What’s the complication on the middle right btw, looks a bit like a radar?
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Gurman: Widgets to Be 'Central Part' of watchOS 10's Interface
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how about letting the watch delete sms when you delete them from the phone like with all the other devices
The small 2×2 widgets on iOS have always been a perfect size for WatchOS; this seems like a logical solution.
They could happily switch up the main screen so you need to long-press the screen to change watch faces and then a swipe takes you between widgets like WearOS.
They could then let you have them to swipe between or stack them on the LH screen like the iPhone. If interactive widgets are in iOS17 then it would require zero coding to port them over on Apple's part.
They could happily switch up the main screen so you need to long-press the screen to change watch faces and then a swipe takes you between widgets like WearOS.
They could then let you have them to swipe between or stack them on the LH screen like the iPhone. If interactive widgets are in iOS17 then it would require zero coding to port them over on Apple's part.
I can’t remember the last time I used any app on my Watch that isn’t the exercise app. I basically use my watch as an exercise tracker and a screen for checking notifications without having to pull my phone out.
I think when it comes to the Watch, widgets or better apps going to change the way people use their Watch The only thing that will move the needle are new sensors like temperature (for everyone), blood sugar and blood pressure.
I think when it comes to the Watch, widgets or better apps going to change the way people use their Watch The only thing that will move the needle are new sensors like temperature (for everyone), blood sugar and blood pressure.
This is precisely the problem with the post-Jobs Apple.
Instead of designing software based on what makes sense for the user, they put their own business initiatives first, and that usually ends in failure.
“Oh, the iPhone App Store is profitable? Let’s throw an an App Store on the Watch! And on the Apple TV! And even in iMessage!”
Of course, no one uses any of those app stores. The Watch is meant for glanceable information, iMessage is a service, not a software platform, and TV is for passive entertainment, not for active apps.
I’m glad Apple is finally coming to these realizations, but it’s taking way too long. Steve Jobs would have seen this a mile away, as he looked at things from the user’s perspective.
Hopefully Apple’s next move is to fix their god-awful Services apps. Apple Music, TV, News, and Podcast all have awful apps that are designed with business interests in mind, not user interests. And people hate these apps for that. Sooner or later, Apple is going to have to come around to that realization and fix them. I just wish it happened sooner rather than later.
Like the siri watch face? The worst watch face? Like widget stacks? The most useless widget feature?
Oy vey
Oy vey
The Apple Watch and watchOS seem to be two least interesting hardware and OS platforms in Apple's ecosystem for me. Its probably why I have hung onto my Series 3 for so long.
The device I’m referring to is the Watch. I think the size will continue to increase and use will expand.
Sure, the size will increase by a millimeter here and there, but just look in the AW thread how many there find the Ultra too big. And sure, the usable screen size will increase but it still is far too small for useful interaction/input for a lot if not most of people.
What will bring the AW to the next level is new health sensors and the ability to make useful information out if that data.
Apps on the AW have failed, too small a screen, no useful way to interact/input.
Bingo.
Sensors + quick glanceable information.
That’s what the Apple Watch is for. Anything active or app-based is pointless because you’re always better off just grabbing your phone.
You mean middle left? That is RadarScope my favorite radar app as a weather nerd. Comes with complication from being on my iPhone it is paid app at several levels I use as storm spotter and all around weather freak.
RadarScope
RadarScope is an AMS-award-winning weather visualization tool that empowers meteorologists, public safety officials, storm spotters, and weather enthusiasts to view a full suite of single-site radar data and related severe weather products. Your initial purchase provides professional radar...
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Honestly how hard can this be, all devices receive the SMS message and if one of those devices deletes the SMS how hard is it to send the command to the other linked devices to erase them from those as well.
Keep working on better battery life
I wish they’d make a watch using more efficient screen tech also
Once I went Garmin, there was no going back.
The usability is off the charts with the screen tech and the physical buttons
I wish they’d make a watch using more efficient screen tech also
Once I went Garmin, there was no going back.
The usability is off the charts with the screen tech and the physical buttons
Glances were a great concept, but it took apps so long to load on the original Apple Watch. It makes sense to bring it back now.
FACT: The Siri watch face never worked.
Some find the Ultra too large, some do not, and some want an even larger Watch — just like the iPhone Pro Max. The point I’m making is that a change in the UI could increase useful interaction by itself, and a larger Watch will further support this.
Cell phone companies will happily charge you for a full cell phone plan for your watch.
So is anybody going to tell him we already have widgets on our watch just called complications?
Fair enough, but it will always be a 1 hand/1 finger interaction and thus, for me, not really useful.
Time will tell, so for now let’s just agree to disagree