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Watch OS 2.0.1 Initial Impressions

moxxham said:
Honestly...bad. I haven't had one issue with my watch, and I've had it since launch day. However, I've had 2.0.1 on my watch for about 10 hours and in 6 hours the battery completely died, a lot of 3rd party apps won't launch and now it isn't tracking any of my fitness data at all!
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You poor bastard!

I had an issue where some apps didn't have their icons. Was just a cross hair type image, since 2.0.1 this issue has been resolved.

Agree with the other comments, everything seems to be much faster.
 
Enygmatic said:
You have to move around a bit as well... been a bit of a sticking point since the very beginning. Mine basically insists I go for a damn stroll. Quite inconsistent in its readings.

On a related note, I've found that half a minute of jumping jacks gets me credit for the full minute of standing.

Recap - standing and walking around a desk or small room for minutes doesn't work most times; 25 seconds of jumping in place... we'll round up
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Walking works for me for standing. No issues. The key is the Watch has to detect movement, so if you're holding out a plate or something as you walk downstairs etc, it's likely not going to work. I just swing my arms a little like I'm walking outside, but either way it always works for me.
 
Enygmatic said:
You have to move around a bit as well... been a bit of a sticking point since the very beginning. Mine basically insists I go for a damn stroll. Quite inconsistent in its readings.

On a related note, I've found that half a minute of jumping jacks gets me credit for the full minute of standing.

Recap - standing and walking around a desk or small room for minutes doesn't work most times; 25 seconds of jumping in place... we'll round up
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I don't know if what you say is the truth. But I do know we need not to do that in the previous versions.
 
WilliamG said:
I see absolutely zero difference on display wake/wrist raise that's noticeable. Apple may have reduced the fade-in time (it now flashes on rather than quickly fading on previously), but that's it.

Apps still lag the same way. It's still annoying to hit the "reply" button in a text and for nothing to apparently happen for a second (the "reply" button doesn't even look like it's been touched), but then after that agonizing delay it then pops up with the ability to speak a reply. My wife has the same thing happen on her Watch, and she's on 2.0 still. I suspect most people who are suggesting the OS is now faster in 2.0.1 are just experiencing a fresh reboot.

Either Watch OS2 is just more bloated now, or the hardware in the Apple Watch doesn't quite keep up.

I'll try and grab the wife's watch later and put both on my wrist - mine with 2.0.1, and hers with 2.0, and compare the wrist raising.
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Confirmed. No difference with both my wife's 2.0 Watch and my 2.0.1 Watch on one wrist. Both respond identically. I've seen zero performance differences either between 2.0 and 2.0.1. I still suggest what people are seeing is fresh-reboot syndrome. :)
 
Battery drains the same way. The only good improvement I found is Force Touch: it requires less pressure power now (in about 50%).
 
moxxham said:
Honestly...bad. I haven't had one issue with my watch, and I've had it since launch day. However, I've had 2.0.1 on my watch for about 10 hours and in 6 hours the battery completely died, a lot of 3rd party apps won't launch and now it isn't tracking any of my fitness data at all!
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Battery life gets better over time. It takes a while before all processes are initialised to the new OS. Give it a day or two.
 
Scott-n-Houston said:
Yes, I meant that… sorry.
The update did not fix this for me. When a recurring meeting gets an occurrence (not the entire series of meetings, but one occurrence) canceled, it will be removed from my phone calendar, but remains on my watch calendar even after this update.
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I had to reset sync this morning to see today's meetings. I will keep an eye out but I missed my first meeting because the complication didn't show anything and it was earlier than my preferences for alerts. Not a huge deal but I was hoping this would be in the past needing a reset. Still like my watch very much but sometimes it could be better.
 
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gsmornot said:
I had to reset sync this morning to see today's meetings. I will keep an eye out but I missed my first meeting because the complication didn't show anything and it was earlier than my preferences for alerts. Not a huge deal but I was hoping this would be in the past needing a reset. Still like my watch very much but sometimes it could be better.
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You had absolutely no idea you had a meeting in the morning and you were solely relying on the watch to alert you? Damn, you must be busy brah.
 
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Donoban said:
You had absolutely no idea you had a meeting in the morning and you were solely relying on the watch to alert you? Damn, you must be busy brah.
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My work calendar shows roughly 8-5 but the meeting was for 6AM so I didn't see it before I checked out Thursday night. My watch at 6AM showed my first appointment being later in the morning because the 6AM meeting didn't sync over. It worked out ok but sharing that even after the update I still have occasional items missing from the calendar on my watch.
 
gsmornot said:
My work calendar shows roughly 8-5 but the meeting was for 6AM so I didn't see it before I checked out Thursday night. My watch at 6AM showed my first appointment being later in the morning because the 6AM meeting didn't sync over. It worked out ok but sharing that even after the update I still have occasional items missing from the calendar on my watch.
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6AM MEETING! OMG. Dude, you have to tell us, what do you do for a living?

You'd be getting up at 4:30am, breakfast, shower, drive/train to work for that 6am start.
 
Enygmatic said:
You have to move around a bit as well... been a bit of a sticking point since the very beginning. Mine basically insists I go for a damn stroll. Quite inconsistent in its readings.

On a related note, I've found that half a minute of jumping jacks gets me credit for the full minute of standing.

Recap - standing and walking around a desk or small room for minutes doesn't work most times; 25 seconds of jumping in place... we'll round up
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Swinging my watch arm around a bit while otherwise standing still works for me.
 
The quick replies on Facebook messenger and WhatsApp seem to be pretty buggy. Replies sent don't get through like 70-80% of the time.
 
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