Apple pulled watchOS 11.1 beta 3 as watches froze.
Apple has pulled the latest watchOS 11.1 beta 3 update due to unspecified but apparently rather severe bugs in the software that froze the devices of those who installed it on their Apple Watch.
Instead of bringing new features, the watchOS 11.1 beta 3 update was rather dedicated to optimizing code and niche activities like fixing the bug where « rectangular complications and Watch-specific custom Live Activity views use the wrong font metrics, causing title2 and title3 to render much larger than intended and largeTitle to render much smaller than intended. »
Apple pulled the latest watchOS 11 beta update as it bricked Watches. | Image credit – Apple
One of those resolutions, however, must have reared its ugly coding head and essentially bricked the Apple Watch gear that ran it.