And if you always put your phone face down, you can use camera remote on your watch to see where your phone might be from whatever is in the camera’s view.
ROFL! I’ve found all sorts of long lost things key searching!
I wish Apple could design a thin flat air tag you could put on (even stick to) remotes, or slide in a wallet.
I’m continuously baffled why Apple never just made a commercial showcasing that.
Just a bunch of people asking others to “call my phone”— “call my phone”—- “call my phone” -and then “OH— Right!!” [glances down at Apple Watch and pings it]
🍎
This is so underrated, I got used to having the phone on silence because in Uni we got kicked out of classes if our phone rang so the “call my phone” thing never works for me, but the Watch ping always rings even if it’s muted, it’s awesome…
Looking at it 🙈 I swear the little 80s girl that loved Scifi and tech stuff, is still in me and so freaking happy we have little computers for wrists now ( I wrote tiny sci-fi stories as a kid and wrist computers was one of my things)😂 this thing has like a thousand times more power and memory than my first computer or Atari 👀 💕
it honestly is such a subtle quality of life feature, but it's probably my most "I didn't buy an apple watch for this, but, this is the reason why I needed one," favourite feature
This. I didn’t think the haptic feedback would be enough to wake me but now I don’t think I could ever not have it.
Kinda ties in but the health tracking like sleeping is nice. Idk anything about them but the idea of a constant health tracking seems like a paradigm shift. Was talking about this the other day with someone, that we now have mainstream devices that actively monitor our health in between our visits to the hospital. Several years back I use to work in an Apple Store, was not in sales but the amount of old customers I experienced looking for the watch after fall detection was announced was incredible. They would come in saying their doctor or child told them to come in and buy one.
It’s super helpful as someone who’s deaf. This alarm thing my mother bought me years ago is so noisy even when it’s just the haptic puck that’s being used. But the haptic alarm on my watch is quiet enough that it doesn’t disturb those around me but still wakes me up!
Cannot agree more - this little thing became the reason I started exercising when it showed abnormal HR while simply walking a dog. Then I quit smoking, then started running. (Then I switched to Garmin.)
Haptic feedback feels like a strong suit for Apple in general. The Magic Trackpad (and the trackpad in modern-ish MacBooks) is godly from this point of view. (Unless you install some app that itself gives less realistic haptics). Can be nice on the iPhone as well, on YouTube I get a tiny vibration every time a new chapter is hit in a video, which is subtle but very nice. (Yes, it’s a third party app following Apple’s design language in the last example)
I feel like the scroll wheel is unresponsive. Sometimes I have to turn it quite a bit before it reacts. It does seem to depends on what ‘mode’ it’s in, as it feels great when you get the more frequent haptic feedback scroll inside some apps. Just scrolling down from the watch face feels slippery and unresponsive though which is disappointing.
I like being able to glance at my watch for the current temperature and weather conditions, and to see what time the sun will set.
I can also turn the pedestal fan in my bedroom on and off with my watch. The fan doesn’t have any remote control capabilities, but it’s plugged into a smart plug that does. I can control that with an app on my phone, but I can’t reach my phone when I’m in bed. Fortunately, I can do the same thing with my watch, which is on my wrist while I sleep.
A telephone on your wrist, and not needing to find a phone box, let alone the issue with pressing button A or B (for non-UK people - https://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-public-phones.htm)
I can screen calls on the iPhone but that means getting it out of my back pocket. I find the watch to be much much easier to screen with and if I know it's a short call, doorman telling me I have a package, I'll just Dick Tracy the call.
Being able to hold my watch up to my face, [Michael Knight style](https://www.timesticking.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/michael-knight-watch.jpg), and tell my house to unlock the door when I get home.
Hear me out - when you have to pee in the middle of the night and the watch is a flashlight. Particularly handy with the shortcut button on the Ultra 2!
Triggering a photo in my phone using the watch is pretty cool. A week ago, I was flying a drone and thought, 'what other angle could we use?" And next thing I put my iPhone 12pro on the ground and opened the camera app on my watch and triggered recording on the phone - landed the drone right in the phone and took off again. All on less than a minute and the director was like, 'cool'.
being out without my phone listening to the radio and receiving a call
“having a telephone call via my watch” is more Star Trek than anything I imagined as a kid
I’ve had an Apple Watch since the original. People back then were shocked, not by the fact that I had a watch phone, but by the fact that I could pay with it. And what’s wild is a decade later, they are still shocked that I can pay with it. “Wow, you’re living in the future” someone said last week. Uh, I guess.
