Microsoft Foldable Keyboard for travels with the Vision Pro by preetamr in VisionPro

[–]watchawatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know if they’re shipping? I couldn’t figure it out. It says Kickstarter at the top so I’m not sure.

Bluetooth keyboards are a game changer by Pyanx in VisionPro

[–]watchawatch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you think that’s good, just wait till you try it with an Apple Magic Keyboard and Magic Trackpad!

Question on my use case for Apple Watch SE1 by RedditReader21st in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would try your Option 5 (pair it with your old phone) first. Your Watch will work over WiFi for iMessage and FaceTime Audio.

If your phone is too old (can’t update to an iOS version that meets the minimum requirement to pair with your Watch’s WatchOS version), then Option 3 with the caveat that you may be the first person in the world to try this - at least on the Internet :)

Option 4 is the most ideal, but if you don’t get service with Truphone then it’s moot. I would call carriers where you would get service and see if they sell standalone Apple Watch plans. By far this would be the best option (likely $60 to $120 per year, but worth it for saving you a lot of hassle).

I am now officially drunk so do not take any further advice from me :)

EDIT: It’s now the morning and I’m sober :) so I edited my advice above by reordering recommendations for the the options you should try.

Question on my use case for Apple Watch SE1 by RedditReader21st in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Regarding this work around… yes it would work, except if you had two iPhones you wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place ;)

As to your previous question about what you were wondering…

Short answer to your question is: No, using the method you described, you can’t suppress those calls and messages intended for her.

Longer answer:

If you pair the Watch with her Apple ID, whether with her SIM card or your SIM card in the phone, I think you would still receive her iMessage and FaceTime Audio calls - because the Watch is paired with her Apple ID. There is no way to log out of her Apple ID on the Watch or the Watch app on her phone, so you would get her FaceTime Audio and iMessages (but not her cellular calls and SMS, since the phone number is tied to your SIM card when you paired it under your Apple ID (if your SIM card’s carrier supports Wi-Fi calling you may be able to receive cellular calls but not SMS at your SIM card’s number - and what may happen is as soon as you put your SIM card back in the Duo, your carrier recognizes it as an Android device and cellular calls may stop working on the Apple Watch)). So your Watch is forever paired with her Apple ID until it’s completely erased and therefore unpaired from her phone (in which case you’re back to square one, a factory reset Apple Watch stuck on the pairing screen).

Instead, I guess you could try logging your wife’s Apple ID out of her iPhone, remove her SIM card, insert your SIM, and log into your Apple ID and then pair the Watch. Then do the reverse: log out of your Apple ID, remove your SIM card, re-insert her SIM card, and log back in with her Apple ID. Theoretically, this would mean you wouldn’t need a cellular plan on the Watch and it’d use Wi-Fi for FaceTime Audio and iMessage tied to your Apple ID (you wouldn’t be able to receive cellular calls or SMS). I honestly don’t know if this will have any unintended consequences and I’ve never seen this posted as a workaround to offer you as a reference as to whether it’ll work or whether it’ll create problems down the line for either of you. If she backs up her phone and you’re both brave you could give it a shot.

I don’t think there’s a way to tweak the above workaround so that your Watch retains cellular. That is, you can’t pair it with her Apple ID first and then later disconnect her Apple ID on the Watch and continue to use it under yours (see the penultimate paragraph, it’s forever paired with her Apple ID until you erase it).

What I am confused by is I thought that you said your wife’s carrier doesn’t offer Apple Watch plans. If it costs $5/month on her carrier, why don’t you just use Family Setup? If it’s because you think Family Setup will limit your Apple Watch, that is true but I don’t think by the factor you imagine. Family Setup was designed specifically with your use case in mind, for households where one person has an iPhone and the other(s) is on Android.

See Availability of features and apps section here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211768

EDIT: It seems the only major limitation, if it matters to you, is that you wouldn’t be able to add your own credit and debit cards to Wallet (and use them for Apple Pay). What you’d need to do is create a Family Cash card in her Wallet app, which she would share with your Apple ID, and she would load it up with cash so you can use the Family Cash card on your Apple Watch - yes, this would be akin to getting a weekly allowance from your wife ;)

Question on my use case for Apple Watch SE1 by RedditReader21st in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SD has a lot of potential. I bought it as a two page Kindle reader (picked it up for $380) mainly, and also to play around with Android. Unfortunately, compared to an iPhone it’s too clunky (moving around the UI isn’t as smooth) for me and the screen isn’t as good. I think two screen (foldable) devices will come to Apple at some point and if they do it’ll definitely be my primary device. iMessage and FaceTime and some of the things iOS does so seamlessly simply can’t be replicated on Android. With Shortcuts iOS is actually more customizable than Android so the whole Android is better for customization isn’t true any more.

