WatchOS 11 Beta Thread

[john991]

Anyone know if I can go to an Apple Store and have them downgrade me from the beta on the spot/the same day, or does my AW need to get sent to a repair center for them to do that?

I believe you have to send it back to Apple directly

 

[xDKP]

Anyone know if I can go to an Apple Store and have them downgrade me from the beta on the spot/the same day, or does my AW need to get sent to a repair center for them to do that?

Is it that bad?

 

[rbart]

For a developer who needs to explore some features and test new APIs, it's OK

 

[JCCL]

Anyone know if I can go to an Apple Store and have them downgrade me from the beta on the spot/the same day, or does my AW need to get sent to a repair center for them to do that?

I think it will need to go to Apple. I’d recommend troubleshooting first. It’s been solid for me but looks folks are having mixed results. Did you upgrade yours or just asking to be safe? Since you are on the fence, I’d also recommend you waiting to see if Beta 3 comes out next week and read some impressions.

 

[mblm85]

I'd just wait for the next beta and install it in the hopes that whatever issue you're having gets fixed.

 

[mblm85]

And report your issue in the Feedback app to bring it to Apple's attention.

 

[honglong1976]

Anyone know if I can go to an Apple Store and have them downgrade me from the beta on the spot/the same day, or does my AW need to get sent to a repair center for them to do that?

Wait till next week and change to public beta

 

[jkel777]

Is it that bad?

I think it will need to go to Apple. I’d recommend troubleshooting first. It’s been solid for me but looks folks are having mixed results. Did you upgrade yours or just asking to be safe? Since you are on the fence, I’d also recommend you waiting to see if Beta 3 comes out next week and read some impressions.

The watchOS beta has been fine, no major issues so far. It’s because I want to downgrade from the iOS 18 beta back to iOS 17. watchOS 11 won’t work with iOS 17.

I’m gonna hold out until next week’s beta 3. Was just curious if I had to send it in and be without it for a few days or could have it done immediately at an Apple Store. Gotta keep those streaks 😂

 

[john991]

watchOS beta 2 was good with battery until today. Charged up to 71% 3 hours later I’m down to 35%. No workouts, no cellular data on watch and no music off watch. Nothing changed this past week. Hopefully beta 3 fixes this.

 

[JCCL]

watchOS beta 2 was good with battery until today. Charged up to 71% 3 hours later I’m down to 35%. No workouts, no cellular data on watch and no music off watch. Nothing changed this past week. Hopefully beta 3 fixes this.

Yes I’ve had those weird occurrences happen once or twice. Both were fixed by a restart.

 

[john991]

Yes I’ve had those weird occurrences happen once or twice. Both were fixed by a restart.

Thanks. Dropping today as well. Will reboot and see what happens. Hopefully beta 3 tomorrow.

 

[honglong1976]

I updated and its working well on my Series 6.

 

[AsherN]

I’m going diving in a month lol. I’ll let you know. Actually it’s making me wonder if I should test it before getting in the water.

I would not trust my diving on a dive computer running Beta software. Bring a backup.

 

[AsherN]

When you start a new release with a lot of unfinished parts, you can't focus on performance and energy efficiency ...
When you develop, you always try to do your best to have optimized code, but the first priority is to have working code and all features available.

when I wrote software, my Alpha and Beta code was also full or error traps and logs that would affect performance.

 

[JCCL]

Few hours with Beta 3. Obviously still too early to judge the battery, but so far it seems a bit more fluid and polished. Hopefully this fixes those random battery drains without introducing any major issues.

 

[Gathomblipoob]

WatchOS beta 3 here. Can anyone turn system haptics off and actually have them turn off? It's been an issue for me since the first beta.

EDIT: Turning off haptic alerts was moved to the haptics tab and is now an "OFF" selection above the Default and Prominent choices.

 

[xDKP]

Few hours with Beta 3. Obviously still too early to judge the battery, but so far it seems a bit more fluid and polished. Hopefully this fixes those random battery drains without introducing any major issues.

Hopefully Public Beta is available soon

 

[stbrown]

Battery still doesnt seem great with DB3. AW9 41mm. Back on 10.5 I think I would end the day around 50% with doing two outdoor walk workouts (1 hour each) and just regular daily notifications.
With DB2 and DB3 it usually ends around 25-35%

 

[KarimLeVallois]

Battery is really, really bad on Beta 3. Took my Ultra off charge at 08:00 this morning and had to put it back at 16:55 as it only has 16% left. Not done any workouts or anything, live activities disabled. So 10% every hour.

 

[john991]

Battery is really, really bad on Beta 3. Took my Ultra off charge at 08:00 this morning and had to put it back at 16:55 as it only has 16% left. Not done any workouts or anything, live activities disabled. So 10% every hour.

Try rebooting watch this solved it for me.

 

[KarimLeVallois]

Try rebooting watch this solved it for me.

I actually thought of that after I typed the message, fingers crossed as I'm worried it won't last the day when I'm in the office tomorrow.

 

[aberrero]

Battery is really, really bad on Beta 3. Took my Ultra off charge at 08:00 this morning and had to put it back at 16:55 as it only has 16% left. Not done any workouts or anything, live activities disabled. So 10% every hour.

I had terrible battery the first day of beta 2 then it got better. Like lost 20% in an hour bad. Then like 30-40% per day good.

 

[KarimLeVallois]

I had terrible battery the first day of beta 2 then it got better. Like lost 20% in an hour bad. Then like 30-40% per day good.

Update... after the reboot I only lost 10% overnight and seems much better now, thank god.

 

[Killerbob]

I have no issues with my update to watchOS 11 B3 on my AWU gen. 1. I updated from watchOS 10, and it went smoothly. I also updated my iPhone 14 Pro to iOS 18 B3, and my iPad Pro gen. 6 to iPadOS 18 B3, and all is working well.

I don't know why some people would have battery issues in B3. My battery is at 84%, and it's been 8 hours of light usage.

 

[oMc]

I don't know why some people would have battery issues in B3.

Yeah I don't know why people would have bugs on their devices anyway, what a silly idea.
It's like people getting sick, or having trouble with their cars. Hahaha. People are so dumb.

/s