I would like all the health metrics really but wearing the apple watch constantly leaves a patch of irritated and flaky skin on my wrist. Unfortunate, now I only wear it at night to integrate with my sleep app.
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If you were to stop wearing an Apple Watch, what feature/s would you miss most?
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Since you are able to wear it for sleep (presumably without skin irritation), have you considered switching it to your other wrist during sleep and then wearing it on your preferred wrist during the day?
I've been on and off with this watch. Now I'm off completely for a year. I miss nothing.
What I found is that it didn't add any value to my life. I'm in my early thirties. I'm fit, hitting the gym 4-5 times a week. I use a very simple tracker app on my phone for the weights I'm doing. It's much easier to add the data on the phone than on the watch. Music player and quality is bad on the watch.
At the end what I got was heart rate, which means too little for me to care about it.
I'm not unfit to have a gadget tell me when to stand up and I'm not an athlete to must have detailed heart rate data. That being said if I was a runner outside, the watch would make total sense, I think it's great for that. But I'm not that person. And I don't need an other notification gadget in my life.
What I found is that it didn't add any value to my life. I'm in my early thirties. I'm fit, hitting the gym 4-5 times a week. I use a very simple tracker app on my phone for the weights I'm doing. It's much easier to add the data on the phone than on the watch. Music player and quality is bad on the watch.
At the end what I got was heart rate, which means too little for me to care about it.
I'm not unfit to have a gadget tell me when to stand up and I'm not an athlete to must have detailed heart rate data. That being said if I was a runner outside, the watch would make total sense, I think it's great for that. But I'm not that person. And I don't need an other notification gadget in my life.
You might be particularly fussy, but I notice no difference in sound quality between my watch and iPhone or iPad, using the same AirPods or Beats, and think sound is really good.
I really enjoy the feature of raising my wrist and instantly being told what time of day it is.. Thats probably my favorite feature that Apple innovated into the watch lineup..
If I stopped wearing my Apple Watch I would miss people telling me I don’t need it.
I worked at the Apple store when the watch came out. I did not think it was worth the money. It was hard for me to sell to people. I actually quit Apple over it because I did not sign up to sell jewelry. Any way they offered us 50% off to buy one. So I did before I left figuring I could sell it if it was not worth it.
I am on my second watch now. I can not exercise with out it. Since I am older now the ECG feature has come in handy for both me and my wife. Getting texts and phone calls with it is very convenient. I can send my Dr ECGs I am suspect about, reports on my heart rate and exercise. etc. Looking forward for a BP and sugar sensor.
I am on my second watch now. I can not exercise with out it. Since I am older now the ECG feature has come in handy for both me and my wife. Getting texts and phone calls with it is very convenient. I can send my Dr ECGs I am suspect about, reports on my heart rate and exercise. etc. Looking forward for a BP and sugar sensor.
That’s not a bad idea but I’ve grown to like wearing a $10 casio digital during the day for just quickly checking the time.
Really I'm not. I'm using an Airpods pro and the music from the watch is noticably worse for me. I'm not an audiophile. As far as I know, the watch is only capable for 64kbps meanwhile the lossy Spotfy maxes out at 320kbps (AM 256kbps). So maybe that's an explanation, I truly don't know, but it is way worse, even in a loud gym environment.
I don’t stream Spotify or Apple Music, I store playlists on the watch, so maybe that’s why I’m not hearing bad quality, but it sounds like you made the right decision to abandon the watch if that’s the case and maybe that explains why so many members at my gym are carrying around max iPhones while wearing Apple Watches and Airpods Pro (and at least three members wear AirPods Max, so sound quality is clearly important to them at the gym).
I also download a 6GB workout playlist to my watch and I can't tell the difference between my Max and my watch. <shrug>
Then I’m grateful I can’t tell the difference. I have a friend who cannot tolerate listening to MP3’s and I always feel grateful that I don’t hear what he hears. Hehe, I also can’t tell a $3 bottle of wine from an expensive one, hence my user name.
When I'm active/walking around I sometimes won't feel the vibration from a call or text on my iPhone, but I'll always notice the vibration from my watch. It's also nice to use my watch as an alarm if I'm attempting to sleep with ear plugs.
