One week of Apple Watch - Shower/Car/Pain

[Newtons Apple]

Most I do is use Siri while driving at a stop light, or a quick glance at my stock but the watch is not meant to use while driving. As far as the green LED hurting you . . .. . I do not think so.

Showering with your Apple Watch is bizarre in my opinion, but whatever.

 

[keatth]

I shower with my watch daily and have found if you really have to use the screen while its wet blowing the water off works quite well.

Ok yeah I tried that today and it works pretty well.

How tight do you have your watch ? Jesus... I've never heard of anyone complaining about the sensors on the back.

I'm thinking you're simply wearing it too tight.

Yeah I think you guys were right, I loosened it by one thing and it feel much better now, apple tells you to wear it so it fits snug thats why I had it a little tight.

I found that I needed to get used to ignoring the Watch while driving. When it was still new I was REALLY down to looking at it when it dinged... even when I shouldn't have.

Yeah exactly this.

can't believe I'm reading that. And you put a LOL at the end. I hope you don't turn into your street and knock your mum, dad, wife or child over in the process.

Dramatic much? I'm talking very minor accidents, i never take my eyes off the road for more than half a second, but it's worse when you are looking down vs looking up like at your phone on a vent holder.

 

[JayLenochiniMac]

Dramatic much? I'm talking very minor accidents, i never take my eyes off the road for more than half a second, but it's worse when you are looking down vs looking up like at your phone on a vent holder.

One of your three so-called very minor accidents could have been a lethal one resulting in someone's death and your landing in jail. It's not something to laugh about or dismiss as "dramatic much?"

 

[sean000]

I realized that showering with it is pointless. When water gets on the screen you can't even use it anyway. The pebble was more useful in the shower. I was also worried about getting it too wet.


I realized it also pointless to wear in the car, I almost got in three accidents looking at my watch while driving.

So I think shower and driving is a perfect time to charge it.

When ever it takes my heartbeat I can feel it and it hurts. It hurts my wrist and I often feel pain in my wrist even when I have the watch off, which has me wondering if I should turn off the feature that periodically checks your heartbeat.

How exactly is a watch useful in the shower? I guess if you take really long showers it might be good to check the time, but it sounds like you are actually trying to interact with watch features that require swiping and tapping?

I do not have the problem of it being distracting while driving, but I don't drive a whole lot so it's easy for me to focus on just driving while I am behind the wheel. I will say that it seems like a quick glance at a watch is safer than what I see most drivers doing: Texting while driving. That said it sounds like you are doing more than just glancing at your watch while driving, so yes... please consider taking it off while driving.

The pain in your wrist... I seriously doubt it has anything to do with the sensors or the bluetooth and Wifi antennas. If it's anything it is probably the band or how you are wearing it.

 

[viewfly]

In the heart rate mode that measures every 10 min, the watch used infrared LED. Invisible.

In exercise mode it uses green LED .


"The heart rate sensor can also use infrared light. This mode is what Apple Watch uses when it measures your heart rate every 10 minutes."

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204666

Either way no pain involved. Your brain is playing tricks on you

 

[keatth]

One of your three so-called very minor accidents could have been a lethal one resulting in someone's death and your landing in jail. It's not something to laugh about or dismiss as "dramatic much?"

No there's no way anyone would have died it would have been fender benders, so negative

 

[testcard]

No there's no way anyone would have died it would have been fender benders, so negative

That's alright, then.