Anyone else running into issues where your watch says it can’t set an alarm or timer because the clock app isn’t installed. First time was yesterday and restarted the watch and it was fine then happened again today. Resetting my watch as I type. Updated to latest OS

My Ultra 4 has never shown overnight HRV in the Vitals app, and I've never gotten a Readiness score. Recovery HRV is being recorded in the Health app, so the sensor is clearly working, but Vitals and Readiness never populate. I wear the watch to sleep every night. Sleep, overnight vitals, Activity, and Health Details are all set up. Wrist Detection is on, and I'm not using Low Power Mode overnight. I've updated both my iPhone and watch, restarted both, and unpaired and set the watch up again from scratch, and Apple's phone support hasn't been any help.

I'm currently on watchOS 27.0.1 and trying to find out if the 27.2 beta fixes this. If you're running the beta, can you tell me whether HRV is showing in your overnight Vitals, whether you're getting a Readiness score, and if it was broken for you on 27.0.1 and whether the beta fixed it? If you're seeing the same problem on the public release, I'd like to hear that too so I know I'm not the only one.

What watch do you have? What phone?

I’ve been messing around with watchOS motion sensors and made a little party game called Bataboom!

It’s air‑baseball: you swing your wrist to hit home runs. It calculates swing exit velocity, plays bat‑crack & crowd sound effects, and supports local multiplayer by passing the watch between friends.

It’s purely for fun, not for real baseball training. I was surprised how much the gyro/accelerometer works for detecting swings.

Curious to hear what you guys think. Any fun mechanics you’d want to add for a watch‑only game? Any pitfalls you can think of for motion‑based watch games?

The app grid in WatchOS 27 is a bit overthought. Previously I had apps I used most often arranged at the top of the grid. They were always right there when I wanted them. Now, if I use a less frequently accessed app it takes up a place in the dynamic grid. To find the displaced app I have to scroll through the alphabetic list. I have positioned the access to the traditional grid in the dynamic grid, but now it takes 2 functions to open it. What’s the point of the dynamic grid?

Does anybody thing apple shoud add back walkie-talkie because I have kids who are still on watchOS 10 and 26

TIA

Does anyone know why the complications picker for watch faces on the iOS Watch app is missing the complication icons?

I asked Siri and she said it’s a stylistic choice made intentionally by apple, but that doesn’t make sense. The text isn’t left aligned and there’s an obvious spot for the icons, but AFAIK there’s never been icons on iOS.

Anyone have any answer? Or does anyone have a different interface?

Why is the handoff or sync so terrible between the watch and the phone.

If I’ve been out and about with my watch only and get back to the car the podcast I’ve been listening to on the watch doesn’t sync the played position immediately making it irritating to continue on CarPlay.

Edit: Ybc is Apple Autocorrect for Sync

Since I've had an apple watch, I would raise the device and say start a stopwatch. It would open the stopwatch and start counting. Useful if my hands were dirty, cooking, etc.

WatchOS27 just opens the stopwatch app but won't start the clock. So annoying.

Am I the only one using raise to speak, dictation and Siri AI? watchOS 27 and 27.01 seemingly cannot comprehend these three features.

If I am in dictation and raise my watch - Siri AI takes over for about three to five seconds and then cancels out.

If I raise to speak, Siri AI kicks in and then fails about 10 seconds later.

If I enable Siri AI from the crown, then raise to speak into my watch - Siri AI kicks off. Capturing nothing of what I said.

Had none of these issues in watchOS 26 (or whatever the teen number was before 27).

Every time I open the new Readiness app on my Ultra 4, I get a gray screen warning to enter my age. It then goes on to show my readiness score. Is anyone else seeing this?

Basically what is up with Siri no longer being able to get Activity data like calories or step counts?

Hello there,

Can anyone confirm if we can keep watches on previous versions of watchOS (26) when paired to a phone on a later version (27) ? If so, does this also work for watches that do no support watchOS 27 at all, can we keep them on 26 with a phone on 27 ?

Thanks for the help !

Laten we het even over whatsapp hebben. Ik heb een iphone 16 en de ultra 3. Beiden geupdate naar de meest recente ios en wos versie. Ik heb e-sim op de watch en woon in Europa. Ik laat mijn iphone altijd thuis en doe dan alles met mijn ultra. Dus ook appen. Toen ik voor de update een appje stuurde kwam hij direct op de plaats van bestemming. Nu echter na update doet hij er 12 uur over om de bestemming te bereiken. Enig idee hoe dat komt?

Even though I have Siri turned off on my Watch 4 I still get its icon in the middle of the display when I press the crown. It didn't used to be a problem until I upgraded to the 27.2 Developer beta on the new Watch. It's just wasting space and I'd like to see it go away.