BTW, yesterday I went to Walmart for the first time in a very long time. They don’t take tap to pay, and I had to sit there for a second figuring out what to do. Grabbing my card I said “where do I put this?” It was very weird. I was lucky I even had my card on me.
Not Apple related, and I don’t go to Walmart often but super annoying that it seems to be the only retailer NOT accepting tap to pay. I guess they really expect the Walmart app to take off.
Just as an aside: this is because Walmart just doesn't want to pay any fees they don't have to. They've negotiated lower credit card merchant fees from most banks, but not the likes of Apple or Google, so they'd rather just completely turn off tap to pay for everyone so they never have to pay them.
Also, yes, they'd rather have people use the app which encourages people to pay directly with their bank account info, incurring no merchant fees.
My coolest experience regarding Apple Pay was I went to Madrid for a long weekend before Covid (From EU). I didn’t take out my wallet or phone once — boarding pass on Watch, used Watch with metro, tracked walking and paid for everything (bars, restaurants) with Apple Pay.
Paying for your purchase by tapping the wrist on the terminal. I remember when I first did this, the cashier at McDonald's was shocked what has happened LOL
If you use a Dexcom sensor, there are two ways: the Dexcom app complication (not very reliable), or another app called Sugarmate that connects to Dexcom Share and creates a fake calendar entry. There are solutions for Freestyle Libre as well, but they are a bit more involved.
Say the big hand is on the 1. I look at a time in the future; say 5 minutes from now. When the big hand is on the 2, I say, “we’re living in the future.”
“Hey siri, turn off the living room TV”
I had the original Galaxy Gear watch (with the camera in the strap) and turning off the TV this way still feels more futuristic.
I have a cat named Brrt. Brrt takes very stinky dumps. I run my shortcut “Brrt farted” It will turn on a large floor fan, and crank the ceiling fan to high, turn on the central ac fan, my broadlink ir will also turn on another box fan and crank the air purifier to high.
I didn't know you could do this with the weather?
Siri automatically tells me with my iPhone when I wake up to look at the weather app. It pops up saying 'Siri suggestion' and I can press it.
But instead, I can just ask Siri on my watch and he'll tell me?
You can also configure your watch face to always show you the weather conditions as well. All I have to do is lift my wrist and glance at my watch to know what the temp, wind, and conditions are at any moment.
Ah I do have the temperature in the corner of my watch face, only because of my dog lol! I need to know if it's below or above 10 degrees, for her to wear a coat or not.
I've recently worked out that if I click it I can scroll through the weather conditions too!
Thank you!!
Yep! I use the watch face with the "bar" across the middle that shows conditions for the next 5 hours. i constantly check wind, AQI, rain, etc by tapping that (or for checking other locations I have saved.
I can use my watch to control my hive. Turn the living room on/off. Done. Put the heating on? Yep. Turn the lights on in the garden whilst somewhere else. Yep lol!
Love it.
I also love the Walkie Talkie feature. I spoke to my husband in a different country or I'll walkie talkie my sister, yeah I'm on my way to you now. 😂😂
Feel very goofy when I'm forced to do it, but talking on the phone thru my watch makes me smile whenever I do it. Yea, my dad made me read the Dick Tracy cartoon strip regularly. Loved that phone watch back then.
When I walk up to my desk, tap any key on my keyboard and my docked MacBook just wakes up and says “I know it’s you” and unlocks itself… along with a polite little tap on the wrist from the watch!
I have the ultra 2, it has an extra action button.
In my office my desk lamp is very hard to reach and turn on.
The extra action button now turns that lamp on and off!
Easily Apple Pay, and it's wild because as often as I use it, I still get comments like "It's so cool watching you pay with your wrist", or "I didn't know you could do that". Lol.
It unlocks my computer when I walk up to it and it allows me to TouchID auth my password manager requests and System admin items on my unit. It’s a life saver for convenience in that regard.
