Will Watch Run faster on 6S/+?

[jgelin]

Hello all,

As I await the arrival of my new 6s + I had a random thought... will the watch run faster now that it has more RAM and a faster processor over on the phone end?
Has anyone noticed this? What type of improvement?

 

[exxxviii]

Mine feels faster. Though, everything changed over the past couple weeks, so I do not know if it was the phone, iOS 9, or Watch OS 2. Regardless, things feel a little snappier on the Watch.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

Wouldn't Bluetooth be a limiting factor even if the new iPhone is 100X faster?

Hence why native Watch apps are the way to go.

 

[BlueMoon63]

You would assume minor speed improvement with the processing power of the new phone but limited because of the Bluetooth path to the watch.

 

[exxxviii]

If BT bandwidth is on the order of of 2 Mbs, it is probably not a watch performance bottleneck factor. I do not know what BT latency is, but my hunch is that plays no role in perceived performance either.

 

[jgelin]

Mine feels faster. Though, everything changed over the past couple weeks, so I do not know if it was the phone, iOS 9, or Watch OS 2. Regardless, things feel a little snappier on the Watch.

Good point about so much being new that we couldn't really tell which did it... I didn't think of that. Thank you for the feedback!