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watchOS 6 > What features are you most excited about?

Strutten said:
That's actually good news to me, since that makes me believe that they might have pulled the update, rather than it was me having f-d anything up. :)
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Strutten said:
Was that the same notification you got earlier? My extremely poor German tells me that it's about not finding your watch (even though I assume it's close?)?
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Yes, same notification and my iphone cant find the watch ... same wifi, very close, removed and reinstalled profile, hard reset iphone and watch
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Strutten said:
Was that the same notification you got earlier? My extremely poor German tells me that it's about not finding your watch (even though I assume it's close?)?
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Try to disable wifi on the watch only ... So the watch is connected to iPhone with bluetooth but not with wifi ... worked for me
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Yeah, got is working

Just disable wifi on the watch only with control center, start the beta 2 update in the watch app and after that you can enable wifi again

Should work for everyone who has install/download problems

Edit: download is realy slow but nevermind ... it works

Edit 2: disabled wifi on the watch again and download is now faster
 
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Fr3eak99 said:
Yes, same notification and my iphone cant find the watch ... same wifi, very close, removed and reinstalled profile, hard reset iphone and watch
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Try to disable wifi on the watch only ... So the watch is connected to iPhone with bluetooth but not with wifi ... worked for me
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Yeah, got is working

Just disable wifi on the watch only with control center, start the beta 2 update in the watch app and after that you can enable wifi again

Should work for everyone who has install/download problems

Edit: download is realy slow but nevermind ... it works

Edit 2: disabled wifi on the watch again and download is now faster
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My watch app will unfortunately still not find the update, but I'm glad for your sake!
 
Strutten said:
My watch app will unfortunately still not find the update, but I'm glad for your sake!
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Mhm, I did a few things before, you can give it a try:

  • removed both profiles (iOS and watchOS)
  • shut down iPhone and Apple Watch
  • start both devices, install only watchOS profile
 
Ryankontos said:
Walkie-Talkie is SO much better in watchOS 6. I’d actually consider using it now.

Previously, when you’d open a walkie-talkie chat with someone, you would hold down the button to start talking, and then when you’re done, let go and wait for the app to try and connect to the other person’s watch. You would start a conversation without even knowing if the other user is available.

Now, when you tap on a chat, a “connecting” screen is shown until a connection to the other user is actually established. And their watch makes a beep before you’ve even started talking to let them know you’re connected. Once you’re actually connected, the push to talk button appears and you can talk knowing for sure that it will be received.

In general the UI is also much less annoying and weird too
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That's great to hear! The interface is pretty wonky in the existing version.
 
212rikanmofo said:
How well is WatchOS 6 running for you guys? Is it pretty stable and safe to use as a daily driver? My iPhone is already on iOS 13 Beta 1. Should I update my watch as well? It's currently on WatchOS 5.2.1
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Battery is terrible on beta 1. Just installed beta 2 so not sure if it has improved yet. Complications missing,colours not working on info graph if you have series 4.

Honestly the watch forum is pretty dead I find. Beta 2 out I don’t think I noticed a single comment.
 
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Riley-Freeman said:
Battery is terrible on beta 1. Just installed beta 2 so not sure if it has improved yet. Complications missing,colours not working on info graph if you have series 4.

Honestly the watch forum is pretty dead I find. Beta 2 out I don’t think I noticed a single comment.
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That could be do to the new environmental audio complication, or just a beta issue.
 
Some initial feedback on Beta 2:

Battery life continues to be poor. After 11.5 hours overnight (8pm to 7:30am) battery is down to 49%. As @Ansath points out this could be down to environmental audio. Will disable and repeat this evening.

Had one lockup in the middle of the night where the screen would not wake that required a restart to fix.

No communication with phone for the last hour (evidenced by missing heart rate and sleep data). A second reboot of the watch restored the link and brought in the data.
 
johnyslats said:
Some initial feedback on Beta 2:

Battery life continues to be poor. After 11.5 hours overnight (8pm to 7:30am) battery is down to 49%. As @Ansath points out this could be down to environmental audio. Will disable and repeat this evening.
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No battery life is terrible on S3 as well with no environmental audio. It’s just your regular beta issues, much exacerbated because of the constrained resources on a tiny battery.
 
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I've now been able to install beta 2, and if anyone gets the same problem, the solution was to reset the watch completely. The backup did however work as it should, so all is good!
 
Riley-Freeman said:
Battery is terrible on beta 1. Just installed beta 2 so not sure if it has improved yet. Complications missing,colours not working on info graph if you have series 4.

Honestly the watch forum is pretty dead I find. Beta 2 out I don’t think I noticed a single comment.
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Reboot and everything works!!
 
- Can you automatic update the Beta via the watch? (without the iPhone)
- any new features in the latest Beta?
- is it ok on the S3?
 
Any tips for getting past the “installation will happen when on charger and over 50% charged” screen? Tried rebooting both phone and watch as well as turning off wifi and only doing it on BT.
 
My Series 4 battery is just fine. The whole watch is working perfectly for me. No resprings, no crashes, battery pretty normal. Glad I updated to try the new features.
 
johnyslats said:
Battery life continues to be poor. After 11.5 hours overnight (8pm to 7:30am) battery is down to 49%. As @Ansath points out this could be down to environmental audio. Will disable and repeat this evening.
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What a difference a day makes. Repeated the test last night. Over the same period battery life only dropped to 84%. I did disable environmental audio but suspect the main issue was simply bedding in of the new firmware. That said I’ll keep the setting off until the situation improves. It’s a nice feature but a bit of a gimmick for me personally
 
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