All I can say is Apple needs to let us update our Apple Watches over cellular already.. I'm stuck somewhere with horrific wifi, and I can't get it to update at all.. Cellular connection is so much faster! Haven't had any issues since day 1 with the watch OS beta but this.
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watchOS 26 Beta Thread
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Working great on my Ultra 2 again, was fine in B3 and B4 but pretty broken in B5, glad to see this working in B6 again. Strange bug as pretty much all of my other 3rd apps worked fine, someone at Apple must like this app 😄
I wish they would scrap the annoying requirement to place the Apple Watch on the charger to update, what's the point in even having the option to update on the watch directly if you have to take the damn thing off to proceed the installation.
From the very first Apple Watch, as long as the battery was over 50%, I just placed it on the charger for two seconds so it proceeded to install and then placed it straight back on my wrist, never had an issue in all these years doing that. And on the Ultra watches, you only seem to lose less than 5% or so when installing, at least it's usually about that for me, maybe even less if it's a small patch.
Don’t know how you figured that all out but thanks, was having that issue after a reboot and it was annoying. Thanks again
Agreeable. I was surprised my watch wasn’t able to install the update for beta 6 until after I finished work when it downloaded the update files. It takes so long and Apple needs to add cellular as an option to update our watches. Our iPhones can do it but why not Apple Watch? They have cellular models!
It’s still normal in beta 6 developer watchOS 26, and workout buddy works fine too. Tested it at the gym.
Do you have a 3 second delay after pressing the side button and opening the control center?
❌ not applicable for me.
That’s been around since the last beta, but it’s still pretty cool! What do you all think about the Liquid Glass being more noticeable and improved in the newer betas?
I not only have the delay on my Ultra 1, but when it finally opens up, all of the buttons are blank. I'm unpairing it now so I can re-pair and see if that fixes it.
ADDENDUM: ...or, I could have just read the release notes and found out that the latter problem is, in fact, a known issue with a workaround!
ADDENDUM 2: After restoring the watch from backup, I was still seeing both the delay and the blank buttons. After following the workaround, the delay is gone and the buttons are back to normal — it may be worth trying to see if it fixes the problem even if you're only seeing the delay.
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i just installed it to check it!! thank you for the message
A new OS is not just the OS itself, it’s also new SDK and lot of weird behaviour in previously working code.
There are a lot of possibilities to have broken apps, especially on watchOS which is not very widespread in developers community.
