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Apple Tips / July 26, 2015

What’s the Apple Watch Good For?

I’ve been wearing an Watch for about 2 months now and I can say I love it!

Most people who see my watch and realize what it is ask two questions, “How is the Watch and what do you do with it?”

I can confidently say that the Watch is an nice extra but it is far from essential. It is however very useful. It’s so useful that the few days that I have forgotten to charge it, I feel a sense of loss without it. I can safely say the Watch has become a part of my normal life. So what do I do with it? How do I use it?

The problem with the Watch is that it is Apple’s most personal device. And I think if you ask 10 people what they do with their Watch you would get 10 different answers because everyone is different.

For me, the built in Watch Apps are what I use the most. I love being able to look down and see my next event. I don’t have a terribly busy schedule so I don’t drill down into the calendar much, but having that glance at the next event keeps me on track.

I also love receiving and sending text messages (and iMessages) from the Watch. Dictating messages works 95% of the time as long as I don’t try to use a Hawaiian Word. 😉

I listen to podcasts or music while I work and the Watch has great controls to play/pause/fast forward/rewind, and adjust the volume. It’s a little thing, but it’s much more convinient to make these changes on the watch rather than pull out my iPhone 6 Plus.

The one other app the gets used from time to time is Authy. Authy is the App that I use to manage my Two-Factor Authentication codes. And it is so much more convinient to launch the app and look at my wrist for the code than get my phone out of my pocket.

I keep other apps on the watch just in case I need them. Calcbot and pCalc are fighting for my go to Calculator Watch. I keep Drafts, Omnifocus, 1Password, and Due on the watch. But I must admit that I have not used any of these apps.

My Other Observations:

I have noticed that some apps drain the watch battery. Because I listen to 4-6 hours of podcasts with Overcast, if I install the Overcast App, my battery will be dead by 6pm. I know I’m not normal user and the reason I drain the battery is because of my excessive use of the app.

Other than that use case, the battery life has been great for me. My Watch is around 10% at 11pm when I’m ready to sleep. It’s my all day companion and I love it.

What has been your experience? Leave a comment below.

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