Disappointed in Apple Watch

[Anonymous]

I recently purchased my first Apple Watch, the series 8. I was excited to upgrade from my Fitbit but I find myself seriously disappointed.

It’s confusing and has a lot of random apps. And its fitness tracking isn’t as accessible or easy to read like Fitbit’s.

What can I do to improve my experience?

[Anonymous]

Yeah I agree. I’m used to it now but the battery life is so disappointing. My Fitbit battery lasted forever. I like using the peloton app to track my workouts and how it integrates with the activity app but would also like suggestions.

[Anonymous]

Remove apps you don’t want. Switch the apps to a list, not a cloud. Take a little time to make a custom watch face that has your fitness info front and center.

[Anonymous]

Op here. How can you see the total amount of calories you burned in a day in an Apple Watch?

[Anonymous]

My husband got an Apple Watch so he could go running and leave his phone home.
He could never get his downloaded Spotify to work w his earbuds. It kept cutting out.
He tried various troubleshooting and I think he’s given up and is back to taking his phone

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My husband got an Apple Watch so he could go running and leave his phone home.
He could never get his downloaded Spotify to work w his earbuds. It kept cutting out.
He tried various troubleshooting and I think he’s given up and is back to taking his phone

The solution to this is a garmin music enabled watch. I just finished using mine. It will also provide audible queues by interrupting Spotify playlist music for structured workouts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. How can you see the total amount of calories you burned in a day in an Apple Watch?

If you have an Apple phone it should show up as part of the activity app. If not, I think the watch itself has such an app with a logo that looks like three circles (blue, green and red).

I went from an Apple Watch to a Fitbit for running and then to garmin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. How can you see the total amount of calories you burned in a day in an Apple Watch?

https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/02/apple-watch-calories-burned-active-passive/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband got an Apple Watch so he could go running and leave his phone home.
He could never get his downloaded Spotify to work w his earbuds. It kept cutting out.
He tried various troubleshooting and I think he’s given up and is back to taking his phone

The solution to this is a garmin music enabled watch. I just finished using mine. It will also provide audible queues by interrupting Spotify playlist music for structured workouts.

Which model do you have? I liked my Garmin running watch as a watch but stopped wearing it because the band was so uncomfortable and I couldn't change it out. But it was an older model, I'd be interested in upgrading.

[Anonymous]

Ugh, Apple watches are such a weirdly overblown product. They are unattractive and don't function well as a phone replacement or a fitness watch. I guess they do successfully tell time and let people know that you have $500 sitting around to spend on something dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband got an Apple Watch so he could go running and leave his phone home.
He could never get his downloaded Spotify to work w his earbuds. It kept cutting out.
He tried various troubleshooting and I think he’s given up and is back to taking his phone

The solution to this is a garmin music enabled watch. I just finished using mine. It will also provide audible queues by interrupting Spotify playlist music for structured workouts.

Which model do you have? I liked my Garmin running watch as a watch but stopped wearing it because the band was so uncomfortable and I couldn't change it out. But it was an older model, I'd be interested in upgrading.

I have a forerunner 945 LTE. The LTE part being significant because of the screen and the size vs just the 945. I don’t use the actual LTE service. I did a bit of an Olympics selection back at the tail end of 2021 and picked the one I have based on the screen visibility indoors. Some of the cheaper ones have a super washed out screen. I use it for multi sport training and racing, and wear it all day everyday. I’ve looked at “upgrading” to a 955 or 965, but they don’t have anything I need. Lots of good used stuff on FB marketplace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My husband got an Apple Watch so he could go running and leave his phone home.
He could never get his downloaded Spotify to work w his earbuds. It kept cutting out.
He tried various troubleshooting and I think he’s given up and is back to taking his phone

The solution to this is a garmin music enabled watch. I just finished using mine. It will also provide audible queues by interrupting Spotify playlist music for structured workouts.

Which model do you have? I liked my Garmin running watch as a watch but stopped wearing it because the band was so uncomfortable and I couldn't change it out. But it was an older model, I'd be interested in upgrading.

I have a forerunner 945 LTE. The LTE part being significant because of the screen and the size vs just the 945. I don’t use the actual LTE service. I did a bit of an Olympics selection back at the tail end of 2021 and picked the one I have based on the screen visibility indoors. Some of the cheaper ones have a super washed out screen. I use it for multi sport training and racing, and wear it all day everyday. I’ve looked at “upgrading” to a 955 or 965, but they don’t have anything I need. Lots of good used stuff on FB marketplace.

Can’t edit this. 255 forerunner music is a really good watch capable of multi sport.

[Anonymous]

Op here. I miss the Fitbit zone system! How can I have my watch display total calories on the screen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op here. I miss the Fitbit zone system! How can I have my watch display total calories on the screen?

That’s just a face change. There are tons of those. Search around for instructions on that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, Apple watches are such a weirdly overblown product. They are unattractive and don't function well as a phone replacement or a fitness watch. I guess they do successfully tell time and let people know that you have $500 sitting around to spend on something dumb.

Psst. Everyone’s not you and that’s OK.

I use mine constantly throughout the day. I don’t like being always tethered to my phone. I use it for meeting reminders, water tracking, timers, Strava for running, tracking my heart rate for a fitness app, to control audiobooks I’m listening to, sleep tracking, and lots of other stuff. Plus Apple Pay is the bomb. Running to grab a few groceries, don’t have to grope around my purse for a wallet or even my phone. I just lift my wrist and pay. Could not be easier.

I mean, cool if it doesn’t work for you, but it’s hardly useless.