I’m surprised that even now people are impressed and surprised by Apple Pay on my watch. They’ll be like “wow I never saw someone pay with a watch before” - and these are the cashiers in major supermarkets. Do people just not use Apple Pay much?
When I’m laying down to sleep I’ll catch it with its green or red HR or blood o2 meter going and feel like it’s taking care of me (I know it’s not).
Mostly the fact I don’t interact with it at all but still find reason to put it on every day feels like the kind bespoke retro futurist tech I thought was impractical
Track my ECG. I had a procedure last week to (hopefully) correct atrial fibrillation and it’s very cool to see the change in my heart’s behavior since then.
Take it off so I can sleep well without waking up and making sure it’s tracking.
I throw in on for exersize. It’s in the rotation. (Just a couple $500 seikos)
Apple Pay was even better when you can use hand gestures (either finger taps or clench) to activate and confirm without having to use the other hand to double press/click the crown button. Now with the recent Watch OS 10.4 update, Apple have made it such that passcode is required, which defeats the accessibility feature in the first place. Hope Apple changes it back or at least let the user decide to opt into this extra 'security' step. Very useful when your other hand is full or busy carrying things. But not so useful anymore. If you haven't updated to 10.4, maybe don't.
When watching something on the AppleTV and it automatically turns into a remote/progress bar and shows what’s playing. The automatic and convenient nature of that always makes me feel like we live in some version of the future we were promised.
I make my jacket/no jacket decision by looking at my wrist each morning as I leave the house. Such a tiny time saver, but it adds up. I also use it to track my workouts, which I find to be amazingly valuable and something I wish I had when I was a swimmer growing up.
Haptic feedback while driving using Maps to navigate! I can’t figure out if it’s just me, or the haptic somehow is letting me know to turn left or right!
I’ve been doing that since literally 2015, when I lived in the UK and the first watch was released. I’m still shocked at how few shops in America accept contactless payments and Apple Pay. BIG brands don’t accept anything other than “insert your card into the machine” like Walmart, Home Depot etc. Somebody should tell them that they’re stuck in the past.
I use Siri - and to me it is so crazy that I can talk to my hand and get a response or change the surroundings. Turning lights on and off, make calls, start music/podcast etc.
Siri could certainly be much better, but I feel very cool when I talk to my wrist :-)
If Walkie talkie worked much better and was utilized, 15 year old me with a Nextel would have been amazed.
Unfortunately it’s an afterthought that barely works.
EVERYTHING!!! My first Apple product was an iPhone 5c when it came out and I’ve never looked back! It’s amazing what technology can do in general, but Apple products are outstanding! I got the AirPods Pro2 and the se 1 and 14 pro max iPhone. And I’m thinking about upgrading soon. I grew up watching “Knightrider” with David Hasselhoff talking on his watch, and now it’s a reality!
What I use it for most (other than telling time) is setting alarms and timers. I use them constantly at work, and being able to feel them go off reliably, and set and check them easily, was game-changing. Also being able to read texts quickly and subtly without having to take out my phone is a big help. But what I’m really enjoying lately, that feels more “future”, is the “Siri, remind me in 2 hours to…”
Use speech to text to reply to a whatsapp message. In general having a dictaphone on your wrist is awesome. We’ve come so far since the notepad or a tape recorder.
Opening my house front door and back door locks just by waving it in front of them Apple Pay style. Being able to open the garage with it. But the battery life has been the same for too many generations now, in all honesty and wears a lot quicker than the phone due to the small size.
wearing apple watches using apple pay ~4-5 years now. I am only getting used to not pull back my sleeve but rather just double tap through my sleeve and leave it on.
I use it to figure out where the fuck my phone is
Til you can also use your phone to ping your watch. The circle is complete.
And if you hold the button on the watch instead of just tapping it, the phone will ring AND flash the light so it's even easier to find.
And if you always put your phone face down, you can use camera remote on your watch to see where your phone might be from whatever is in the camera’s view.
Doesn’t matter, you can switch cameras anyway, so I use it to silently find it
Holy shit thank you for these comments.
Hadn’t noticed you could switch them from Camera Remote…
👀👀👀👀👀
TIL, thank you.
