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If I were to buy my first Apple Watch, what are the must have apps to download?

I installed Auto Sleep, Pedometer+ and Map My Fitness.

I use Auto Sleep to track sleeping and it works great. I’m not against Sleep Watch except that to use all the feature, there’s a subscription.

Pedometer+ for tracking steps.

And MMF for tracking workouts. And it syncs with Apple Fitness.

I also have the series 6 with LTE. Was hoping the 7 was going to have blood glucose monitoring, but that’s going to be further down the road.
 
I will kinda echo what others have said: depends on what you are doing or want to do.

For me, it's a couple of apps that I have on my phone that have handy Watch companion apps, otherwise stock Apple apps (which most I do not ever use). Specifically, two apps. My 3rd party calendar/reminders app (Calendar 366) and my podcast player (Downcast). The calendar app, I use in complications and in my dock (mostly to mark Reminders as completed). Podcast player allows me to control playback (skip forward/back, next track, change playlists) easily without having to pull out the phone while working out.

I've got a couple of airline apps loaded as well, but got my first watch in Sept 2019, so have not been on a flight since then and have not seen how useful they are.
 
Shirasaki said:
There is no point to get series 6 when series 7 is very likely to be released.
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With one exception... deals. I was thinking of waiting, but my carrier took off a significant amount of money, which essentially paid for 2 years of data line charges. I was going to get cellular access, so knocking that off was my incentive. You could be missing out on a revised design, but unless new fangled sensors come out, which may not be the case until 2022 or 2023, you can dive in now... if you find a deal.
 
1. Timer
2. Reminders. Siri "Add carrots to grocery list" (in reminders)
3. Autosleep
4. Calendar
5. Carrot weather (on infograph face)

casperes1996 said:
Honestly, 90% of the time I just use the stock stuff on the watch.

I recommend having SoundCloud if you often find yourself thinking "What's the name of that song again?" cause you can put the complication on a watch face and just tap that to have it listen for a song.
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You don't use Shazam?

casperes1996 said:
I honestly doubt I could tell if you swapped it for a 6
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In terms of functionality, no, but there was a significant speed increase from the 4 to the 5. Quite noticeable as the watch can sometimes be painfully slow.
 
HDFan said:
You don't use Shazam?
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Through Siri I guess. But I've used SoundHound (I think I accidentally called it SoundCloud before) since the iPhone 4, sooo it just is what I'm used to.

HDFan said:
In terms of functionality, no, but there was a significant speed increase from the 4 to the 5. Quite noticeable as the watch can sometimes be painfully slow.
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At no point ever have I felt my watch to be slow honestly
 
I agree with everyone else here. At the beginning I installed a few different apps but realised that almost 100% of my usage is just via the stock apps.
 
HDFan said:
In terms of functionality, no, but there was a significant speed increase from the 4 to the 5. Quite noticeable as the watch can sometimes be painfully slow.
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I have an S4, S5 and S6... to be honest I don't notice very much of a difference in speed between them. The main difference to me is the display or more specific the AOD. Even between S5 and S6, there is a major improvement with the brightness, which makes it even more useful (a lot!)
 
Juice Watch. iPhone app with watch companion. Shows complications for battery level of both the watch and the phone. Also let’s you setup audible alarms for high and low charge of each. I use it to help keep my battery levels between 40-80% to prolong longevity. Obvious bonus being I can see my iPhone charge by glancing at the watch. For me it’s a critical app.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/juice-watch/id1485101937
 
IMHO you should (in the beginning) make it easy on yourself. When you receive the watch, it's a super easy setup and will have all you need: answer and receive calls, read and send texts, sleep monitor, pulse monitor, sinus rhythm, blood ox if it's S6, suggestions (if needed) on breathing exercises, Siri is you use that, voice memos, stock suggestions on light exercises selection and volume control of music. Thats already a lot to get into a rhythm with for a device your new to. You'll get used to the dial, touchscreen, side button, navigation, customizing the face.

Once you get into a groove on these functions and operations, your charging routine and finding a comfort with the band (order a different one if whatever you have now is not comfortable. Lots of options), you can then start adding things that are specific to you.

That's my 2 cents...
 
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If weather is important to you, Carrot Weather is great, since it has a huge variety of complications you can add.
 
For third party apps the hard part is done - you can see which ones have Apple Watch extensions from the Watch app on the phone. Even then, I think for many they don’t add significant value anyway, but it’s a good place to start all the same.
 
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