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Apple Watch Will Motivate You to Meet Your 2025 Fitness Goals, Apple Says in New Ad
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Yeah, this whole swiping thing and an additional tap is not ideal.
After a few years, I've kind of gotten use it too, but have on more than a few occasions swiped over and over because the screen or my finger was wet.
Not to mention the screen being activated by my sleeve. So I now lock the screen as soon as I start a run.
Ugh.
I really don't understand Apple's UI team when it comes to this area.
We don't need to reinvent how to start and stop a run.
I relate a lot to this. I do feel Watch can work as motivation to work out more often.
However, like most other motivational tools or methods, there has to be a solid chunk of genuine motivation already there for the tool to be able to help you.
I don't see it turning someone's life upside down. To me it's something that can help the person who's already doing a lot on their own to do a little more.
What can help with consistency over very long periods is allowing for periods of little motivation but still being happy with achieving a lot less.
Setting the Move and Exercise rings to something below your usual numbers and still feeling a sense of accomplishment is a hard exercise. But it's far better than setting them too high and then quitting entirely on the day where you can't close them.
And this is a thing I kind of miss on Watch, having Siri act a bit more like a coach and using all the health data to suggest workouts, when one should rest, etc.
But I'm sure Apple will add that soon with Apple Intelligence. Probably limited to Series 11 or Series 12 though. :/
I wish they’d add more buttons to these things.
Fitness usages really benefit from physical buttons
Fitness usages really benefit from physical buttons
Normal Apple Watch: Press both side button and crown to pause, go inside and wipe the screen if it’s wet and press finish. Its fine.
Ultra: Action + Side button and same thing.
I run every single day in rain, snow, sun, hot and cold and it’s really not an issue. I lock my screen in long sleeve season as well and with precision start (now THAT should be a feature on normal watches as well) I can start and pause and everything with buttons
It would routinely nag me to stand up the instant I sit down after walking around 🤷♂️. It was so useless I turned them off.
As someone who lives in the same area as the UI team, I can tell you why they aren’t thinking about wet fingers…it doesn’t rain here!
Nice ad. Just recently bought a Series 10. Happy with my new watch. Will surely be using it very much in the coming months.
You think you need discpline to take care of your health?
Nah, just pay Apple several hundred bucks every year to buy another gadget and that ~somehow~ will magically make you more active.
Nah, just pay Apple several hundred bucks every year to buy another gadget and that ~somehow~ will magically make you more active.
Notice also how cold it is in the first scene. But is the woman wearing gloves like any runner would in below-freezing weather? No, because then you'd see her tap and swipe five times to try and get the watch to register what she's trying to do. I honestly think that was a very deliberate choice by someone in marketing.
Plus she's wearing a beanie like a Seattle barista, for some reason? They have fashion models doing what an actual runner would never do.
Plus she's wearing a beanie like a Seattle barista, for some reason? They have fashion models doing what an actual runner would never do.
Great ad. It hits exactly the target audience it's supposed to hit. IYKYK.
Apple Watch has kept me accountable and motivated by having real measurable data and straightforward goals that were easy to follow and fun to achieve. I did an entire full year, 365 days straight of closing my rings — it made a difference.
After watching this ad, I feel motivated to go for it again.
Apple Watch has kept me accountable and motivated by having real measurable data and straightforward goals that were easy to follow and fun to achieve. I did an entire full year, 365 days straight of closing my rings — it made a difference.
After watching this ad, I feel motivated to go for it again.
As I said, I’ve had to adapt and use the awkward two button press. It still doesn’t mean it’s correct or intuitive. And suggesting going inside doesn’t work on long runs on trails or remote areas.
As far as the Ultra. Pressing two buttons on opposite sides of the watch is ergonomically better, as you have countering forces pushing against each other. But can you really do everything with buttons? Don’t you still need to tap the screen to end the run?
Speaking of the action button, the lack of one on the normal AW is a major oversight. Are regular AW owners not active people? Not everyone can or want to rock a 49mm behemoth on their wrist. Why Apple hasn’t come out with a smaller Ultra is beyond me.
I’ve been running for over 30 years and there’s a reason why buttons are still used on sport watches today. Classic mechanical chronographs still use a simple start and stop button. And they work in all conditions including while wearing gloves. Look, I honestly don’t expect Apple to add buttons. But maybe they could reconsider and simplify some button actions specifically as it pertains to the running app.
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I say yes. I have been using it for years and lost 45 pounds in 3 years. Yes, it helps get my workouts done. 👍
What is Apple doing to do about the forever chemicals in its fluroelastomer watch bands? When will they issue a recall and replace them for free?
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Your fancy smartwatch band is full of toxic forever chemicals — Fast Company
Pricier bands are more durable, but the material could be a health hazard.
Great. I left the Apple watch system after not seeing the progress I needed for years in August...
