Weird question but what the reason or point to have multiple Apple Watches ?

[1CaesaR1]

I have three - with different purposes

AW 6 series Graphite SS 44 MM: daily/work wear paired with darker bands
AW 5 series Silver SS 44 MM: weekend wear paired with lighter/brighter colored bands
AW 5 series Silver Nike+ 40 MM: sleep tracking - bought it as I found the 40 MM aluminum to be better while sleeping

 

[Lubidubi]

You can have up to 5 watches paired to 1 iPhone, ask me how I know , I have 6 watches and can only pair 5 of them.

Same here🤓

Sent Apple feedback several times, staring with watchOS 4.
but no changes from Apples side so far.
I‘d be happy to pair ten 😇

 

[portland-dude]

When you have more money than sense.

 

[bricktop_at]

When you have more money than sense.

Nah… we already had this discussion.☝🏻

 

[RPhoto]

When you have more money than sense.

You could apply that to almost everyone based on something. Otherwise we’d all be wearing the bare minimum clothes, driving the cheapest car that works etc. We all spend more than than we need on stuff, in all walks of life.

My friend has spent five figures modifying his car yet thinks I’m crazy for spending £100 on a watch band.

I also have friends that would think that fact you even own an Apple Watch, means you have more money than sense.

It’s all relative. Don’t cast judgment, enjoy life, don’t get in to debt and allow people the fun of spending money on the things that bring them joy.

 

[mcaswell]

When you have more money than sense.

You could say that about MANY things. If someone wants to buy a higher-end Apple Watch for work and other dressy occasions, but wants to also have a lighter/cheaper aluminum model with a silicone band for wearing around the house or exercising, I don't care, it's none of my business. Yes, the same fancy watch can certainly fill both roles, but maybe it's worth something to the owner to not have to swap bands, or maybe they want to wear a watch 24h and want to be able to wear one while the other is charging.

And some people have more of a focus on fashion, and might want TWO higher-end Apple Watches (one dark, one light) depending on what they are wearing that day.

 

[Mistborn15]

keep them charged all the time.. Also I guess since they all basically do the same things, wear the cheaper/older one indoors hitting the door frames and using the nicer new one when stepping out

 

[jdclifford]

You can have up to 5 watches paired to 1 iPhone, ask me how I know , I have 6 watches and can only pair 5 of them.

I have 2 watches paired to my iPhone12Pro but can only pair 1 to my iPhone12 mini. Any thoughts?

 

[bricktop_at]

I have 2 watches paired to my iPhone12Pro but can only pair 1 to my iPhone12 mini. Any thoughts?

So just to be clear, you own how many watches?
You can pair multiple watches to one iPhone but not a watch to more than one iPhone.

 

[jdclifford]

So just to be clear, you own how many watches?
You can pair multiple watches to one iPhone but not a watch to more than one iPhone.

4
Series 1 SG
Series SE Nike+ Silver (LTE)
Series SE Nike+ SG
Series 6 Nike+ SG

Why? No particular reason. I bought a couple on sale. I'ver always been a "watch guy" even B4 AW. I have a bunch of "regular" watches. I would switch off every day when I was going to the office. Kind of like shoes etc. It's just a thing.

 

[mcaswell]

One other reason to have multiple AWs... to some people it's an important item. Maybe not quite as essential as their iPhone, but still not something they'd want to be without for a week or two if it broke and needed to be sent off for repair. I always keep an old iPhone on hand for this kind of scenario, and it's not unreasonable to have an extra Watch for this purpose as well (especially if it also fulfills other roles, such as a different and/or older model that is more suited for exercise, doing rough work around the house, or for fashion reasons).

 

[bricktop_at]

4
Series 1 SG
Series SE Nike+ Silver (LTE)
Series SE Nike+ SG
Series 6 Nike+ SG

Why? No particular reason. I bought a couple on sale. I'ver always been a "watch guy" even B4 AW. I have a bunch of "regular" watches. I would switch off every day when I was going to the office. Kind of like shoes etc. It's just a thing.

Nice collection

 

[KennyJr]

I wear an Apple Watch 24/7. Can't do that owning just one (series 2 black SS & series 5 silver SS).

 

[Novius89]

I own a space gray SE.
But I am actually in love with the product red series 6.
Unfortunately I don’t have the money for 2 Apple watches, and went for the more neutral colour.
I can imagine that red doesn’t always match with some outfit choices.

 

[macphoto861]

I just discovered a scenario in which alternating between two watches can be problematic, specifically if you're dieting using an app like LoseIt that gets active and resting calorie information from the Apple Watch.

For the past month or so I've been carefully logging what I eat, making sure to stay below my daily calorie limit. A few weeks ago I had an instance where the next day the app showed me as having busted over my limit even though I was sure I hadn't. Didn't think much of it until it happened again a day or two ago. That time, the entire week's worth of entires were suddenly all about 200 calories higher than they had been before. Did some digging, and found that the discrepancy was with the daily estimated resting calories having retroactively dropped from the 1900s to the 1700s for each of those days. Furthermore, I realized that this happened shortly after I swapped from my 44mm Series 5 to my 40mm Series 4 (to do some yardwork).

