How to Use Walkie-Talkie in watchOS 5

[Mac 128]

I don't understand why this is limited to the watch. Sure - its handy to have it on your wrist for immediate access, but expanding it to support phones would really help increase the number of people that can use it. Even if you have an apple watch, you need to know someone else that also has an apple watch. I can see this being useful for family stuff but none of my immediate family has an Apple watch.

Could easily be a widget on the phone. And while you might not hear the audio if the phone is in your pocket, you would get a vibration, and it would play through your headphones.

But then where's the incentive for someone to otherwise buy a watch?

 

[lms630]

What am I missing here? Why not just text or call the person? How is talkie faster?

I thought the same thing, but it’s been nice not having to yell throughout the house or outside for quick things (5 minutes till dinner!) or “I’m on aisle 5” at the grocery store. Useless for real conversations. We leave it on between the two of us and just aagree not to use it when not in proximity like that. We tend to use Do Not Disturb often anyway.

 

[lms630]

Jeez, we spent months back when telling people with Nextels do NOT talk, just click on it so we hear the beeps and wait for us to respond to tell you it's okay to talk, and here we go again.

On a more useful note, I clicked on the WT app and had the yellow icon popping up at the top of the screen on my AW2 every time I woke it up. Had to google to see that I needed to go in and go to the top of it and slide the 'available' slider to off. No real way to shut the app down I can find. Anyone else have a better answer?

It comes up and flashes for a half-second, doesn't stay around long enough to be useful.

On the home screen, slide from bottom to top, and toggle WT on/off. A bit easier than opening the app. The flash is just to remind you that it’s on