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Watch OS 10 Beta Thread

ResolutionNZ said:
People keep talking about dock mode being missing from watchOS 10, but have they tried double pressing the digital crown?
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That’s the app switcher which shows the open apps in order of use, same as iPhone,no ability to customize.

I think the idea was to use widgets and pin and organize as needed. Problem here is not every app has a widget. Hopefully more will as time passes
 
dcp10 said:
That’s the app switcher which shows the open apps in order of use, same as iPhone,no ability to customize.

I think the idea was to use widgets and pin and organize as needed. Problem here is not every app has a widget. Hopefully more will as time passes
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…and widgets aren't available for the Siri face.
 
Another Battery Problem. Ultra 2. Beware Watch 10.1 and ios17.1

I updated to the beta about a week or so ago and everything was fine. Last night the newest Beta 3 auto installed on my UW2. When I woke up and grabbed my watch it was very hot and only charged to 77%. I decided to leave it on the charger while I got ready and when I came back it was now at 74%.

I saw that If you have the beta for the watch you should also have it for the phone and I was still on ios17. So I upgraded the software and unpaired and reset my watch and then repaired it and put it back on charger.

It still wouldn’t go above 80% even with optimized off and I took it off charger 1.5 hours ago. Since then I have went from 80% to 39% battery.

Any suggestions or am I just screwed until they fix again?
 
Install a beta if:
- you are a developer who NEEDS to test an app on the future version
- fix a CRITICAL issue that you know it's fixed in this beta
- you don't care about bugs

A beta is not just to be happy to have the ultimate OS on you device. It also has some risks.
Official release are not bug free, so you can imagine for the betas ...
 
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wknapp0924 said:
Another Battery Problem. Ultra 2. Beware Watch 10.1 and ios17.1

I updated to the beta about a week or so ago and everything was fine. Last night the newest Beta 3 auto installed on my UW2. When I woke up and grabbed my watch it was very hot and only charged to 77%. I decided to leave it on the charger while I got ready and when I came back it was now at 74%.

I saw that If you have the beta for the watch you should also have it for the phone and I was still on ios17. So I upgraded the software and unpaired and reset my watch and then repaired it and put it back on charger.

It still wouldn’t go above 80% even with optimized off and I took it off charger 1.5 hours ago. Since then I have went from 80% to 39% battery.

Any suggestions or am I just screwed until they fix again?
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Might sound silly but… short answer: fridge.

Overheating / high temperature causes the battery to stop charging for safety reasons. (Both for Watch and iPhone.) So first kill manually all apps running on the background (possibly causing the overheating), and then just put the device in the fridge to cool it down, several minutes should do. You should be able to charge the device then.

Nothing guaranteed of course and on your own risk.

But it works 😂
 
IOS 17.1 dev Beta 3 and WatchOS 10.1 dev Beta 3 don't fix the battery drain. No weather complication and restored the watch from zero (no backup). We will continue to have a useless Apple Watch with 7 or 8 hours of battery life.
 
jsangil said:
IOS 17.1 dev Beta 3 and WatchOS 10.1 dev Beta 3 don't fix the battery drain. No weather complication and restored the watch from zero (no backup). We will continue to have a useless Apple Watch with 7 or 8 hours of battery life.
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Please post your feedback IDs
 
jsangil said:
IOS 17.1 dev Beta 3 and WatchOS 10.1 dev Beta 3 don't fix the battery drain. No weather complication and restored the watch from zero (no backup). We will continue to have a useless Apple Watch with 7 or 8 hours of battery life.
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When you say “we” I think what you really mean is “I”. My watch is not useless, weather complications work and after 15 hours my battery life remaining is at 39%
 
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I'm on watchOS 10.1 dev beta 3 and previously I used to be able to see my heart beat rate complication in the Memoji watch face. Now it no longer shows up.
 
