The Amazfit Bip 6 is receiving firmware model 3.11.0.2, a ten.63MB replace that provides Bluetooth disconnection alerts, improves sleep recognition accuracy and contains broader stability fixes. The important thing addition right here is the disconnect alert.
Many Bip 6 homeowners have been patiently ready for this function. A disconnect alert doesn’t look notably thrilling in a changelog, however in every day use it may be genuinely helpful. It may be the distinction between noticing instantly that you’ve left your cellphone behind and realising it a lot later.
Why this function issues
The thought is easy, the watch vibrates when it loses its Bluetooth connection to your cellphone. That makes it helpful as a primary anti-loss function and one thing many customers depend on each day.
When you go away your cellphone on a desk, in a café, on the gymnasium, or within the again seat of a taxi, the watch can warn you the second you progress out of vary. That sensible use case is precisely why folks have been asking for it. In some ways, it’s extra helpful than one other wellness rating tucked away within the app.
It additionally solves one other widespread annoyance. If notifications all of a sudden cease arriving on the watch, you instantly know the connection has dropped somewhat than assuming one thing is mistaken with the machine or app. That on the spot suggestions makes the Bip 6 really feel extra reliable in each day use.
Unusual that it was lacking within the first place
What made the omission extra noticeable is that different Amazfit watches already help Bluetooth disconnection alerts. The Amazfit Stability has had the function for a while, and a few fashions within the T-Rex vary embody it as effectively.
That made its absence on the Bip 6 really feel notably odd, particularly as a result of this doesn’t look like one thing that requires particular {hardware}. It all the time seemed extra like a software program omission than a technical limitation.
Some gadgets nonetheless look like inconsistent right here. Relying on the mannequin and firmware model, sure Energetic sequence watches and even some higher-end fashions haven’t all the time supplied a local disconnect alert. Presumably, will probably be rolling out throughout the board within the close to future.
Customers had been counting on third-party apps
Earlier than this replace, some customers have been counting on third-party apps as a workaround. For instance the Bluetooth Alert app which might be discovered within the Zepp Well being App Retailer. It really works moderately effectively. You’ll be able to even tweak the alert vibration.
Nonetheless, counting on an additional app for one thing this primary by no means felt best. Native help is cleaner, simpler to arrange, and certain extra dependable over time. It additionally removes the chance of compatibility points when firmware or app updates arrive later.
Sleep monitoring additionally will get an replace
The firmware additionally mentions improved sleep recognition accuracy. No additional particulars than that. So we don’t know if the replace improves bedtime detection, wake occasions, in a single day interruptions, or one thing else solely.
However, a helpful replace. Not an extended change-log however no less than one new real helpful function has made its technique to the Bip 6.
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