You don't need to add a glance or mess with any settings at all. It's just happened for me when I've gone to the movies with a Fandango ticket in my passbook or gone to Starbucks. It gives you a tap and pops right up. If you ignore it you get a red dot and the pass sits in your notifications. It really surprised me at the movies since I went a night or two after I first got the watch.
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I gave up on the Apple Watch
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You don't need to add a glance or mess with any settings at all. It's just happened for me when I've gone to the movies with a Fandango ticket in my passbook or gone to Starbucks. It gives you a tap and pops right up. If you ignore it you get a red dot and the pass sits in your notifications. It really surprised me at the movies since I went a night or two after I first got the watch.
Returning mine today.
It doesn't do enough for what it cost. It depends on being tethered to the phone too much and it's to expensive for what it is.
I can't see me ever owning a smart watch again.
It doesn't do enough for what it cost. It depends on being tethered to the phone too much and it's to expensive for what it is.
I can't see me ever owning a smart watch again.
Out of interest, and perhaps help others decide to buy or not, what did you want/expect it to do?
I'd also be interested in how long you've owned it. I'm not really sure what expectations were for this. That's not a criticism but an observation. I really did not see the need for it, and was going to bypass it completely, until I saw uses for it in my every day life. That and I do like the styling. This is truly an item that integrates itself into your life.
Glad I returned my watch today after the briefing yesterday.
I can see things like video on the watch killing the battery.
Weirdly I actually feel relieved returning it, first apple product that ever made me feel like that.
I can see things like video on the watch killing the battery.
Weirdly I actually feel relieved returning it, first apple product that ever made me feel like that.
Funny. I felt relieved as well, but now I miss it. I keep looking at my watch looking for the temperature and then realizing I can't do that anymore.
My favorite Watch feature? Telling the time. Love messages. Love being able to easily add to my reminders, shopping list, calendar with Siri. Love not missing texts and phone calls (used to miss them all the time with my phone and could never figure out why). Love using it for golf (took 3-4 rounds to get used to it, now I wouldn't be without it). Milanese Loop looks great wearing a suit. Like the fitness apps (having an accurate measure of calories burned while golfing in an electric cart is valuable all by itself). Like having a black sport band for the weekends. Now that I know how to set favorites for maps the navigation aspect is great. I like not missing turns because I'm listening to music or on the phone because I get a tap on my wrist. Like having the temperature right on my watch face. Like setting custom texts to let my wife know my progress during a round of golf or while I'm out. Everybody who sees me use the Watch wants one. Can't wait for my wife's 38 mm midnight blue to arrive next week so I can send her dopey digital touch drawings during the day.
I'm on day 4 with it and I have very mixed feelings about whether to keep it. I really keep swinging back and forth. While I like the ability to see and knock out a text very quickly, I'm also just as often getting annoyed that my arm is being tapped when I'm in the middle of talking to someone or focused on something. Seems kind of distracting. Not sure yet how to balance the desire to get texts/emails in a timely manner with not interrupting moments when I'm intentionally trying to focus on something other than my digital communications (like talking to someone, or counting, or some work-related fire to put out).
The other reason I'm on the fence and leaning towards returning are the first-gen issues. You can reply to a text but not to a Facebook message. Seems almost like an arbitrary limitation that will be lifted in the next go-round. Another issue is it's great that the watch won't go off when you have your phone open, but it WILL go off even when I'm working on my Macbook, which is tethered to my phone (Handoff and Continuity). So while I'm at work looking at my Macbook and even texting people via iMessage on the Macbook, or emailing, my watch still taps me every time the person replies even though I have the app actively open and am writing them. Just seems like one of those things that'll get figured out next gen also. It wouldn't be convenient to shut off my watch notifications every time I sit down at the computer.
While I've never been a watch-wearer, reading about the Apple watch has given me an appreciation for nice watches and I might find myself actually wanting to go pick up a nice mechanical watch after this experience, whether I keep the AW or not.
All that said, it is a marvel of engineering and I did very much enjoy using the workout app to go for a walk today. Like I said, I have a love-hate relationship with the notifications. Sometimes I find it really cool to have them, other times they're distracting when I'm in the middle of something. Haven't had any issues with Siri, seems really really accurate when dictating. So, I think there's something here and there's a future to this sort of device... just wondering if it's really truly ready for primetime for someone like me for whom the $700 was a substantial investment. Still have about a week and a half to decide.
The other reason I'm on the fence and leaning towards returning are the first-gen issues. You can reply to a text but not to a Facebook message. Seems almost like an arbitrary limitation that will be lifted in the next go-round. Another issue is it's great that the watch won't go off when you have your phone open, but it WILL go off even when I'm working on my Macbook, which is tethered to my phone (Handoff and Continuity). So while I'm at work looking at my Macbook and even texting people via iMessage on the Macbook, or emailing, my watch still taps me every time the person replies even though I have the app actively open and am writing them. Just seems like one of those things that'll get figured out next gen also. It wouldn't be convenient to shut off my watch notifications every time I sit down at the computer.
While I've never been a watch-wearer, reading about the Apple watch has given me an appreciation for nice watches and I might find myself actually wanting to go pick up a nice mechanical watch after this experience, whether I keep the AW or not.
All that said, it is a marvel of engineering and I did very much enjoy using the workout app to go for a walk today. Like I said, I have a love-hate relationship with the notifications. Sometimes I find it really cool to have them, other times they're distracting when I'm in the middle of something. Haven't had any issues with Siri, seems really really accurate when dictating. So, I think there's something here and there's a future to this sort of device... just wondering if it's really truly ready for primetime for someone like me for whom the $700 was a substantial investment. Still have about a week and a half to decide.
That's just looking for justification, as no one will force you to watch videos when watchOS 2 is released. Glad you're relieved, but that's a strange bit of reasoning.
Good for you.
It's nice there is a community where you can go and get validation for such a personal decision.
Don't know if anyone cares, but if anyone was wondering what I wound up doing, I returned the watch after having it for a week. I liked it, but felt that what it added to my life wasn't quite up to the $800 I spent (SS Classic buckle with Apple Care). I went in with reservations over it's first gen-ness because I've never been an early-adopter before, and read all about what it does and doesn't do, and so I'm not disappointed in it in any way. I just knew that it was the kind of thing I had to try out for a while before I'd even know whether it was right for me, much like the iPad. With the iPad, though, I got in on Gen 4 so it was a fully-baked product, and for the first day thought "Do I really need this?" but by day 3 or 4 I was in love with the iPad. That feeling never came with the Watch. I definitely liked it and enjoyed the fitness stuff and getting notifications, but overall I felt that at this point I wouldn't miss it if I returned it and it's been 2 days now and I don't miss it. I still think it's cool, and I will be watching the software updates with interest, and maybe by hardware Gen 2 I'll be ready to jump back in. I expect with additional health sensors, native apps coming from a robust and watch-experienced developer community, better battery and processor, and more customizability, this thing is gonna be amazing in a few years.
In a few days it's very clear to me that this watch is worth every one of those many dollars simply serving as my handy, always available, sexy if you will, most fun ever, music (podcast) remote control. I like leaving it set to show the last used app on raise wrist, which in my case is always about what I'm listening to.