{"id":46088,"date":"2017-10-06T07:48:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=46088"},"modified":"2017-10-06T07:48:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T07:48:05","slug":"apple-watch-connection-snag-apple-issues-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/gadgets\/apple-watch-connection-snag-apple-issues-fix.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple Watch connection snag: Apple issues fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Apple Watch connection snag: Apple issues fix<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Apple has released a software update to address a connectivity snag that impacted some of the folks who bought the company\u2019s brand-new Apple Watch Series 3, the first Apple smartwatch with cellular. The pricey ($399 on up) watch is supposed to automatically choose the most efficient network to glom onto in any situation, either a known Wi-Fi network or cellular LTE, without you having to have your iPhone close-by. Some reviewers, however, though not me or others, encountered a problem with this connectivity \u201chand-off\u201d, leading Apple in search of a fix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">If you have the Series 3 watch, you can find this &#8220;<\/span>watchOS<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\"> 4.01&#8243; fix in the Software Update section of the Watch app on your iPhone. (You won&#8217;t see the update if you have an older model without cellular.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">For its part, Apple said the issue at hand, um, on your wrist, was a \u201crare\u201d occurrence in which the Watch tried \u201cto join unauthenticated (captive) Wi-Fi networks, such as those found in public places like coffee shops and hotels, which direct the user to a web page before the network could be accessed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000;font-size: 14pt\">Let me know if you had the problem in the first place and whether the update provides the remedy that Apple says it does.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/tech\/talkingtech\/2017\/10\/04\/apple-watch-connection-snag-apple-issues-fix\/733319001\/<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/technology\/gadgets\/apple-watch-connection-snag-apple-issues-fix.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Watch connection snag: Apple issues fix Apple has released a software update to address a connectivity snag that impacted some of the folks who bought the company\u2019s brand-new Apple Watch Series 3, the first Apple smartwatch with cellular. 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