With prominent haptics on you can. There's no "prominent" lead in for the activity ones
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Pet peeves of the Apple Watch.
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With prominent haptics on you can. There's no "prominent" lead in for the activity ones
Taps from the activity app is quite different from other notifications. I never confuse them.
The results for your active calories is very very different from a chest strap heart rate monitor there is no correlation. I wish the Apple Watch was a bit more accurate. It seems to miss a great deal of my activity. Also, I wish they would have more classifications for your activities, popular ones like Zumba (call it what you like...aerobics) and yoga.
I could not agree more. A digital watch without digital seconds; Even the first digital watch faces I can remember had them.
I’m wondering if that’s an oversight due to culture. E. g., I’m not sure whether Californian public transportation is punctual to the second.
It's amazing to see the different issues people have, just goes to our different perspectives and use cases I guess. I've had the watch since christmas and whenever someone asks me if it's "worth" it I answer like this: If you already wear a watch everyday like I did, then it is infinitely more useful than any "normal" watch and you'll be happy, if not than you may have to temper your expectations a bit. Most of that has to do with the speed or lack thereof and overall bugginess and inconsistencies. I love mine, and have gotten to the point that I feel naked without it, and I think the idea and the ease of changing straps is both novel and revolutionary and the design is fashionable enough that it can replace a nice, expensive watch (I came from a Tag Heuer) though I wish it had an always on mode for the clock face. I also love apple pay, receiving notifications, and I think Siri works excellent on it for the most part. But, yes sometimes apps are painfully slow-yet this isn't consistent Carrot and Yelp always open quickly for me so I don't know if this is also due to poor development as well as an underpowered chip.
My LED Star Wars watch didn't have seconds.
(not my pic, but I'm sure it was the same model; it's buried in my mom's hoard back home)
Call me crazy (or indecisive) if you wish, but I have owned and returned/sold two Apple Watches. My two biggest pet peeves are the design and the price tag! I understand Jony Ive gave some weird reason for making the device rectangular, but I would so love to see it become round in the 2nd gen. I know it's likely not going to happen but you never know. I just know the sleek factor will increase so much when it becomes round. As for my other pet peeve- the price tag just seems too steep for what the device does, or specifically it's value in my tech lifestyle. I'd really like to see the 42mm Sport drop down to $299, but once again this probably isn't likely to happen anytime soon. I'll be interested to see if something about AW2 convinces me to try it yet again! Maybe 3rd time will be the charm??
Target has the 42mm Sport for $299, that was my threshold for buying one and I went and got it.
I wish I could view information that is already on the phone - for example - let me create a glance for HealthKit information such as how many steps I've taken today, etc.
I wish I could hit a button in the watch app in the phone to make the watch make noise for finding it
Sometimes wearing the watch a little loosely with a tight-cuffed shirt causes the watch to get dislodged easily and lock and thus stop notifying - wish the threshold for locking was a little more forgiving.
I wish I could hit a button in the watch app in the phone to make the watch make noise for finding it
Sometimes wearing the watch a little loosely with a tight-cuffed shirt causes the watch to get dislodged easily and lock and thus stop notifying - wish the threshold for locking was a little more forgiving.
I don't find that very intuitive, I think it's the "Hey Siri" thing, doesn't seem the natural way to reply. Also doesn't help with my pet peeve of too many taps to send a text when you either can't or don't want to use Siri.
1. Battery life. You can't run a Marathon with an Apple Watch, nor can you wear it all day and then use it for sleep tracking. I need 3 days of charge during normal use, at least on par with my Fitbit Surge.
2. Poor biometrics. Heart rate monitoring is very infrequent. Again, I expect HR to match my Fitbit Surge. Likewise, I'd really want to see some additional metrics... blood oxygenation, at the very least.
3. Untethered usage. GPS and cellular service without having my iPhone on me would be huge. This is a lot less important to me than the two above points, though... especially since battery life would likely suffer, and battery life is the one thing Apple Watch needs most.
4. Charge speed. It takes over 2 hours to fully charge an Apple Watch. Given the poor battery life, that's nuts. This needs to be cut down to 30 minutes for a full charge somehow.
5. Water proof. There is no excuse for the Apple Watch not to be fully water proof. I don't mean water resistant either, but "I can swim laps in the pool while tracking my biometrics" water proof.
That's it for me. My guess is won't see all these improvements until Apple Watch 4. Until then, I'm sticking with Fitbit and Garmin wearables.
