I’m assuming its a low battery indicator of some sort. Did you enter power reserve mode when the pop up appeared at 10% or did you let it enter power reserve mode on its own later?
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I’m assuming its a low battery indicator of some sort. Did you enter power reserve mode when the pop up appeared at 10% or did you let it enter power reserve mode on its own later?
I chose to enter it. To be honest it's the first time I had seen the message since owning it and I panicked!
I did put it on power save mode. Then at around 2% it did that. I had to hit the button on the side to get that display. Charged it up to around 60% and now it’s doing better.
I've noticed two things while running today. The screen doesn't come on unless you tap it and there's now split times for runs within the exercise app. It's not functioning yet but the menus there. Also the battery notifications shows your bluetooth headphone battery level too which is awesome!
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Well one of the cool features of watchOS 2 is the nightstand feature and as such I thought I would do a video of it.
Honestly the watch is going to be epic with OS 2. All those detractors are losing ground on it.
Honestly the watch is going to be epic with OS 2. All those detractors are losing ground on it.
I turned off LTE on my phone and turned off all diagnostics. I turned off wrist detection on my watch. So now I have to touch the screen to turn the watch display on. My phone is doing much better today. My watch is still lousy. I suspect one of the things draining my phone was constantly hitting GPS during my commute to update the weather on my watch when my wrist would move and turn on the display. Though that was never an issue before installing the latest Betas...
I think the one thing I hate so far is that I used to be able to quick reply to messages sent to me from a non-iPhone user, now it just shows a dismiss button and no reply button. Seems like a dumb change. Why does it have to be iPhone <-> iPhone communication for me to be able to respond from my watch? That wasn't the case before watchOS 2
I'm sure that's not the intention. It's probably just a bug. Hopefully will be fixed in beta 2.
There been a method floating around the interwebz to downgrade your Watch to 1.0.1. IT DOESN'T WORK!! Don't waste your time, I already tried it as did many others. Here's the method.
Honestly, it doesn't surprise me, nor should it really surprise anyone who has been working with iOS for a while. Apple just doesn't support downgrades... They never have... With production or beta firmware.
Because the iPhone has a DFU mode it has been possible to install the current production OS over a newer beta OS, but even that isn't officially supported by Apple. All the beta documentation says that you can't go back.
This is just how Apple operates whether people think it makes sense or not.
Yup, I'm getting about the same with my black sport 42mm model. About 10% of battery life used every single hour since upgrading to the developer preview and I'm not even using the dang thing!
Same here. Apparently Apple doesn't test new OSes internally before releasing them in the wild.
Thanks for the heads-up on this! I followed your instructions (including re-pairing, not repairing
) and am sitting at 59% on my watch with about 10 hours off the charger. I've had my iPhone on and off the charger all day, so I can't say if it helped with iPhone battery or not.For now, I am a happy camper that I can easily go 16+ hours on a watch charge to last me the entire day, from 5am wakeup to 9pm bedtime
Oddly enough my watch battery seems to be doing much better today. On tuesday and Wednesday I made it just barely 13 hours before the watch shut down. I unpaired and set up the watch as new on tuesday night, but it made no difference in battery life on Wednesday. Today, though its been 11 hours and I still have 43% remaining. I’m not sure what the difference was.
14 hours usage and my watch is sitting at 65%.
That's mostly because no notifications whatsoever are going through to the watch, though. I've reset it, restored, tried as new, nothing seems to fix it. Still, it tells the time so thats nice haha!
Here's to Beta 2!
That's mostly because no notifications whatsoever are going through to the watch, though. I've reset it, restored, tried as new, nothing seems to fix it. Still, it tells the time so thats nice haha!
Here's to Beta 2!