I have a similar issue but it’s not consistent. The first few times I did all kinds of troubleshooting and at some point it’d just start working again. The last time it happened a week or so ago, I simply restarted the watch and it worked properly.
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Watch OS 10 Beta Thread
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Thanks - actually I *somehow* made it work today, without turning off the phone / restarting the watch. If only I knew the exact steps! 🤦♀️ I just remember it involved killing the Music app on the phone, but not just that - I’ll have to keep experimenting to find the pattern 😀
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Yes sir! It was one of the main highlights of WatchOS. These are one of the few! It changes and plays different animations anytime you look at the time.
That is just the Snoopy watch face, but not a complication, imho. Complication implies you being able to select where to display weather, calendar entries and the like. But I agree, the Snoopy watch face is hilarious and everyone asks me where I got it from. Yesterday a friend even mentioned that it would be a reason for her to buy the watch.Yes sir! It was one of the main highlights of WatchOS. These are one of the few! It changes and plays different animations anytime you look at the time.
Love this face, every time you think you've seen all the animations a new one pops up!Yes sir! It was one of the main highlights of WatchOS. These are one of the few! It changes and plays different animations anytime you look at the time.
I never get to use to more watch faces. I had infograph with 8 complications and now I have wayfinder. I have all complications that I need.
What is useless for me and I never understand why you have special watch face when you workout? When I workout, I have started workout app, so I can't see my watch face because I'm in active workout.
I‘ve set up Shortcuts automation that when I arrive at my gym it changes my watch face to my Activity Digital where I have complications to start my workout, launch Amazon Music, and view my steps. These are complications I reserve for this watch face that are not on my others. Also, when I am in a workout I am just one step way pushing the Digital Crown to see the Activity Digital watch face to review overall progress of my rings and steps or interact with complications. When leaving the gym automation changes my watch face back to my overall go to Wayfinder.
When I go running in my neighborhood, I have a shortcut to lock front door, start workout, change my watch face to Activity Digital, set my playback destination to my AirPods, and start Amazon Music.
BTW, using shortcuts to change watch faces use to work flawlessly in WatchOS 9.x but now in WatchOS 10 it fails about 50% of the time. Anyone else?
Apple Fitness+ doesn't tell you your total calories burned for the day. It just shows you your rings and occasionally the trainer will talk about your rings and it'll show the numbers. I workout close to midnight and seeing the digital read out of my rings motivates me to push hard before the end of the day to hit my goals.
For example, I’ve set mine to show various kinds of weather data (conditions, temperature, wind), shortcuts to the workout app, and shortcut for music. I’m often doing more exercises within a training session (warmup run, dynamic stretching, strides, tempo intervals, cool down run) and it’s pretty helpful to have instant access to all that between the sets (or, press the side button once during the exercise to see it all).
But, I don’t want to use this setup always - when at home, I prefer complications such as timer, camera, activity rings, calendar.
And then multiple simple watch faces to match with the outfit when going out.
And then a non-disturbing monochrome one for the evening, with home accessories/lights shortcuts, alarm clock, battery status.
Others may have X more use cases. And everyone who’s benefiting from multiple watch faces can tell you how useful the swiping was and how impractical the new way is. Heck - why having the capability of using multiple watch faces and then making the face changes more difficult..? 🫤
My M1 MacBook Air (no beta) gets unlocked fine by my Ultra on watchOS 10. Other types of unlocks such as 1Password are handled fine too with the watch.
Anyone else having issues with notification sounds not playing through headphones. I use a workout app called Stryd which plays audio notifications if running too fast or slow. Just updated to watch os 10 and I can hear the notifications without headphones but the minute I put headphones on they disappear. Not sure if it’s app specific or a wider issue.
I have found playing music directly from the watch is buggy and challenging. Way too many "clicks" needed to get the watch to stop looking for the phone. I leave my phone in the locker at the gym and in my car on hikes. I have found that putting the phone in Airplane mode helps the watch from reverting back. I do have the process completely down though.
- In music, click on the top right corner where the phone icon appears.
- scroll down, click control other devices
- click Apple Watch
- then click your AirPods
- click play
- top left < to navigate to a playlist
- click the now double AirPod icon in the top right if you want to play the selected playlist on shuffle, which is under "Up Next".
Then about 10 minutes into my workout, my watch is displaying a song from my phone that is not playing and I have to do the first three steps again, but it doesn't interrupt the music which is still playing from the watch.
I thought the prior official OS was a pain in the ass to stream from the watch. I hope this improves. It should not be this hard.
Yes, and actually the reason would be that if you play any audio/music even from the watch, it tends to be aired to your iPhone and only from there to the earphones… so that the audio notifications from the watch won’t work. See the post right below yours incl. my original question - what you described sounds exactly as what I’m experiencing.
Not sure. I can listen to music etc without having my phone with me. Notifications aren’t coming through my headphones though.
Just bought an S7 to use as a lighter every day alternative to my AW Ultra. I installed the beta on the S7, reset it, then restored it from an AW backup from earlier today. All my contacts aren’t syncing, specifically my wife and kids. Just curious if anyone else had this issue when they added a second Apple Watch to their phone.
I have 3 Apple Watches added to my iPhone, 2 of them on WatchOS 10. No issues with lost contacts.
How you can change playback destination to Air Pods? Thats I'm fighting every morning when I go out only with my Watches without phone. Even when I switch to Air Pods manualy and I'm close to my phone it switch to phone after some time, so I need to switch it to Watch again.
It work like that with Air Pods Pro 1st gen and now also with 2nd gen.
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