Apple Watch - Terrible at Showing the Time

[bmac4]

It literally takes not even a half second for the display to light up and tell me the time when I rotate my wrist. If it was a full second or more, your complaint may be valid. As for the watch detecting rotations, it rarely lights up when I don't want it to do so. Seeing as I made it the whole day yesterday with about half the battery left, it's clearly not affecting battery life, so it's a non-issue for me, at least.

For my original Pebble, (although it always displays the time) when I want it to light up, it requires some pretty serious wrist flicking to do so. Not very consistent at all. Also, I've tried on the Moto 360, and it's pretty hit-or-miss as well. Apple Watch is the most fluid out of all the smartwatches I've tried so far.

There are a good number of valid complaints with the Apple Watch, but I don't think this is one of them.

I love there are so many of these comments "I tried on the moto 360, LG watch, and Samsung and the AW does this or that so much better. You are playing with a demo unit. The actual product is much different. The same could be said for the AW at the Apple store. The demo that is running on it does not run that well, but it seems the actual watch is not that bad. Try the other watches for a week before making statements like this.

 

[ohio.emt]

I would sacrifice the .8 seconds it takes to raise my wrist and wait for it to turn on for better battery life.

Same here. Right now I think the watch turns on to easy. Even typing this if I very slightly turn my wrist it turns on.

 

[JohnApples]

I love there are so many of these comments "I tried on the moto 360, LG watch, and Samsung and the AW does this or that so much better. You are playing with a demo unit. The actual product is much different. The same could be said for the AW at the Apple store. The demo that is running on it does not run that well, but it seems the actual watch is not that bad. Try the other watches for a week before making statements like this.

Assuming is a dangerous habit. I have both a friend and a coworker who have Moto 360's (mentioned this in several other threads as well, if you don't believe me for whatever reason) and have tried them on for fun on a number of occasions. Sure, I didn't get an "all day experience" with one, but I obviously got a feel for the "wrist raising" feature, and it is lacking a bit on the Moto.

In fact, me an my coworker talked about this exact issue today, and compared. His Moto required more of a "flick" of the wrist (cue song) while my Apple Watch lit up very easily with a simple raise/rotation of the wrist.

 

[bmac4]

Assuming is a dangerous habit. I have both a friend and a coworker who have Moto 360's (mentioned this in several other threads as well, if you don't believe me for whatever reason) and have tried them on for fun on a number of occasions. Sure, I didn't get an "all day experience" with one, but I obviously got a feel for the "wrist raising" feature, and it is lacking a bit on the Moto.

I was not assuming anything. You simply said you tried it on. Maybe you have tried it on 100 times. I really don't know, but just by trying something on for an hour. It really does not give you a feel for what watch is like. Every watch I have ever own took at least a couple of days if not week to get use too.

I know it's easy to just say the watch you own or are planning on owning is the best, but that does not mean others are not great too. The moto 360 is a great watch, and just because Apple did not make it does not mean its not any good. Or that its not built well.

 

[McDaddio]

Think Different.

Rather than having the iWatch "show you time", ask your iWatch what time it is!

It will tell you.

 

[iamMacPerson]

Your kidding me right? If anything my Watch is a little too sensitive to wrist movement. It takes almost no time to switch on. Check the time, lower your wrist, done.

 

[JohnApples]

I was not assuming anything. You simply said you tried it on. Maybe you have tried it on 100 times. I really don't know, but just by trying something on for an hour. It really does not give you a feel for what watch is like. Every watch I have ever own took at least a couple of days if not week to get use too.

I know it's easy to just say the watch you own or are planning on owning is the best, but that does not mean others are not great too. The moto 360 is a great watch, and just because Apple did not make it does not mean its not any good. Or that its not built well.

Re-read your post, you did assume. "You are playing with a demo unit." Your words, not mine. I'm simply pointing out that I did in fact play with the real thing. I never said Apple Watch was better than it in every feature. In fact the only thing I was referring to was the wrist raising feature.

The Apple Watch was much smoother and more accurate when raising my wrist to check the time than the Moto. I admit I haven't played with the Moto enough to judge any other features, but I can say for sure that the Apple Watch did do one thing better.

 

[sterl320]

Buy a casio. Its perfect for you.

 

[Recognition]

I noticed if you changed wrist from right to left or vice versa and skip changing the wrist side under orientation settings you will get a lag and less than optimal performance. Seems like apple engineered the accelerometer to appreciate the movement difference between wrists.

I think the wrist orientation is critical to the auto wake feature.

My watch is on my left wrist, if I position it 'upside down', no matter how much I wiggle, shack or flick my wrist it will not turn on,
If I rotate it so the face is straight up it wakes immediately.
Then when a rotate 90° so it's the correct way round, it immediately wakes.

If the wrist orientation is not set correctly, I think it would be very hard to get it to wake in normal use!

 

[cdm283813]

Some of you guys just don't understand OP. While I don't have a Apple watch I do have a android wear LG G watch and the display is on 24/7 even while charging. It's either in ambient mode or full on; the screen never turns off and my battery life is a day and a half. So I agree with OP. I never have any issues telling time or getting notifications and I can't wait for Google wear to support iOS.
Apple should have at least a ambient mode and another gripe is the lack of third party app faces. You got all these apps and you can't do something simple as change the watch face (not apples watch faces). Makes no sense.

 

[tengtengvn]

The Apple Watch was much smoother and more accurate when raising my wrist to check the time than the Moto. I admit I haven't played with the Moto enough to judge any other features, but I can say for sure that the Apple Watch did do one thing better.

I have the Moto and I have no such issues that you described. I got it after Lollipop update was released. The performance and tilt to wake work fine.
A day and half battery life is normal with ambient screen turn off. A day with it on.