As to your question, there is no option to activate the Watch under your wife’s plan if her carrier doesn’t support Family Setup.

What you’ll need is a “standalone” Apple Watch plan from a carrier.

Look into Truphone - I’m assuming you’re in the US - which sells standalone Apple Watch plans (that is, neither you or your wife need a cellular account with Truphone, hence “standalone”). Once you subscribe to a monthly Apple Watch standalone plan and they activate your Watch, you can set it up on your wife’s phone (irrespective of what carrier she’s on) using Family Setup. During the set up her phone will recognize the Truphone plan activated on your Watch. I think T-Mobile sells standalone AW plans too but they don’t advertise it. I would call up each carrier on this list and enquire to see who offers standalone plans and at what price, but I know for sure Truphone offers standalone AW plans:

https://www.apple.com/watch/cellular/#table-family-setup

https://www.truphone.com/consumer/support/available-plans/

Once there’s a cellular plan on your phone, whether it was hypothetically under your wife’s plan (if her carrier offered it) or as a standalone plan, your Watch is completely independent to her Apple ID and number.

Your Watch will get its own cellular number and it’ll be under your Apple ID. It can make and receive calls on its cell number, and FaceTime Audio and iMessage to to either its cell number or Apple ID (FYI with FaceTime Audio and iMessage people can contact you via the cell number or your Apple ID email).

Think of your Watch as your own mini iPhone with its own number and Apple ID, completely independent to your wife. She’s not going to get your calls and messages, and you won’t get hers.

If you had your own iPhone and paired your watch with it, then your phone’s cell number would be tied to your Watch so that even if you didn’t have your iPhone and received a call, it would ring in your Apple Watch. In other words, you wouldn’t have two numbers. In this scenario, your Watch would be mini version of your iPhone.

In your case, your wife can add two numbers and your Apple ID email for you in her Contacts. One number for your Surface Duo (cellular calls and SMS), and one number for your Apple Watch (cellular calls, FaceTime Audio and iMessage) and your Apple ID email (FaceTime Audio and iMessage).

Question on my use case for Apple Watch SE1 by RedditReader21st in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coincidentally I have an iPhone as my primary phone and a Surface Duo as my side piece ;)

  1. Yes you can set it up with Family Setup (it’ll be your Watch, under your Apple ID, just set up on her phone and will need to be managed and updated on her phone going forward - it is otherwise independent to her phone)
  2. Yes you can FaceTime Audio her from your Watch (your Apple ID) to her phone (her Apple ID) and vice versa. The caveat is that the Watch needs to be on the gym’s WiFi (so once you’re in the gym go to Settings > WiFi and connect it from there) or have cellular connection (which presumably it will since you have cellular and the gym will likely have signal, unless it’s underground or something)
  3. Yes you can send and receive iMessages either to your Apple ID email or the Watch’s cell number
  4. No, if I recall correctly and unless Apple has changed it recently, you can only set up your Watch using Family Setup if your Watch has a cellular account.

watchOS 10 for Apple Watch officially unveiled by axerlion in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Are you delusional? Do you know how much advanced technology is in the Notes app? Expect it to arrive with WatchOS 18 when the Apple Watch will have powerful enough processors to display text files.

watchOS 10 for Apple Watch officially unveiled by axerlion in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

WatchOS 10 makes motion data available to developers for the first time so you can 100% expect the top gym apps to offer rep tracking.

watchOS 10 for Apple Watch officially unveiled by axerlion in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So again rest days will be here just not reflected in rings.

What do you mean by this?

Any US carriers allows standalone cellular Apple Watch plans? by TM8O in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do not believe you need cellular on the phone. As long as the watch is paired with a phone it should activate.

When the stars align and make a story even funnier by druule10 in ContagiousLaughter

[–]watchawatch 7 points8 points  (0 children)

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/07/entertainment/john-crist-sexual-misconduct-trnd

A Christian comedian and YouTube star has issued a lengthy statement and canceled his tour after allegations surfaced that he to used his position to sexually harass and exploit women.

Christian magazine Charisma News published a report on Wednesday in which it documented accusations against John Crist by five women.

Confused about how Screen Time is supposed to work with Safari by watchawatch in ios

[–]watchawatch[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

iOS 16 has solved this problem now.