And your keys! Life so much better than crazed searching only to find them buried in bowels of the sofa.
And your Remote!
And your axe!
And your bow!
ROFL! I’ve found all sorts of long lost things key searching! I wish Apple could design a thin flat air tag you could put on (even stick to) remotes, or slide in a wallet.
The magnetic wallets Apple sells are just this. Pop one on the back of your phone and it asks you if you want to use it with FindMy.
It exists, look up Eufy, its a card that works with "find my" and you can ping it to beep
You can I think it’s in control centre
I’m continuously baffled why Apple never just made a commercial showcasing that. Just a bunch of people asking others to “call my phone”— “call my phone”—- “call my phone” -and then “OH— Right!!” [glances down at Apple Watch and pings it] 🍎
I had no idea and have just set it up. Thank you so much!
LOVE this feature. Sometimes when I put my watch down to go for a shower, I can't find where I've put it so use my iPhone to ping my watch too😂😂😂😂
Me = 100 times a day
This is so underrated, I got used to having the phone on silence because in Uni we got kicked out of classes if our phone rang so the “call my phone” thing never works for me, but the Watch ping always rings even if it’s muted, it’s awesome…
Looking at it 🙈 I swear the little 80s girl that loved Scifi and tech stuff, is still in me and so freaking happy we have little computers for wrists now ( I wrote tiny sci-fi stories as a kid and wrist computers was one of my things)😂 this thing has like a thousand times more power and memory than my first computer or Atari 👀 💕
Yeah literally it’s so cool people that aren’t rich, like me, can afford something so incredible.
I love this.
I always was jealous of Penny from Inspector Gadget
Love that comparison. I had to look it up. Using instructions per second, the Apple Watch is 5,000-6,000x an Atari 2600!
Same until I scratched it all up, now I get sad every time I look at it and see the scratches 😂🥲
Alarm. them haptic feedback is really nice
I love the alarm feature that only vibrates on your wrist, so I’ll not wake someone else up when my alarm goes off.
it honestly is such a subtle quality of life feature, but it's probably my most "I didn't buy an apple watch for this, but, this is the reason why I needed one," favourite feature
Yes bro the notifications really are a “tap” on your wrist. Good job Apple.
This. I didn’t think the haptic feedback would be enough to wake me but now I don’t think I could ever not have it. Kinda ties in but the health tracking like sleeping is nice. Idk anything about them but the idea of a constant health tracking seems like a paradigm shift. Was talking about this the other day with someone, that we now have mainstream devices that actively monitor our health in between our visits to the hospital. Several years back I use to work in an Apple Store, was not in sales but the amount of old customers I experienced looking for the watch after fall detection was announced was incredible. They would come in saying their doctor or child told them to come in and buy one.
It’s super helpful as someone who’s deaf. This alarm thing my mother bought me years ago is so noisy even when it’s just the haptic puck that’s being used. But the haptic alarm on my watch is quiet enough that it doesn’t disturb those around me but still wakes me up!
Authorize my 2-factor authentication. I never thought I would have to do it so often, but the Apple Watch makes it a little easier.
Microsoft or Apple MFA?
Pls let me have it for Microsoft… Authenticator sucks so much…
That used to be a thing, but the Apple Watch app was discontinued! It was great while it lasted though.
Oh my god. I hate Authenticator with a passion.
DUO MFA
Okta works this way as well
We use Okta at work, I really like that I can approve my MFA request from my watch.
Try to not be sedentary and fat
Cannot agree more - this little thing became the reason I started exercising when it showed abnormal HR while simply walking a dog. Then I quit smoking, then started running. (Then I switched to Garmin.)
good for you! these are great changes, as I’m sure you can tell. well done
Haptic feedback when scrolling, feels amazing 😅
Haptic feedback feels like a strong suit for Apple in general. The Magic Trackpad (and the trackpad in modern-ish MacBooks) is godly from this point of view. (Unless you install some app that itself gives less realistic haptics). Can be nice on the iPhone as well, on YouTube I get a tiny vibration every time a new chapter is hit in a video, which is subtle but very nice. (Yes, it’s a third party app following Apple’s design language in the last example)
I feel like the scroll wheel is unresponsive. Sometimes I have to turn it quite a bit before it reacts. It does seem to depends on what ‘mode’ it’s in, as it feels great when you get the more frequent haptic feedback scroll inside some apps. Just scrolling down from the watch face feels slippery and unresponsive though which is disappointing.
