watchOS 26 Beta Thread

[MCKLMT]

You mean there is no frame drop when you scroll in control center, when you double click for Apple Pay ?
I have seen tons of complaints about that ...

I encountered these frame drops on previous beta but this one is so smooth.

 

[rbart]

Maybe we get used…
But the watchOS 11 to 26 is super visible…
I have done it on a s7 and it’s the same.
We certainly don’t get 60fps anymore in some areas like control center

 

[martint235]

Latest dev beta is making me intervene if I want to fully charge the watch. Any ideas how to turn this feature off? I’ve looked in the watch app

 

[goldmac2006]

Latest dev beta is making me intervene if I want to fully charge the watch. Any ideas how to turn this feature off? I’ve looked in the watch app

Is it optimised charge limit? I don’t have it kicking in on my S6 as often versus when I first bought it, but I only saw it go on one time since my watch got used to charging regularly.

 

[martint235]

Yes. It did it a couple of times but now seems to have sorted itself out.

 

[mentaluproar]

well my mic stopped working again and the usual tricks to bring it back arent working. :/

 

[goldmac2006]

well my my mic stopped working again and the usual tricks to bring it back arent working. :/

Not even a restart, right?

Can you clean your Apple Watch and check to make sure the microphones aren’t blocked 🚫 off? Take off any cases if you use it.

 

[mentaluproar]

its clear, theres no case, restart didnt help, cycling low power mode didnt help. Now when I tried to use the mic again to set a timer via siri, I felt the haptic kick, then it went black and pinwheeled, then came back and still didnt work.

Interestingly, I cannot stream errors off my watch to the macOS console anymore either.

 

[goldmac2006]

Interestingly, I cannot stream errors off my watch to the macOS console anymore either

To Xcode simulator?

Can you also cycle water lock and eject out any liquid debris off your watch?

Looks like your AW may need to be looked at at an Apple Store if this last solution ain’t helping you.

 

[mentaluproar]

I did that. this is just a software issue. its a babied apple watch ultra 2. It's in good physical condition, its just running a crappy beta.

 

[mentaluproar]

erasing and pairing the apple watch to the phone again.....
the watch app on the phone wont let me continue until I put a space at the end of the autofilled password and then remove the space. weird.....
watch is restored from backup....
mic still doesnt work. :/

Cycling water lock doesnt work.
xcode simulator....fixed console.
Console shows "unknown color space", failed ioctl SIOCGIFNEXUS, ipsec4 ring ipsec4 failed, and a bunch of "AFKEndpointInterfaceUserClient(AFKEndpointInterfaceUserClient:0x100000992)" errors.

 

[rbart]

After some days, watchOS26 is a bit less laggy than juste after setup.
It's not perfect but acceptable.
No difference on battery compared to watchOS11

 

[goldmac2006]

I did that. this is just a software issue. its a babied apple watch ultra 2. It's in good physical condition, its just running a crappy beta.

erasing and pairing the apple watch to the phone again.....
the watch app on the phone wont let me continue until I put a space at the end of the autofilled password and then remove the space. weird.....
watch is restored from backup....
mic still doesnt work. :/

Cycling water lock doesnt work.
xcode simulator....fixed console.
Console shows "unknown color space", failed ioctl SIOCGIFNEXUS, ipsec4 ring ipsec4 failed, and a bunch of "AFKEndpointInterfaceUserClient(AFKEndpointInterfaceUserClient:0x100000992)" errors.

So it is indeed a software issue. Report it to the feedback assistant and also be on the lookout for watchOS 26 RC it should come out shortly after the iPhone Apple event

Did you have a chance to also chat with AppleCare about it to see if it was hardware related in any way?