Apple Releases watchOS 8.7 With Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements

Problem is, if the watch runs out of power because you didn’t charge it enough before the update, it will brick the watch. So, charger is needed. Because some people are stupid and others make mistakes.

Apple should released an ultra violet Watch.

Wish Apple would do away with having to utilize the charger to update.

Updated earlier this afternoon. I hope the Hand Washing notification is now fixed up. It was pretty glitchy and random.

So how about a 80+% battery check

I have a few different smart watches. The AW is the only one that has to be connected to its charger.

True but I can update my other devices off the charger if they have greater than 50% battery. My watch was at about 90% today when the update came out. Charger anyway.

They already have the requirement for it to be at greater than 50%, in addition to being on the charger. Only possible reason to require both is if there’s a watch model out there for which processing the update would eat up a large percentage of battery despite being on the charger.

I assume there’s a good reason for it but it seems a little overly cautious.