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watchOS 6 > What features are you most excited about?
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I just got done installing it; too early to tell. Had it on for about 30 min and battery is still at 100%; that's a good sign. Sometimes you update, put your watch on, and in 20 minutes you're down to 98%. But I think it's too early to draw conclusions.
Battery life has been great so far, but the most frustrating thing has been an issue that has been present for me even on watchOS 5 is that my exchange appointments get out of sync, with newer appointments missing or deleted appointments still showing. I have to reset sync data more than I’d care to in order to fix it.
Is there some way one can pinpoint what is causing huge battery drain on the watch? I would love to have something like the battery information in iOS ...
My Apple Watch Series 4 (non-LTE, 44mm) is really struggling with battery life and it's been like this for the past three BETA releases so I'm starting to suspect it's not related to the BETA itself.
Took it off the charger 45 minutes ago, already down to 78%. Tried to disable the Noise functionality as I would expect it to cause some battery drain due to the microphone having to measure noise levels all the time but it didn't make any difference.
My Apple Watch Series 4 (non-LTE, 44mm) is really struggling with battery life and it's been like this for the past three BETA releases so I'm starting to suspect it's not related to the BETA itself.
Took it off the charger 45 minutes ago, already down to 78%. Tried to disable the Noise functionality as I would expect it to cause some battery drain due to the microphone having to measure noise levels all the time but it didn't make any difference.
same issue here. It has been broken since the first beta. Guessing audible may need updating due to iOS 13 changes.
Battery life on beta 7 is as good as it was on OS 5. 
can get at least 2 days out of a single charge. Can try to get to 3 days but I don’t let the percentage fall below 20% so I’d rather not test it. But can get 2.5 days before it gets that low.
can get at least 2 days out of a single charge. Can try to get to 3 days but I don’t let the percentage fall below 20% so I’d rather not test it. But can get 2.5 days before it gets that low.my CryptoPro complication isn’t updating either. It could be a problem with watchOS in general.
Is anyone able to reply to a text message via dictation? For some reason mine has stopped working, even after restarting my watch. Actually, both of my watches. Both are doing this on the latest beta.
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Mine was the same upon updating but I went back in and enabled dictation on my phone and it fixed the issue. Settings>General>Keyboard>Enable Dictation
I have had (and reported) many of the issues seen here including a) dictation not working b) not being able to text a contact with siri, c) complications not updating, and the newest one- being continually prompted to login to my appleid for the store (I have two) and not being able to authenticate.
Fun!
Fun!
My dictation (phone and watch) was already enabled. Disabled and re-enabled, but no change. Reported to Apple.
Same here. Audible syncing books to the Watch app hasn't worked at all since I updated my iPhone 8 to iOS 13. That is actually the reason I caved and tried the WatchOS 6 beta, hoping that it would fix the Audible syncing problem. But it did not.
Anyone notice increased screen brightness? My series 4 screens incredibly bright, may be it’s not auto dimming in darker conditions ♂️
Finally found it!
Oddly enough this was moved to Clock and then at the bottom there’s a link to the Siri Watch Face Data Sources.
Seems like a very weird spot to put it considering it used to be in the Siri Watch Face configuration.