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Always on Display, Useful???
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Old tech, old way of doing things. Back then was better, type of thinking. Don't want to adapt to the new way. Resistance to change.
clearly this thread shows that some like AOD and others don't, and that is totally fine, everyone can do as it suit them and it really has nothing to do with adapting "new tech", but whatever.
I've said it before, when I now use my S4 for sleep tracking, I find it annoying to have to "wrist to wake".
I will also say that I was concerned about battery life with AOD, but after about 2/3 weeks it has settled to be somewhere around 30% +/- at the end of the day, and I've been using the same watch face/complications etc as on my S4 (which was ~45% +/-) ...
I've said it before, when I now use my S4 for sleep tracking, I find it annoying to have to "wrist to wake".
I will also say that I was concerned about battery life with AOD, but after about 2/3 weeks it has settled to be somewhere around 30% +/- at the end of the day, and I've been using the same watch face/complications etc as on my S4 (which was ~45% +/-) ...
Must just be a coincidence that back when the S5 was released, most were saying how useless the AOD was, while now they are the minority.
I got the S4 before, and I returned it during the return period, I hated the wrist flick so much. I got the S5 after and like it very much. It's a bit like a watch, you can look at it to know the time. It's really forward-thinking, I understand some people don't like it.
In fact it might be me who don't want to change. I don't want to adapt to the new way of "wrist flicking".
Also let's not forget the main question here:
Always on Display, Useful???
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You must be great fun at parties. I had happily moved to cds before floppies went away. Right tool for the job.
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Well technically new tech now that always on displays have been added to the Apple Watch. Do keep up.
Actually the very first digital watches required a button press to get the screen to come on because, like the first apple watches, the device was too power hungry to cope with an always on display. More efficient displays and better batteries solved that problem way back then. Wonder if one of your ancestors was heard tutting at those crazy backwards people who preferred to be able to see the time at a glance.
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I would never even consider going back to a version that doesn't have it.
I am not surprised.With Omicron I try to avoid them.
It’s cool that it’s an option but I don’t use it
I don’t find it useful all the time and I think it can be distracting when I’m with others.
I don’t find it useful all the time and I think it can be distracting when I’m with others.
For me it’s essential for a watch to be able to just glance at it from the corner of the eye (and also a reason I use analog watch faces).
Before AW5 I never considered AW as an option, and jumped in with the AW6.
Otherwise it’s just a wrist computer, with AOD it’s a watch with a wrist computer.
Before AW5 I never considered AW as an option, and jumped in with the AW6.
Otherwise it’s just a wrist computer, with AOD it’s a watch with a wrist computer.
Coming from an AW3 to an AW7, I can say the biggest upgrade for me is the always on screen. I noticed how many times I pull up my sleeve (it’s cold out) and I can instantly see what’s on my watch face without throwing my arm up like I’m having a spasm. I heard about apps not refreshing but the ones I use seem to work perfectly.
So true. I always roll my eyes at the "how hard is it to raise your wrist to see the time?" comments regarding the always on display. There are so many scenarios where it's so nice just to glance down and see the time without moving my wrist: in a meeting, riding a bike, at the gym, carrying something, etc.
I think it's that everyone's different. Of the four scenarios you listed, the only one I do regularly is carrying things. And as for wearing long sleeves during colder months, I find that it's quite a bit faster to pull out my phone from my coat pocket than dig out my watch from under my sleeves. So I don't feel any need for always on. The times the watch doesn't turn on when I want to see it are few and far between.
I could keep going. I would especially add "using a keyboard". I glance down and look at the time, stopwatches, temperature, date, etc.
But it still requires an unnecessary action. There’s no way always on is a bad thing.
Edit: replying to the post two above.
Edit: replying to the post two above.
You are now listing things you want to see on the watch. I'm not following how that has any connection to whether we prefer the display to be always on or not. Your previous list was situations/conditions where you can't turn your wrist to get the display on, and I was just saying I don't find myself in those situations too often, so that explains why I don't find always on all that useful.
I'm especially puzzled by the reference to the keyboard. What keyboard, and how does always on help with using a keyboard?
I'm not saying always on is a bad thing, just that it's not that useful to me.
And the raising/flicking of the wrist required to turn on the watch display is something I do anyway to bring the watch into my line of vision. It's not something extra I have to do. Yes, I understand that there are situations where you want to see the time or other information on the watch without moving your arm, and if you are in those situations, always on is useful to you. It's that for me, such situations rarely happen.
Not the OP, but he quite obviously meant glancing at the Watch while using a keyboard (any keyboard) so you can get the glanceable information from the always-on display without having to put the hand away from the keyboard (and thus having to stop/interrupt the typing).
I've posted this several times in the many threads about the usefulness of AOD, but figured I'd post it here again as this thread seems to have legs.
First off, I'm glad that they build AOD. People seem to love it & it's obviously useful to a lot of people. But fur me, there are two issues that keep me from using it & neither one is betray life.
The first one may be resolved by now, but I have a Series 5 & there is a small but noticeable delay when switching from the AOD face to the regular face. It's not a huge delay, but long enough that I notice it & prefer to just have the watch wake up.
Second is the fact that I have to turn on the privacy filters so that my texts, etc don't display on the screen while it's always on. I don't want to have my texts readable by someone across the table from me, and by turning that on, it makes the watch less useful to me as I now have to unlock the watch to read texts, which I don't have to do if AOD is turn off.
But like I said at the beginning, I'm glad it's an option as a lot of people love it & it clearly has value in the aggregate.
First off, I'm glad that they build AOD. People seem to love it & it's obviously useful to a lot of people. But fur me, there are two issues that keep me from using it & neither one is betray life.
The first one may be resolved by now, but I have a Series 5 & there is a small but noticeable delay when switching from the AOD face to the regular face. It's not a huge delay, but long enough that I notice it & prefer to just have the watch wake up.
Second is the fact that I have to turn on the privacy filters so that my texts, etc don't display on the screen while it's always on. I don't want to have my texts readable by someone across the table from me, and by turning that on, it makes the watch less useful to me as I now have to unlock the watch to read texts, which I don't have to do if AOD is turn off.
But like I said at the beginning, I'm glad it's an option as a lot of people love it & it clearly has value in the aggregate.
Those are things that I look at when the screen is dimmed that I can still see thanks the AOD. You said you couldn't relate to most of my examples so I was adding another one involving the keyboard. When I'm using a keyboard I can glance down at my watch screen and see what I need without moving my wrist or taking my hands off of they keyboard.
Ah, typing on a physical keyboard! I was thinking about the keyboard on the watch, and wondering why bring up a feature that's only available on the S7!
And when I'm in front of a computer, I just glance at the screen when I want to know the time, as the time is displayed on the menu bar. So it didn't occur to me that someone might want to glance at a watch while typing.
I have the S6, and when it was on Watch OS7, I felt the same way. I think it improved a lot with OS8. I don't find the dim-to-bright effect as irritating as it was before.