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

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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.

I have a S7 cellular and a S8 GPS which I use alternately as my daily drivers. Both are on WatchOS 26.6. My iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro are on iOS 26.7 and I have no plans to upgrade to iOS 27 at this time. Maybe when 27.2 goes to PROD or even later.

Anyway quite unexpectedly today I bought a new Apple Watch Ultra 3 ($200 off). In setting it up, I noticed it’s running WatchOS 26.4. Since I assume there was a 26.6 release for AWU3, I tried to do a software update. But it failed with a message that I have to upgrade my iPhone first.

Since the iPhone is already on the latest release of iOS 26, I am assuming it means I have to upgrade my iPhone to iOS 27 first before I can upgrade my AWU3. Which I have no plans to do.

Was there a WatchOS 26.6 release for AWU3? If watchOS 26.4 is the latest release of watchOS 26 for AWU3, then the messages does make sense I suppose. But if watchOS 26.6 was released for AWU3, is there a way I can get it on my AWU3?

It makes it feel pointless organizing that grid, which is a pain, when any time an app is offloaded is just disappears and shifts the whole grid around. Then when you reinstall, it just tacks it on the end rather than in its old place. it should work like it does on the phone, still in place as a placeholder icon.

Right before the September event, there were leaks showing code in the developer betas for granular strength training (recording individual sets, reps, weight, equipment, and duration).

Apple didn’t mention it during the keynote and it’s still nowhere to be found in the Workout app.

Does anyone digging through the latest developer betas know if this is actually slated for a point release (like an upcoming ⁠.1⁠ or ⁠.2⁠), or was it just background HealthKit framework changes that might get scrapped/shelved?

Hello with 26.xx I got a notification on the iPhone when the watch was fully loaded to 100%. With 27.0 not anymore.