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Nothing, I’ve just tried it!
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How do you do that please? Thank you.
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1) Integration with the iPhone - This is one of the primary reasons I bought my first Apple Watch
2) Quality Apps - Without quality apps that sync between your phone and iPad, the watch becomes a set of encyclopedias that you have to carry around, just to have access to the one volume you constantly need.
3) Being able to interact to messages, email, reminders, exercise, calls, and other activities, without having to pull your phone out of your pocket, much less carry it with you everywhere, makes the watch succinct and enjoyable to use.
4) Being able to change bands and watch faces to fit the current need or mood is a big plus as well.
5) Build quality and terrific customer support - Without this, the watch becomes a fancy trinket in the long tine of easily forgotten smart watches.
While having the watch isn't necessary, it has made my day to day more focused and easier to manage.
Some Third Party Apps I use (in no particular order)
1. Waterminder
2. Pillow
3. Carrot
4. Dark Sky
5. Bear
6. Things
7. Audible
8. Day One
9. Due
10. Deliveries
11. Fantastical
12. Heartwatch
13. ETA
14. OTP Auth
15. Snipnotes
16. watchOUT
17. Outcast
18. HealthView
19. Daily Dictionary
20. 1Password
21. MiniWiki
Edited to add: I also like being able to use my Apple Watch to unlock my iMac and Mac mini.
2) Quality Apps - Without quality apps that sync between your phone and iPad, the watch becomes a set of encyclopedias that you have to carry around, just to have access to the one volume you constantly need.
3) Being able to interact to messages, email, reminders, exercise, calls, and other activities, without having to pull your phone out of your pocket, much less carry it with you everywhere, makes the watch succinct and enjoyable to use.
4) Being able to change bands and watch faces to fit the current need or mood is a big plus as well.
5) Build quality and terrific customer support - Without this, the watch becomes a fancy trinket in the long tine of easily forgotten smart watches.
While having the watch isn't necessary, it has made my day to day more focused and easier to manage.
Some Third Party Apps I use (in no particular order)
1. Waterminder
2. Pillow
3. Carrot
4. Dark Sky
5. Bear
6. Things
7. Audible
8. Day One
9. Due
10. Deliveries
11. Fantastical
12. Heartwatch
13. ETA
14. OTP Auth
15. Snipnotes
16. watchOUT
17. Outcast
18. HealthView
19. Daily Dictionary
20. 1Password
21. MiniWiki
Edited to add: I also like being able to use my Apple Watch to unlock my iMac and Mac mini.
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Why the Siri Face Is All I Need from My Apple Watch - MacStories
What should a wrist computer ideally do for you? Telling the time is a given, and activity tracking has become another default inclusion for that category of gadget. But we’re talking about a computer here, not a simple watch with built-in pedometer. The device should present the information you...
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I just key in my timetable into the calendar app for Monday to Friday and have them repeat every week till the end of the year.
For example, 8 to 9 am is English at class X. 9.15 to 10 is Social Studies at class XX.
The Siri watch face then shows you your schedule for the day, which I find works well enough.
Can't believe no one said it yet... but one of my (and even more of my little 2yo Buddy's) most favorite feature is Mickey announcing the time <3
I used that face when I had the s3. Now that I have the s5, I use the Infograph face most of the time.
I had to turn that off. I accidentally touched my watch during a meeting and Mickey yelled out the time. I was mortified!
The Watch is my favorite piece of tech ever. It's helped keep me healthy, happy and organized. I've had a Watch since Series 0, but getting a cellular Watch has added another level of convenience (and may save my life someday).
But my favorite thing is listening to Audible books without my phone while I walk outdoors or jog in the pool.
But my favorite thing is listening to Audible books without my phone while I walk outdoors or jog in the pool.
Still rocking my Series 0 here. I'll upgrade soon... waiting for the post-Holiday sales.
- Being hearing impaired, the top feature for me is the vibrating alarm! FINALLY an "alarm clock" I can hear! This is such a lifesaver.
