IOS 11 Beta test and Apple Watch

Rooky007 · 19 Jul 2017 at 19:03

Folks,

Before I install the IOS beta test will i lose any function with the apple watch?

Broken Hope · 20 Jul 2017 at 05:58

No, iOS 11 beta is working fine with my Watch on Watch OS 3.2.3.

scratch · 20 Jul 2017 at 16:45

If you're going to install iOS11 beta you may as well install watchOS 4 beta as well. The previous release was pants on battery life, but beta 3 is much better.

Rooky007 · 20 Jul 2017 at 17:07

Can't find option for Watch for beta

scratch · 20 Jul 2017 at 17:12

Rooky007 said:
Can't find option for Watch for beta

Sorry, should have asked if you're using the public or dev betas. There is no public watchOS beta at the moment.

Rooky007 · 20 Jul 2017 at 17:33

Ah. That's ok

Broken Hope · 20 Jul 2017 at 18:41

scratch said:
If you're going to install iOS11 beta you may as well install watchOS 4 beta as well. The previous release was pants on battery life, but beta 3 is much better.

He really shouldn't, you can easily revert iOS 11 if you don't like it or there's issues, you can't revert Watch OS 4 yourself and a Watch on OS 4 also can't be paired with iOS 10. There is a reason there is no public beta of Watch OS.

Rooky007 · 20 Jul 2017 at 18:58

Can I use my watch os3 with iOS 11? Is it still buggy?

Rooky007 · 20 Jul 2017 at 20:05

How buggy is iOS 11 public beta

Broken Hope · 20 Jul 2017 at 22:31

I've been using Watch OS 3 with iOS 11 since dev beta 1 and it's been fine, iOS 11 has some battery issues at the moment but nothing too major, we should get another beta build next week too. But if you can't handle some bugs and expect it to be close to release quality then stick with iOS 10.

Rooky007 · 20 Jul 2017 at 22:34

I did beta test iOS 10 was fine.

How bad are bugs on the 11 at the moment. Is Apple Pay working on it as on iOS 10 it wasn't

scratch · 21 Jul 2017 at 14:03

Rooky007 said:
I did beta test iOS 10 was fine.

How bad are bugs on the 11 at the moment. Is Apple Pay working on it as on iOS 10 it wasn't

Generally seems pretty good to me. It's mainly screen layout or orientation issues..quite often I'll pick up my phone in portrait but the wallpaper will be in landscape for example.

Apple Pay worked fine when I used it on the underground a couple of weeks ago.

Bony Maloney · 21 Jul 2017 at 14:43

Rooky007 said:
How buggy is iOS 11 public beta

Using beta 3 as daily driver on iphone 6S and ipad Air 2. There is the odd glitch, nothing I cant live with and nothing "broken". So far so good.