None of it's been life changing though.
None of it's been life changing though.
I am actually contemplating ditching the Apple Watch after more than 6 years wearing them and I think I’d miss the notifications for messages the most. I won’t miss Siri as it is absolutely dreadful on the watch and it’s comical how it interprets some of the reminders I try and set. Don’t get me started on it forgetting there is a timer app installed 
. I just find overall the watch is quite unreliable and it’s quite frustrating at times.
I’m a keen runner so may look into a proper exercise watch from either Garmin or Polar. Day to day I can go back to wearing a Submariner or Sarb.
. I just find overall the watch is quite unreliable and it’s quite frustrating at times.I’m a keen runner so may look into a proper exercise watch from either Garmin or Polar. Day to day I can go back to wearing a Submariner or Sarb.
The way apple wanted them sold in the beginning was like selling jewelry. Luckily I never had anyone buy the socks.
You can wash your wrist (with soap) regularly. It’s simple advice which I don’t believe in the beginning too, but it works.
Well, here is Apples dev website: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/patterns/playing-audio
Check audio, watch: Use the recommended encoding values for media assets. Specifically, use the 64 kbps HE-AAC (High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding) format to produce good-quality audio with lower data requirements.
It might be lightly sourced, but I guess it's makes sense, consumes less power, and battery life is more important for a watch than audio quality.
I also found info that downloaded music is kept at max. 96kbps, which is somewhat better, still far from the phones quality.
Again, I'm not an audiophile, but this I noticed. It does the job for sports anyway, it was just an other reason to skip the watch for me.
Check audio, watch: Use the recommended encoding values for media assets. Specifically, use the 64 kbps HE-AAC (High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding) format to produce good-quality audio with lower data requirements.
It might be lightly sourced, but I guess it's makes sense, consumes less power, and battery life is more important for a watch than audio quality.
I also found info that downloaded music is kept at max. 96kbps, which is somewhat better, still far from the phones quality.
Again, I'm not an audiophile, but this I noticed. It does the job for sports anyway, it was just an other reason to skip the watch for me.
Thanks for the link. I still doubt this very much because 64 kbps ought to sound like trash. Also, I have never heard/read of anyone else audibly noticing the difference between streaming from iPhone or Watch, just you. I am not an audiophile either, but I‘m sure lots of those would have noticed/complained by now if there was an audible difference.
As for the 96 kbps for downloaded music, do you have a source for that as well? This one makes even less sense to me as a) all synced music (from iPhone) would have to be re-encoded and b) synced playlists on the Watch take up much more space than 96 kbps audio would. Or did you mean downloaded from Apple Music or so directly onto the Watch?
Edit: I just tried this and synced an additional playlist from my iPhone to the Watch. The „available space“ on the Watch went down the exact amount of MB that the playlist also takes on my Mac and iPhone. So synced audio is obviously transfered at full quality (in my case 256 kbps AAC) and absolutely not sized down.
As for the 96 kbps for downloaded music, do you have a source for that as well? This one makes even less sense to me as a) all synced music (from iPhone) would have to be re-encoded and b) synced playlists on the Watch take up much more space than 96 kbps audio would. Or did you mean downloaded from Apple Music or so directly onto the Watch?
Edit: I just tried this and synced an additional playlist from my iPhone to the Watch. The „available space“ on the Watch went down the exact amount of MB that the playlist also takes on my Mac and iPhone. So synced audio is obviously transfered at full quality (in my case 256 kbps AAC) and absolutely not sized down.
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Well. Im certainly not the first one. Macrumors, Apple and Reddit threads all filled with comment stating that the audio quality is bad.
96kbps for downloaded is mentioned as maximum limitation by both Spotify and Tidal.
Tidal now also offers offline listening on the Apple Watch
The latest music streaming service to offer support.
www.theverge.com
Spotify brings offline playback to Apple Watch
It took a while, but the long-awaited feature has arrived.
www.cnet.com
Now, AM is not mentioned, I'm certain it's the same for that as well. (I was using both AM and Spotify, both sounded bad).