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Only complaint is better is not there but it will eventually get there. On 2.2.1 or whatever last official build is I would always have around 50% left at end of day. I've been only having about 30% left on beta 1. I never came close to that much drain on official build.
 

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I've my developer profile installed on iPhone (iOS 10) and my Watch isn't finding the update when I check for it. Any help would be much appreciated.
Reboot your iPhone and then use the Watch app to check for the WatchOS 3 beta update.
 

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Only complaint is better is not there but it will eventually get there. On 2.2.1 or whatever last official build is I would always have around 50% left at end of day. I've been only having about 30% left on beta 1. I never came close to that much drain on official build.

I wonder if that has to do with the background updates that make the watch faster? I'm ok with 30% left if the watch runs faster.

May have to spring for the developer license so I can get the update since there are no public betas for watchOS (or tvOS)!
 

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I wonder if that has to do with the background updates that make the watch faster? I'm ok with 30% left if the watch runs faster.

May have to spring for the developer license so I can get the update since there are no public betas for watchOS (or tvOS)!

Actually it was bad for just the first few days. Now for whatever reason, In back to having around 50% battery at the end of the day again.

Also, I do have a dev account so I don't have to search the wild but your watch does not need to be registered and there are plenty of configuration profiles out there in the wild. Just be aware if you update, there is no downgrading unless you mail your watch in to Apple for service with a fee. So load at your own risk.
 

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Actually it was bad for just the first few days. Now for whatever reason, In back to having around 50% battery at the end of the day again.
Cool -- kind of like the phone usually does.

Also, I do have a dev account so I don't have to search the wild but your watch does not need to be registered and there are plenty of configuration profiles out there in the wild. Just be aware if you update, there is no downgrading unless you mail your watch in to Apple for service with a fee. So load at your own risk.
Good point -- maybe when the iOS 10 Public Beta comes out it'll be a better time to do it.
 

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Cool -- kind of like the phone usually does.


Good point -- maybe when the iOS 10 Public Beta comes out it'll be a better time to do it.

My watch is back to having horrendous battery again. It's so up and down. Nothing I'm doing different. It's the beta life.
 

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My watch is back to having horrendous battery again. It's so up and down. Nothing I'm doing different. It's the beta life.

Ok :) I'm holding off, at least for a week or so. Will see how the public beta of 10 goes and what the next watchOS betas look like before jumping in.
 

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mine has bad battery life too. I've even unpaired it and re-paired but the battery still drains, even without using it a lot.
 

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Ok :) I'm holding off, at least for a week or so. Will see how the public beta of 10 goes and what the next watchOS betas look like before jumping in.


Not sure if you have jumped into the beta's. I have been running both iOS 10 on my iPhone 6 and watch 3 since being released to developers. I have not had any real issues so far with either one. My phone has froze up once and a reboot cleared that. I had one game crash upon opening, but when started again was no issue. Have received an update to that game since and it has solved the problem. My watch has not seen any issues. But I am aware of others having issues. But they have been happy to have the updates verses the few bugs they are seeing.
 

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Not sure if you have jumped into the beta's. I have been running both iOS 10 on my iPhone 6 and watch 3 since being released to developers. I have not had any real issues so far with either one. My phone has froze up once and a reboot cleared that. I had one game crash upon opening, but when started again was no issue. Have received an update to that game since and it has solved the problem. My watch has not seen any issues. But I am aware of others having issues. But they have been happy to have the updates verses the few bugs they are seeing.

I wish I had your luck with watchOS 3. For the most part mine is fine, until it gets into a frenzy of freezing and rebooting. Then it's fine for a while again.
 

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I wish I had your luck with watchOS 3. For the most part mine is fine, until it gets into a frenzy of freezing and rebooting. Then it's fine for a while again.

My watch on 2.2.1 reboot in the middle of the night last night while sitting on the charger. That thing is bright in a dark room! No idea why...
 

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I've been using watchOS 3 for about 5 days and it's very stable. Battery is interesting. Some days @ 10% by 11pm. Not excellent but not bad.
 

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Installing Beta 2 now on my test device. Let's see if there are any changes/improvements.
 

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Installing Beta 2 now on my test device. Let's see if there are any changes/improvements.

I just finished updating my watch. I would have already been finished but I had to leave to take care of a few things. Anyway, I don't foresee any problems with beta 2, especially when I didn't have any with the initial beta. Know what I mean?
 

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Been using watchOS 3 since it was released.

beta 1: started off stable, got a bit buggy the last few days.

beta 2 (released today, 7/5/16): so far, so smooth!
 

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Been using watchOS 3 since it was released.

beta 1: started off stable, got a bit buggy the last few days.

beta 2 (released today, 7/5/16): so far, so smooth!

A good deal of people were complaining about bad battery life. Hopefully, beta 2 fixes that for them.
 

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My battery was absolutely horrendous on battery 1. Couldn't even make it the day on a charge. Still too early to say on beta2 but praying it's better than the last on battery. On 2.2.1 I would normally have 50% left at the end of the day.
 

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