Apple Watch

26-09-2020 7:43pm

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 7:51pm

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 8:18am

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 8:27pm

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

FourFourRED · 27-09-2020 8:37pm

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 1:08pm

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 3:42pm

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 3:47pm

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 8:21am

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 9:03am

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 3:36pm

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 6:56pm

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

DelBoy Trotter · 18-10-2020 8:07pm

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 7:23am

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 6:52pm

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 3:49am

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 3:53pm

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

It arrived today, well impressed

Dades · 28-10-2020 4:25pm

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 5:22pm

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 9:58pm

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 9:45am

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

Luckycharms_74 · 30-10-2020 10:07am

mirrorwall14 wrote: »

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

Yeah, I have had an S3 & S5 and have suffered from scratches. I did buy screen protectors when I got Series 5 but after a month just took it off.

Vudgie · 30-10-2020 10:56am

I find everything after the series 3 to be very prone to scratches....I had a stainless steel series 3 and it was very good at preventing scratches.

breeno · 30-10-2020 11:05am

I'd agree. I have a new series 3 since early July and it looks like I took it to war. Disappointing if I'm being honest. I haven't been playing contact sport due to the pandemic and I'm working from home and exercise is running and cycling here yet it still looks poor. Cex told me they'd only give me a C grade for it.

mirrorwall14 · 30-10-2020 12:43pm

Glad it’s not just me. Its very disappointing. They don’t interfere with visuals currently but yeah, I expected better

Leftwaffe · 30-10-2020 1:27pm

Can I load songs on to. An Apple watch for offline play when I'm out for a run? If so, what's the experience like? Do you have to have apple music?

I've researched but no real clear answer. Some says you need cellular data on the watch.

DelBoy Trotter · 30-10-2020 1:34pm

Redordeadqwwer wrote: »

Can I load songs on to. An Apple watch for offline play when I'm out for a run? If so, what's the experience like? Do you have to have apple music?

I've researched but no real clear answer. Some says you need cellular data on the watch.

I have hundreds of CDs albums loaded onto iTunes on my laptop, I have a handful of those albums added to my iPhone and then have some of those transferred to my Apple Watch to listen to when I'm out running and my phone is at home

DubDJ · 30-10-2020 2:22pm

Redordeadqwwer wrote: »

Can I load songs on to. An Apple watch for offline play when I'm out for a run? If so, what's the experience like? Do you have to have apple music?

I've researched but no real clear answer. Some says you need cellular data on the watch.

Apple Music definitely works this way, just select whatever music you want and once both devices are charging at the same time the music will be added to the watch.

I did see something about Spotify support but I’m not sure if it was still a beta test or whether it was released. Don’t know if that was for cellular models only or for storing music offline.

tony1980 · 01-11-2020 5:41pm

I am selling my series 3 with all original packaging. Would i be allowed to link the advert in here?

peteeeed · 05-11-2020 8:43pm

7.1 is out

Leftwaffe · 11-11-2020 12:23am

I'm getting a series 6 for Christmas but I'm unsure which size to get? Is there any real difference apart from screen real estate?

Anything else I should consider before ordering? Thinking of getting a solo loop too.

Eire Go Brach · 11-11-2020 2:46pm

Redordeadqwwer wrote: »

I'm getting a series 6 for Christmas but I'm unsure which size to get? Is there any real difference apart from screen real estate?

Anything else I should consider before ordering? Thinking of getting a solo loop too.

Would need to know wrist size?

If you have small wrists and want to look cool and nice and neat on your wrist get he smaller one.

If like me you don’t care about that and want it for function, bigger screen and battery. Get the bigger one.

Chibs · 11-11-2020 7:08pm

Redordeadqwwer wrote: »

I'm getting a series 6 for Christmas but I'm unsure which size to get? Is there any real difference apart from screen real estate?

Anything else I should consider before ordering? Thinking of getting a solo loop too.

I ordered the Nike version on October 29th and i got a delivery date for December 8th. You might need to jump on it soon for a Christmas Delivery.

ballyharpat · 11-11-2020 11:00pm

I updated my watch on Sunday to the latest OS, since then, I'm lucky if I get a day out of the battery, I was getting 2 days out of it up until that. Im using an iphone 12 with the latest software. I unpaired and re-paired the watch, but still nothing changed. It's really disappointing .

Anyone else had similar issues, my watch is the series 4.

DubDJ · 12-11-2020 11:42am

ballyharpat wrote: »

I updated my watch on Sunday to the latest OS, since then, I'm lucky if I get a day out of the battery, I was getting 2 days out of it up until that. Im using an iphone 12 with the latest software. I unpaired and re-paired the watch, but still nothing changed. It's really disappointing .

Anyone else had similar issues, my watch is the series 4.

I’m on series 4 and the latest OS and battery life has been the same as always for me. Must be something specific that’s draining your battery.

ballyharpat · 12-11-2020 9:32pm

DubDJ wrote: »

I’m on series 4 and the latest OS and battery life has been the same as always for me. Must be something specific that’s draining your battery.

Thanks, Ive tried seeing what is draining the energy, when I go into usage, it doesn't show which app is using which percentage. It's annoying, it's sporadic on top of it, Ive charged it aT 7PM, IT'S AT 98% now, so no issue-I'm flummoxed

Dades · 13-11-2020 12:50pm

Redordeadqwwer wrote: »

I'm getting a series 6 for Christmas but I'm unsure which size to get? Is there any real difference apart from screen real estate?

I don't have a big wrist, and am not a fan of enormous watches anyway, so I ordered the 40mm version.

It's doesn't shout WEARABLE like the 44mm, but the screen is quite small. Not sure this matters though as except for running I'm never tapping the screen anyway.

Leftwaffe · 15-11-2020 10:50am

So I think I’ve decided on the 44mm SE rather than the series 6. I really don’t care about ECG or blood oxygen tracking and I’m failing to see too much of a difference between the two watches.

Anyone have the SE and feel happy with it?

selfbuilder1 · 15-11-2020 3:28pm

Redordeadqwwer wrote: »

So I think I’ve decided on the 44mm SE rather than the series 6. I really don’t care about ECG or blood oxygen tracking and I’m failing to see too much of a difference between the two watches.

Anyone have the SE and feel happy with it?

For me the biggest difference would be the always on screen.

shanec1928 · 15-11-2020 3:37pm

selfbuilder1 wrote: »

For me the biggest difference would be the always on screen.

It was the first thing I turned off on my series 5.

DelBoy Trotter · 15-11-2020 4:07pm

shanec1928 wrote: »

It was the first thing I turned off on my series 5.

Same for me

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