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watchOS 27 Beta Thread
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marlman
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Same here before this Beta Siri would do stuff like add items to my shopping list turn on specified lights etc but not now!
Folks, have you all had a chance to provide your feedback on it? I’ve heard that it’s quite widespread, so I’d prefer to have feedback IDs so that others can link the reports together and bring it to Apple’s attention.
Bro's series 11 still can do timer and Siri AI above 👆
southerndoc
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I tried going through this thread to make sure nobody has posted this already. Apologies if I missed it.
Is anyone having an issue with the side button being supersensitive? I'm finding that my Apple Watch is going into theater mode a lot. I think it's happening while washing my hands (which I do a lot because of my work). This wasn't a problem with WatchOS 26.
Is anyone having an issue with the side button being supersensitive? I'm finding that my Apple Watch is going into theater mode a lot. I think it's happening while washing my hands (which I do a lot because of my work). This wasn't a problem with WatchOS 26.
Interesting. Has any of the buttons gotten dirty at all? What series is your Apple Watch ⌚️?
southerndoc
Contributor
Any experience from anyone on how Siri AI works over WiFi if you don’t have your iPhone with you? I’m often in this situation at work and in the gym. Apples infomation on this seems a bit vague!
Siri was bad. It still takes longer two do my two most common requests, "Start outdoor workout" (which was timing out completely but now works, but taking about six seconds to get to the countdown screen), and "Open mindfulness"; it is requiring mindfulness to deal with the wait! 🙂 So far iI am not seeing any use cases that are not worse on the Watch than the voice commands which were basic but did work pretty reliably in watchOS 26, but genuinely trying to keep an open mind.
But I saw AppleForeverandever's post and I have also had weird Stand misses two times now (running DP3). I'm also doing a heart study and they want me to take my watch off for two clear hours to sync, and when putting it back on, on two out of three days so far it has been really difficult to get any movement even to register, never mind count. In the screenshot, you can see the gap. It finally registered when I had activated a HIIT workout, and even then only when crossing in the 3 PM hour (I'd started about 2:50).
I have fed back (FB23803543) but I'm curious to know if anyone else is having this? My total guess is there is something about that two hour charge that is putting the gyroscope into hibernation and it is not properly waking up.
But I saw AppleForeverandever's post and I have also had weird Stand misses two times now (running DP3). I'm also doing a heart study and they want me to take my watch off for two clear hours to sync, and when putting it back on, on two out of three days so far it has been really difficult to get any movement even to register, never mind count. In the screenshot, you can see the gap. It finally registered when I had activated a HIIT workout, and even then only when crossing in the 3 PM hour (I'd started about 2:50).
I have fed back (FB23803543) but I'm curious to know if anyone else is having this? My total guess is there is something about that two hour charge that is putting the gyroscope into hibernation and it is not properly waking up.
SwampYankee0!
macrumors member
Updated to Watch OS 27 user beta and now the watch/IOS app no longer measure VO2MAX nor Cardio recovery. Those 2 metrics no longer update and only reflect the last values recorded in Watch OS 26. 2 long outdoor runs and those things don't change. All other metrics are changing, heart rate, heart rate variability, running speed. All update after the run so we know the watch is recording and communicating to the phone. VO2 Max and Cardio recovery not longer work in the user beta.
StumpyBloke
macrumors 603
SwampYankee0!
macrumors member
I did report with screen shots of run and the VO2MAx list showing it did not record the run plus whatever system logs Apple pulled. Series 11. Long outdoor runs should have moved those metrics. They just show old dates since last update
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My wrist temperature stopped recording 4 days ago. Left feedback and more than 10 have same issue.
Anyone on here have same issue?
Anyone on here have same issue?
Julien
macrumors G4
Not sure if this is iOS or watchOS or something else. However since I updated to the Public Betas Wednesday I have done 2 runs (Thursday&Saturday) and both are missing the Maps of my run (like an Indoor workout). All other data is present except rendering the Maps. I ran Monday before the Betas and that run and all before have Maps.
martin2345uk
macrumors 68000
Even on a series 9 it assumes the wrong app. The stopwatch app is a separate app on the Apple Watch. ⌚️
Picard323
macrumors member
AppleForeverandEver
macrumors regular
Just asking Siri to set a 12 minute timer today, it hesitated for almost a minute before it said it has started a timer 😠
Asked Siri to ad tuna to the grocery list and it would not. It now says I must unlock my phone first. 🤬
Asked Siri to ad tuna to the grocery list and it would not. It now says I must unlock my phone first. 🤬
Lucky you. I ask Siri on my watch to set a timer and I'm told every time either "I can't set a Timer now because the Clock app is unavailable" or "I can't set a Timer on this Device". Hoping for a new beta this week that fixes the problem.
dannyyankou
macrumors P6
I know it's a beta, but has anyone else's battery life been atrocious on beta 3? Like it's the worst it's ever been for me.
Well installing the public beta was a bad decision for me. I noticed the day after when my wakeup alarm went off that dismissing the alarm on my watch didn't dismiss it on my phone. The next thing I noticed is that my sleep time wasn't syncing to my phone. All the while, I was still getting notifications on my watch and it was connected to my phone via bluetooth. Then I noticed that unlocking my phone didn't unlock my watch so I went into the settings on the watch app on my phone to see if the option was somehow disabled, but going to Passcode in the settings it would just sit and spin for a bit and then I would get a message that the watch wasn't connected. I checked bluetooth again and it was. I then rebooted both devices but that didn't change anything. I then removed the watch from my phone and reset it via settings on the watch and tried to re-pair. After I get through the stage where it asks you to point the phone at the watch to connect, it connects and asks if I want to setup from a backup or setup new. Whatever option I choose, it spins for a bit saying it is trying to connect and then it fails.
iPhone 16 Pro
Apple Watch Series 10
EDIT: Switch to the Dev Beta in the iPhone settings and got the beta 4 that was just released for the phone and I was able to pair my watch.
iPhone 16 Pro
Apple Watch Series 10
EDIT: Switch to the Dev Beta in the iPhone settings and got the beta 4 that was just released for the phone and I was able to pair my watch.
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fooyork
macrumors regular
To concur with a number of others, Siri on my AW Ultra 3 (Cellular) has been absolutely useless since installing beta 3. Siri will stubbornly not work at all unless my iPhone is nearby and connected (I am having trouble reaching your personal device), and even when connected to the iPhone Siri refuses point blank to do simple things like set timers, alarms, turn on/off HomeKit devices, etc (throws up the 'no Clock app installed' error, which is HILARIOUS as IT'S LITERALLY A CLOCK).
There is also an issue where the Music app will crash every single time I try to play anything on the watch.
Everything reported, and I really hope that these issues are fixed in the next beta... if any of this lingers into the final release then it basically renders the watch useless for me.
There is also an issue where the Music app will crash every single time I try to play anything on the watch.
Everything reported, and I really hope that these issues are fixed in the next beta... if any of this lingers into the final release then it basically renders the watch useless for me.
Julien
macrumors G4
Tried an un-pairing and re-pairing of my watch but still no map recording. No doubt the watch beta is BY far the poorest of the batas and worst part is there is no way to revert. Guess I will try and find a running app that will record maps while waiting on Apple to get watchOS beta up to snuff.
