Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Did a Week With the Apple Watch Help Me Use My iPhone Less?”.
I’M an Apple Watch newbie and wore the series 9 for a week to see if it could help me have a healthier relationship with my iPhone and take better care of myself. I have a Macbook iPad, airpods and an iPhone, but somehow I’ve never used an Apple watch. This one has cellular, so you can call and text on it, even if your iPhone isn’t around it also encourages you to move around and practice. Mindfulness here is why that matters to me right now. My daily average iPhone screen time is 9 hours and 3 minutes embarrassing.
You can never say I don’t share stuff with you. The Apple watch really covers some key functions of my iPhone. I can call on it text. Listen to music use Apple pay. That is huge, so I am really interested to see whether or not it makes me go on my iPhone less. Let’S hope.
After I set up my watch, I went on a walk without my iPhone, and here is how I felt about it honestly, I am not missing it. I feel like I mostly bring my phone on walks, one to listen to music, deeply important to me and two for safety, also very important to me, but like I can do both of those things with this. It’S kind of it’s kind of lifechanging. Okay, that’s all great, but what does it look like to actually use the Apple watch for these things, I feel like a very cool spy whenever I speak into my watch on calls, but I use my airpods when I’m out, because it’s easier for me to hear The other person and for them to hear me as for messaging, a br slacked me on my first day with the watch to ask if I wanted to take a coffee break. This was the perfect time to try double tap a gesture that allows you to do stuff like respond to a message or answer a call. Without touching your watch. Yes, definitely can’t wait, send you said. Yes, definitely can’t wait, send I said, send aloud and then I was like.
Oh no, I’m using voice dictation, but you are so nice about it. I got a little better at dictation, but I still don’t love it because I think it makes my message just sound. More serious than intended, my friends confirmed this, so I tried typing letter by letter. Instead, I just don’t love typing on it, because the keyboard’s so small, but don’t you just use the swipe keyboard. What this is life? Changing Sean? Oh okay, nope did you see that I accidentally typed a swear word swipe typing doesn’t always result in perfect messages either, so I still prefer texting on my iPhone if it’s nearby, but I do appreciate that this watch allows me to see and reply to important messages. Even when my iPhone isn’t nearby it’s worth, noting that I have a 41 mm Apple watch, because my wrist is pretty small but there’s a 45mm option that probably would have been easier to type on.
I love that I can pay for stuff without having my wallet or phone with me and use Spotify. I just wish I could search instead of only being able to choose from my recommended or saved songs, because sometimes I want to listen to something totally random and yes, I’m team, Spotify, sorry, Apple music! If you watched my last video where I swapped my iPhone for a Nokia flip phone, you know I don’t have a great sense of direction so having maps on my wrist was very helpful. I never got used to the hoptics telling me when to turn.
So I just read the directions on screen, but I was still happy. I had them, especially when I was out on walks without my phone. I felt so confident in what I could do with my Apple watch alone that I even went to a concert without my iPhone long story short.
I definitely was more present, but I wouldn’t go to a concert without my phone again I’ll, stick to my walks. I briefly lost my friend in the crowd and while I was able to call and text her on here, it would have been a lot easier to use my iPhone. In this instance, I’ve heard my Apple watch friends talk about closing their activity rings for years, and now I get it so the truth is, I was feeling pretty tired, just not my not my best. Before this walk, I saw the notification from my Apple watch being like hey girl, you haven’t moved much today and I was like shh. I know I know I know, but wanting to close those Rings inspired me to get up and move anyway, and I truly have to say no regrets. I have some fresh air, it’s a beautiful evening.
There really is something to this getting out and moving thing. Also like how could this view not improve my day, big, Full House moment? I also liked the mindfulness app, because the activities are short but enough to take a beat and check in with myself once I realized movement and mindfulness were making me feel physically and mentally. Better, I was on a roll, at least until the Monday scaries hit.
Was I perfect about completing my rings every day doing mindfulness every day? Absolutely not, but did this watch encourage me to do those things for the first time in like months years? Yes – and I think think, that’s great like I think, even though I didn’t like do all of it perfectly this week, the fact that it got me doing everything again is really great, and it makes me want to keep trying to continue to incorporate these things into My routine more and more until they just kind of become a part of it. I definitely deal with insomnia. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night, just not been having the best sleep lately.
So I am very intrigued to see what this says good night. I only got 3 days of sleep data and here’s why one sleeping with a watch is kind of uncomfortable and two sleep tracking doesn’t happen automatically Siri. How much did I sleep? Last night? No sleep data for 700 p.m.
to 11:59 p.m. yesterday was found. What did I do wrong? You have to do a few things first, including setting a sleep schedule and a sleep Focus mode in the health app on your iPhone.
I didn’t realize this until halfway through the week, which is why I’m missing some data, but the tracking I did get was helpful. These numbers really motivate me to get closer to my goal of 8 hours of sleep a night. I normally put my watch on around 10 a.m. and after a busy day of calling texting, listening to music working out and navigating I’d, be running kind of low on battery by around 10 or 1100 p.m.
and keep in mind that’s after using cellular for a lot Of those things, so I charged the watch for a half an hour before bed for sleep tracking, then I’d charge it back to 100 %. While I was getting ready the next day, I love how quick it charges up from my laptop so having to do it daily. Wasn’T a pain point for me and when I wasn’t relying on cellular as much and was staying closer to my iPhone, I could go about a day and a half before needing to charge. My watch I’m really curious about this.
One has using the Apple watch lowered. My screen time I’m kind of scared. It hasn’t, but let’s see up 133 % from last week. Are you kidding me gosh? I’Ve got some things to work on still to reduce my screen time.
I’M really going to need to go straight to the source. My iPhone and more specifically Tik Tok, if you want to see a video dedicated to setting boundaries with my smartphone and social media comment below, but here’s the thing while the Apple watch hasn’t reduced. My iPhone screen time. It has changed my relationship with self-care.
It got me to exercise and practice mindfulness for the first time in a long time and now I’m starting to incorporate those things into my routine and ultimately prioritize my physical and mental health. Much more, and that is huge. I know that wearing an Apple Watch for a week only allows me to scratch the surface of what it can do, in fact, I’m still wearing it. Now it’s been 2 weeks and I’m learning more and more about how I like to use it each day.
First things: first, I have changed. My Apple watch face to something that just feels so much more relevant to how I actually use this. I have my rings right here, because this is probably what I click into the most look at how good they look we’re making progress. I also have Spotify right under it, because I am also clicking into this a lot. What do I have on it right now? Feather by Sabrina Carpenter, great song, I also am always clicking into workouts to start my outdoor walks, and then we have phone and messages just for easy access. I also just ordered this watch band, which I am so excited about.
I, like the one I have right now, but I think this one will go well with my gold jewelry situation and I just started using this camera remote feature. I used it today at the park. Look at this in setion right now. There are like so many versions of me happening, but this is a game changer for those 05 wide angle, iPhone back camera shots, it’s just so much easier to frame them I’ll continue to make videos about my Apple watch experience as I keep wearing it.
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