Wearing your Apple Watch

[ivanwi11iams]

I have had an Apple Watch (various models) for the last 3 years or so.
During that entire time, I have been trying to find the perfect fit on my wrist.

With mechanical watches, I wear them tight. Mainly because I wear Invicta watches. They are heavy, and it not worn tight, then can even hurt a little (they weight causes them to sag, and cause wrist pain).

With my Apple Watch, the default hole on the band is number 5. HOWEVER, often I miss notifications because I don't feel it all the time.

For a while now, I have been trying to wear my Apple Watch in hole number 4. But, for the life of me it is tight, but feels uncomfortable. And, this is even more so with the Sport Bands. They seem to 'stick' to my wrist. Gross! To me, hole 4 & 1/2 would be perfect...!

Anyway, curious how you wear your Apple Watch, to not miss notifications...?

 

[AZhappyjack]

I have had an Apple Watch (various models) for the last 3 years or so.
During that entire time, I have been trying to find the perfect fit on my wrist.

With mechanical watches, I wear them tight. Mainly because I wear Invicta watches. They are heavy, and it not worn tight, then can even hurt a little (they weight causes them to sag, and cause wrist pain).

With my Apple Watch, the default hole on the band is number 5. HOWEVER, often I miss notifications because I don't feel it all the time.

For a while now, I have been trying to wear my Apple Watch in hole number 4. But, for the life of me it is tight, but feels uncomfortable. And, this is even more so with the Sport Bands. They seem to 'stick' to my wrist. Gross! To me, hole 4 & 1/2 would be perfect...!

Anyway, curious how you wear your Apple Watch, to not miss notifications...?

I use the Sport Loop bands... no holes to worry about, so it's always a perfect fit - exactly as snug as I want/need it to be. The same would most likely be true of the Milanese loop or the leather loop bands.

 

[ivanwi11iams]

Good point! I do wish, with the Loop bands, the parts that connect to the watch widened like the Sport Bands.
To me the 'look' would be better.

 

[44267547]

I have had an Apple Watch (various models) for the last 3 years or so.
During that entire time, I have been trying to find the perfect fit on my wrist.

With mechanical watches, I wear them tight. Mainly because I wear Invicta watches. They are heavy, and it not worn tight, then can even hurt a little (they weight causes them to sag, and cause wrist pain).

With my Apple Watch, the default hole on the band is number 5. HOWEVER, often I miss notifications because I don't feel it all the time.

For a while now, I have been trying to wear my Apple Watch in hole number 4. But, for the life of me it is tight, but feels uncomfortable. And, this is even more so with the Sport Bands. They seem to 'stick' to my wrist. Gross! To me, hole 4 & 1/2 would be perfect...!

Anyway, curious how you wear your Apple Watch, to not miss notifications...?

What’s interesting, is you mentioned wrist pain, there’s a whole thread on that and others Who have experienced with even needing to have surgery because they wore heavy watches for so long. I didn’t realize that was a problem until some actually mentioned it before.

Anyway, I like to wear my Apple Watch slightly loose and not to tight, but I do primarily use my Apple Watch for notifications. Also, a more comfortable band you can try aside from the sports band, is the nylon bands, very comfortable and durable.

 

[sclawis300]

Have you turned on prominent haptic?

 

[ivanwi11iams]

Have you turned on prominent haptic?

I will look into that now. Thanks

 

[ivanwi11iams]

Have you turned on prominent haptic?

Thus far, this seems to be doing the trick. THANKS!

 

[ftaok]

With the sports bands, if you're using the S/M strap, you might want to swap to the M/L strap. The positioning of the holes (at least on the Nike band) are the same, but with the M/L band, you may have more slack that has to slip in the strap, so it'll probably fit a slightly tighter.

 

[testcard]

Sport Loop would be my recommendation - great band and very comfortable.

 

[ivanwi11iams]

The prominent haptic has solved my issue! Years ago when I saw that option I thought it would kill the battery and also give me LONGER vibrations. Thus becoming annoying.

 

[T-Will]

With the sports bands, if you're using the S/M strap, you might want to swap to the M/L strap. The positioning of the holes (at least on the Nike band) are the same, but with the M/L band, you may have more slack that has to slip in the strap, so it'll probably fit a slightly tighter.

Good call, the positioning of the holes on the S/M compared to the M/L fall right in between each other, so this might be an option if someone is looking for a 1/2 size adjustment.