Anyone here is willing to add my watch to their developer account? I won't eat much - please adopt me!
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watchOS 3 Tidbits: Face Gallery, Disable Screenshots, New Stock Apps, and More
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this probably had to be considered. Hopefully its not going to be reducing the battery life by more than 30 min or so.
I think you can now initiate those things from the messages prompt now. I honestly did not use it because I only knew two people with an apple watch.
Does the workout app support split times and GPS traces on WatchOS 3? At the moment, I use Runtastic which is great when it works, but it can be a bit unreliable (for example, it doesn't always record my heart rate or sync back to the activity app properly)
I'd love to use the native activity app for the convenience, but it's just too basic (and I'm only really a casual runner)
I'd love to use the native activity app for the convenience, but it's just too basic (and I'm only really a casual runner)
I do it daily. I wear my watch loose enough to move up and down my arm. With a shake of my wrist it can move down to my wrist area and when you are doing physical work, it is quite easy to end the day with 8-10 screen shots. Its a nightly task of mine to delete screen shots.
Odd. I never get random screenshots and wear my watch all day. I never realize that could be a problem for some people. Glad you guys are happy.
Overcast let's you download podcasts directly to the Apple Watch for offline listening when your iPhone isn't present? Last time I used it earlier this year it didn't.
Sadly I can't try it out as my Apple Watch isn't working properly and is awaiting repair/replacement by Apple later this week.
The Apple Watch and your iPhone lose contact constantly.
I've had an Apple Watch since the start. I use it all the time throughout the day. I still almost always have at least 30-40% battery left and that's after at least 1.5-2.5 hours a day of working out with it.
There were countless battery complaints BEFORE the watch was released. Afterwards it seems most stopped when they ran into few issues. Though there are still those that think it should last days and days on a charge.
Most would never wear a watch while they sleep, so what's the big deal about charging it when you're going to take it off anyways?
You can lock the screen now. If you force-touch the screen, an option for 'Lock' is available.
Excuse you? If you go out of range of your iPhone a little red icon appears on the Watch face.
I think the point is to have a haptic alert when the watch loses connection to the iPhone. You are not always staring at the watch. I have at times not realized I left my phone at home until I looked at the watch and noticed the red icon. If it could give feedback and notification stating the communication between the devices has been broken.
I wonder how the auto pausing of runs is going to work. I manually pause my workout while running through the city when I get stopped at traffic lights, but I run in place until the light changes. I wish they would let one of the buttons pause the workout instead of having to deal with the screen. Trivial I know.
Mmm, Gadget and my wrist have a long history together.
Excuse me, I need to go to the bathroom, won't be a minute.
The activity App currently supports splits in iOS 9 and watchOS 2. I can't remember when it got added (possibly release of watchOS 2 I think).
GPS traces could be nice, but I must admit it was a feature I never really used with other Apps. I looked at the traces after the first few days but after the novelty wore off I knew where I'd ran and didn't bother looking at them again.
I like the activity App as it can record all my different types of workouts and as it's all in the Apple ecosystem there's no need for additional third party accounts and things to sync. I rather like its simplicity, but no problem with anyone who wants more. Sometimes I just wonder if people actually need all the "more" stuff though.
I desperately want truly custom watch faces. The selections we have don't quite do it for me. I tend to use a customized "Modular" 99% of the time, but would love to see more classic analog watch face options. I can only surmise that Apple has concerns about people creating watch faces with already trademarked designs, branding, etc (e.g., Rolex, IWC, Zenith, Patek Philippe, etc). Not sure, but I do wish for a greater variety.
Does anyone know if there will be any way to enable the display of digital seconds on the digital watch faces? No other improvement Apple could make would equal this in usefulness for me.
Thanks for this - I didn't realise it supported splits (and there's no mention of it on Apple's site!).
The main reason I like GPS traces is you can see if it's messed up and got your route (and hence your distance) wrong and you can then correct it. It's not essential though and I may give the activity app a try on my run tomorrow and see how I get on with it
I want some more professional looking watch faces!
What do you consider a 'professional' watch face?