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Do you use raise to wake on your Apple Watch

JackieInCo said:
I kept it off for all of last week and while I was out walking every day, had to either rotate the crown or tap the screen to see how far I had walked. This week, I have raise to wake turned back on. It uses so very little battery power when the display turns on while driving and such and leaving it on is just so convenient.
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I am leaning towards this for similar reasons. When running, it's just so much easier to raise my wrist to get information vs using both hands (one to raise, one to tap) to get information. Also, whenever I'm carrying a ton of stuff like groceries and I could use the time or temperature or sundown/sunrise, raise to wake always saves the day. And yeah, it just doesn't use a ton of battery - I still end my day over 80% even with a 30-40 min exercise.

Yeah, I think I'm just going to leave it on. Watch, in a few days I'll go back to being absolutely convinced to leave it off... (though I think I'm going to leave it on for a week to force myself to get used to it because I'm tired of going back and forth).
 
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OK I forced myself to leave Raise to Wake on for 1 week. From Jan 29 - Today.

I'm going to leave it on. I turned it off this morning and it bugged me so much that I had to turn it back on. I can't imagine going back to tapping on the glass every time I need it - especially while running hard (ran 2-3 miles every day last week).

On it stays. Before this test, I couldn't imagine leaving it on. Imo, leaving it on really makes the watch experience better.
 
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With the shorter days of winter, I've been noticing my watch coming on while driving. I'd rather put it in airplane mode when needed, than not have raise to wake the rest of my day.
 
Allyance said:
Why not just put it in the Theater Mode when you don't want it to wake for a short period of time??
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I support this 100% and recommend it. I can't imagine life without raise to wake -- but yes, this is huge - lets you turn off raise to wake with just a swipe and a press. Super convenient.

I too have noticed it more at night but having learned to drive with a stick, my left hand is at my knee holding on the wheel there while my right hand is on the shifter so unless I'm turning the wheel the watch stays off. But yeah, for driving at night, I'd definitely switch on Theatre mode.
 
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I was testing running theatre mode all the time vs theatre mode just overnight. Theatre mode includes turning off raise to wake. I found by having theatre mode on all the time only saved me 5% after 24 hours of usage. Not a big deal.
 
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I can imagine that the impact on new(er) Apple Watches isn't that big, but my Series 0 which I've had since the release is starting to lose battery capacity (and is less power efficient to start with) and when I turn on the automatic screen I end my days at 20-30%. With the tap to light up, I end the day at 55-60% so I can wear it two days in a row without charging...

But turning to light up the screen is much more convenient... Gonna try to hold out until the Series 4 is released and retire my Series 0 then...
 
BlankStar said:
I can imagine that the impact on new(er) Apple Watches isn't that big, but my Series 0 which I've had since the release is starting to lose battery capacity (and is less power efficient to start with) and when I turn on the automatic screen I end my days at 20-30%. With the tap to light up, I end the day at 55-60% so I can wear it two days in a row without charging...

But turning to light up the screen is much more convenient... Gonna try to hold out until the Series 4 is released and retire my Series 0 then...
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That’s pretty cool. I hope to get the same usage out of my AW3 that I got last November.
 
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I had an Apple Watch for about 2 weeks, and the fact that RTW didn’t work reliably is one of the main reasons I returned it. It was so frustrating, especially when running.
 
QCassidy352 said:
I had an Apple Watch for about 2 weeks, and the fact that RTW didn’t work reliably is one of the main reasons I returned it. It was so frustrating, especially when running.
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That is an interesting observation, it almost always works for me and when it doesn't a flick of the wrist and it does. I would say even more so when running as motion is exaggerated.
 
barjam said:
That is an interesting observation, it almost always works for me and when it doesn't a flick of the wrist and it does. I would say even more so when running as motion is exaggerated.
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Yeah I don’t know why it didn’t, but it was maddeningly inconsistent. Even exaggerated motions to get it to turn on would often fail.
 
...the only time I actually dislike the RTW feature is when driving my car!

Being a left handed watch wearer and obviously having a right hand drive car in the UK, the gear stick is on the left, meaning, with every gear change (I have a manual car!), my watch lights up and is wrongly registering steps!!
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I have learnt though, to read the watch's 'Step Count' with a large pinch of salt as anything from driving a car to typing on a PC keyboard (I have a desk job), will wrongly register steps!!
 
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Dino F said:
...the only time I actually dislike the RTW feature is when driving my car!

Being a left handed watch wearer and obviously having a right hand drive car in the UK, the gear stick is on the left, meaning, with every gear change (I have a manual car!), my watch lights up and is wrongly registering steps!!
:p

I have learnt though, to read the watch's 'Step Count' with a large pinch of salt as anything from driving a car to typing on a PC keyboard (I have a desk job), will wrongly register steps!!
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Out of curiosity - what version of AW do you have? My AW3 GPS is pretty good about not counting steps when I'm typing or driving. But I don't have a stick shift :( -- I miss my first stick shift car so bad.
 
On for sure. At night I use theatre mode. I don’t worry about battery life as I can always charge at night but often only need to charge while showering or before bed. Finishing with 80% vs 60% battery is a moot point for me
 
Dino F said:
...I still have my Series 0 - probably why it's not very accurate!!
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How interesting - I always wondered this. My Fitbit Charge 2 would count 100+ steps whenever I went to the restroom to take a leak and would count thousands of steps as I typed. My AW3 is near 100% perfect in this aspect, one reason why I'm so happy with it.

Enjoy that stick shift car for me. I'm saving up for one now. :)
 
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A great app if someone knows about or if they can create would be a scheduled on/off app. The app would turn off raise to wake at 10pm and back on at 6am... for example.

Maybe it already exists? Would work great for disable sound and maybe others? I know it is easy to turn on/off but it would be a nice feature for me at least.

Of course, I would like to program the side buttons for these options and others. Press either button 3 times might open a certain app or enable/disable certain features.

They could call the app Lazy as that is what I must be. :)
 
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already posted this in another topic, but it applies here as well. I really hope the iOS12 rumors are true. That no real new features will be introduced but that existing ones will be optimized and expanded. WatchOS 5 being in the same cycle/logic of updates.

Further integration with HomeKit, major upgrade for Siri, expanded DND functionality (incl auto-reply stuff & scheduled raise to wake Vs tap to wake), ...
 
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