Apple Watch

26-09-2020 07:43PM

FourFourFM wrote: »

If you think you would benefit from the always on display and having the ECG, consider a refurbished one when they’re in stock again - https://www.apple.com/ie/shop/refurbished/watch

Otherwise, no.

Eglobal has them new for 390 for 44mm (SE is 315 for 44mm). I just don’t know much about the watches but the SE phone is such a poor show that the name alone is making me dubious. What is it mainly missing?

FourFourRED · 26-09-2020 07:51PM

ReginaldSmythV wrote: »

Eglobal has them new for 390 for 44mm (SE is 315 for 44mm). I just don’t know much about the watches but the SE phone is such a poor show that the name alone is making me dubious. What is it mainly missing?

Take a look here and select “compare all models” - https://www.apple.com/ie/watch/compare/

I have a series 5 and I do like being able to glance at the display to see the time without needing to do the raise wrist thing. But that might be important for you. Taking an ECG isn’t really important for me either but I like having it.

They both have the same processor.

Cloudio9 · 27-09-2020 08:18AM

As the se has the same screen as the 6 and the same processor as the 5, are they just using software to limit the always on screen capability of the se?

To Alcohol · 27-09-2020 08:27PM

What about the cellular version of the watch. Is there any provider in Ireland offering a plan?

FourFourRED · 27-09-2020 08:37PM

To Alcohol wrote: »

What about the cellular version of the watch. Is there any provider in Ireland offering a plan?

No.

Vudgie · 28-09-2020 11:49AM

My series 6 is due on 12th Oct but I notice that apple has now taken payment, does that indicate that it could be early? Its still saying pending on the order.

fifth · 28-09-2020 01:08PM

Was thinking of upgrading to the 6.. for the blood oxygen but I've got a Series 5. Doesn't seem to be much interest on the usual marketplaces to sell it.

shanec1928 · 28-09-2020 03:42PM

Vudgie wrote: »

My series 6 is due on 12th Oct but I notice that apple has now taken payment, does that indicate that it could be early? Its still saying pending on the order.

usually its about to ship when they charge you for it

turfthrower · 28-09-2020 03:47PM

Did a battery test on my S6 over the last few days. Got 38 hours out of a full charge, including two nights and two workouts. Charged it to full at 8pm on Friday night, and then didn't have to charge it again until Sunday mid-morning. Not bad at all.

I'd say if you turned off the always-on screen and turned it off at night instead of sleep tracking, you'd get a really decent three days out of a charge.

IamMetaldave · 28-09-2020 10:36PM

My series 4 has gone mad since that last update, it’s not tracking my heart on workouts, it’s missing stand hours (blacked out like the watch is off), when responding to messages from my wrist to other iMessage users I get failed to send errors.. I haven’t changed anything in terms of how I wear it or anything else.. just all these new bugs since wOS7. Annoying. It’s like Apple are poking me to replace it.

Creamy Goodness · 29-09-2020 08:21AM

It’s the same on series 6.

Issues I’ve found on workouts

It won’t record gps at all only starting point.
It will randomly stop recording heart rate for a few minutes
The stand hours are blank like you said

Issues with health
Health app is consistently 30% of my battery stats despite screen time reporting single digit screen on time.
Health is reportedly taking 1.61TB on storage (which is blatantly untrue).

I went to the 14.2 public beta and release version of watchOS 7.0.1 but the bugs still remain. Hopefully a 14.2.1 this week will fix it

IamMetaldave · 29-09-2020 09:03AM

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

It’s the same on series 6.

Issues I’ve found on workouts

It won’t record gps at all only starting point.
It will randomly stop recording heart rate for a few minutes
The stand hours are blank like you said

Issues with health
Health app is consistently 30% of my battery stats despite screen time reporting single digit screen on time.
Health is reportedly taking 1.61TB on storage (which is blatantly untrue).

I went to the 14.2 public beta and release version of watchOS 7.0.1 but the bugs still remain. Hopefully a 14.2.1 this week will fix it

That's great to hear (well, not.. but you know what I mean

) Creamy! As you said, hopefully, they'll be fixed soon. I have dropped off the beta software myself.

og2k7 · 30-09-2020 11:42AM

2 days with SE - 2 full days of battery life - many, many notifications later. The integrations with my usual apps is very handy and quite customizable.

The handwashing or breathing exercises are quite nice. Need to figure out the exercising tracking as Amazfit GTS had VO2 tracking and a couple of cool metrics etc whereas (I think) you need a separate app for that and I dont want to be buying any apps really on top of what I currently have.

So far so good and actually quite impressed - would be cool if whatsapp could display pictures rather than blurred thumbnails but thats about it

bigron2109 · 01-10-2020 12:06PM

IamMetaldave wrote: »

My series 4 has gone mad since that last update, it’s not tracking my heart on workouts, it’s missing stand hours (blacked out like the watch is off), when responding to messages from my wrist to other iMessage users I get failed to send errors.. I haven’t changed anything in terms of how I wear it or anything else.. just all these new bugs since wOS7. Annoying. It’s like Apple are poking me to replace it.

Good to hear it’s not just mine so. Since I’ve updated yesterday my work outs are not tracking correctly. The battery which I used to get a day and a half maybe even longer, is draining within a few hours .

I’ve done nothing different bar update it. Very frustrating. Hopefully they release a new update soon.

