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Love my watch, but it definitely feels like a first gen product

crispApple said:
Honestly I think when I raise my wrist. The display turns on for me about 90% of the time. I think it's pretty good. Only times that it doesn't is when I move my wrist in little movements. Then I'll have to lower my wrist and make a bigger movement to turn it on. Just my opinion.
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My issue is not it turning on but it turning off prematurely
 
jds4300 said:
Agreed 100%. The Apple Watch is indeed the worst product ever produced by Apple. I would expect a trinket of this poor functionality and almost clownish appearance and quality to fall from a cereal box. Apple Watch is a stain upon the Apple brand and the memory of Steve J.
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The absurdity and of this kind of comment strips it of even the slightest shred of credibility. The hyperbole and hysteria demonstrated here is downright embarrassing.
 
Amacfa said:
Apple pay needs to be easier.

Wrist raise needs to be more accurate.

Social/friends button doesn't need its own button, put something else like heartrate instead. It's such a chore to check heart rate during activities.

More faces.

Make setup less tedious.
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Can you not just swipe along to the heart beat display during a workout and leave it on that (never have to change it again)?
 
Amacfa said:
Still a hassle during workouts. Maybe if I was chilling in bed that would work fine
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I don't get it, once you've changed it to display heartbeat it will always be there by default (until you change it) you only need to display in once and it will always show.

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Spooky73 said:
My only other real complaints are the lag with some actions (mostly Weather) and the activity stat tracking. I am not using it for real workouts yet, but when I take a decent, brisk walk for a couple miles the step counter is WAY off when compared to my phone. On average, the step counter on the watch is 1,000-1,500 lower than my phone. Is it just not registering steps as accurately as the phone? Or has the phone always been skewed?!
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Do you have separate totals for phone and watch steps? I thought they were merged all into one on the health app, or are you comparing them a different way?
 
dabigkahuna said:
This looks like a good thread for this. And maybe someone can point out a "problem" that I'm wrong about!

First, really like the watch and I certainly don't expect everything to be ideal yet - and for some things it may be impossible to avoid compromises anyway. With that in mind, here are the things that bother me a little.

1. I am finding that for my usage, I really wish the time would display always. I know, battery limits and all so I'm not faulting Apple. I want to be able to look at the time without making it obvious sometimes or just not have to make an excessive movement.

However, I wonder, especially as the power issue improves, if there isn't a possible solution. As I understand it, the black pixels take no power. So, what if they gave at least on option for a special watch face just for this that is really simple. I'm thinking of a very thin hour and minute hand image (no seconds). It would take a very low number of pixels and maybe so few that power cost would be fine for most people (again, this would just be an option people could choose). A thin digital readout could work too, but that would take more pixels. I suppose updating the screen is part of the power issue too so just update it every minute. Much like those central clocks in some businesses (or my old school) used to do. Every minute, the minute hand would click over to the next minute. If this cost me 15 minutes of battery life, I'd be happy with that.

2. Maybe I missed something, but it seems when looking at any of the digital clock displays, you only get hours and minutes - no seconds. On the traditional dial faces, you have the second hand, but nothing on the digital options. This seems really odd since we have a watch that is accurate to milliseconds, yet can only see the most recent full minute! Surely they can fix that!

3. I like lots of info available to me so I use the Modular display even though it isn't very pretty. I do not understand why they time must always be in that one spot. If nothing else, I can see a lot of people who would want the time to be in the biggest spot with bigger numbers. But, ultimately, I just want as many options as possible so that pretty much all of them can be put in any spot. For that matter, if someone wants a display with no time at all, that should be possible.

3. I wouldn't mind a complication that showed my HR the last time the watch checked it (10 minutes apart normally and 1 minute during activity).

4. I'm find some quirks on the raise to turn on display. Unlike most people, I think, I wore mine to bed. I'm not sure what the exact input it is looking for from the various movement sensors, but it seems quite difficult to find the "right" way to move your arm to get it to turn on. Of course, you can always tap it, but at least when I'm lying on my side, just moving my hard various ways usually doesn't work. It is possible this is unavoidable - that if they made it handle that situation, it would turn on too often in others.

5. I am finding problems with 3rd party apps, but since they will need time to figure out how to work with the system, I just don't worry about them for now.
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What???? LOL
 
Amacfa said:
Still a hassle during workouts. Maybe if I was chilling in bed that would work fine
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Not sure what you are looking for, but what I do when in an activity is move to the heart rate display (I have my settings so that when I turn on the screen, it always goes to wherever I left off rather than resuming the clock). Then any time I want to see the heart rate, I just raise my wrist or tap the screen and it's right there every time.

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Mtmspa said:
What???? LOL
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Okay, I can't type either!!!

I need to fix that.
 
