Zero complaints with this RC. Everything I use the watch for is working, especially direct streaming from the watch to APP2’s which was severely broken.
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Watch OS 10 Beta Thread
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How has that improved? I still find it buggy as hell. I need to set aside about 10 mins every morning to get podcasts playing from the watch instead of the phone before I go out for my morning run.
I’ve been using the new software since the RC was released last week and I see no difference with this issue.
My Apple Watch has been like this since the beginning of time unless I turn WiFi off before even attempting to access streaming apps. Has it become even more annoying for you?
I don’t seem to have issues with Apple Music as long as I turn WiFi off and let it switch to LTE before I open the music app.
After finally getting my music app working and synching properly following a full reset of the watch, I'm off the beta train for both iOS and WatchOS, see you in WatchOS 11!
It's just working now, instantly and flawlessly. I am still shutting off BT and WiFi on the phone before I leave it behind, but this is out of habit.
Have you tried the steps I posted?
1
Shut off BT and WiFi on the phone. (not airplane mode)
2
Kill any apps running on the watch.
I do this and when I launch music on the watch, it starts playing instantly through my APP2's. That's it, nothing to do on the watch. For me, it works now without doing the steps, but I do them anyway.
Yes, usually I have a high tolerance for Betas - but the latest music issues did annoy me quite a bit.
Yas, I’ll be doing the same. Everything works perfectly on my Watch now so no more betas.
For me the Music app on the AW just constantly crashes. The 10.2 DB does NOT fix the bug.
Maybe this is what I need to do. By full reset do you mean you unpaired and then repaired? (edit: also: did you set up as a new watch or from a backup?)
I setup as a new watch once I upgraded to iOS 17.1 RC and WatchOS 10.1 RC. It finally worked!
Just updated to 10.2 on my series 8 and still not getting the blood oxygen complication showing up on my Infograph watch face. Have done a reset from backup and still no change.
Thanks. I just unpaired and repaired and set it up from a backup. Running 10.2 DB 1. Music app now works BUT I cannot download music to the watch, which was in issue in the 10.1 Betas….Ugh. Maybe I will try to set up as a new watch tomorrow.
It used to be fairly easy to switch between the phone and watch as the source but ever since watch is 10 I’ve had the following issues with podcasts on a fairly regular basis.
1) sometimes starts playing from the phone despite starting podcasts on my watch (happens far more often than previously). Sometimes plays from the watch. Not sure why it varies.
2) I manually select watch using other airplay devices. I press play a million times but it remains paused with the phone source podcast still playing
3) i press play to start a watch based podcast. My AirPods make the noise to indicate it’s disconnecting from the phone and then promptly reconnects to the phone.
4) I press play to start the podcast on the watch. My headphones disconnect from the phone and reconnect to the watch but the podcast doesn’t play
The most reliable way to get it working is to switch the phone off but it kind of annoys me that I need to do that.
Contrastingly getting the watch to switch playback to the phone is very reliable.
I can get it working with that kind of thing…but I shouldn’t have to?
I appreciate the tips. I can get there but I think Apple needs to improve this as it has definitely regressed
I hear you, it was like that for me for about 6 weeks during the beta. Thank god it is fixed now for me. I didn't do any workarounds this morning and it worked as designed. Running 10.2b.
To add to this, it seems even better on 10.2b1. Granted it is the first beta, but headed in the right direction.
I am experiencing the same frustrating issue with Podcast and airplay. Can’t find an easy work around except turning off the phone. Has watchOS 10.2 beta fixed the issue?
Overcast is the best. Struggle with the Music App in 10.3 B1. When running without phone cannot pick a playlist (the app crashes). If I request via Siri I get random stuff. What I can say is “play music.” That’s it. I have reported. Ultra 2
Watch OS 10.2 beta seems to have removed asking "End workout?" after you click end workout. It's about time. It was annoying have to confirm you want to end the workout after you click "x" on end workout.
Just checked. It is there in 10.1.
Also, I like this additional check. Had a run being stopped due to rain once where I had no water lock.
Yes I am not sure what @LarryJoe33 is referring to. It was there on my 10.1 and only disappeared with 10.2 beta.