watchOS 26 Beta Thread

[goldmac2006]

Y’all updating to watchOS 26.1 beta 4? It’s out but I don’t see anything new. They should let us disable Liquid Glass like the iOS counterparts do.

 

[szilske]

Oh yes, please, in the watch the transparency is even more annoying and useless!!

 

[colinw123]

Yeh I updated eagerly last night as I thought the clear / tinted mode would be there but no, I hope they include it ?

 

[dereknas]

Atm, we will have to rely on increase contrast first.

 

[goldmac2006]

Yeh I updated eagerly last night as I thought the clear / tinted mode would be there but no, I hope they include it ?

Same here I thought it would have it.

Atm, we will have to rely on increase contrast first.

True. I don’t see anything unlike that in iOS 26.1 beta 4 that in watchOS beta 4 26.1 release notes saying it’ll have the Liquid Glass settings.

 

[Fontvnilla]

Mods, please remove

 

[M3T]

Anyone else seeing worse battery life than the previous beta? I feel like it’s been especially bad since the update.

 

[goldmac2006]

Anyone else seeing worse battery life than the previous beta? I feel like it’s been especially bad since the update.

I noticed that. I had a day last week where I witness the battery draining in less than a few hours.

Today my watch didn’t get charged in the morning before I worked out, I had charged it to 80% after my workout and during a long school day it went all the way down to 25% from 10:15 am to 5 pm

 

[eyespy03]

Not sure how to check that, can’t find it in the Watch app’s settings, but it’s definitely the same Apple Account.

I also have had this since beta 3. I hoped beta 4 would fix it but I just reported the same syncing issue. FB20788099

 

[martint235]

Anyone else seeing worse battery life than the previous beta? I feel like it’s been especially bad since the update.

A little but it’s noticeable. Maybe 10-15% less after 2 days

 

[phrekaru]

In my case, b4 ultra 2, since Monday with aod off

 

[goldmac2006]

In my case, b4 ultra 2, since Monday with aod off
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Last charged since Monday night? That’s still pretty good for an ultra if it lasted till Thursday.

 

[basehead617]

can someone tell me if they’ve fixed the horrendous 26.0.2 bug where the podcasts app episode timer doesn’t run anymore once you fast forward or rewind in the episode?