Cerocco · 01-10-2020 12:28PM

Apologies if this has already been posted here. I was going to upgrade my Apple 3 watch to the latest but it looks like I will have to buy a charger? Is that the case? I want to sell my existing watch so will have to sell the charger. Apple are asking a premium for the charger so would make selling my Apple 3 watch difficult to sell if I can’t provide a charger!

Pacifico · 01-10-2020 12:29PM

Cerocco wrote: »

Apologies if this has already been posted here. I was going to upgrade my Apple 3 watch to the latest but it looks like I will have to buy a charger? Is that the case? I want to sell my existing watch so will have to sell the charger. Apple are asking a premium for the charger so would make selling my Apple 3 watch difficult to sell if I can’t provide a charger!

It comes with the cable but not the USB power plug...

Creamy Goodness · 01-10-2020 12:30PM

Cerocco wrote: »

Apologies if this has already been posted here. I was going to upgrade my Apple 3 watch to the latest but it looks like I will have to buy a charger? Is that the case? I want to sell my existing watch so will have to sell the charger. Apple are asking a premium for the charger so would make selling my Apple 3 watch difficult to sell if I can’t provide a charger!

it doesn't come with the plug part only it comes with a cable still, but buying any USB plug will do and you probably - if you're like me - have dozens of them lying around the house anyways.

Creamy Goodness · 02-10-2020 10:14AM

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

It’s the same on series 6.

Issues I’ve found on workouts

It won’t record gps at all only starting point.
It will randomly stop recording heart rate for a few minutes
The stand hours are blank like you said

Issues with health
Health app is consistently 30% of my battery stats despite screen time reporting single digit screen on time.
Health is reportedly taking 1.61TB on storage (which is blatantly untrue).

I went to the 14.2 public beta and release version of watchOS 7.0.1 but the bugs still remain. Hopefully a 14.2.1 this week will fix it

https://support.apple.com/en-hk/HT211865

so this has half fixed it for me an was a complete pain in the hoop to do.

Watch will now record GPS for all workouts going forward (done this with a quick walk around the estate)
It will randomly stop recording heart rate for a few minutes (yet to test this fully as walking around the estate isn't long enough to show dropped heart rate recordings).
The stand hours seemed to be back to normal again

Health app is no longer draining 30% battery.
Health app is no longer taking up 1.61TB of space, back down to a respectable 1.08GB (which is what it roughly was because updating to iOS 14).

However and this is the big one, past workouts don't have their GPS data attached to them, I've worn an Apple Watch since Day 1 and had a Series 3 (GPS enabled one) since Day 1 of its release in 2017 so I'm missing the guts of 3 years of data which to say I was pissed about would be an understatement. I hope it's all still there but I'm not holding my breath no matter how many Breathe notifications I get!

DubDJ · 02-10-2020 03:36PM

I saw something earlier, probably on Twitter, that said Apple is telling users to reset devices to get location data back. Something along those lines, I think they were referring to a factory reset of the device and to set it up as new.

iniall · 18-10-2020 06:56PM

Has anybody updated to watchOS 7.0.2? Is it safe??

DelBoy Trotter · 18-10-2020 08:07PM

iniall wrote: »

Has anybody updated to watchOS 7.0.2? Is it safe??

Yeah, I updated my Series 5 the other night and it’s been perfect since

murpho999 · 18-10-2020 11:38PM

iniall wrote: »

Has anybody updated to watchOS 7.0.2? Is it safe??

Safe? Why would Apple release an unsafe software?

Either definitely upgrade to this as it fixes a battery drain issue that a lot of users had.

Eire Go Brach · 19-10-2020 07:23AM

murpho999 wrote: »

Safe? Why would Apple release an unsafe software?

Either definitely upgrade to this as it fixes a battery drain issue that a lot of users had.

You just answered your own question.

Apple Watch is the flakiest of apples software. Plus a lot of issues mean you brick your watch and have to send it back.

iniall · 19-10-2020 06:52PM

murpho999 wrote: »

Safe? Why would Apple release an unsafe software?

Either definitely upgrade to this as it fixes a battery drain issue that a lot of users had.

Safe as in watchOS 7.0 destroyed my battery and stopped GPS tracking for exercise. 7.0.1 restored that (although heart rate is still very flaky), so is 7.0.2 a good update or a bad update? Thought it was safe to ask the question :rolleyes:

Noddy45 · 25-10-2020 03:49AM

iniall wrote: »

Has anybody updated to watchOS 7.0.2? Is it safe??

Don’t update if you’re using Apple Watch 3. I did and now it keeps saying I don’t have enough space. I actually got a newer version because of that.

Deep Thought · 28-10-2020 03:53PM

Ordered new verison 6 on 30 September, due date November 09

It arrived today, well impressed

Dades · 28-10-2020 04:25PM

That was still a hell of a wait.

Did your tracking tell you it was coming or did it just arrive?

I ordered a few days ago and I'm being told Nov 6th.

Deep Thought · 28-10-2020 05:22PM

Dades wrote: »

That was still a hell of a wait.

Did your tracking tell you it was coming or did it just arrive?

I ordered a few days ago and I'm being told Nov 6th.

tracking told me...

Leftwaffe · 29-10-2020 09:58PM

So I'm buying the 12 Pro Max next week and will hopefully add a watch for Xmas. Are they really worth it? How well do they work with music (spotify or apple music?) and airpods whilst exercising?

Looking at a 6 series.

mirrorwall14 · 30-10-2020 09:45AM

I’ve had an Apple Watch for three years now, series 3 then series 5. Am I just particularly hard on watch faces or does any else suffer from scratches? I never scratched my other watches before this

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