I used the Beta for the first time today. I did a three mile ruck on residential streets in the San Francisco Bay Area using an Apple Watch Ultra.
My impressions:
My favorite walking app now has turn-by-turn navigation. Many thanks to Ian for that.
I need to bump up the brightness on my watch. The navigation alerts were hard to read in strong sunlight through sunglasses.
I seem to recall that there is a setting for how long the alert stays on the screen. I thought I had set it to three seconds but it seemed like the alert would disappear almost as soon as I raised my wrist to see it on the watch face.
The font used for the list of waypoints was hard to read on my iPhone XS Max. It's not terribly important to me, but is there a way to enlarge it?
Is there a way to change the units from metric to imperial for navigation alerts? If not, I can live with it.
I had set the Approaching Nav Waypoint Alert to 10 meters. I need to increase that as I was getting the alert just as I was starting my turn. The At Navigation Waypoint Alert doesn't seem to be configurable. During this morning's walk it seemed to alert me just as I completed my turns.
I didn't use the Nearing Other Waypoint Alerts, but when I tried to change the frequency from the default 30 meters there were no other options from which to choose.
There was a point in my walk where I got a series of Off Route/On Route messages within a time period of fifteen to twenty seconds or so. I had the Off Route alert set pretty low, so if I use it in the future I'll increase it.
All in all I was very pleased with the Beta. The issues I had with it were easily fixed with a configuration change or are so insignificant as to be easily tolerated. Keep up the good work!
