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Warning: watchOS 26 Beta 2 Crashes Apple's Expensive Hermès Watches


If you have an Hermès Apple Watch model, you're going to want to avoid installing watchOS 26 beta 2. According to Apple's release notes for...

Apple says that Adaptive Power Mode can make "small performance adjustments" when necessary to extend an iPhone's battery life, including slightly lowering the display brightness or allowing some activities to "take a little longer." A new (paywalled) Financial Times report claims several major brands are walking back their earlier commitments to support the upgraded dashboard software. MacRumors contributor Steve Moser discovered the new setting within the code for the first watchOS 26 beta, and a Reddit user has seemingly found it in action, but we have yet to figure out where it is exactly.

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