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What is your favourite aspect of the Apple Watch?

Notifications on my wrist.
Leaving my iPhone at home or in the car and still be reachable for my VIPs (I‘ve an Ultra 2 with cellular enabled).
Other stuff I need on the go (mails, member cards, podcasts, music, reminders, …)
Alarm on my wrist (works best for me).
Knowing what time/date it is. 🤪
Lastly ApplePay.
 
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  1. Apple Pay - I use this almost everyday and it's extremely convenient.
  2. iPhone Proximity - I only found this out yesterday, when you're away from your phone it turns off the phone's always on display to save battery.
  3. MacBook Unlocking - Sitting down at your MacBook and unlocking it with your watch feels space age to me.
  4. Hourly Chirp - A feature I loved on my old Casios, though now with added birdsong!
 
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For me it is

1 Fitness tracking
2 Notifications without needing my phone
3 Siri and Apple ecosystem integration
4 Apple Pay/Contactless
5 Shopping lists whilst in the supermarket without needing to have my phone out (I use todoist and an Alexa routine to sync my Alexa shopping list with it)
6 Timers/Alarms
7 Media control.

There are actually so many more and I am so invested in having a smart (Apple) watch, I couldn’t go back.

I also change out my straps daily to match my mood or what I wear. I have shortcuts to change my watch face based on location or work times.
 
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The-Real-Deal82 said:
I think the UK has a much different system and banks worked together years ago to make sure they all use the same technology. Nearly every vendor here offers contactless payments, even down to corner shops and restaurants. ApplePay works with all contactless terminals which is very convenient. My watch is my main source for paying for things and it makes things so much quicker. I’ve heard people here mention a lot that restaurants in America walk away with your card and I’d have to follow them as I’d be afraid of my card getting skimmed. Not experienced anything like that before.

Here restaurants bring a handheld device to the table, either with a chip and pin keypad on it with contactless too or quite often they are full touchscreen. Some places now have QR codes on tables so you can pay and leave without having to speak to the servers which can be good.
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Yes and you guys at tap to pay a long time before us too. I really wish that was the way it was here. I use my Apple Watch any time I can, one for the ease and two for the security. There are becoming more and more restaurants that have added payment terminals to the tables, and that saves time and offers much more security.

This is why the Apple Card was so important in the US. The card that has no numbers on it, and changes the digital security code often. You can hand that card over and the person has zero chance of taking a card number off it. Hopefully in the next few years, walking around needing a wallet is the thing of the past. Well except for driver’s license.
 
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The-Real-Deal82 said:
I think the UK has a much different system and banks worked together years ago to make sure they all use the same technology. Nearly every vendor here offers contactless payments, even down to corner shops and restaurants. ApplePay works with all contactless terminals which is very convenient. My watch is my main source for paying for things and it makes things so much quicker. I’ve heard people here mention a lot that restaurants in America walk away with your card and I’d have to follow them as I’d be afraid of my card getting skimmed. Not experienced anything like that before.

Here restaurants bring a handheld device to the table, either with a chip and pin keypad on it with contactless too or quite often they are full touchscreen. Some places now have QR codes on tables so you can pay and leave without having to speak to the servers which can be good.
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It’s remarkable how far the UK system has come. 25 years ago I’d say it was materially behind the curve but not it’s well up there.
 
Howard2k said:
It’s remarkable how far the UK system has come. 25 years ago I’d say it was materially behind the curve but not it’s well up there.
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Yep I live in the UK and work for a US bank in a US based team (I work weird hours) in Payments. We are rolling out tech that has been here for a while and what makes me laugh is how my team think we are so cutting edge lol, but I keep saying we are just doing what we have here already! Tap to phone, tap to pay, etc. One thing I think the US Will get ahead of the game is in biometric payments (not only face) - we are motoring ahead with it this year.
 
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srikat said:
When do you charge it if you put it on during sleep?
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I charge my Apple Watch Series 6 40mm Gold SS in these cases:
Shower 🚿
While I wash dishes
Sometimes after dinner to prep for sleep tracking. Especially on watchOS 11 beta, even a fully charged Apple Watch drains battery a little bit faster roughly 25-30% instead when I was on watchOS 10 (NOT BETA) whereas the drain is the same as a half hour workout when I track it.

I only charge my watch overnight if I have a long trip or flight the next day.
 
Mike330R said:
My ultra two randomly did not gather any sleep data last night. First time it's happened in a few weeks that I've had it.
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… had you double checked your wind down and sleep settings in the Health app on your iPhone? Make sure they match up with your Apple Watch sleep app.
 
I enjoy and use many of the features on the watch, but my favorite aspect of the watch is the ability to change bands so easily, so much so that I have accumulated nearly 100 bands, all original Apple and many Hermes bands as well.
 
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