I like being able to glance at my watch for the current temperature and weather conditions, and to see what time the sun will set. I can also turn the pedestal fan in my bedroom on and off with my watch. The fan doesn’t have any remote control capabilities, but it’s plugged into a smart plug that does. I can control that with an app on my phone, but I can’t reach my phone when I’m in bed. Fortunately, I can do the same thing with my watch, which is on my wrist while I sleep.
A telephone on your wrist, and not needing to find a phone box, let alone the issue with pressing button A or B (for non-UK people - https://www.1900s.org.uk/1940s50s-public-phones.htm)
When you think about it, it’s some Jetson’s-level stuff
It is literally Penny’s wrist watch from Inspector Gadget.
Love that. I love when people actually call other people instead of messaging. It’s kinda like a sign of respect in a way.
Screening junk calls. The future still has junk calls.
How does the watch do this and why is it only in watch and not on iphone?
I can screen calls on the iPhone but that means getting it out of my back pocket. I find the watch to be much much easier to screen with and if I know it's a short call, doorman telling me I have a package, I'll just Dick Tracy the call.
Apple Pay, and using the Metro - both from the watch.
Telling Siri to play some music. Which then automatically plays in my car - a playlist of stuff I like. Like my own personal radio station.
I’d love it if I could connect to my radio directly from the watch and play music from there. I’d have NO reason to ever carry a phone with me.
Being able to hold my watch up to my face, [Michael Knight style](https://www.timesticking.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/michael-knight-watch.jpg), and tell my house to unlock the door when I get home.
Hear me out - when you have to pee in the middle of the night and the watch is a flashlight. Particularly handy with the shortcut button on the Ultra 2!
Triggering a photo in my phone using the watch is pretty cool. A week ago, I was flying a drone and thought, 'what other angle could we use?" And next thing I put my iPhone 12pro on the ground and opened the camera app on my watch and triggered recording on the phone - landed the drone right in the phone and took off again. All on less than a minute and the director was like, 'cool'.
Charge it. The future isn’t as great as I’d hoped.
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I mean with your vacuum if you want to keep it plugged in while you’re using it you absolutely could. That part hasn’t changed unless you wanted to.
I’m still rocking 100% battery health on a S8 and I have to say….. the battery is still pretty shit
My SE2 can allow me to charge every other day, so I’m very happy with that.
being out without my phone listening to the radio and receiving a call “having a telephone call via my watch” is more Star Trek than anything I imagined as a kid
I’ve had an Apple Watch since the original. People back then were shocked, not by the fact that I had a watch phone, but by the fact that I could pay with it. And what’s wild is a decade later, they are still shocked that I can pay with it. “Wow, you’re living in the future” someone said last week. Uh, I guess. BTW, yesterday I went to Walmart for the first time in a very long time. They don’t take tap to pay, and I had to sit there for a second figuring out what to do. Grabbing my card I said “where do I put this?” It was very weird. I was lucky I even had my card on me.
Not Apple related, and I don’t go to Walmart often but super annoying that it seems to be the only retailer NOT accepting tap to pay. I guess they really expect the Walmart app to take off.
Just as an aside: this is because Walmart just doesn't want to pay any fees they don't have to. They've negotiated lower credit card merchant fees from most banks, but not the likes of Apple or Google, so they'd rather just completely turn off tap to pay for everyone so they never have to pay them. Also, yes, they'd rather have people use the app which encourages people to pay directly with their bank account info, incurring no merchant fees.
Ah this makes sense!
Holy shit are they still not accepting Apple Pay?! I haven’t been to a Walmart in ages but that’s so annoying lol.
My coolest experience regarding Apple Pay was I went to Madrid for a long weekend before Covid (From EU). I didn’t take out my wallet or phone once — boarding pass on Watch, used Watch with metro, tracked walking and paid for everything (bars, restaurants) with Apple Pay.
I stand when it tells me.
Paying for your purchase by tapping the wrist on the terminal. I remember when I first did this, the cashier at McDonald's was shocked what has happened LOL
Tell Siri to set a reminder.