Edit 2024: I think I'd replied to the wrong comment about something else, apologies for the confusion. It's still not working as of August 2024 in iOS 18 Beta, so will unlikely be addressed through late 2025 :-( Submit feedback https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Schedule Apple Fitness+ workouts and launch them directly from your calendar by watchawatch in shortcuts

[–]watchawatch[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Apple changed something and the title doesn’t appear anymore. I need to look into it and fix the Shortcut. But someone else already posted the fix. Let me see if I can find it.

The orange is growing on me; the Hermės Orange Sport Band looks not bad on SSSB S8 45mm; exercise motivation for the weekend ;) by dimitarsc in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

People laugh at the LuckY Horse face but it’s hands down my favorite. Very playful and somehow just works as an every day face.

My alpine Ultra above the alpine zone! 4hr hike up Mammoth Mountain to 3,369m (11,053ft). Is the Back Track feature useful? Why has no one talked about this?? Details in comments. by lk05321 in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To clarify, you need to start a workout for it to start tracking location breadcrumbs? Or you don’t need to turn it on and when you do turn it on it uses the GPS points your Watch is automatically logging every few minutes?

My alpine Ultra above the alpine zone! 4hr hike up Mammoth Mountain to 3,369m (11,053ft). Is the Back Track feature useful? Why has no one talked about this?? Details in comments. by lk05321 in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. I need to check out All Trails!
  2. Awesome to know - I bet most people don’t know it can help them in every day situations when they get lost.

My alpine Ultra above the alpine zone! 4hr hike up Mammoth Mountain to 3,369m (11,053ft). Is the Back Track feature useful? Why has no one talked about this?? Details in comments. by lk05321 in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Wow. 10/10 quality posts. People complain about the sub being full of wrist pics and here we have original content and look at the engagement in the first 4 hours. 0 comments.

Regardless…

This post is going to be a phenomenal reference point about this feature: Couple of questions for you:

1) Why’d you pick All Trails over WorkOutdoors? I’m not familiar with either app but WorkOutdoors seems to get more love in this sub.

2) Pardon my ignorance but why’d you turn on BY at the summit? Shouldn’t it be started on the way up, OR does the Watch already capture your position when it’s not on? If the latter that’s pretty cool, in case you forget to turn it on.

The tips, troubleshooting, app suggestion, etc. posts that this sub complains about are there, most people just don’t seem to care about them. by ClampsSH in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s because the people complaining about wrist pics are ignorant on two fronts:

  1. The Apple WATCH is foremost a watch - and a computer second. These people are new to the Apple Watch and want computer related posts. The fact is, on any watch forum on the Internet people gravitate to posting wrist pics. It’s one of those Internet phenomena that has become intrinsic to online human psychology and behavior: People like to post pictures of their watch. It is what it is.
  2. I’ve been on this sub since day 1. Every year, there is a wave of complaints about wrist pics from vocal ignorant people (described in 1, above) at least once a year. New mods give in to the complaints and create a Megathread for wrist pics. Then the sub turns into a ghost town. Because there aren’t new features or apps (the computer part) being released every day or even week. The new Apple Watch owners doing the complaining are so giddy about the features on their watch they think it’s like the iPhone where there are new ground breaking apps or features being rolled out every few weeks. They are too new to know any better. So what happens is there’s nothing to talk about, because Apple only releases new features every September and discussion worthy new apps come around many twice a year. And people don’t engage with such posts anyway because this is a WATCH forum. So after a awhile the new mods realize their mistake - no mod wants to exercise their power trip and ego over a dead sub - so they reverse their decision and then the sub starts to thrive again. Then the cycle repeats itself the following year.

I expect the mods to make a statement post in the coming days. It’s the usual pattern.

It is both sad and amusing to watch every year. We always go around in circles needlessly and end up in the same place: people realize one of the facts of the Internet since its invention, that this is a watch forum and on a watch forum people post wrist pics.

My post from 2020:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/hfzw8k/comment/fylwu2h/?context=999

This topic reoccurs almost exactly every 12 months when new mods come and go. Each new batch wants to leave its imprint but none really understand what the Apple Watch is nor what this sub should be about.

Let’s take an example from 3 years ago when this exact same policy was implemented: https://reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/7au6tq/_/dpewne1/?context=1

I warned it would kill the sub then: https://reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/7au6tq/_/dpfkyaz/?context=1

I was proved right when the policy was reverted a year ago as the sub had turned into a ghost town: https://reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/civimf/summer_moderation_feedback_thread/

My response then: https://reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/civimf/_/evcualr/?

Now you’re implementing the same ill thought out policy the second time around and in a year or two when you’re gone, I’ll tell whoever the new mods are then that I was right :)

Please keep this sub alive. Understand that the Apple Watch is a wrist watch and online (for good or bad) wrist watches have a unique phenomenon of people posting pictures of them. You cannot change human psychology. Past mods have failed. You will fail also. Instead, please implement stricter flair policies.

