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Apple Delays Release of WatchOS 2 Due to Bug

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45 pointsdavidbarker20 comments

My guess is the battery drain issue reported in the Apple Developer Forums: https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/17002

Reminds me of that joke:

"How does an Apple Watch owner know when its noon?"

"Their watch is dead"

That's what I'm thinking also. I've been actively testing WatchOS2 since the second beta and had severe battery issues in beta 3-5. My watch would die by 2:00pm every day. I finally uninstalled all third party apps and that fixed things. I tried to find the culprit by reinstalling the apps one at a time but was unable to find the little vampire.

I'm also having battery issues since the GM release. Beta 5 was fine, but now it doesn't even get through the morning.

Interesting, I'm on the GM and have better battery life than WatchOS 1.

Apparently un-pairing and pairing again fixes the issue, so will give this a try.

Seems plausible.

I'm surprised. Has Apple delayed due to bugs before?

iOS 4.2 was delayed to the point of never being released. Apple went straight to 4.2.1 instead.

http://www.iphonehacks.com/2010/11/developer-reports-major-v...

Source: I found/reported the bug mentioned in the article.

I don't think so. The only precedent I can think of is the delayed 10.5 (edited) release due to the release of the iPhone:

"A year later, this was amended to Spring 2007, however on April 12, 2007, Apple issued a statement that its release would be delayed until October 2007 because of the development of the iPhone."

That was, from what I can remember/find from a quick search, simply a resource issue. They had all their top engineers working on iOS so ran short on engineers for OS X and as iOS so important to them they decided to take the hit on delaying the launch of their desktop OS. A good decision considering how well iOS has taken off.

Similarly, OS X Yosemite came out quite a while after iOS 7.

Mavericks was released later than Yosemite. I wouldn’t say either of those were delayed. Both were released in the ‘fall’ as Apple announced at both WWDC ‘13 and ‘14.

I believe you are referring to 10.5 (Leopard), but you are correct. 10.4 (Tiger) was released in 2005.

I have seen this happen a few times, including at one point just skipping an entire expected X.Y.0 release of iOS and going back into beta for an X.Y.1. I don't remember them failing at an X.0.0, though.

HealthKit was one of the major features of iOS 8, but there was a last minute bug and they didn't allow the release of any apps that used HealthKit until a week later when iOS 8.0.1 was released.

This must be some kind of security issue, or the biggest understatement ever. "One" bug, there are plenty of bugs in watchOS.

Perhaps something with Apple Pay?

There's been some reports of code-signing issues, where apps from the app store can't be installed on watches that have been upgrade to watchOS 2.

That couldn't be tested before today because the watch apps weren't available from the app store.

> That couldn't be tested before today

Why not? Apple must have internal tools to test this.

Anything code signing related is janky because they don't dogfood the codesign system they create for 3rd parties.

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