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Apple Releases watchOS 8.4.1 With Bug Fixes for Apple Watch Series 4 and Later
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I actually have to reboot it several times a day. Usually in the morning I have to turn my phone and my watch off when taking my watch off the charger. Otherwise it won’t work smoothly. Then in the middle of the day. If I throw it on the charger while at work. I have to reboot both my phone and watch again. Or else it doesn’t work right. It’s an S7 and I have had so many issues since getting it.
This company is sinking thanks to its incompetence. Will we see a day when these have also reflected in the financial field or will we have to make up this torture to the end as with Tesla and the dot.com bubble?
Just to give another perspective, I have owned all Apple Watches since the very first and never had a single problem with any of those not working as intended. So in my personal experience, the Watch is and always was rock solid. The first gen was quite slow in general and the music sync process is still kinda opaque, but other than that no issues for me.
My household has close to 15 Apple devices that are all actively used — phones, watches, laptops, speakers, Apple TV. Other than updates, they are rarely rebooted, no more than every few months.
Maybe we just happen to get devices without issues but we’ve had dozens more Apple products over the past two decades and have never needed to reboot regularly to keep them working well.
I’m not saying no one ever has problems, I’m just saying a weekly reboot is not “pretty much” required for “all Apple products”.
My watch was glowing away on its charging stand at 2am this morning, I didn't know why the screen wasn't dimming (usually its in bedside mode). I pulled it off the stand and went back to sleep. Only when I put it on in the morning did I realise why - It told me the watch had been removed from the charger, and an update failed to install!
Dont update unless you want the unity watchface ruined. The pills are now transparent instead of black. Nice job as usual apple 
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Hopefully this fixes my charging issue with an S7 SS since 8.4 did not. My issue is that about once a week my watch will charge up about 20% and then it’ll start to drop pretty rapidly, all while still on the charger. If I look in settings-battery it shows that it was indeed on the charger but the graph is going up and then downward. Using MagSafe duo with official 30 watt brick. Apple replaced my watch once and that did not fix it.
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Dont update unless you want the unity watchface ruined. The pills are now transparent instead of black. Nice job as usual apple
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Obviously it's another, unbelievable, bug. If them doesn't make error or new bug in every single release they will not be assumed in a company who decrease her sw from decades. B/w obviously don't be affected.
Weird. I did the update, and my "pills" are black. Watch SEDont update unless you want the unity watchface ruined. The pills are now transparent instead of black. Nice job as usual apple
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Same here, the pills became transparent after the update (AW 7). For what it's worth, I filed a bug report at Apple. On the other side, I don't face any of the other problems, people are reporting here. Besides sluggish syncing of iMessages maybe. But that has been the case for so long now (first watchOS 8 update?) that I almost don't bother anymore.Dont update unless you want the unity watchface ruined. The pills are now transparent instead of black. Nice job as usual apple
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I had terrible battery drain after going to 8.4. I'm hoping 8.4.1 addresses that.
I have noticed after updating, I suddenly started getting email notifications on my watch (I get a LOT of email at work). It's disabled in the watch app. I rebooted the watch and it hasn't came back since.
I have noticed after updating, I suddenly started getting email notifications on my watch (I get a LOT of email at work). It's disabled in the watch app. I rebooted the watch and it hasn't came back since.
Thanks for doing that. Ironic how they make a big deal over this watchface (which is cool and also needs more colors) only to break it a week later.
Yeah Apple isn’t much help. They are the ones who told me to restart my watch daily. And try to unpair and pair again. Beyond that. They aren’t much help.
Since 8.4.1 I'm having the same issue with AT&T and my watch. Looking at my watch setting it's not longer showing the Network and Carrier. ICCID says no SIM and MEID says not available. Please let me know if you figure out the issue.
God damn Apple! Again, another update that screws with S5. Pretty much bricked my watch. I already erased and restored it twice. The touch controls are not working and the battery draining faster. In the end my fault for forgetting to turn off automatic updates. I had the same issue a couple of updates earlier. I wish Apple would give an option to downgrade the OS. Sucks!