Wonderful Apple Watch!

Discussion in 'Gadgets & Tech Talk' started by Yvonne Smith, Oct 29, 2017.

  1. John Brunner

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    Interesting. I've not looked at the available apps for the watch. When I first got my watch, I set up enough different faces so that I have all the Complications I'm interested in available on them.
     
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    Yeah, I've got several watch faces stored but my preference is always analog. I find this a little "cluttered" but I'll work on it and move things around. My favorite complication is the little Apple monogram. Also, the colors are totally off which is weird; I made the photo with my iPhone.
     
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    That's the exact same face I have as my default. (I wish I could find an analog digital alarm clock.) I guess the watch apps are on the App Store under watches?
     
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    You like complications?
     
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    I just pulled up the app store directly from my watch and downloaded it. If you share apps between devices, then you can download to the phone and it will show up as "available" on the watch.
     
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    Yup.

    I wondered exactly what the term meant, and discovered it is a legacy term for an accessory on mechanical timekeeping devices that measures anything but hours, minutes and seconds (like day of the month or phases of the moon.)

    Fascinating stuff.
     
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    I need to test this and see if the step count/distance are the same on the Activity app as the Pedometer++. I'll do that tomorrow between trips to the car battery store. :rolleyes:
     
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    Wow, you certainly grew that beard in a hurry. :p
     
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    And his neck straightened out.
     
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    Make sure to vote. Don't let the juice-drainers win!!
     
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    I voted last week. :p
     
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    Decoy!
     
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    Here's a screenshot of the face of the watch using the Meridian face and the Pedometer++ app...

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    I have hardly worn my Apple watch but now that I have the step counter on the face I'll be wearing it more often. Earlier I was putting a meatloaf together and using a few Saltines as a binder, crushing them in a ziplock bag. I used a small cutting board to smash them, and my Apple watch dinged me that "it appears you have taken a hard fall." WTF. I don't know if this is going to be an annoyance or not. Do you get these notifications very often?
     
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    No, and that's what concerns me. I only got it that one time, and I told the watch to ignore it. So now nothing triggers it (or nothing else has triggered it.) Obviously, I would rather have it be oversensitive and occasionally override it than not have it work when I need it to.
     
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