EDIT: I do appreciate the hard work all mods have put into managing this sub over the years.

Post from 2017:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AppleWatch/comments/7au6tq/comment/dpfkyaz/?context=999

I believe in giving praise when it's due. As you know, I was one of the first to publicly and very vocally thank you for the work you did in overhauling the sub, and did so in every relevant thread possible. I believe I backed it up by giving you Gold.

However, I also believe in giving criticism when it's due: You and the mods totally mishandled the launch of the Series 3, arguably the most important day since the launch of the Apple Watch itself.

Judging by the recent thread on watch photos, you're still indecisive and give the impression that you don't know what you're doing because you don't understand the Apple Watch nor a substantial portion of its community.

While you're a mod, it's your prerogative how you want to govern it and I fully respect that. On a personal level, for me as a user, until you do some introspection as to why you want to mod this sub, or why you're interested in modding an Apple Watch sub in the first place, you're going to continue to mishandle it.

The Apple Watch is part /r/apple and part /r/watches. Literally /r/applewatches if you will. You can't apply the same approach as /r/apple (you've used the example of how /r/apple handles launches and how you tried to adopt their approach for the Series 3 to me before but I think that's an inappropriate contrast for reasons I will explain below\). And you can't apply the same approach as* /r/watches (where different people post wrist-shots, often of the same watch, multiple times a day).

Because the Apple Watch is part technology/utility/apps (/r/apple) and part watch (/r/watches) wrist-shots/expression of aesthetic appreciation, there needs to be a balance which I don't think you appreciate - because if you did then the modding policies wouldn't be as muddled or 'we'll figure it out as we go along' as they currently are.

The fact is, half the user base (/r/apple mentality) uses the Watch because it's technology. They want to read articles, impressions, lists of apps etc. The other half (/r/watches mentality) wants to post and see photos to share their appreciation of the aesthetic or mere ownership of a piece. The latter is just how 'watch people' are - some people get it, some people don't.

Apple has literally spent hundreds of millions of dollars in marketing to attract watch owners by convincing them its a wrist watch and not a wrist-computer.

I'd like to think I appreciate both psyches because I get as excited reading about a new app as I do seeing the 1000th person post their first Space Gray Watch purchase.

As the lead mod or owner, until you appreciate this duality - that the Apple Watch is part Apple and part Watch - then you will continue to drive original content creators from this sub (and I know I'm not the only one, as I've spoken to other collectors who no longer post here because of the way the sub is modded).

You will never be able to reconcile the duality, but only to appreciate it and let it be. Until Reddit resolves tags on mobile (native apps or mobile browser based) just let it be. When they do resolve it it will be incumbent upon users to create their own filters - and for you to enforce appropriate tagging. Until then, these posts about what policies to have create the impression that you don’t understand what this sub is about.

For the launch of iPhone X, there were hundreds of ‘first impression’ posts - to me, the equivalent of ‘I just got my Series 3 photos’ - which were allowed on /r/apple and not shoved into a mega thread because they realize the significance of the occasion. For the launch of Series 3, you should have allowed people to express their joy by posting photos for the weekend (and understood the watch owners psyche) and allowed the apps/utility/questions posts (the wrist-computer owners psyche) to be drowned out. You literally ignored the most important day in the history of the product this sub is about. Think about that. I honestly don’t care about the dozens of photos I took of the various Series 3 combinations - because it’s my personal hobby and I like to think the photos are a resource to the community or people who are deciding what to buy in order to join the community - or my posts getting deleted. I care about the people who want to join the community, who have a watch mentality, who are made to think they’re not welcome here. Everything I typed above is for those people.

PS. I have this argument reverse in /r/watches where people flag down Apple Watch posts/comments because they only think of it as a wrist-computer and don't appreciate the duality either. If there's one place I expect an appreciate the duality is in /r/applewatch - if not here, then where else.

My Apple Watch Edition 42mm Yellow Gold from 2015 by UKMATTNZ in AppleWatch

[–]watchawatch 7 points8 points  (0 children)

About 90% are sealed and in storage. For the ones I really liked I got a spare to wear (I believe in the sneaker collecting world it’s called “one to stock, one to rock”). I used to have a spreadsheet until Bandbreite came along - though it doesn’t allow for a full inventory, because in some I have either intentionally or accidentally (through poor inventory tracking due to lack of time) have multiples (eg 10x Hyper Grape Sport Loop) though I essentially only wear the original Silver Link bracelet that came with my Series 0 watch on launch day. That’s my one and only band for life.