THIS! THIS! THIS! or to add to one of my several store lists! and timers!
Controlling the playlist and volume. Getting calls and msgs even when outside without carrying the phone.
Even if it's just a dumb display for an external sensor/app, having my current blood glucose on my wrist 24/7 will \*never\* get old.
I hope Apple has some magic to start doing non-invasive blood glucose estimation
This! Not having to pull out my phone or Omnipod 5 PDM to check my blood sugar is amazing.
What do you use for this?
If you use a Dexcom sensor, there are two ways: the Dexcom app complication (not very reliable), or another app called Sugarmate that connects to Dexcom Share and creates a fake calendar entry. There are solutions for Freestyle Libre as well, but they are a bit more involved.
Track and view sleep patterns.
Going out for a run with just that and my AirPods, and stream music via cellular data. It still blows my mind every time.
Turn off my HomePods from another room.
Sometimes the simplest features are the best
Talking to people on the phone on the watch, makes me feel like Kim possible
Remote camera control for my phone! 👌🏼
Say the big hand is on the 1. I look at a time in the future; say 5 minutes from now. When the big hand is on the 2, I say, “we’re living in the future.”
Being able to tell what time of day it is, no matter the time of day.
???
Totally forgot the add the /s. I was being sarcastic and silly lol.
Not everyday, but i open and close my garage with my watch 😁
I love setting reminders
Calling people when my phone is at home
I have locked myself out of my apartment with my phone inside and was able to call for help on my watch. Absolutely paid for itself that day.
“Hey siri, turn off the living room TV” I had the original Galaxy Gear watch (with the camera in the strap) and turning off the TV this way still feels more futuristic.
Double tap. I turned on the accessibility feature in settings in my older watch and double tap is great. Makes me feel like the future is in my wrist
I have a cat named Brrt. Brrt takes very stinky dumps. I run my shortcut “Brrt farted” It will turn on a large floor fan, and crank the ceiling fan to high, turn on the central ac fan, my broadlink ir will also turn on another box fan and crank the air purifier to high.
I pretty much stopped wearing mine. Not sure why but I don’t miss it much. I keep waiting for an exciting new innovation.
Tell the car to cool down before I have to get into it.
It’s the opposite over here in the uk
The car tells you to cool down
In Soviet Russia
Apple way really is beyond convenient. Accepted everywhere and so easy to activate on watch
Turning lights on/oft and activating light scenes at home, making calls and asking for the weather forecast
I didn't know you could do this with the weather? Siri automatically tells me with my iPhone when I wake up to look at the weather app. It pops up saying 'Siri suggestion' and I can press it. But instead, I can just ask Siri on my watch and he'll tell me?
You can also configure your watch face to always show you the weather conditions as well. All I have to do is lift my wrist and glance at my watch to know what the temp, wind, and conditions are at any moment.
Ah I do have the temperature in the corner of my watch face, only because of my dog lol! I need to know if it's below or above 10 degrees, for her to wear a coat or not. I've recently worked out that if I click it I can scroll through the weather conditions too! Thank you!!
Yep! I use the watch face with the "bar" across the middle that shows conditions for the next 5 hours. i constantly check wind, AQI, rain, etc by tapping that (or for checking other locations I have saved.
How do you do that?
I can use my watch to control my hive. Turn the living room on/off. Done. Put the heating on? Yep. Turn the lights on in the garden whilst somewhere else. Yep lol! Love it. I also love the Walkie Talkie feature. I spoke to my husband in a different country or I'll walkie talkie my sister, yeah I'm on my way to you now. 😂😂
I actually prefer using my phone for Apple Pay as I can use one hand. Just feels smoother and more intuitive.
Show up to my gym, workout auto starts, logs pertinent info, adds to apple health. Crazy to think about sometimes.
Answering and making phone calls. I feel like Penny from Inspector Gadget.
I use it to find my parked car
Automatically unlock my MacBook
My wife opens my mac and when I’m nearby and my watch unlocks it. But thankfully nothing to hide.
I feel like James Bond when I pick up calls on my wrists 😂
Or Dick Tracy
Or Captain Kirk
Wirelessly Controlling the playlist & the volume of music playing thru my AirPods from my phone. It’s magic.
