Activating on wrist raise way to sensitive

[jqc]

Just wanted to share my thoughts on this feature for everyone who is still waiting and is wondering about this like I was before I received my SS white yesterday.

I was wondering how they were going to implement this, and was afraid you would really need an exaggerated motion to activate the screen when raising your wrist to look at it.

Turns out it's way to sensitive and I would say that after 1.5 days of usage, probably 90% of the activations are unintended. It basically takes a very subtle turn of your wrist inward to activate. Like right now as I'm typining on an iPad in my lap, it's activated a number of time. This will kill battery so hopefully they tweak this over time.

And yes I know you can turn this feature off and only activate by tapping it, but that requires both hands and there are many times when that's not desired (carrying groceries in your other hand for example).

 

[shandyman]

Just wanted to share my thoughts on this feature for everyone who is still waiting and is wondering about this like I was before I received my SS white yesterday.

I was wondering how they were going to implement this, and was afraid you would really need an exaggerated motion to activate the screen when raising your wrist to look at it.

Turns out it's way to sensitive and I would say that after 1.5 days of usage, probably 90% of the activations are unintended. It basically takes a very subtle turn of your wrist inward to activate. Like right now as I'm typining on an iPad in my lap, it's activated a number of time. This will kill battery so hopefully they tweak this over time.

And yes I know you can turn this feature off and only activate by tapping it, but that requires both hands and there are many times when that's not desired (carrying groceries in your other hand for example).

It's the opposite of the Pebble. The Pebble you had to really go for it.

 

[Flow39]

It's the opposite of the Pebble. The Pebble you had to really go for it.

I had to shake my wrist like crazy for that to turn on. I really like the sensitivity on the Watch, it's very quick to turn on and it doesn't take much to activate the display.

 

[adm58]

It seems like a technology that would be basically impossible to get perfect. By perfect, I mean activating every time you want it to and never activating when you don't. Just impossible. So I'm surprised it works as well as it does. I read they really agonized over that in development and just tweaked it to no end.

 

[jjlannoo]

I just turned it off. It's super easy to just tap the screen

 

[profmjh]

This will kill battery so hopefully they tweak this over time.

I hope they don't. I think it's perfect. I'd rather it was overzealous in turning on, than the other way round.

I've been using my watch quite a lot today. It's now 9.30pm and I have 52% battery life. I'm really not worried about the battery being killed by the watch turning on too often.