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What are you most wishing for with the next OS update?
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Agreed, there is nothing in this update that would entice me back from Garmin. Athytic etc is pretty useless compared to Garmin or Whoop or even Oura ring
I did the same, I’d like to say I love my Fenix 7 but I don’t, it’s a tool that gets the job done, I loved my Apple Watch though but fitness is my priority and until Apple sort of their recovery metrics I won’t be back.
I have an Ultra, S8, Oura 3 and Whoop 4. Oura Readiness and Whoop Recovery graphs are pretty comparable over time (Oura feels bit more balanced and it has a more accurate HR sensor than the Whoop). App recovery graphs based on Apple data often deviate a lot from both the Oura and Whoop. It’s not so much the apps, but the lack of proper data that’s available for them to use.
No. No new fitness messures about load and recovery pushed me to order the new Garmin watch.
I got something I didn‘t know I want … an adorable Snoopy watch face. 🤩
The thing where you can pull up a Siri-style widget from any watch face is intriguing. If it can be configured to show the widgets I want, or its guesses are good enough that it does show the widgets I want most of the time, it could allow me to stay on a simple, elegant watch face as my main face, instead of the complication-heavy, mostly data-filled faces I use now.
Saw a review on YouTube yesterday. Yes, you can choose which widgets you want for a maximum of eight or you can choose to have machine learning determine which to put there for you.
To me, this is just a redesigned dock that we always had using widgets instead of app icons coupled with machine learning to select for you which we also had with the Siri watch face.
I asked for the tiniest thing. The ability to see the iPhones battery level on the watch.
Was excited when I saw the new widgets view. I mean, all the Apple devices have a battery widget, right? Wrong. Watched a review on YouTube with all the widgets and of course, the battery widget is not present.
Was excited when I saw the new widgets view. I mean, all the Apple devices have a battery widget, right? Wrong. Watched a review on YouTube with all the widgets and of course, the battery widget is not present.
That's good to know, thanks for the info.
I think the dock just shows app icons, while the pull-up widgets show data. Am I wrong?
Invoking them is not the same. It says a swipe up and then swipe left or right in the article you linked. The widget view uses the Digital Crown.
I mean, you can call it the return of Glances if you’d like. To me, it’s more of a dock that shows more info than just the app icon. It’s replacing the dock, not Glances.
Docks, glances, I don't care. It's the "show more info" part that's important!
You can also swipe up instead of using the crown. Which is why control center had to move to the side button in the first place.
Which is exactly what Glances did … show more info than the app icon.
I have that issue too. I want to hit snooze to get a few more minutes but I have to wake up enough to make sure I’m pressing the right button instead of accidentally turning it off, so then I’m already awake. But I suppose I’d rather be awake than accidentally cancel the alarm and pass back out until an hour into my work shift.
I find using the physical buttons is a better option. I can do this with my eyes closed.
Not really. I wanted more flexibility in the Rings and to replace stand with Steps. That didn't happen. Maybe I should adjust the Stand goal to just 6 hours, but then that feels like cheating and I get this sense that I'm not supposed to do that. Maybe bring the Stand Goal down but move the Move goal to 600 or 700 (it's at 500 now).