2. Poor biometrics. Heart rate monitoring is very infrequent. Again, I expect HR to match my Fitbit Surge. Likewise, I'd really want to see some additional metrics... blood oxygenation, at the very least.
3. Untethered usage. GPS and cellular service without having my iPhone on me would be huge. This is a lot less important to me than the two above points, though... especially since battery life would likely suffer, and battery life is the one thing Apple Watch needs most.
4. Charge speed. It takes over 2 hours to fully charge an Apple Watch. Given the poor battery life, that's nuts. This needs to be cut down to 30 minutes for a full charge somehow.
5. Water proof. There is no excuse for the Apple Watch not to be fully water proof. I don't mean water resistant either, but "I can swim laps in the pool while tracking my biometrics" water proof.
That's it for me. My guess is won't see all these improvements until Apple Watch 4. Until then, I'm sticking with Fitbit and Garmin wearables.
- The Taptic Engine has gotten a little soft/mushy over time, making it harder to notice alerts
- The speaker is so quiet that I can barely use it to answer a call, often asking "What?" several times like I'm my grandpa who has the strongest hearing aid they make
- Apps crashing. This has improved with recent updates, particularly the speed improvements. But apps still sometimes crash.
- Apps not refreshing content. This happens a lot to me. I'll open a weather app or something and it will be the weather from yesterday, complete with outdated radar and everything.
- Apps not connecting to accessories. I've got the Qardio blood pressure monitor and half the time it won't connect. I'll have to open the app on my iPhone to get it unstuck. Or Thessa which connects to my Nest will just say the Nest is off and my house is zero degrees. Maybe these are just problems with the apps themselves? But the iPhone versions are great.
- Home screen is too difficult to find the little icon I want, and about a third of the time my (not fat) fingers hit the wrong icon.
- Still lots of lag when trying to quickly swipe through glances to get to the one I need. This is made worse as I often use glances as app launchers due to the above problem with the home screen.
- App speeds have improved greatly, but it still takes six seconds to open Calcbot! This thing is supposed to be similar to an iPhone 4s but I owned that thing and it never took that long to open a calculator.
- We need a higher capacity battery. But not because I run out of battery. I never have. We need it because I think that will solve the above issue with speed. If apps can run completely native on the watch itself—and just use the iPhone as a data connection much like an iPad paired to personal hotspot—then it will need more battery power to do this.
- Needs to remind you to unlock. So many mornings I'll slip it on and run out the door. Then it misses all my activity walking to work. It should sense it's on a wrist moving, and either start recording data in the background or tap me to prompt the unlock code.
- I use Apple Pay a lot because I work at a college campus that has widely adopted it. Lately I've noticed an issue where double clicking the side button doesn't always launch the payment system. Sometimes it will hang and I'll go to do it again and when it finally loads it registers my extra clicks and closes it again. Also I'm not sure if this is a problem with the watch or the payment terminals, but sometimes I have to do it twice for it to register, even though it taps me like it went through fine.
Mine would be the fact you can scroll the user interface using touch and the Digital Crown (I love how my iPad auto capitalised the term 'digital crown').
The problem is that touch based scrolling simply isn't needed, and in many cases I activate it accidentally when I meant to tap. A lot of the times that the watch seems to be unresponsive, are in fact times it has misread a tap for a swipe. This happens a lot in the workout app and when answering a call.
So I'd ditch it, and make people use the crown to scroll.
The problem is that touch based scrolling simply isn't needed, and in many cases I activate it accidentally when I meant to tap. A lot of the times that the watch seems to be unresponsive, are in fact times it has misread a tap for a swipe. This happens a lot in the workout app and when answering a call.
So I'd ditch it, and make people use the crown to scroll.
Just some thoughts on your issues. Not really taking exception, but more giving you real world responses:
#1 I've had mine on since early this morning and still have 58% left. This is the norm for me, even when I use it actively.
#2 Not my experience. Have calibrated against other equipment (Polar chest strap) and quite comparable. Would like some other sensors, too, as you suggest.
#3 I have no desire for either, but your use case may be different than mine
#4 Since I charge at night, this doesn't matter to me. My understanding, however, is that it will get to 80% charged in 30-60 minutes. That's acceptable to me for times I might need a quick charge.
#5 From all accounts I've read, even though it's not advertised as such, it is at least water resistant (which means to 3 meters). Don't try it on my say so, though!
Sounds like your a fitness person. If you're hardcore, I'd rather wear a band than a watch anyway. As nice as the watch is, it is relatively heavy and bulky on your wrist. Plus it tends to catch the metal components of exercise equipment quite readily.
