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Ok lets be honest who uses the friend button? and other thoughts.
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Mostly useless, never use it.
There should be an option to re-bind it like the Pebble side buttons to app shortcuts. I'd love to be able to set it to a specific app, or straight to music controls.
There should be an option to re-bind it like the Pebble side buttons to app shortcuts. I'd love to be able to set it to a specific app, or straight to music controls.
I used it first day to put my friends in and haven't used it since. Maybe I need better friends?! #
I think I would use it more if the we weren't limited to choosing from only six default Messages. Even just a few more would be helpful.
Yeah at least 12 would have been better. You do know you can change the verbiage of those 6 messages to whatever you want right? Even still, 12 would be better.
yes that's how i do it. "hey siri, tell so and so" whatever it is i want to tell them.
Totally useless as is digital touch and sending stupid heartbeat and drawings.
Would be much better used to initiate and cycle through glances.
If you use it to initiate phone calls or send texts you need to use your voice anyway so you may as well use Siri.
Would be much better used to initiate and cycle through glances.
If you use it to initiate phone calls or send texts you need to use your voice anyway so you may as well use Siri.
Yes. I use Siri for text. I very seldom initiate a outgoing call from the watch, but when I do it's hey Siri. I answer incoming calls occasionally.
I honestly completely forgot it was even there. I just spent some time rearranging my friends into a logical order. It's not a bad UI, I might use it to start a phone call now and then, but I'll definitely use it for a quick iMessage when I need to.
Assuming I remember it's an option.
I don't know anyone else with a watch, so digital touch as a feature is dead to me. Except for our "home" iPhone 5C, which gives me the useless option for it because my account is signed into it. Sigh.
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This is exactly what I've done, but I've only had the watch a couple days. I'm running into a "Hey Siri" problem where everything I say is dictated, but it won't process the command... it just hangs (75% of the time). I'm still on 1.0 is this one of the issues fixed with 1.01?
I use it every day. It's great for when you want to contact a favorite quickly, or for sending digital touches. The quick double tap for Apple Pay is also used almost daily.
I think it might be included as a hard reset button for restoring the device like the iPhone can be used to put it into DFU mode. Although they might have been able to do so with a force touch + digital crown, perhaps the force touch isn't reliable enough when the phone is having problems to use for that purpose?
Otherwise it does seem like a frivolous button. With the iPhone Apple was praised (well eventually, at first many people thought it was dumb) for reducing it down to just a few buttons. On the Watch it seems like they could have just left it off. I think Gruber said something about how having that extra button really shows how important Apple thinks this device will be for communication. Guess we'll have to wait and see. I don't have mine yet so I can't really comment on how useful it is, but I do see myself using "Hey Siri" a lot when I raise my wrist.
As for alternate uses, it would be neat to use it to switch between different modes. Like work mode and home mode. At work I'd want a utility face and to get more alerts. At home and on weekends. I want a simple face with fewer alerts. Although ideally this would just be done based on geofencing and/or time of day. Or use it to bring up a frequently used app. Although glances supposedly work pretty well for that.
I wonder if someday they will allow triple clicking it or the digital crown to do certain things. Probably not unless it's already used for accessibility.
Otherwise it does seem like a frivolous button. With the iPhone Apple was praised (well eventually, at first many people thought it was dumb) for reducing it down to just a few buttons. On the Watch it seems like they could have just left it off. I think Gruber said something about how having that extra button really shows how important Apple thinks this device will be for communication. Guess we'll have to wait and see. I don't have mine yet so I can't really comment on how useful it is, but I do see myself using "Hey Siri" a lot when I raise my wrist.
As for alternate uses, it would be neat to use it to switch between different modes. Like work mode and home mode. At work I'd want a utility face and to get more alerts. At home and on weekends. I want a simple face with fewer alerts. Although ideally this would just be done based on geofencing and/or time of day. Or use it to bring up a frequently used app. Although glances supposedly work pretty well for that.
I wonder if someday they will allow triple clicking it or the digital crown to do certain things. Probably not unless it's already used for accessibility.
Haven't used it once. Hopefully with a future update you can assign that button to something else.
I find it pretty useless - albeit I use it daily. This is only because my parents and my buddy from college got AWs. Other than that, please let us customize it.
Agreed!
Never use it and would like to change its function...I would guess this will be released in an upcoming update...
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Use Siri or mainly my phone for longer text conversations...I find the watch more of a convenience to check incoming messages and alerts so I don't have to go to my phone...I feel that I would be going "out of my way" more to try to have a full conversation on the watch than to just use my iPhone. Of course it all comes down to personal preference, I got the 6 plus for the large screen and the watch for the convenience and fitness tracking...we all have different perspectives.
Now, I will use the watch to answer incoming calls when my phone isn't readily available or if I'm in the middle of doing something and don't have a free hand. But in terms of initiating conversation...I still go to my phone first...
Considering using the watch to make phone calls is the single biggest power draw the device allows (3 hours max talk time), I'm surprised we're not hearing of more battery issues from those who do rely on the watch for most of their phone calls. But that's certainly a reason to avoid using it unless you absolutely have to.
Through the Apps. It might be slower but it's what i'm used to. I would prefer if this button wasn't there and the digital crown central. That way when I wear it on my right wrist it doesn't look upside down.
I use it several times a day. Not just for texting, but for quickly calling certain places, like my workplace. I do think it should be customizable though. I wouldn't change it personally.
