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Bought the Ultra - Keeping the 7 - experience with 2 watches 1 phone?
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I have a Series 6 Ti in addition to my Ultra. Just transferred the cell service over to the Ultra on Verizon and will let the Series 6 remain a GPS-only device. I plan to give it a good charge at least once a week. It's currently at 86% battery health.
I have a very crude setup. I have an electrical strip, with 5 iphone chargers plugged in, 5 of the 2 meter watch charging cables, and the magsafe chargers in a drawer beside the bed. I just lay the watch on a charger, get a different watch, put on whatever band I want to wear that day and off I go.
Mine are on a charger 24/7 unless I am wearing it.
I've used multiple Apple Watches and it is seamless. If you put on the Ultra and sign into it, the watch automatically pairs and becomes primary to your iPhone. All health data, steps, activity etc. recorded on the Ultra gets sent to the Apple Health and so when later you change watches all that updates to the S7 automatically, usually within a minute or two of putting on the S7. EVEN IF you don't have the iPhone around, later when both watches have chances to reconnect (even days later) their data will both go to Apple Health, get sorted and combined. If data is somehow recorded by BOTH watches for the same exact period of time (lets say you and a family member wear both watches at the same time) then Apple Health prioritizes one watch over the other (you can set this in Apple Health for each metric) and excludes the data for the other for that overlap.
Summary: It works seemlessly and you don't have to think about it at all. It just works. Even if for some reason the data isn't up to date when you start wearing a watch it will become up to date quickly if it has access to your iPhone, and even much later if it doesn't. It just WORKS.
ONLY WEIRD ODDITY... sports tech reviewer Ray Maker, also known as DCRainmaker, has discovered that if you wear a different skin temp enabled watch at night than previous nights it resets the 5 day baseline period for calibrating your skin temp. For example if you wear your Ultra for 5 nights it establishes a skin temp baseline and starts reporting skin temp deviation from baseline each night thereafter... but if you wear an Series 8 one night instead (I know this isn't your situation with the S7) it begins a 5 day reset period of determining your skin temp baseline. This is obviously a VERY niche case but its unfortunate because in a few years it will be common for multi-Apple Watch wearers to have watches that measure temp and they might want to wear different ones to bed.
it's also the one that will have the battery life to satisfy cellular use in a more effective way.
I think I am going down the 2 Watch road now, but I am keeping my 5 and getting a Garmin Fenix 6 (£300ish atm).
I don’t see the point of getting another AW when my 5 is sufficient for everything except sports & the Garmin is something too big to wear all the time. The lacklustre series 8 has made that decision for me.
I don’t see the point of getting another AW when my 5 is sufficient for everything except sports & the Garmin is something too big to wear all the time. The lacklustre series 8 has made that decision for me.
that Fenix 6 has very lackluster performance with optical HR on the wrist, the 7 is better (and the Apple Watch better still.) try to pair it with a chest strap or at least an optical HR upper arm band from the likes of Polar.