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Nightstand Mode
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Yeah, leave the screen running for hours every night just to get 10-30 seconds of use in. Great logic there, tap the table or screen itself.
For some, it's hard to get back to sleep if they use their phone in the middle of sleeping. It's bright and disruptive. I think it helps that the watch has a small screen. I'm sure you can buy or make something to keep the watch in place so that it's easier for you to tap the snooze or off button.
It should have been voice activated, e.g. tsk tsk
Voice active when on charging pod == listening all the time.
Do you really want Siri, not the imagination girlfriend Siri but the server Siri and all the techs behind it, listening your bedroom activity all the time?
Your buddy at work leaves his phone plugged in and walks away from his desk and you say "Hey Siri, send my wife a text and tell her she's a b*tch". Yeah, extreme but I could walk through my office and do that to a dozen of them right now.
After training I have had about 10 people try 'Hey Siri' on my iPhone (and have tried on a few others) and Siri has been 100% non responsive to other voices.
Tell that to the manufacturers of trillions of bedside clocks!
Good to know, I didn't realize it also acts as a security feature but I guess that makes sense.
Completely agree. Wish there was an option to have it always on (maybe less bright, move around, to minimize possibility for burn in).
I guess that's dependent on how solid your bedside table is. Mine is very sturdy and I have to slap it really hard to make the watch turn on.
I already have a clock on my bedside table which I wanted to replace with the Apple Watch but as I found last night if I wake up a couple of times during the night by the time I have located my watch (not the TV remote or glass of water) or tapped the table or something I find myself waking up. It's very different to just a casual glance at the time.
Yes. My wife wouldn't stand for it if it were always on (and I don't need it). She goes through our bedroom every night and covers up ANY sources of light!
I put my SS Watch sitting in the box it came in on my nightstand. Touching the box at all causes it to light up... perfect. Before now I was using my iPhone (on a dock) so I had to hit the home button... this is WAY better...
I'm happy that the display is not constantly on, but personally what bothers me is that n night stand mode I can't do anything else without removing the watch from the charger, at least before I could unlock the watch and use other apps.
You don't need to remove the charger, but you have to put your watch back into the normal orientation.
I like this feature and I am happy it isn't always on. I don't have a bedside clock so it's night to easily see what times I wake up without having to look at my phone. I have also started putting electric tape on every artificial light source in the bedroom so a light tap of my watch stand works great for me.
Haha. Oh yea!Why? You can just say, "hey siri, what time is it" and your phone will tell you
So this feature is null and void for me since I don't keep nightstands in my room and was keeping it on my dresser across the room... Seriously? Why is there no option to keep it lit up?! I guess I won't be replacing my digital clock in my room. Who in their right mind would want to bang a table to see the time at night?!
I agree, it's the dumbest implementation ever. Besides those silly clocks where you have to press a button to show the time projected on ceiling who on earth wants an alarm clock that doesn't show the time. I wake up at, say, 2am, half asleep I want to look at the time and see if it's worth going back to sleep. now you have to find the watch in the dark and press something. Great, now I'm wide awake. It does beg the question: "does anyone with any design influence at Apple actually use their products"
Another bad implementation is Do Not Disturb, I have to set from 11pm to 6am, but need to get up at 5am for a flight or I just wake up early and text a buddy to go for breakfast. I get no alarms, message replies, etc. because it's still on Do Not Disturb. Why isn't there an option in the alarm to turn off Do Not Disturb when the alarm goes off? This is the kind of stuff you'd expect to a good software company/average user to think about.
Another bad implementation is Do Not Disturb, I have to set from 11pm to 6am, but need to get up at 5am for a flight or I just wake up early and text a buddy to go for breakfast. I get no alarms, message replies, etc. because it's still on Do Not Disturb. Why isn't there an option in the alarm to turn off Do Not Disturb when the alarm goes off? This is the kind of stuff you'd expect to a good software company/average user to think about.