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.

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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.

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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 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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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?