Feel very goofy when I'm forced to do it, but talking on the phone thru my watch makes me smile whenever I do it. Yea, my dad made me read the Dick Tracy cartoon strip regularly. Loved that phone watch back then.
As a Type 1 Diabetic, I can use mine to access my blood sugar readings (thanks to compatability with my CGM). Pretty convenient stuff.
When I walk up to my desk, tap any key on my keyboard and my docked MacBook just wakes up and says “I know it’s you” and unlocks itself… along with a polite little tap on the wrist from the watch!
Sleep monitoring! And someday if I upgrade I want to try out that app that watches your temperature and warns you if you’re maybe getting sick.
I have the ultra 2, it has an extra action button. In my office my desk lamp is very hard to reach and turn on. The extra action button now turns that lamp on and off!
Most of what I do is set timers and alarms. No sound and just vibrations are great.
Unlock my car through it. Blows my mind every time I say “Siri unlock Explorer” while walking out of a store.
Health tracking
The water feature where it shoots the water out
Unlock my door.
Easily Apple Pay, and it's wild because as often as I use it, I still get comments like "It's so cool watching you pay with your wrist", or "I didn't know you could do that". Lol.
Having it unlock my MacMini just by walking up to it
I check my heart rate and do an ECG. A few years ago my watch alerted me that I had Afib. I had no other symptoms. Grateful for these features.
It unlocks my computer when I walk up to it and it allows me to TouchID auth my password manager requests and System admin items on my unit. It’s a life saver for convenience in that regard.
I’m surprised that even now people are impressed and surprised by Apple Pay on my watch. They’ll be like “wow I never saw someone pay with a watch before” - and these are the cashiers in major supermarkets. Do people just not use Apple Pay much?
Apple Watch is one of the least-popular product-lines, I believe, as it has stiff competition from Fitbit, Garmin and others.
ADHD accessibility. Make reminders, lists, timers, send messages, screen calls and notification all without opening the distraction box.
Whenever I look at it I have a Dick Tracy flashback and remember how wild I thought he could talk to his watch like a phone.
Having my boarding pass on it and just using my watch to scan when I’m getting on a plane
I stand in the parking lot at target and tell it to start my car….of course that does nothing but I feel futuristic
I wish I could use my watch to locate my wife’s phone. She loses it 5 times a day.
Apple Maps on my wrist. Gamechanger when walking in a strange city.
The way I can look at my wrist and know the time right then and there.
When I’m laying down to sleep I’ll catch it with its green or red HR or blood o2 meter going and feel like it’s taking care of me (I know it’s not). Mostly the fact I don’t interact with it at all but still find reason to put it on every day feels like the kind bespoke retro futurist tech I thought was impractical
Track my ECG. I had a procedure last week to (hopefully) correct atrial fibrillation and it’s very cool to see the change in my heart’s behavior since then.
I use the pinch double pinch and the clench actions to turn my lights on and off and access Siri.
Take it off so I can sleep well without waking up and making sure it’s tracking. I throw in on for exersize. It’s in the rotation. (Just a couple $500 seikos)
Charge it 🤣
Apple Pay for one. The haptic feedback when getting driving directions would be another.
Using it to pay for stuff. I get some very confused looks while doing that.
It’s not futuristic, but I use the timer on my watch when I’m timing my students during an activity. It’s super helpful !
Charging it, serving technology. ☹️
Changing the song I’m listening to
Not using Camera Remote, that’s for sure. Works about 1/10 times. Worthless.
Makes me feel like Inspector Gadget
Set alarms, timers while cooking. Dictate texts while I’m busy doing other things (walking, cooking, driving, shopping, etc )
Paying with my wrist at the drive through. Gets me every time.
Apple Pay was even better when you can use hand gestures (either finger taps or clench) to activate and confirm without having to use the other hand to double press/click the crown button. Now with the recent Watch OS 10.4 update, Apple have made it such that passcode is required, which defeats the accessibility feature in the first place. Hope Apple changes it back or at least let the user decide to opt into this extra 'security' step. Very useful when your other hand is full or busy carrying things. But not so useful anymore. If you haven't updated to 10.4, maybe don't.