- As a frequent flyer, the Watch's ability to set itself to the local time zone immediately on landing (courtesy of my iPhone of course) is a real game-changer. Every country has different approaches to Daylight Savings Time and this keeps it all sorted out. Keeping my watch sync'd to the local time was a real frustration with my previous Casio Pathfinder.
- The ability to display the local time in several time-zones on one watch face is brilliant for those of us engaged in international commerce.
- I have a specific watch face I switch to at night: large letters, red. Easy to see if I check the time in a bleary-eyed state in the middle of the night, and the red doesn't dazzle and preserves night vision.
- Notifications and navigation that taps me on the wrist... brilliant.
- ApplePay! I use it all the time. It seems a small thing, paying without the arduous task of actually pulling my phone out of my pocket, but I like it.
- Boarding passes on my wrist!
- Siri! "Set a timer for 35 minutes." "Send a text to my wife" "Set a reminder to call Joe at 9 a.m." Great while driving or when my hands are busy, such as when I'm cooking.
- Series 5 cellular models have a new ability to issue emergency alerts internationally, either manually or after a fall detection, even if the Watch is not activated on a carrier plan. There are a very few countries excepted, as documented by Apple. More info: https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT206983 and https://www.apple.com/watchos/feature-availability/#branded-international-emergency ...This is a good reason to go for Series 5 instead of a steal deal on Series 4.
- Enough storage in the Series 5 to rely on it for my daily podcasts, to which I'm addicted.
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This was my main reason for buying the cellular S5 only to discover you can only put on audiobooks purchased from Apple or Audible. Mine aren’t, just m4b created from CDs. Why on earth is this stupid restriction not widely known? I would never have bought the watch if I had known, but of course the keynote never mentioned it, or just possibly I missed it.
It's not a surprise for DRM'd apps to support their proprietary formats to the exclusion of others. I'm not saying it's great, but it's common. You might look into the Downcast or Castro podcast apps. At least on the iPhone, both allow you to import .mp3 audio, and both have Watch functionality. Castro's implementation is especially slick, as it uses an iCloud folder, so you just drop stuff into it, et voila. On the negative side: At the moment Castro's imported ("sidecasted") files are ordered by time of import, which might not be how you want them, and if your content is split into chapterized files they may play out of order unless you add them one at a time in the order you want them, waiting for Castro to import each before adding the next. Also at the moment, Downcast's import feature only seems to work one file at a time. Both apps are in active development so you can expect expansion of these features before long.
My thinking is that their Watch apps might mirror the content on your phone. Perhaps someone here can try it and see. (Alas, my doughty Series 0 Watch can't do this trick either way.) Worth a try.
Thanks for the suggestions, however as all my m4b play perfectly well on my iPhone and iPad using Books, I would expect the equivalent Watch app to do the same. Even when just controlling them from the watch (or AirPods Pro) there is no way to skip back and forward 15 seconds or select chapters, it just skips to the beginning or end of book! I need to have the audiobooks actually on the watch as streaming would drain the battery, take ages, and cost too much in data fees.
A search of this forum will demonstrate ways to sync non-Apple or non-Audible audiobooks to your Watch.
And if you want to listen to non-DRM books or your own individually generated content, go for it.
But the trade off is, no chapters or bookmarks or Cloud sync. It's really your choice. I chose Audible years and years ago after struggling with audio books on CD and I'm happy with my choice. It's repaid itself many times over in satisfaction, ease of use and access to my library of books from anywhere.
But if you are disappointed in either the iPhone or AirPods, then just sell them and move on.
Too bad the standard apps don't do what you want at this time, but the ones I suggested might. Worth a try.
This is such a cute and sweet use of the heartbeat feature, I definitely need to try that!
To me it’s the fitness and closing my exercise ring. Being excited to close it for 6 of 7 days is fun. That will help me out when I’m older. I’ve always exercised but to have objective data is really great. The tip calculator is pretty good too