More investigation revealed what had happened. In the resting energy data sources in the Health app, you can prioritize the sources so that when information from multiple sources is available (in this case, two Apple Watches), the higher one on the list takes priority. Now, it appears that when you are not actually wearing a watch (such as overnight, if you don't do sleep tracking), it estimates the resting calories as a set number (about 70.5 in my case), while when your actively wearing the watch during the day, the resting calories vary (averaging about 81.5 for me).

So what does this mean? As soon as I put my Series 4 on (which hadn't been worn all week), suddenly it's fixed 70.5 per hour resting energy rate recorded over the past week took priority and overrode the figures recorded by the Series 5 I had been wearing. The solution, for a case like this where one watch is worn almost all of the time, and another is only worn occasionally and briefly, is to set the more commonly-worn watch to a higher priority, so that this would have less of an effect. But it would seem that for someone who regularly alternates between various watches, this could be more complicated to figure out. Admittedly, this is an edge case that is not going to significantly affect many people, but it's just something to be aware of.

TL/DR: having multiple Apple Watches can cause erroneous resting energy numbers to be used in the Health app and other apps.

 

[RPhoto]

I just discovered a scenario in which alternating between two watches can be problematic, specifically if you're dieting using an app like LoseIt that gets active and resting calorie information from the Apple Watch.

For the past month or so I've been carefully logging what I eat, making sure to stay below my daily calorie limit. A few weeks ago I had an instance where the next day the app showed me as having busted over my limit even though I was sure I hadn't. Didn't think much of it until it happened again a day or two ago. That time, the entire week's worth of entires were suddenly all about 200 calories higher than they had been before. Did some digging, and found that the discrepancy was with the daily estimated resting calories having retroactively dropped from the 1900s to the 1700s for each of those days. Furthermore, I realized that this happened shortly after I swapped from my 44mm Series 5 to my 40mm Series 4 (to do some yardwork).

More investigation revealed what had happened. In the resting energy data sources in the Health app, you can prioritize the sources so that when information from multiple sources is available (in this case, two Apple Watches), the higher one on the list takes priority. Now, it appears that when you are not actually wearing a watch (such as overnight, if you don't do sleep tracking), it estimates the resting calories as a set number (about 70.5 in my case), while when your actively wearing the watch during the day, the resting calories vary (averaging about 81.5 for me).

So what does this mean? As soon as I put my Series 4 on (which hadn't been worn all week), suddenly it's fixed 70.5 per hour resting energy rate recorded over the past week took priority and overrode the figures recorded by the Series 5 I had been wearing. The solution, for a case like this where one watch is worn almost all of the time, and another is only worn occasionally and briefly, is to set the more commonly-worn watch to a higher priority, so that this would have less of an effect. But it would seem that for someone who regularly alternates between various watches, this could be more complicated to figure out. Admittedly, this is an edge case that is not going to significantly affect many people, but it's just something to be aware of.

TL/DR: having multiple Apple Watches can cause erroneous resting energy numbers to be used in the Health app and other apps.

Interesting to know. I use MyFitnessPal to log but haven’t come across any issue like this as yet. That said I have only just set it to do a calorie adjustment for steps, whereas before I just logged tracked workouts. I’ll keep an eye to see if that changes the behaviour to anything like this 👍

 

[bricktop_at]

I just discovered a scenario in which alternating between two watches can be problematic, specifically if you're dieting using an app like LoseIt that gets active and resting calorie information from the Apple Watch.

For the past month or so I've been carefully logging what I eat, making sure to stay below my daily calorie limit. A few weeks ago I had an instance where the next day the app showed me as having busted over my limit even though I was sure I hadn't. Didn't think much of it until it happened again a day or two ago. That time, the entire week's worth of entires were suddenly all about 200 calories higher than they had been before. Did some digging, and found that the discrepancy was with the daily estimated resting calories having retroactively dropped from the 1900s to the 1700s for each of those days. Furthermore, I realized that this happened shortly after I swapped from my 44mm Series 5 to my 40mm Series 4 (to do some yardwork).

More investigation revealed what had happened. In the resting energy data sources in the Health app, you can prioritize the sources so that when information from multiple sources is available (in this case, two Apple Watches), the higher one on the list takes priority. Now, it appears that when you are not actually wearing a watch (such as overnight, if you don't do sleep tracking), it estimates the resting calories as a set number (about 70.5 in my case), while when your actively wearing the watch during the day, the resting calories vary (averaging about 81.5 for me).

So what does this mean? As soon as I put my Series 4 on (which hadn't been worn all week), suddenly it's fixed 70.5 per hour resting energy rate recorded over the past week took priority and overrode the figures recorded by the Series 5 I had been wearing. The solution, for a case like this where one watch is worn almost all of the time, and another is only worn occasionally and briefly, is to set the more commonly-worn watch to a higher priority, so that this would have less of an effect. But it would seem that for someone who regularly alternates between various watches, this could be more complicated to figure out. Admittedly, this is an edge case that is not going to significantly affect many people, but it's just something to be aware of.

TL/DR: having multiple Apple Watches can cause erroneous resting energy numbers to be used in the Health app and other apps.

Good to keep in mind, thanks!
Although I purposely set my main watch as first in the list, whenever I switch to a new one, so didn’t encounter that behavior yet