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Just upgraded to S5, and AOD seems no big deal
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Lol I thought I was the only one who did that
Gladly that is now a thing of the past! Was especially troublesome if it was winter and you had a cold...
never ever considered buying an AW without AOD.
apple watch 5 is the first series with a true watch feeling.
apple watch 5 is the first series with a true watch feeling.
It depends on how often you need to know the time. And this doesn’t apply to every one. I’m a very regimented person when it comes to planning my day and I have lots of meetings.
When I broke the screen on my Series 5 I used my Series 4 until I could get it repaired. It sucked. I couldn’t stand not being able to see the time When glancing down at my wrist.
Turning your wrist to see the time is the new “just pull your phone out of your pocket”. Some people don’t mind and others want to eliminate that extra step. I can no longer use a Series 4 or older any more. I just want to rip it off my wrist and smash it into the pavement when I see that black rectangle.
When I broke the screen on my Series 5 I used my Series 4 until I could get it repaired. It sucked. I couldn’t stand not being able to see the time When glancing down at my wrist.
Turning your wrist to see the time is the new “just pull your phone out of your pocket”. Some people don’t mind and others want to eliminate that extra step. I can no longer use a Series 4 or older any more. I just want to rip it off my wrist and smash it into the pavement when I see that black rectangle.
I've become a master of stealth glances at my wrist during meetings to check the time!
I see this said a lot, there’s nothing wrong with checking your watch/time during a meeting. I’ve been in _plenty_ of meetings where I’ve looked at my Apple Watch and made it completely obvious. The fact that people look at their watch, they’re just keeping track of time, doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to secretly make a passive look at your Apple Watch with the AOD strictly because ‘you don’t want to get caught’ if somebody saw you looking at the time.
what would be discourteous, is if you spent too much time on the watch directing your focus away from the meeting. That’s when it becomes ‘rude’.
Agreed but there's also times where you're with an external customer and you really need to be elsewhere or time feels like it's standing still. I prefer the discreet time checks in that scenario.
You could just lick it and that might have the side benefit of giving you some additional room to stretch out on the tube.
Aha, but this doesn't negate the 'Nose Timer Stop'
I wish you could just say "Hey Siri, turn off the bloody timer!"
Have you ever had checked your eyes for contrast? Wife got older and got ever increasing catarract and hence less able to see contrast. Operation solved everything and sees sharp like an eagle....
No big deal is exactly as it should be imo! I sold my s2, and went To garmin until the s5 AOD. The previous watches were rubbish as...watches. I never want to shake my wrist in a really in your face way or tap the screen to see the time, I just want it there whenever and however I look at it.
Funny how different the cultures in different companies are. I spend 50% of my time in meetings. In larger meetings (6+ people) it's absolutely normal to check you're emails, use your computer, respond to texts. Many meetings are now at least partially virtual, meaning several attendee's dial in by skype/phone. Data and facts get checked during the meeting via computer all the time. You have to be just available when the discussion pertains to you or your function. We would not be able to function as an organisation if you were completely blocked because you're sitting in a meeting. We are required to immediately respond to certain emails so there is no way not to check your phone every 10 min. There are of course sometimes meetings where complete attention is required. Those tend to be in smaller groups though.
But checking the time doesn't even get noticed.
I’ll have to agree with this. In this day and age of an organisation seems to have issues with employees checking time during a meeting then I’d rather not associate myself with such toxic environment.
Haha, so I'm not the only one to do that. I use my nose quite frequently to check my activity rings when my hands are full.
To me this is the best feature yet. Although it may not be exciting for many it makes the watch a real watch. I can tell the time without having to flick my wrist etc.
I also use my nose while at the gym to check timers etc. Got quite good at nose operations now.
On the flip side:
‘Raise to wake’ has become so efficient, I don’t even have to ‘flick’ my wrist anymore. Literally, the sense of motion lights up before I can even physically put my eyes on the display, That’s how perfect it is. Now, when RTW was first introduced, it wasn’t as sensitive and it had a pause where you had to kind of wait for the display to illuminate, but as it’s matured over the course of watchOS, I haven’t thought twice about AOD given RTW sensitivity.
Haha true. You can turn off the AOD lol. I still prefer being able to look down and see the time at any angle even when my hand is in my pocket.
Just went with the series 3 until the series 6 comes out. Upgrade isn't worth it in my opinion
True. Just now I’m sitting and my hand resting comfortably and I don’t have to do any motion to see the time. This is what I bought S5 for.