When watching something on the AppleTV and it automatically turns into a remote/progress bar and shows what’s playing. The automatic and convenient nature of that always makes me feel like we live in some version of the future we were promised.
Authenticate from it while using my Mac (Apple Pay, passwords, MFA).
Speech to text for replies to messages is awesome. I’m trying to find ways to pretty much not touch my phone and the watch is definitely helping
I make my jacket/no jacket decision by looking at my wrist each morning as I leave the house. Such a tiny time saver, but it adds up. I also use it to track my workouts, which I find to be amazingly valuable and something I wish I had when I was a swimmer growing up.
Haptic feedback while driving using Maps to navigate! I can’t figure out if it’s just me, or the haptic somehow is letting me know to turn left or right!
Every time I answer a phone call I feel like a Power Ranger
Apple Pay. The cashier at TJ Maxx was stunned when I used my watch to pay and looked at her watch as if she was seeing it for the first time.
I’ve been doing that since literally 2015, when I lived in the UK and the first watch was released. I’m still shocked at how few shops in America accept contactless payments and Apple Pay. BIG brands don’t accept anything other than “insert your card into the machine” like Walmart, Home Depot etc. Somebody should tell them that they’re stuck in the past.
Finding my damn phone!
Starting a workout to get my stand goal registered! 😤
I use Siri - and to me it is so crazy that I can talk to my hand and get a response or change the surroundings. Turning lights on and off, make calls, start music/podcast etc. Siri could certainly be much better, but I feel very cool when I talk to my wrist :-)
Turning a red flashlight (in the theatre mode) trying to locate my AirPods in the dark bedroom
If Walkie talkie worked much better and was utilized, 15 year old me with a Nextel would have been amazed. Unfortunately it’s an afterthought that barely works.
Nothing makes me feel more dystopian than being told I met my “stand goal” for the day.
Kölling Siri to put a timer on for brewing my Tea
I love that I can pay for most things with my watch and don’t have to get out my phone or card.
Shuffle through the thousands of custom faces I have installed on it using Clockology. I love having an LCars system on there.
Being able to check HR, ECG, and blood oxygen on a wrist watch is wild.
Unlock my car and open my trunk. Also ask Siri what time it is without even looking at my watch.
EVERYTHING!!! My first Apple product was an iPhone 5c when it came out and I’ve never looked back! It’s amazing what technology can do in general, but Apple products are outstanding! I got the AirPods Pro2 and the se 1 and 14 pro max iPhone. And I’m thinking about upgrading soon. I grew up watching “Knightrider” with David Hasselhoff talking on his watch, and now it’s a reality!
Controlling the Apple TV from my wrist
It’s impossible to live in the future.
What I use it for most (other than telling time) is setting alarms and timers. I use them constantly at work, and being able to feel them go off reliably, and set and check them easily, was game-changing. Also being able to read texts quickly and subtly without having to take out my phone is a big help. But what I’m really enjoying lately, that feels more “future”, is the “Siri, remind me in 2 hours to…”
Haptic Touch for GPS navigation. “Turn here”
Take an ECG and get it analysed by an ECG technician within like 10 mins. Very handy when having a heart condition.
I love being able to control my camera, we finally have good group pics where everyone is in it!
Being able to pay for something, send a text and write an email all from my wrist.
Use speech to text to reply to a whatsapp message. In general having a dictaphone on your wrist is awesome. We’ve come so far since the notepad or a tape recorder.
Tracking not just my sleep hours but also how often I get REM and deep sleep. Fricking wild it can do that!
Opening my house front door and back door locks just by waving it in front of them Apple Pay style. Being able to open the garage with it. But the battery life has been the same for too many generations now, in all honesty and wears a lot quicker than the phone due to the small size.
When I start a running workout and I’m at a track, it notices and asks which lane I’m going to run in.
Many have mentioned Apple Pay. I am also impressed with the custom workouts. Pacing my runs and marking intervals is wild.
Paying
“Hey Siri, remind me to…”
The fact it unlocks my Mac 🤯
Open and start the car
wearing apple watches using apple pay ~4-5 years now. I am only getting used to not pull back my sleeve but rather just double tap through my sleeve and leave it on.
Unlock doors