For the people getting the apple watch series 5, how do you see always on display being helpful to you, in what situations would it be helpful?
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Always on display
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When you're carrying things on your watch hand and can't just lift it up to see time you'll be able to just flick your wrist to glance at it. When you're exercising of course, quickly glancing is essential. When you're at a laptop and your hand is resting comfortably on the table, why you have to lift it to see time, just glancing. Biking, checked. Yoga, checked. Cutting grasses, checked. And a million other things.
I have the Series 0, and this feature is what is finally going to force me to upgrade. I've always kept a relatively simple watch face as my main face, so I'm exited to have it always on like a real wristwatch. I'll probably disable raise to wake, so that way I'll have a subtle time/date indicator that's always on and doesn't light up brightly when I move around.
Raise to wake isn't 100% reliable. Plus when Im sitting in a chair, it'll be nice to just glance down to see the time/notifcations without having to raise my wrist or tap the screen.
Meetings. Sometimes I want to have a sneak peak at the time without appearing rude.
It’s mostly aesthetic. It will look more like a regular watch, particularly since Apple added watch faces more suitable for a square design.
This. When the watch display doesn’t turn on it’s annoying. This plus the faster processor are my pros for upgrading.
That picture of someone in a meeting sneaking a look at their watch spoke to my soul.
As others have mentioned it’s those moments when watch face is already in the right position and it just seems silly to jerk your arm around just to see the time.
We get used to it but you really shouldn’t have to do it.
We get used to it but you really shouldn’t have to do it.
Totally agree.
I wear a mechanical watch half the time, it’s either a nice surprise to see the time without effort when I’m wearing that, or an annoyance when I’m wearing the AW and it’s blank.
There’s the little things. There’s been loads of times when I’m in a rush, got a drink in one hand and a bag in the other, and I want to know what time it is, going for a train etc. Nope, can’t see it unless I want to spill my coffee
More significantly, since ordering, when I’ve been at the gym I’ve really started to notice how many times an always on screen will be beneficial. I like to follow a strict rest period between working sets and it’s crazy how many times I find myself poking the screen or jerking my wrist to see how long is left. Same when I’m spinning to see my heart rate.
From next Friday, it’ll just be a glance if my understanding is correct and the metrics are displayed constantly during workouts. I imagine this in particular will be the biggest hit to battery life, but I’ve usually got about 48% left at bedtime currently, so I think I’m covered.
What happens if you take the watch off your wrist and lay it down. If you punch in the passcode will it then remain lit and more importantly will it remain connected?
There are time when laying down it doesn’t always come on when I look at my wrist. This will be nice
Series 0 here. I'm concerned about the claims of 18 hour battery life. That's not enough for me, so I'm hoping that's 18 hours of always-on and more hours if you turn always-on off. I wear my Watch sleeping (charging it in the morning when I sip me mornin' tea) and use a sleep tracker. At bedtime I turn the display off. (Actually, I leave it off all the time.) Presumably the Series 5 has a similar setting, maybe a little easier to get-to. So, if upon retiring one turns the display off but otherwise leaves it always-on, what sort of daily battery life will it yield?
Serie 5 has the same „18 hours“ nominal rating as all Watches before. So everything you do now with your current Watch should work equally well with the S5. And if you turn „always on“ off, the S5 will presumably actually have a longer running time than all earlier Watches.
The brilliant thing, from a marketing perspective, is that the always-on screen will show the world who has the latest and greatest model.
I started with the 0, went to the 3, and have ordered the 5. My mother gets the hand-me-downs, so she's excited about upgrading from the series 0. I think we'll both be happy.
