Basically, my Ultra is my phone, and my phone is a mini tablet + camera.
I’m using the watch for most things that people use phones for, including calls, messages, calendar, reminders, timers, to-do lists, weather, all that stuff. And, of course, activity and sleep tracking, maps, light email … the works. Can’t forget Apple Pay! Especially in any city with a transit system that it works with — just wave your wrist at the gate, keep going without breaking your stride.
My phone is typically in a bag or a zipped-up pocket these days, and it’s rare that I reach for it for anything other than reading something or using the camera.
If you spend any time in the kitchen, try using Siri for a named timer, especially if you can figure out how to do the “raise-to-speak” move. As in, raise wrist, and “twenty minute biscuit timer.” Then remember that you need to water the trees, so, “ten minute tree irrigation timer.” Come back inside, finish grinding the coffee, and “two minute coffee bloom timer,” followed shortly after by, “four minute coffee steep timer.” And then all the timers start going off like crazy all at once … but at least you were able to keep track of what was going on.
Another nice feature is that, if you include an address in a calendar event, you’ll get a “time to leave notification,” and it includes current traffic conditions. So if traffic is unusually heavy, you’ll at least have a fighting chance of leaving early enough to not be late. (Yes, the phone has this, too … but my phone is buried in the backpack; the watch is always right there on my wrist.)
So … anything you do that doesn’t need a big screen or a camera is worth trying at least a couple times on the watch. And you’ll probably be shocked at just how much that is.
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