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Hands-On With the New Theater Mode in watchOS 3.2
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I have always found the "raise to wake" feature annoying. In our car driving at night, every time the wife did anything with her left arm it would light up...kinda distracting in the peripheral vision. I sleep with my watch on, so it turning on in my face when I roll around at night sucked. I gotta admit, prior to writing this post I thought, "what a useless feature", since in the 2 years that I have had my Apple Watch I have always had raise to wake thrned off, (it is not a huge burden to tap for it to wake). But, while writing this, I may switch to "raise to wake" and put it in theater while I sleep. I am a bit afraid of battery drain with the amount of times that it would needlessly come on during my workday.
You're wasting your time, dude's a troll. You can click their name and "ignore" them and their entire nonsense argument literally disappears. I suggest you try it out.
Really? Weird. On iPhone and iPad it doesn't light up when on DND. You'd think it would have the same behaviour :\
interesting.
It is called a joke referring to my previous posts. I hoped this was obvious but maybe not.
Thanks for the article, seems like people still do go to watch movies in a cinema. Given the low quality of movies that is coming out by the minute, I am very much surprised.
Uh, yes it does. With DND on, picking up my iPhone causes the screen to come on.
Another person who lacks the necessary coolness of most people on the internet these days. Take it easy.
Why have you not just turned off "raise to wake" in settings? I have slept with mine on for almost the 2 years that it has been out, (I love waking up to watch vibration), but I turned off raise to wake on day 2...just for this reason.
Once you set out a troll-like endeavor you need to be prepared to get burned.
Because raise to wake is an awesome feature that makes the watch all that much more useful in more situations? Many people like it? It, coupled with "Hey siri..." provides the most "magical" uses I have with my watch, like being able to add items to my grocery list while my hands are a mess, or seeing the status of the timer on there while cooking (again, hands a mess.)
I have situations where I need to disable it, sure, but definitely turn it right back on afterwards. I'll be glad for this feature and couldn't imagine enjoying my Apple Watch as much as I do without raise to wake enabled. Maybe try it out again.
That's because you have Raise to Wake enabled, which is on 6s and newer. That's irrespective of DnD
Once you set out a troll-like endeavor you need to be prepared to get burned.
With all due respect, at no point was I 'trolling' (whatever that means) but I was genuinely interested in a use case. Having an open discussion will always include (at least for me) to push back on certain arguments to have a more vivid yet respectful discussion. I am not sure where this aggression or sensitivity comes from some of the people here. Is this a 'millennial' thing? Wouldn't you agree that many people go into such a discussion with lots of prejudices? At least that's what it seems to me.
This isn't exactly groundbreaking but useful nonetheless. I would also like a universal mute option so that when I mute or unmute my phone, it also mutes the watch, and vice versa. It makes no sense that you have to do this twice, I get on the iPhone you gave a hardware button and it would mess it up but it's still a bit of an annoyance
I generally just slightly flick my wrist while to see my watch face while my hands are down without actually raising my whole arm to face level to see the watch face.
Because others have presented use-cases and you present inane counter arguments. Even in other countries movie watching is going strong (you know, as evidenced by the fact that foreign box office revenue does better than domestic many times if not almost always) and has been pointed out 2016 was a record year for Hollywood. The fact that every cinema chain (at least in the US) posts warnings about small screens suggests that it is a problem. If you don't go to cinemas then you don't really have the authority to have an opinion on whether it is annoying. If you do go to the cinema and don't find it annoying then good for you - clearly many others do. While Theatres may be the direct use case for the feature, as you've agreed, there are others.
Just be thankful Ive doesn't design those Exit signs... else it'd be made with an aircraft landing light with white background and thin, light-grey "EXIT" letters.
Dude asked why the watch behaves different from iPhone. Raise to wake on iPhone is enabled by default now. The behavior of each device matches in default settings, in this regard, thus, they do not behave differently.
"No one goes to watch movies in a cinema anymore with all due respect."
Seriously? That's hilarious!
"This is indeed a feature for the cinema enthusiast and therefore pretty pointless to put this on all our watches."
It's not just about you. Apple develops and includes features useful for their customer base. Don't be so selfish.
It's a great feature. Take a deep breath and be happy it's simply a mode that you can safely ignore staying inside wherever you live. If knowing that mode is available still causes great angst, perhaps going to your happy place and thinking about kitty cats would be beneficial and calming.
I think you're both misunderstanding each other
I suspect DND stops the screen turning on when you get a notification only
Theatre mode stops the screen turning on for notifications *and* movement
That's the difference
Edit: sorry just realised about 6 different people having that conversation, not the original questioner
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Fine. Some will have a use for this.
Now can we PLEASE talk about how there should be 2 pages in control center with one being music controls?!? You know, EXACTLY how it is on the iPhone? I would use this far more than all of the other controls in control center combined.
Now can we PLEASE talk about how there should be 2 pages in control center with one being music controls?!? You know, EXACTLY how it is on the iPhone? I would use this far more than all of the other controls in control center combined.
Great. Thanks for your opinion. I know when I'm at the cinema I move my wrist the wrong way and it lights up and distracts ME. So I'm glad this feature is coming. It's also nice to stand up and give speeches without the Watch lighting up when gesticulating. So for you, maybe you don't care. For others, *gasp*, it's useful.
As an aside, it does cheese me off seeing people's watches light up at movie theaters.
I didn't present a counter argument per se - I thought the guy from before would understand this obvious absurd yet funny comment, based on my exaggerated 10 enthusiast example. I thought stating 10 people must be spending 11.6bn on cinema was very obvious, for one, admitting he was right and two, a funny comment, spinning on a clearly lost argument.
I said that in my opinion the cinema argument is overstated - not so much the sleeping or theatre argument though or the rainy day/cycling example. I liked the other use cases better so let's not centre this too much around cinemas.
I am surprised it is really required to spell things out that clearly. I guess different times.
I'm trying to remember exactly how many years it's been since I last stepped into a theater...
And while I can see where the "this is really necessary" commenters are coming from, I question its usefulness. If people are that inconsiderate, they're not going to be turning this mode on anyway - so unless it's automatically triggered by some proximity beacon, I doubt it'll make much of a difference.
On the other hand, Apple has to try to keep adding features to its devices - but the useful ones are pretty much already there. So this is what is left.
And while I can see where the "this is really necessary" commenters are coming from, I question its usefulness. If people are that inconsiderate, they're not going to be turning this mode on anyway - so unless it's automatically triggered by some proximity beacon, I doubt it'll make much of a difference.
On the other hand, Apple has to try to keep adding features to its devices - but the useful ones are pretty much already there. So this is what is left.
You got answers with others' use cases and yet you feel compelled to try and ineptly shoot them down.
If you're reaching for the millenial argument you would have to be at least 40-ish right now, don't you have more vital things to do than engage in stillborn self-provoked "discussions"?