My Apple SE (96% battery health) was on WatchOS 9.6 and I was afraid of updating

I switched from Iphone 12 to Iphone 15 Plus, unpair/pair the watch and I don’t know why I was forced to update to WatchOs 10.

Then I decided to leave it on charger for 2-3 hours on charger then shut it off.

I turn it on to try Watch OS 10 : good battery life, animations are smooth !

My Series 4 is still on OS 9, after seeing the negative reviews on 10. Watch OS 10.2 looks promising with the changes they are bringing back, might finally take the plunge.

Took me a day or so to get used to the new UI.

But then, it becomes natural after that.

Pretty happy with it so far.

The widget screen NEEDS third party apps! It’s completely useless to me right now, if it had sports I’d love it. Aside from having to relearn how to bring up control center I’m largely happy with it.

Reddit is not an accurate gauge for how normal users feel about an update. You hear from the loudest children in the room.

I like it. It took some getting used to (as is the case with any change) but now prefer it.

I prefer the new app layout

I still find it is slower to access the infomation I want most of the time, though the fix to the temp complication at least made me stop wanting to smash my watch every time I used it. Some examples:

I prefered the scrolling interface to the screen by screen. I use the temperature complication rather than conditions for the Weather app. To then get to conditions, it is multiple taps rather than a quick swipe.

Activity is a mixed bag–with swiping/scrolling I’d often overshoot what I was looking for, and need to go back. Now it’s multiple actions or getting used to using the digital crown, which I basically never did before.

I understand why they made the changes they did, and for many use-cases it will likely be easier. But for some (e.g. Weather app), it’s more work. Hopefully continued refinements will help. I wish I had been able to wait to upgrade to 10 for another couple months, but upgraded my X to an 15 Pro so was pretty much forced to upgrade.

Batteries die much faster on my old s4

The weather widget is useless now; used to have high contrast readable display, now it has lots of ‘faces’ to tap through and a lot of splashy colour and smaller fonts … you can’t glance to see what you want anymore. It takes focus.

Swapping button assignments is weird but … okay. Breaking user memory not ideal.

Changing the bubble me u to a vertical only scroll method … same boat. Okay not bad, but again disregard for years of user experience.

OS10 likely fine for new players but pretty trash for an long time user :/

I waited until v10.1.1 to upgrade, and it has been fine. There was too much chatter about battery life when v10 came out so I turned off automatic updates and gave it a few weeks. You can’t always take the complaints literally, but the volume is higher for iffy releases.

Remember, once you upgrade, you can’t go back so it is OK to wait a few weeks. My iPhone 3G was ruined by iOS4 and I wouldn’t consider another iPhone until the 13. I have a manager at work whose default position is “No x.0 versions in our production systems” unless convinced otherwise. (And yeah, we’ve been burned by CA multiple times so it is a valid position.)

I don’t regret updatting, I do miss a few feature that they removed/changed like the new control center and the clock face swiping gestures. I do like the new aesthetic more because it’s definitely prettier. However, the biggest issue was battery life. I updated my SE 2 immediately the moment it came out and my Watch started draining like madness. Barely lasted 16 hours in regular mode and can’t go pass 24 hours with Low Power Mode on. Was a total nightmare and it gets even worse when I’m doing workout. A 1 hour workout would drain 50% battery off the watch, therefore I wouldn’t dare bringing it to the gym without fully charged it beforehand.

However with the recent 10.1.1, the firmware has been drastically better. The watch tend to last over 24 hours for whatever mode I use, up to 1.5 day with Low Power Mode on. Which is absolutely amazing! But did left my watch with 90% battery health now, quite a pity…

Small leaning curve and ended up better. Never really had any battery issue on my ultra gen 1 through any of the updates.

It’s excellent…

I find it made my old s6 better. Only thing that got me the first couple days was not being able to change the watch face with a swipe but other than that I have no complaints

Just update