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Poll: *** The official Apple Watch Series 7 thread (it now has a proper keyboard and everything!) ***
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I'll probably go with the 45mm cellular stainless steel again. Up until the series 6, I've always had the aluminium one but I ended up swapping that for SS with the 6 and I like it.
I think it's fixed with the new watchOS.
I was really surprised to see they're still selling the series 3 now - I expected that one to finally be pensioned off.
The 18 hour estimate has always seemed quite conservative to me - I put my watch on charge when I get in the shower in the morning and it's charged by the time I get out. Twelve hours later it's normally around 60%.
Do you have your phone with you? Do you have a workout running?
I've walked for hours a day with my watch and a walking workout running and never had a battery issue. It depends if you have your phone in your pocket and whether the watch is using its own GPS or not.
Well it's not just that though, is it. See my comments about the battery life on mine. Twelve hours heavy use and typically down to 60%.
Does it do all (or most) of the same things, really?
I have no idea, that's why I was asking. I've never used a Fenix.
This is a really good comparison. I'd say from this that the main reason for the difference in battery is the display type.
Yes.
It was two days old and it grew a scratch out of absolute nowhere. I still have no idea where it came from.
Not one of the braided elastic things, no. I think they look horrible.
The combination I wanted, 45mm graphite SS with charcoal sport loop is showing as not available for delivery. I'll give it a few days and try again.
The combo I wanted is now showing available so I've just ordered - It'll be a month but that's absolutely fine.
I've thought about it and cancelled my order. There really is nothing wrong with my Apple Watch 6, I don't need to replace it.
Damn the lot of you! Despite what I said earlier, I'm picking up a new one this evening 
I'm going to straight from the Apple shop into an EE shop and ask them to change the EIN on my account so it's already done. Then I should be able to just unpair the current one, pair the new one and job's a good 'un.
Well this is disappointing. I unpaired my old watch and when I went to pair the new one, the most recent backup was from over a year ago. I thought that unpairing automatically created a backup but it doesn't seem to have done so. I'm going to have to start from scratch.
I wondered that but it's on 8.1 already which is the most recent version. Besides, it offered me about five years worth of backups, going back to watchOS4. It's done now, it wasn't a massive effort to set up, it's just remembering how some of the custom faces I had set up were configured.
/edit - Yes, confirmed. When I go to settings/iPhone storage/watch on my phone, it lists the backups. It's made one now but the most recent before that was a year old. They go back to April 2016!
Trigger Siri on your watch and say "Hey Siri, I'm going to work".
Does this happen?
This went on for well over a minute until I stopped it by hitting the crown. I can reproduce it on my Series 7 running watchOS 8.1 and it happens on my lad's Series 6.
Does this happen?
This went on for well over a minute until I stopped it by hitting the crown. I can reproduce it on my Series 7 running watchOS 8.1 and it happens on my lad's Series 6.
Obviously?
Do you see people with expensive watches, Rolexes, Omegas, Panerais, etc with cases on them? They cost significantly more than an Apple Watch and last far longer but you'll never see them in a case or with a protector on them.
The size thing is interesting, when I put my 7 next to an older one, you're right, it doesn't look much bigger but because the display goes closer to the edge, it feels a lot larger in use.
Regarding the restore, was your old watch on watchOS8.1? If it was and you really want to restore from the backup, update the new one to 8.1, rename it (so the backup it creates has a different name) and then unpair it. When you go to pair again, it should give you the option to restore from the Series 3 backup.
I was screwed with mine because even looking at my iCloud backups, my old watch wasn't listed so I had no choice but to start again.