Apps take way too long to load, even the pre installed apps. I finally powered on my watch today after about 1 month of it being powered off, let it get "warmed up" for a minute, and then started using it. The glances and apps took 30-45 seconds for each of them to load. Unacceptable.
The next thing is the lack of an option for an always on display. I think that a watch should ALWAYS be on and displaying the time. That's one of the biggest reasons I love my Pebble Time that I use with my Nexus 6. A smartwatch should be a watch first and a computer second, not the other way around.
The next thing is the lack of an option for an always on display. I think that a watch should ALWAYS be on and displaying the time. That's one of the biggest reasons I love my Pebble Time that I use with my Nexus 6. A smartwatch should be a watch first and a computer second, not the other way around.
Why can't you run a marathon with an Apple Watch? A marathon doesn't take 18 hours or more to run...
The latter part of that point I agree with, you can't wear it all day and then use for sleep tracking, but 3 days of battery life would be just as awkward. When do you charge it in those three days then? What if it runs out? Tracking sleep one night and not the next is kind of pointless. Best to accept the limitations and find a different way of doing it.
And I the latter point, there's no excuse for Apple Watch not to be fully waterproof? Fitbit surge isn't waterproof either...
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Why can't you run a marathon with an Apple Watch? A marathon doesn't take 18 hours or more to run...
The latter part of that point I agree with, you can't wear it all day and then use for sleep tracking, but 3 days of battery life would be just as awkward. When do you charge it in those three days then? What if it runs out? Tracking sleep one night and not the next is kind of pointless. Best to accept the limitations and find a different way of doing it.
And I the latter point, there's no excuse for Apple Watch not to be fully waterproof? Fitbit surge isn't waterproof either...
Nothing new here but my #1 pet peeve has to be feeling cheated by the number of stands awarded each day. The exercise and move rings I could do something about. But if I get shortchanged one or two stand-ups? I can't force and make up lost ones as it's based on the hours left in the day.
Other minor ones are:
Other minor ones are:
- Not enough Watch face/complication customisations;
- Confusing interface when sending texts via Siri from the digital crown;
- Sound for alerts sometimes go silent for no reason;
- Swapping between Glances and Notifications for (say) Activity and then getting back to the watch face is puzzling
I agree with all of your minor items except sound since I have never used that feature.
I think they named the stand wrong. In reading, they suggest you get up and move around for a minute to get the credit. They already have a ring named move but that should be activity maybe and then stand should be move.
Also, it takes about 15 seconds of standing and walking to get credit and that is always the same. I've received alert that I need to stand. I hit ok and start moving and it comes back about 15 seconds later saying that I did it.
While I agree that you could probably run a marathon just fine with it, the 18 hour battery life is not calculated while using it for an activity. From my experience the AW would probably make it about 6 hours of active use. For some people that would not be long enough to run a marathon.
Otherwise, I do use mine all day, and wear it for sleep tracking overnight. Seems to have no problem making it that long. Still, my Garmin lasts 3 days easy and yes, it's a lot more convenient. The AW basically has to be charged at some point every day. Finding an hour once every few days is a lot easier than finding an hour every single day. Sure, we all make a routine that works for us, but make no mistake, longer would be better.
That's in line with apples battery tests. However they do recommend using a bluetooth heart rate monitor for longer workouts and in conjunction with this battery life would be enough for anybody to walk the marathon let alone run it.
My pet peeves are housebroken.
The only people I know who can't run a marathon in six hours are people who don't (or can't, or shouldn't) run marathons, period. People like me. The last place finisher in the Boston Marathon in 2013 (the year the Tsarnaev brothers bombed it) limped across the finish line with a time of 4:44:14.
I don't know what the big deal about daily charging is. I would plug recharge every day whether it required it or not. Unplug iPad, plug in iPhone, slap charger to back of the Apple watch, pull up the covers and turn out the light.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I should die before the morn,
Please delete my stash of porn.
Boston is a bit of an outlier because the vast majority of people who run Boston have met the (extremely rigorous) qualification standards. In any given major marathon there are typically hundreds of runners who finish around 6 hours or more.
I really, really do not understand why I can't natively dictate a note.
Text message? Sure.
Reminder? Sure.
Email reply? Sure.
A simple "Hey Siri, take a note of..."? No.
Text message? Sure.
Reminder? Sure.
Email reply? Sure.
A simple "Hey Siri, take a note of..."? No.