I’ve just started wearing my Apple Watch again, after a few weeks.
Can’t say I really missed any of its features.
Can’t say I really missed any of its features.
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If you were to stop wearing an Apple Watch, what feature/s would you miss most?
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Alarm/wake-up functionality - this literally cannot be replicated with a phone.
Run tracking
Run tracking
- vibration only alarm
- Mac unlock
- 1password unlock
- blood oxygen readings while sleeping and health analysis
- reading sms messages in a glance while driving
- able to quick answer / decline a call when away from my phone or working on something
- Mac unlock
- 1password unlock
- blood oxygen readings while sleeping and health analysis
- reading sms messages in a glance while driving
- able to quick answer / decline a call when away from my phone or working on something
You need to make your apple watch silent and wear it while sleeping.
1. Apple Pay (including transit fares paid in bad weather)
2. Music player for workouts
3. Notifications
4. Leaving my phone at home.
2. Music player for workouts
3. Notifications
4. Leaving my phone at home.
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- Quickly view caller ID and reject unwanted calls
- No need to pull out phone to accept/reject multifactor authentication push (we use Duo at work)
- View outdoor temperature at a glance
- Fitness tracking
- Apple Pay (a bit less so now than when mask mandates were a thing)
- No need to pull out phone to accept/reject multifactor authentication push (we use Duo at work)
- View outdoor temperature at a glance
- Fitness tracking
- Apple Pay (a bit less so now than when mask mandates were a thing)
- Seeing outside temp before taking dogs out
- Apple Pay
- Timers - I use them a lot when cooking
- Grocery list
- Telling time without pulling out my phone - what I used before I got the watch
- Upcoming appointments
- Screening calls
- Unlocking my iMac
and why would I stop wearing my AW? had it on my arm since late 2015, don't see a reason to change that
The incessant reminders to complete my exercise rings. I’m presently out of work and these rings force me to be active. Even with an Ultra, I miss my G-Shock.
1) Having text alerts
2) Exercise tracking
3) Media playback
Can't understate how important text alerts is for event work.
2) Exercise tracking
3) Media playback
Can't understate how important text alerts is for event work.
Using Siri to open gates, garage doors, and turn items in my house on and off.
Closing rings, exercise tracking, heart rate monitoring, sleep monitoring, notifications, Siri, weather, time, alarms, text replies, and more.
Sold my AW a couple of months ago after having used it for about 6 months, I’m just using my phone again for like 90% of the lost functionality.
Found myself turning off a lot of Watch features one by one before finally selling it. First was the standing alert, then most other notifications and sounds. Then sleep tracking. I would leave the Watch at home sometimes and after a while it just remained in a drawer.
Health features like heart rate are really the only things I can think of that I don’t have anymore. But that’s fine, that sort of tracking is way more advanced than whatever my workout was.
Just my personal experience, I get that the Watch is nice to have and essential to some. I might try again someday.
Found myself turning off a lot of Watch features one by one before finally selling it. First was the standing alert, then most other notifications and sounds. Then sleep tracking. I would leave the Watch at home sometimes and after a while it just remained in a drawer.
Health features like heart rate are really the only things I can think of that I don’t have anymore. But that’s fine, that sort of tracking is way more advanced than whatever my workout was.
Just my personal experience, I get that the Watch is nice to have and essential to some. I might try again someday.
Run tracking, finding my phone with a swipe and a tap, using my watch in class, sending text messages in the middle of class.
I’ve recently sold my Apple Watch and got a Garmin Venu 2 instead.
What I miss most are the Apple-specific features and tight integration — Apple Music, confirming Apple’s MFA, and FindMy.
Other than that I’ve been able to do everything I used to do with my AW, only in my opinion, slightly better.
What I miss most are the Apple-specific features and tight integration — Apple Music, confirming Apple’s MFA, and FindMy.
Other than that I’ve been able to do everything I used to do with my AW, only in my opinion, slightly better.
I just sold mine literally 30 minutes ago on eBay. I haven't used it for a month and haven't missed it at all.
I'm using a £11 Casio F91W. Need to wear something that isn't worth a year of salary where I'm travelling to over the next few months otherwise I might wake up without an arm or something.
I'm using a £11 Casio F91W. Need to wear something that isn't worth a year of salary where I'm travelling to over the next few months otherwise I might wake up without an arm or something.
I feel naked without it.
I think the three things I'd miss most if something happened and I couldn't wear it are:
Mac unlock, timers, stand notifications.
But it's really indispensable in so many other ways. The watch effectively frees me from my phone, I can take calls (or dismiss them) read notifications, track workouts, view the weather and air quality, use 2FA, all without having to pick up or look at my phone and without disrupting other things I'm doing.
I think the three things I'd miss most if something happened and I couldn't wear it are:
Mac unlock, timers, stand notifications.
But it's really indispensable in so many other ways. The watch effectively frees me from my phone, I can take calls (or dismiss them) read notifications, track workouts, view the weather and air quality, use 2FA, all without having to pick up or look at my phone and without disrupting other things I'm doing.
Pay. Use it when getting gas when out on my motorcycle. Don’t need to take my helmet off or take out my phone which then wastes time telling me to uncover my face... Also use it maps on the watch for directions when walking around. Also run my workout app in it so I don’t get distracted by playing on my phone when I enter sets (at least that was the intention)