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Watch OS 10 Beta Thread
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I really like how the podcast app now always shows you the remaining time left in your podcast. It’ll display that now in the now playing screen. Before, you had to back out to the list of podcasts to see how much time was left.
I absolutely love the new layout of the Music app. Nice big vibrant controls and album art.
I'm definitely going through juice more quickly on my Ultra. Pretty much expected with Beta 1's.
Think I know the answer, but I cannot downgrade from watchOS 10 to watchOS 9 at this point, can I?
I was hoping they would make it easier to distinguish between what music is on the watch and the phone.
It's a pain, and several screens, to navigate to downloaded and then start to navigate though them.
I agree, I am looking forward to using the new Music layout at the gym tomorrow. It's always a chore getting the watch off my phone, navigating to the playlist, selecting my Airpod Pro's. It should be easier.
I have also found that on 9, even if you set a workout to launch music when you launch the workout, it only works if it's playing from your phone.
I don't carry my phone around with me at the gym.
Same! One of the reasons I got the AWU was so I could run without having my phone with me. Having immediate access to my on watch playlists would be very helpful.
My observation on Apple Watch Ultra:
1) Clockfaces seems to smaller to me.
2) I hated new shortcuts with buttons etc.
3) Taping on weather complication with temperature or condition no logner open that in Weather app - condition, temperature or rain percentage is remembered.
4) I can't get rid of Tips in that new screen accessible by crown.
5) Battery seems to be same like on watchOS 9
6) New updated workout app
1) Clockfaces seems to smaller to me.
2) I hated new shortcuts with buttons etc.
3) Taping on weather complication with temperature or condition no logner open that in Weather app - condition, temperature or rain percentage is remembered.
4) I can't get rid of Tips in that new screen accessible by crown.
5) Battery seems to be same like on watchOS 9
6) New updated workout app
Is the Siri watch face still on? If yes, how does it integrate with the new stacks?
Overall I like the new UI on the ultra, bigger back buttons and UI in iMessage looks far nicer. Since the original watch in 2015 I had my icons arranged in an X pattern so certain categories like music, shipping etc were on each corner of the X for easy locating now that's impossible and your forced into a grid layout that only goes up and down.
I really miss bringing up the control center from the bottom and now forced to tap the side button. Biggest bug for me is in the redesigned home app which I love, looks far cleaner but the climate page is empty and doesn't show any temperature/humidity sensors when there should be lots in there. Works fine on the iPhone on iOS 17 so it's just buggy on the watch in this beta unfortunately.
Overall though I love the refreshed UI and battery life seems to be the same as version 9 so far.
I really miss bringing up the control center from the bottom and now forced to tap the side button. Biggest bug for me is in the redesigned home app which I love, looks far cleaner but the climate page is empty and doesn't show any temperature/humidity sensors when there should be lots in there. Works fine on the iPhone on iOS 17 so it's just buggy on the watch in this beta unfortunately.
Overall though I love the refreshed UI and battery life seems to be the same as version 9 so far.
I am missing the Dock. There is no more dock or maybe they are working on it. This is where you would hit the side button and you could have all the apps you used most recently on top.
Maybe I am missing something, but it seems the only way to, for example, read messages is to scroll down to messages in the app list and select it.
Yeah, I think I am going to miss Dock.
Maybe I am missing something, but it seems the only way to, for example, read messages is to scroll down to messages in the app list and select it.
Yeah, I think I am going to miss Dock.
I hope this is just a temporary beta thing. It also had the useful feature of surfacing whichever app was playing audio to the top so you could quickly play/pause/etc. They also removed the Now Playing complication (since they moved that functionality to the Dock), so without the Dock and without that complication getting to whichever app is playing audio seems a lot more difficult.
Anyone else’s sunrise/sunset complication displaying data for Cupertino but in the local time
At first I was upset about this, Wayfinder is my favorite face. But I found you can switch it on the watch by editing the face. You can turn it on, off, or set it to auto. The auto works pretty well so far, appears to function based on ambient light.
The only way for now to get rid of the tips widget is to delete the tips app from the Watch.
I'm not sure if this is what you mean...but my "Sunset" time is showing 9:26pm, which is Pacific Standard time, and I'm in Mountain. When I go to the Sunrise/Sunset app, it shows the correct sunset time. Kinda annoying, but I know it's Beta 1...and it'll be fixed I'm sure on the next drop.
That's good to know as I use it as my evening focus mode. My phone goes all red too until I put it in sleep mode.
It always stays in night mode if that's how I left it. Only time I need to re-engage is if my watch reboots.
Hopefully I can leave it on all the time and it wont be an issue.
You have to reboot the Watch after deleting the App. Works for me.