Amacfa said:
It's not, it's actually super easy. It just would be even easier if it just worked by raising your wrist, kinda like how :apple:Pay works on the iPhone, just pops up near NFC.
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If it worked like that, you could potentially pay for things by accident.
 
It doesn't bother me that the call volume is that low. I wouldn't want to have the speaker go any higher anyway. Keep in mind that you still have an iPhone that has a speakerphone.

Regarding the raise to activate the face watch, I am actually using a subtle motion with my other hand to tap the watch face and then bring the watch up. I know it's not ideal, but it requires no exaggerated movement.
 
Found a couple other issues. For this post, I refer to a problem using it the watch with Cyclemeter (though it may affect other apps too).

The other day during a ride, I had the display set to the heart rate position and every so often I'd tap the screen to see it. But for some reason (I forget why), I pressed the crown to exit that screen. Immediately I heard a voice on the iphone say, "Stop". At the time, I thought maybe the Activity app used the same voice and by exiting that screen, I had stopped the app!

So I went to the app screen and tapped Activity again and I got the voice say, "Start".

But apparently it wasn't Activity. It was the Cyclemeter voice because yesterday I had a similar thing happen a number of times and when I looked at my iphone screen, sure enough, Cyclemeter had stopped and I had to press the "Start" button to get it going again.

First time I was attempting to send a text and, as I reported before, the "Send" icon wouldn't work. I should have tapped "Cancel" but instead I pressed the crown and got the "Stop" voice. That was when I first noticed it was cyclemeter acting like I had pressed "Stop". But going back into Activity did not restart it this time. I had to do it manually.

Then I got a bunch of times where I'd tap the screen to see my heart rate and it would also cause a "Stop" announcement forcing me to tap "Start". But not every time. And at least one it stopped without me hearing anything so I missed a fair portion of my ride. But it didn't stop every time.

One other thing. The first time this happened the other day, I had the cyclemeter app on my watch and also activated the glance for it. But after finding out that Cyclemeter can't access the heart beat info, I removed it from the watch. So the multiple problems yesterday were with the app gone. When I got back home, I went through various settings and I think it was Glances that still listed Cyclemeter even though the app was only on my phone. I turned that off, but haven't tested since.

Any ideas? Or similar issues?

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The second problem I ran into was with an app called "UltraTuner" which is used to tune instruments.

With the app on the watch, you can see the same thing that is on the phone - though apparently you have to have ultratuner the active app on the phone at the time.

The weird thing was that even after removing ultratuner from my menu bar on the iphone, it would restart that app. Did it several times. Even when I also had gone back to the clock face on the watch as well, I think. I'm not really sure how I finally got it to stay "quit", but clearly something isn't right there.

Haven't tested it since, but I plan to.
 
^I too have had the issue of the send button not working when trying to send a text. I wonder how close to the deadline the software team for the Watch was cutting it when they released Watch OS 1.0.
 
iBlazed said:
^I too have had the issue of the send button not working when trying to send a text. I wonder how close to the deadline the software team for the Watch was cutting it when they released Watch OS 1.0.
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Kinda glad I'm not the only one. Easier to find fixes when it is more widespread. Have you ever had that you can't get the "Dismiss" button to work to shut off an alarm? Don't know if it makes any difference, but the alarms I've seen this with are setup on the phone. Haven't seen it with one set up on the watch itself, but I've only done that once anyway.
 
dabigkahuna said:
Kinda glad I'm not the only one. Easier to find fixes when it is more widespread. Have you ever had that you can't get the "Dismiss" button to work to shut off an alarm? Don't know if it makes any difference, but the alarms I've seen this with are setup on the phone. Haven't seen it with one set up on the watch itself, but I've only done that once anyway.
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I haven't had the dismiss issue because I don't use alarms very often, but I did have a problem with the ignore button when receiving a phone call. The red button was completely unresponsive.
 
iBlazed said:
I haven't had the dismiss issue because I don't use alarms very often, but I did have a problem with the ignore button when receiving a phone call. The red button was completely unresponsive.
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Is that button in the same place? (looking for a pattern)
 
It is a first generation product, what do you expect?
Software updates will solve a few of the problems
its a great little accessory packed full of bells and whistles.
 
bushman4 said:
It is a first generation product, what do you expect?
Software updates will solve a few of the problems
its a great little accessory packed full of bells and whistles.
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Oh, I expect problems. But it is useful to find out what problems people have and share your own so others can see if they have the same thing. Finding patterns can help in reports to Apple.
 
dabigkahuna said:
Oh, I expect problems. But it is useful to find out what problems people have and share your own so others can see if they have the same thing. Finding patterns can help in reports to Apple.
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Some people get very defensive when problems with Apple products are discussed. Because apparently that's not what these forums are for. :rolleyes:

I don't know how many times in the OP I reiterated that I understand this is a first gen product and expected this. Regardless, the very first reply to my thread was "Well you have to expect that with a first gen product".

Do people not read?
 
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