up from 10%.
Still has bug where Reduce motion disables Crown scrolling intermittently.
Update took about 15 minutes. (no songs)
Run, don't walk to get this update. It is a dramatic usability improvement - look on the bright side folks still waiting for your Watch - you skipped some crap.
Same thing here! I tried a few times. Then I connected my phone to wifi and everything went fine. Since the file size was 56 I did not think I needed wifi.
Seems strange. You'd think since its under 100mb, they wouldn't require wifi.
Don't you think they should have indicated that where it says the watch must be charging? Oh yeah... Also wifi, for some reason. LOL
