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Watch OS 10 Beta Thread
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My Ultra connects to my Wahoo Kickr Bike and works reasonably well however, I can't see realtime (or averaged power) on the watch data fields or when projected to my phone. Cadence and speed is reported as is my Power Zone based on my manually input FTP.
I can however see power in the subsequent fitness app. I'm hoping a future update adds 3s averaged power as a data field.
It's a really nice start and here's hoping they add FEC support to allow the watch to control the bike, when running power based training or replaying old .gpx routes for example. That would match what my Garmin Epix could do. I used that feature a lot in pre-planning workouts and adding to my epix calendar.
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1) No.
2) Only you can answer that. WatchOS 10 has been stable for me thus far on my Ultra, but I have minimal installed apps. Battery life is a little worse but that happens across all devices running early betas....certainly not that bad that I am concerned about it. Dev betas usually have logging on full which requires extra background resources.
Is the App Dock gone?
I think they're moving Control Center because the Smart Stack now comes from below and might even be swipable from below, but where did the Dock go?
*Never mind, went back and read several pages to find my answer: you double click the crown to bring up the Dock.
Will leave this here as a visual anchor to anyone coming from Apple's watchOS10 page and wondering the same.
I think they're moving Control Center because the Smart Stack now comes from below and might even be swipable from below, but where did the Dock go?
*Never mind, went back and read several pages to find my answer: you double click the crown to bring up the Dock.
Will leave this here as a visual anchor to anyone coming from Apple's watchOS10 page and wondering the same.
This is unfortunate. Easily swiping between Watch faces is an important part of the concept of Watch faces as app launchers for different states or activities.
Instead of having to go into the app honeycomb and hunt around for apps, you can have a Watch face as a kind of group of apps. Take a fitness Watch face for example, where all the complications on that face enable you to launch all the apps you use for fitness. You can have a Watch Face for work where you can launch all your work related apps. You can have a Music Watch face to launch and monitor music or launch Podcasts.
These have been easily accessed by swiping between them. Having to tap and hold introduces unnecessary friction that makes it feel like Watch faces are semi permanent and require going into an "editing" mode to change. I hope they revert this to how it's been on iOS 16. They should do the same on iOS too where changing Focus from the Lock Screen should be a simple swipe.
Using focus profiles can achieve what you are asking and in a much more powerful way. I use a Gym/ workout profile to swap my watch screen, change my home page layout on my iphone, set who can contact me and silence notifications from unwanted apps. It as easy as asking siri to swap profile, set a shortcut so it can be accessed on a single touch or accessing it from the control centre on any of your devices.
I do this for a number of scenarios such as home, work, on-call and workout.
When I am in my work profile, all my personal apps on my phone/ iPad home-screen are hidden, leaving just my work apps and widgets. My lockscreens and watch face changes to something suitable for that environment. All personal app notifications are silenced. The opposite is true when I am in my home profile - all work apps are hidden and work notifications silenced.
I 100% agree with your assessment.
I'm hoping this is an over-site that will be put back in after feedback from Beta testers.
Maybe I’m going crazy but the wayfinder face does seem smaller. I was hoping it would expand outward and take up more of the screen on the ultra.
Overall this update is pretty “meh” for me. Wish I could still swipe up from the bottom for control center and use the side button for something else. Seems like a waste to have both the scroll and swipe up do the same thing.
Ultra. I am not playing from downloaded tracks but streaming of mobile data.
Spotify is version 8.8.40
Two Question related to Fitness:
1. When doing an Apple Fitness+ workout, can you scroll the Digital Crown to see other workout screens?
2. Can you edit these workout screens and which metrics they show ON THE PHONE, like wOS8, or must you do it on the watch like wOS9?
1. When doing an Apple Fitness+ workout, can you scroll the Digital Crown to see other workout screens?
2. Can you edit these workout screens and which metrics they show ON THE PHONE, like wOS8, or must you do it on the watch like wOS9?
Maybe I’m imaging it, but I thought the outer complications were closer to the corners and the main watch circle was a bit larger before.
That’s how Spotify is inside workout app.
Ultra. I am not playing from downloaded tracks but streaming of mobile data.
Spotify is version 8.8.40
No album art and the controls don’t work. Apple Music is all good so far
Wow it really does seem smaller.
Probably a beta bug. Makes no sense otherwise.
Here’s mine for comparison; just compared on iPhone without overlayin in PS.
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How can I revert to watchOS 9? Only in Apple Store, or also in authorized service? Battery drain is huge on Ultra.
You cannot downgrade WatchOS. Try restarting your watch. I have an ultra and the battery life is still good.
I already did restart. Battery more than 50% worse. It can't hold single day.
Same here. I stream everything and don’t download anything to the watch for either Spotify or Apple Music. Spotify works fine on my Ultra.
Maybe try again or reboot.
Any idea, how to stop starting Spotify on the watch when listening music from Spotify on iPhone or radio in the car via BT, after upgrade the moment I start listening music Spotify widget showing up and draining the battery on the watch. That is why on older watchOS I switched off the Auto-Launch, but now despite being turned off Spotify is launching on the watch 🤔
I'm convinced that this new button assignment is either temporary or a test. Especially the side button under the crown, it just a useless waste of a button. Does anyone access the control panel that often that they need a hot button for it?