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StumpyBloke said:
Well, as you are running beta software you will have reported these issues to Apple via the usual feedback app. They will have given you feedback IDs which will be useful for other people to reference when they report the same problem themselves.
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Well people paid for their Watch and enrolled to a beta program on a device they fully paid for. No one owes anything to Apple or has an obligation to report anything by enrolling your device to anything. You report bugs if you encounter any and feel compelled to do so. Others can and will do as they please.
 
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I'm on latest stable releases and I can say that my Ultra 1 battery is perfectly fine now. Only problem that I have is non-updating background apps like I mentioned before.
 
JCCL said:
Well people paid for their Watch and enrolled to a beta program on a device they fully paid for. No one owes anything to Apple or has an obligation to report anything by enrolling your device to anything. You report bugs if you encounter any and feel compelled to do so. Others can and will do as they please.
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This is true. But it’s beyond madness to install the beta, which is made available so that bugs can be corrected prior to the official release, and then when said bugs are encountered, waste time complaining on a public forum whilst refusing to raise the issue with Apple. The bug clearly doesn’t affect everybody (I don’t experience it for example), and those people can’t report it, but the poster will no doubt complain again if the bug exists on the final release version.
 
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JCCL said:
Well people paid for their Watch and enrolled to a beta program on a device they fully paid for. No one owes anything to Apple or has an obligation to report anything by enrolling your device to anything. You report bugs if you encounter any and feel compelled to do so. Others can and will do as they please.
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Why to install a beta if you don't want to test and report problems ?
Just to be proud to live in the future ?
If people who meet issues in beta don't report them to Apple, what's the point ?
 
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A lot of people try betas because of maddening bugs in the official latest release that they just can’t live with. Point being, official releases are by no means bullet proof. And yes, these same people bitch, whine and complain that it’s not fixed in the beta.

I wish people would report bugs the official way, but I don’t have a problem with them venting here. What’s equaling annoying are the “beta cops” that constantly cut and paste the same reply about reporting it and framing that reply as constructive when they are just stirring the pot.
 
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There is no problem complain here, but it's completely useless.
Apple doesn't monitor this forum.
If you want to force Apple to fix something, there is only one solution: spam them with bug reports !
When a bug is reported by a lot of people (or is "advertised" in a lot of big websites or social medias), it comes to the top of the list.
Apple publishes beta for testing and having feedbacks.

As a developer, when I publish a beta, I hope my users report feedbacks, bugs ...
I don't push unfinished software for fun
 
rbart said:
There is no problem complain here, but it's completely useless.
Apple doesn't monitor this forum.
If you want to force Apple to fix something, there is only one solution: spam them with bug reports !
When a bug is reported by a lot of people (or is "advertised" in a lot of big websites or social medias), it comes to the top of the list.
Apple publishes beta for testing and having feedbacks.

As a developer, when I publish a beta, I hope my users report feedbacks, bugs ...
I don't push unfinished software for fun
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It makes people feel better to vent on forums. It’s called the internet.
 
LarryJoe33 said:
It makes people feel better to vent on forums. It’s called the internet.
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Interesting discussion.

Complaining about a bug & reporting it to get it fixed, or complaining about a bug and just venting here - both is perfectly valid.

But.

The goals differ, and the means to achieve them too.

Venting only? Fine. But without the expectation that the said bug will get somehow magically fixed.

Want a fix? Fine too. Go and report it to Apple.

Ranting about not having a fix but refusing to submit a report? That won’t work… 🤷‍♀️
 
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Jana_CZ said:
Interesting discussion.

Complaining about a bug & reporting it to get it fixed, or complaining about a bug and just venting here - both is perfectly valid.

But.

The goals differ, and the means to achieve them too.

Venting only? Fine. But without the expectation that the said bug will get somehow magically fixed.

Want a fix? Fine too. Go and report it to Apple.

Ranting about not having a fix but refusing to submit a report? That won’t work… 🤷‍♀️
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I didn’t think that jsangil was ranting. As a newbie he posted his findings and warned others. Some long term members, who should know better, seem to be stirring the pot.
 
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